Tax Guru – Ker$tetter Letter

From a reader in Iraq with a USMC email address:

Subject: Your web site

find your references to the filthy rich disgusting.

 Furthermore, if we had a decent tax scheme (VAT) we could do without most of you deadweights and lawyers and hope you found real work.  Talk about a filthy line of work…..

My Reply:

You obviously haven’t read much of my stuff because your anger at the tax system is very misdirected by blaming me.  I have long been a very outspoken and active member of the fight to repeal the 16th Amendment and eliminate the entire income tax system.  I actually worked in the 1996 & 2000 Libertarian Party presidential candidate Harry Browne‘s campaigns, which included a plank in his platform to eliminate the income tax entirely.  I was on some radio interviews with him expressing my 100% support for this objective.

I have been in this business for over 30 years and long ago recognized that it is well beyond any kind of repair, which is why I have also long been a supporter of the FairTax movement to replace the income tax with a national sales tax.

Far from being scared at losing a lucrative income stream, I would like nothing better than to be able to use my skills and knowledge for other tasks than helping people battle the IRS.

In regard to your problems with the filthy rich, I’m not sure what you mean.  You may have the same misconceptions as I addressed in several posts over the years, such as this one.

Thanks for writing.

Kerry Kerstetter

Follow-Up:

I  may have jumped the gun and apologize.  I was looking for 2005 tax schedules and your page came up on Google – all I saw were references to the filthy rich and no tax schedules….

I would love to see a flat user-based tax, and to see Congress go home part of the year with less taxes to spend, or tax laws to write.  The abolishment of the IRS would be a great side benefit.  I read long ago the tome, To Harass Our People by the Idaho representative who later was incarcerated for his cajones to take on the IRS…..

Mea Culpa and hang in there-