Ask anyone in, say, Sparks, Neb., if they think it's OK for
someone who didn't pay ,000 taxes over several years to be in
charge of the Internal Revenue Service because he's so smart, good
with finances and familiar to power brokers. And, after he's
caught, everyone agrees he didn't really mean to do it. (Also ask
them if they think they'd get away with the unintentional excuse in
their own tax case defense.)
But I think that, look, ultimately, I campaigned on changing
Washington and bottom-up politics. And I don't want to send a
message to the American people that there are two sets of
standards, one for powerful people and one for ordinary folks who
are working every day and paying their taxes.
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You will find no federal holiday dedicated to our love of taxes.
There will be no parades in honor of taxes. No ceremonies, concerts
or TV specials. This is because many in the US think of taxes as a
burden, this heavy weight on our collective shoulders that “isn’t
fair.” Some folks even dare to say that they have never benefitted
from our system of taxation. Those folks are wrong. In fact, it is
completely fair to say that our country is the country that it is
today because of taxation. Our history as a country is deeply
affected by our system of taxation: the wars that we fought and won
have all been financed by a system of taxation. All that has
changed, really, from war to war is the kinds and levels of
taxation.
In the late 18th century, in order to pay off debts from the
Revolutionary War, Congress imposed a number of taxes on such
luxury items as alcohol, tobacco, sugar and some real property. A
few short years later, Congress imposed additional excise taxes to
pay for the War of 1812. Those [...]
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