Ronald Reagan Quote 

"Our federal tax system is, in short, utterly impossible,
utterly unjust and completely counterproductive,
[it] reeks with injustice and is fundamentally un-American...
it has earned a rebellion and it's time we rebelled."

by:
Ronald Reagan
(1911-2004) 40th US President
Source:
May 1983, Williamsburg, VA 
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And look what Reaganism/Bushism has done to us 25 years later. A 10 trillion dollar national debt.
 -- Waffler, Smith, Arkansas		 
Like Reagan or not , this quote is right on.
 -- jim k, austin, tx		 
 -- Mike, Norwalk 
I agree with this quote and I'm surprised it came from R. Reagan.If he actually said this and believed it to be true,why then did he not try to do anything about it or did he try to do something about it? I do not know.
 -- Me Again, Your Town,USA.		 
Reagan alone didn't have a chance. It takes a mass movement, a general change in moral values from the people...not a lone President, to effect change. He had the right idea and tried to take it to people...but we're just too "indoctrinated" to think it through and too much in "fear", to act against it. After all, the government does use force against us in such matters, don't they? Which leads to a competition to avoid being victimized by the "benevolent" government.
 -- J Carlton, Calgary		 
Waffler, through his ad hominem, can't see the forest for the trees. Who cares who said this? Nearly every quote we'll ever read will have some ironic twist to it-- men aren't perfect. I disagree with Reagan on many things, mostly his foreign policy (which was a hell of a lot more than just negotiation talks with Gorbachev--he helped establish the beginning of the neocon foreign policy), but I can accept good ideas when they are spoken. I have many associates and students around me who have started their own businesses or have taken on summer jobs wherein they can provide for every necessary college expense. They have been able to earn enough money to pay for their tuition, boarding, books, food, entertainment, and every other thing --- that is, until tax season. With the "utterly impossible, utterly unjust and completely counterproductive" tax system, I have seen these young and tenacious college students become dummied down dependents of the state! All of their hard work does nothing to advance them further ahead than their counterparts who merely suck and leech off the system! Why should they work hard to show initiative and try to advance harder if they're not going to have anything to show for it? Why should they go out and work hard to graduate debt free when government grants will do the same thing, but without the whole ordeal of actually working? How can I possibly convince these students to keep working hard to learn to provide and pay for themselves when they see their own peers getting the same financial results from just sucking off the system? Once the income tax hits these students, everything these students have worked for is gone. While they would have made enough to support themselves through college, now they are forced to become dependent upon the state if they are to stay in school. I'm not a betting man, but I would place serious money that men like Waffler have never owned or operated their own business; furthermore, I would also bet that such men would know the various and different government programs that would assist putting someone through school, buying a home, paying for a newborn child, etc. It has been said that Americans are so enamored with equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom; this is the legacy of what the income tax has helped give to our country. Sadly, the irony is that we CAN be equal in freedom, but this requires an amount of personal responsibility and personal accountability that the majority of Americans are no longer willing to assume anymore. Anyone who studies international relations and politics knows that the countries that are leaving the income tax are thriving while their poor are being taken better care of -- it's time we woke up to the same fact!
 -- Logan, Memphis, TN		 
Reagan was right. Blame Congress for the debt -- they are the ones that vote for money that the public has to borrow for the government to take care of them. Reagan changed his tune after Hinckley almost got him. Well said, Logan.
 -- E Archer, NYC		 
I used to think that a consumption tax was the way to go; but, the problem is in the transition. The current Irs tax code is truly beyond comprehension; yet, it is written in such a way that everyone thinks his special writeoffs give him a leg up on his neighbor. What is actually happening is we all are sealing our childrens' futures!
 -- Anonymous, san antonio		 
Reagan is no different than all men down through history that have hated taxes. Have you ever found someone who loves them. When politicians say they are going to cut taxes but they keep spending what they are doing is SELLIMG BONDS. That is what Reagan and Bush did as well as raise SOCIAL SECURITY contributions. This is how they financed the goverment, debt and robbing the "poors" social security fund.
 -- Waffler, Smith, Arkansas		 
Excellent. Another example of what a president should be. If we had a government made up of people with his philosophy we would have better relations with the world, an economy booming, record tax revenue flowing into the government, and tax rates dropping. What a country it would be.
 -- warren, olathe		 
Waffler ignorance is not a virtue.
 -- warren, olathe		 
Reduce the size of government. please.
 -- k w, california		 
Waffler, do your homework, Obama and this idiotic stimulus is what has railroaded America into this uber-debt. W. Bush was no Fiscal Conservative, on that we can agree, but to say that Republicans caused this deficit, your dreaming buddy. True fiscal conservatism is the only way we will work our way back into prosperity...
 -- Bryan, Canyon Lake, CA		 
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