ted out of office the next time he stands for
re-election.
1. We should demand that Congress amend the Internal Revenue Code
in such a way that no agency of the executive branch of government
will have the power to grant federal tax-exemption. The
Constitution gives the power of _taxation_ only to the Congress.
Hence, only Congress should have the power to grant _exemption_
from taxation.
Instead of permitting the Internal Revenue Service of the Treasury
Department to decide whether a foundation or any other organization
shall have federal tax-exemption, Congress should exercise this power,
fully publicizing and frequently reviewing all grants of tax-exemption.
2. In addition to demanding that Congress take the power of
granting and withholding federal tax-exemption away from the
executive agencies, voters should demand that the House of
Representatives form a special committee to investigate the Council
on Foreign Relations and its associated foundations and other
organizations.
The investigation should be conducted for the same purpose that the
great McCarran investigation of the Institute of Pacific Relations was
conducted--that is, to identify the people and organizations involved
and to provide an authentic record, of the invisible government's aims
and programs, and personnel, for the public to see and study. Such an
investigation, if properly conducted, would thoroughly discredit the
invisible government in the eyes of the American people.
* * * * *
There is, however, only _one sure_ and _final_ way to stop this great
and growing evil--and that is to cut it out as if it were cancerous,
which it is. The only way to cut it out is to eliminate the income-tax
system which spawned it.
The federal income-tax system suckles the forces which are destroying
our free and independent republic. Abolish the system, and the sucklings
will die of starvation.
That is the ultimate remedy, but before we can compel Congress to
provide this remedy, we must have an educated electorate. The problem of
educating the public is great--not because of the inability of the
people to understand, but because of the difficulty of reaching them
with the freedom story.
If the federal government, during the 1962 fiscal year, had not
collected one penny in tax on personal incomes, the government would
still have had more tax revenue from
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