The federal tax system's real function is to act as a social engineering tool.
A list of the top ten (or even top fifty) reasons to collect federal taxes doesn't include revenue needs.
If the federal government wanted to collect the maximum revenue efficiently 90% of today's revenue sources would be eliminated.
The two primary reasons for taxes are to modify behavior of our voters/citizens and to give advantages to special groups.
Revenue to run the bureaucracy is almost an afterthought.
The legislature can skate on needs for funding the machine, since The Federal Reserve continues to produce fiat currency regardless of value.
Until nations and citizens of the world refuse to eat dog food their barking about the system will not be addressed.
Speculation abounds that China will be the first to turn up their nose and cease to accumulate our currency.
Conspiratorial theorists claim this is their long-term plan, citing their action along with other nations to replace the dollar as the primary exchange vehicle.
Companies and countries would start purchasing goods and services using currencies of other nations.
One proposed plan is even for a basket of currencies made up of the 20 largest economic nations.
In discussing behavior modification with revenue-producing laws, look at the example of the tax privileges enjoyed by clean energy industries.
This decade has produced wild swings concerning the tax treatment of special interest groups.
The federal government basically makes decisions to please lobbyists.
We know they are recipients of major funding from bloc voting groups and large corporations.
Return on investment has been estimated at $20-100 for every dollar invested with the lobbyists.
What is the lobbying tool for working families? It is their vote.
The two main political parties masquerade as lobbyists for the middle class.
But analyzing this past decade it is very easy to see this is a gross misrepresentation.
They only lobby for votes! When the polls close they move their circus back to Washington, D.
C.
, and proceed to share the spoils from their raiding party outside the Beltway.
Lobbyists funnel money to both the majority and minority legislative players, writing the script to keep voters in the back rooms.
It is the same as in professional wrestling with both sides receiving payment.
Until nations and citizens of the world place a limit on America's ability to borrow this behavior will continue, and any modification of the income tax will not occur.
The return on the Social Security and Medicare entitlement tax will continue to be watered down.
Uncommon sense offers a question to working family voters.
Which will occur first: China along with other nations cancelling our credit card or American voters firing their legislative team in a desperate effort to enjoy an affordable government? Stay tuned.
Action in both these areas may happen simultaneously.
Prepare for the worst - pray for better!