Privacy and the income tax

I’ve always felt the right to privacy was the core issue, the heart of the matter with regards to the income tax. Proponents of the income tax claim that the constitution doesn’t guarantee an individuals right to privacy.

My argument is that the Founding Fathers felt that this was such an obvious inalienable right, that it wasn’t really necessary to address it directly. One can sense this truth by reading between the lines in the Bill of Rights. Check out the following Articles and determine this for yourself.

Article III

No soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law.

Article IV

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

Article IX

The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.

Now read the income tax amendment, Article XVI

The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several states, and without regard to any census or enumeration.

Through the liberal application of the sixteenth amendment, we have seen our right to privacy slowly eroded over the past 90 years. Social Security numbers, which were initiated to track ones retirement savings, are now used to track almost every aspect of a person’s life. In this age of information, it's a scary thought.

The strong sense of individualism that this country was founded on is slowly drifting to mythical status as the application of the income tax code (and other laws built around these philosophical abominations) moves us toward a communal society, as envisioned in novels such as 1984 and Brave New World.

So if you still have any remaining remembrance of the liberty and freedom that we enjoyed prior to the federal government’s meddling in our lives via the enforcement of the tax code, don’t let it go. It’s time to recover our freedom by ending the abomination called the income tax and replacing it with the Fair Tax.