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Chuck Johnson's Lawyer Responds to Gawker's Lawyers: Please Have Pity on Me, Judge

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lawhawk10/14/2015 9:12:26 am PDT

re: #472 The Vicious Babushka

They ignore all the other taxes that were imposed to cover costs of government - and as society modernized and required more and more infrastructure, the taxes of the time were unable to cover them - so new taxes were imposed. That includes income taxes, which states began imposing before the federal income tax. They wanted to pay for programs to benefit the general welfare of their citizens.

Those pushing Fair Tax and other nonsensical tax schemes are proffering a redistribution of wealth that would benefit only the rich - since they’d see their taxes drop precipitously, while everyone else is stuck with the tab.