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Your Money or Your Life : Why We Must Abolish the Income Tax
By: Sheldon Richman (1999)
Description
The income tax wasn't integral to anything the Founders of this country had in mind and it wasn't integral to anything they designed. Your Money or Your Life: Why We Must Abolish the Income Tax shows where the income tax and the IRS came from, and recounts not only how they came to be but why. What makes Richman's analysis different is that he shows that the special evils of the IRS and income tax are not accidental, something that can be eliminated just by putting the right people in charge or by offering a few reforms here and there. They are intrinsic to the purpose for which the IRS and the income tax exist. And that's why Richman proposes that the whole thing just be repealed. This book shows how the income tax makes you poorer. Reading Richman's discussion of it will make you richer.
Reviews
Booklist 2/15/99
"Although not quite as bracing as his brief for Separating School & State(1994), Richman's writ against income taxation is lively and to the point. Richman wastes no time sloganeering for libertarianism, putting down the dang liberals, or telling IRS horror stories ad nauseam. Instead he scores the income tax as the vehicle for too much government intrusion into privacy, for turning the usual U.S. presumption of innocence on its head in IRS disputes with taxpayers, for making citizens the state's subjects instead of its masters, for exacerbating falling individual incomes, for discouraging saving, and for being the imposition of a nominally progressive elite on an electorate never allowed to deal with tax issues directly. Worst of all, the income tax is theft of individuals's dollars regardless of how the government spends those plundered dollars. Reform is never what it seems; three taxpayer bills of rights have been ineffectual. As with slavery, Richman concludes, abolition is the answer. Consider this the essential argument of the anti-income tax movement."
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