Eliminate The Tax by Robert Socha

The last few years have proved quite the income tax burden for me and my family. Initially, I hesitated to pay them, for I wanted to protest the irreconcilable spending patterns our government has engaged in for generations, especially those of the past Administration. Additionally, I have not been savvy enough with the tax laws to manipulate them in my favor, reducing the bill.

When the revelations have come out these past weeks about Social Security benefits paid to centum-octogenarians and illegal aliens receiving a plethora of benefits off the public dole, it is no wonder a strong discontent rises in my soul to rebel against the machine, especially when I read the ten-year budget plan[i] proposed by the House.

The DOGE office proposes cutting $1T in federal expenditures. With the additional revenues enacted by tariffs and golden tickets to citizenship, these United States were supposedly (Segue: not supposably, whose introduction as a legitimate alternative form of the word is a terrible reflection on our culture capitulating to the lowest common denominator, and refusing to hold language as an instrument of higher ideals) on the way to reducing spending and, more importantly, reducing the deficit. According to the resolution above, the national debt limit will increase 35% in ten years to an unbelievably astronomical $55,566,372,000,000 in Fiscal Year 2034!

I doth protest!

The tax code is a terrible burden, and Congress must reverse its constitutional provisions to curb the legislature’s appetite to charge the country’s way to insolvency. I do not expect that pipe dream ever to come true.

Maybe this Administration’s proposal[ii] of a sovereign wealth fund will help alleviate the financial strain. If enacted, eliminating the tax burden for middle-income earners will also be a tremendous relief to those struggling to make ends meet, but what I have witnessed from Congress thus far is not the political resolve to reverse the unmitigated growth of government Franklin warned against.

I fear my protest will land on deaf ears, and my tax burden will continue unabated. With faith in God and hope in things eternal, with hard work and perseverance, we will overcome despite confiscatory taxation. Nevertheless, I call on Congress to work with DOGE and the Trump Administration to make the office of efficiency permanent and make the proposed changes to reduce, if not eliminate, income taxation law.

[i] https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-concurrent-resolution/14/text

 

[ii] https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/02/a-plan-for-establishing-a-united-states-sovereign-wealth-fund/