Thread: The Ted Cruz’s Establishment friendly tax plan

Originally Posted by johnwk

Judy,

For the second time, and with all due respect, what I support is our Constitution's original tax plan as it was intended to operate by our founders.


Why do you find it necessary to refer to our Constitution's original tax plan as my plan?


JWK

I was referring to what you posted about the Fair Share Plan, as your plan meaning a plan you support. Who wrote the Fair Share Plan and whose plan is it?

Yes, I understand that you like the direct tax plan to bill the states for shortages in revenue. That was never intended to be the normal year to year plan. That was to avoid indebtedness and shortfalls at a time when the States were protected against such when States elected Senators. Now the people elect Senators and the States are no longer directly represented in Congress as they were when that plan was put into effect. This is why we have $19 Trillion of debt.

But yes, you're right. When creditors call that debt in, under the present system, the Congress has the authority to assess the states who would then have to raise the $19 trillion based on a per capita apportionment and come up with the money. Direct tax was only for emergencies, wars and natural disasters, times of extreme crisis because it's a communist mechanism and never was to be used as a day to day form of taxation to pay the bills of normal government operations.