U.S. GOVERNMENT SHAKEDOWN OF THE AMERICAN CITIZENS: Former IRS Commissioner Wanted Income Tax Abolished. The income tax is bad because it was conceived in class hatred, is an instrument of vengeance and plays right into the hands of the communists.

Former IRS Commissioner Wanted Income Tax Abolished

 

"....We're confiscating property now....That's socialism. It's written into the Communist Manifesto. Maybe we ought to see that every person who gets a tax return receives a copy of the Communist Manifesto with it so he can see what's happening to him."  

 

T. Coleman Andrews, IRS Commissioner, May 25, 1956

 

 

“Sooner or later, the power of the people will be asserted .”

 

Thomas Coleman Andrews was an accountant by profession, one-time Auditor of Public Accounts for the Commonwealth of Virginia, and a U.S. Marine Corps veteran of World War II.

 

He was a Democrat who supported General Dwight Eisenhower, and was appointed by President Eisenhower to head the IRS.

 

Andrews served as IRS Commissioner for three years from 1952 to 1955.  He had the following things to say about the federal income tax system after resigning from his position at the head of the IRS:

 

"Congress went beyond merely enacting an income tax law and repealed Article IV of the Bill of Rights, by empowering the tax collector to do the very things from which that article says we were to be secure…

 

It opened up our homes, our papers and our effects to the prying eyes of government agents and set the stage for searches of our books and vaults and for inquiries into our private affairs whenever the tax men might decide, even though there might not be any justification beyond mere cynical suspicion...

 

The income tax is bad because it has robbed you and me of the guarantee of privacy and the respect for our property that were given to us in Article IV of the Bill of Rights. This invasion is absolute and complete as far as the amount of tax that can be assessed is concerned…

 

Please remember that under the Sixteenth Amendment, Congress can take 100 percent of our income anytime it wants to…This is downright confiscation and cannot be defended on any other grounds…

 

The income tax is bad because it was conceived in class hatred, is an instrument of vengeance and plays right into the hands of the communists. It employs the vicious communist principle of taking from each according to his accumulation of the fruits of his labor and giving to others according to their needs, regardless of whether those needs are the result of indolence or lack of pride, self-respect, personal dignity or other attributes of men…

 

The income tax is fulfilling the Marxist prophecy that the surest way to destroy a capitalist society is by steeply graduated taxes on income and heavy levies upon the estates of people when they die…

 

As matters now stand, if our children make the most of their capabilities and training, they will have to give most of it to the tax collector and so become slaves of the government. People cannot pull themselves up by the bootstraps anymore because the tax collector gets the boots and the straps as well.. .

 

The income tax is bad because it is oppressive to all, and discriminates particularly against those people who prove themselves most adept at keeping the wheels of business turning and creating maximum employment and a high standard of living for their fellow men…

 

I believe that a better way to raise revenue not only can be found, but must be found, because I am convinced that the present system is leading us right back to the very tyranny from which those who established this land of freedom risked their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor to forever free themselves..."

 

http://www.famguardian.org/Subjects/Taxes/Articles/TColemanAndrews.htm

 

 

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Here are excerpts from an interview of former IRS Commissioner and WW II U.S. Marine Corps veteran T. Coleman Andrews published in the May 25, 1956 issue of the U.S. News and World Report, following his resignation as Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service:

“I am convinced that this (income tax) law has reached the point of incurable infirmity; and I doubt that any full-scale income tax, rigidly enforced, can be made a primary source of a great nation’s income without leading eventually to dictatorship, which I am convinced is happening under the present law…

We’re penalizing success, and we’re digging our own grave as a nation when we do…

The annual chore of complexity that people are confronted with is, in my opinion, almost as serious as the oppressiveness of the tax itself…

There are few congressmen who really understand the income tax law… Our tax laws are not made by members of Congress, the elected representatives of the people, nor by the committees of Congress, who are appointed by the leaders of the Senate and the House, but by the staff members of the tax committees…that’s getting it about as far away from the people as you can, and in the most vital area you can think of – taxes…

When they began to discover that while the law was simple, it was unjust, and they had to do something about it, they began to add on all kinds of fancy gimmicks, gadgets, and thou-shalt-nots, until it now adds to the point where it’s so complicated that nobody can understand it…

I say to you that any law that isn’t understood by the people who pass it, let alone those subjected to it, shouldn’t be imposed on the body politic…

I think the most serious thing about the income tax, frankly, is the ideological objection to it. I don’t like to see my country dancing to the tune of slave-makers, which is exactly what is happening…

We’re playing with dynamite, and I think that if something isn’t done about it the result will be to destroy our tradition of freedom and wreck both that tradition and our civilization…

But let no one underestimate the power of the opposition. Our only hope for relief is in the greater power of the masses. Sooner or later that power will be asserted.”

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