Many Citizens Urge Income Tax Repeal

By John Hanson
Special to the Herald Courier

Happy Birthday, America! July 4th marks your 233rd birthday. God bless us all. But there is another birthday, a centennial, that will be celebrated on July 12 when the Sixteenth Amendment turns 100. It is hardly an occasion to celebrate, but rather to mourn.

That seed grew into the suffocating IRS monster that tramples on our God given dignity, rights, and prosperity. If our forefathers were alive today they would declare it a Day of Mourning. As it is, they must be spinning in their graves. They had warned that giving Congress the power they acquired by the Sixteenth Amendment would lead to the end of the Republic.

So here we are today speeding toward the fulfillment of that prediction. Deficit spending has ballooned from $22 billion in 1933 to $10 trillion today. We have a Congress that, like King George, is dictating to us rather than representing us.

Let me illustrate. I asked a congressional aide when Congress was considering the bailout bill last fall if her congressman was getting a lot of calls. She said the phone was ringing off the hook with about 50 percent saying “no” and 50 percent saying “hell no.”

Thus, by voting for the bailout Congress again dictated to us instead of representing us. The disdain of Congress for our wishes and the best interests of America began as far back as 1909 and has grown steadily regardless of which party was in power. This arrogant disrespect of our will, this shameful affront to our dignity reached an all-time high last February when Congress passed the Stimulus Bill without even allowing the time necessary for themselves much less we the people to even scan it.

Our Founding Fathers identified God as the source of individual personal rights and the people as the source of the government’s authority. Now our Congress would position themselves as the source of our rights. By ruling us instead of representing us Congress strips us of the inalienable rights and dignity given us by our Creator.

We must demand repeal of the Sixteenth Amendment. With it uprooted we can say goodbye to the Federal Reserve and the IRS. Many freedom choking branches have grown out of the evil root that is the Sixteenth Amendment. The assumption of this power has resulted in the exact situation our Founding Fathers warned it would, particularly a Congress bought and paid for by a very wealthy few and carrying out their designs by dictating to us instead of representing us. This was the first great enabling step to turning the beautifully designed republic given us by our Founding Fathers into an empire ruled by a few to feed their insatiable appetite for power and wealth.

The variety of complaints brought to the Tea Parties are ignored by Congress just like the telephone calls opposing the Wall Street bailout. What enables them to ignore us with impunity is the fact that they have had control of our wealth since passage of the Sixteenth Amendment. To restore control of our government to ourselves, we must restore control of our wealth to ourselves.

The 16th Amendment has to go or the dignity and freedom guaranteed to us by self-government is lost. We will become a country of indentured servants, enslaved by insurmountable debt, deprived of the dignity that is the birthright of a free people.

What can you do? There is a movement spreading across the web uniting our voices into one resounding chorus demanding that the government be returned to we the people.

A special site has been set up where you can sign a second Declaration of Independence. Just as the Sixteenth Amendment was the first great enabling step to turn away from the government given us by our founding fathers, repealing it must be our first enabling step toward returning to that government.

July 12 has been declared a National Day of Mourning as it is the centennial of the birth of personal income taxation. Gathering millions to participate in this movement will increase the awareness of our fellow Americans to our common problem.

You may sign the declaration at www.repealincometax.com

A series of 36 memorials will be held as the Centennials of State ratifications arise between now and 2013.

John Hanson is a retired physics teacher who moved to Bristol, Va., in 2006 as a survivor from Hurricane Katrina.