The Federal Reserve is not a government agency! It is an organized group of extremely wealthy parasites feeding off of everyone else!
This could be said of the capitalist state in general.
Before I go any farther, allow me to make one thing clear, I do not support the Democrats or the Republicans! They have voted themselves largess and have been bought off to such a pathetic degree that it astonishing that the idiotic "voting" populace can look themselves in the mirror for support of either party of the duo-politic! When they drafted the Bill of rights it was not a document to be interpreted, or what these fools call a living document. It was meant to be etched in stone and followed by us all , including the "voted" officials supposedly representing our interests! The ONLY thing that would qualify it as "living" is the Amendment process, which they have already distorted!
The Democratic and Republican parties are symptoms of the general problem, which is the class rule of the bourgeoisie. We have our agreements about the Bill of Rights, which I view as a concession made by the ruling class in the course of struggle, and something we have always needed to defend against that ruling class's political representatives (elected or otherwise). But I disagree that there is some mythical time when the Bill of Rights was followed to the letter and the capitalist state was not busily engaged in violently defending moneyed parasites.
Taxation should only be voluntary. It should not be a shakedown in a truly free society.
To put it another way: the state should not exist. I agree entirely. But no constitutional amendment is going to get rid of the state ... only the abolition of private property, by violent (statist) means can get rid of the economic basis of the state.
The income tax is nothing short of armed robbery no matter how brainwashed or indoctrinated you may be on the issue, it amounts to the same thing!
The same is true of all other taxes. The income tax, at least, falls mostly on those with higher incomes. If you'll notice your top post, it is all about concern about the deficit. I don't share that concern particularly ... I am consistent in opposing the "organized group of extremely wealthy parasites" in Washington, and therefore I cheer when they run out of money for their cops, courts and prisons ... but I will note that a demand for drastically lowering or eliminating the deficit is tantamount to a demand for income taxes to rise.
We all sit back and watch (in my case with frustration and ire) as these so called "public servants" vote themselves payments for life, the best medical coverage on the planet....again for life, and innumerable perks that you cannot even imagine and you pay for with those tax dollars!
Now you're just trafficking in resentment. I share your emotional response, but don't take your eye off the ball ... private-sector capitalists profit at the expense of the rest of us to a much greater extent than the "public servants" who are rewarded for attending to their beck and call.
You would have to be a complete moron after watching GW Bush (a criminal from a long line of criminals) and Barack Obama give "back to back" hundreds of billions of dollars of YOUR tax dollars to the failing banks and Wall Street and think that is okay! Obama has not only done everything Bush did but exacerbated it as well , and by looking "ahead" as he put it and not putting Bush on trial for his war crimes, that in and of itself makes him just as guilty of out right treason against the "American" people as Bush!
I agree. Note that the Federal Reserve did not make this decision, and that Bush and Obama were merely the supply to meet the ruling class's demand.
Finance capital you say......WHO's finance capital?
Well known families ... Rockefellers, DuPonts, Bushes, Hunts, Kennedys, Morgans, Kochs, Mellons, Gores, etc.
Though I know it would never even be considered by our corrupt and criminal government the 28th Amendment proposal above would end all of the shenanigans and waste in government and this country would not need to be in constant state of war to fill your finance capitalists pockets using you and yours as cannon fodder under the false guise of patriotism and freedom! This country has only been free (since the eradication of the Indians) at one point and that was just after the eviction of King George and before the CONstitution and Bill of rights were both passed!
1) You will be pleased to know that the Indians have not in fact been eradicated.
2) No constitutional provision can arrest finance capital's global march to war. In the short term, imperialist war, and state subsidies to industry in the form of military spending, are the only ways they know to arrest (in a particular country or industry) the long-term decline of profit rates and the absolute saturation of world markets. In the long-term an imperialist world war that throws us back to a state of absolute barbarism is the only alternative to a revolutionary war that takes away their wealth. In fact, the only way to stop them from doing this is to take political power out of their hands through a social revolution that redistributes their wealth. Any effort to evade this reality through writing stern warnings on pieces of paper is schoolboy parliamentary cretinism.
One last point to consider if you can be objective. If I was not born with any special authority to command you, and you were not born with any special authority to command me, nor was anyone else on this planet, then how do two or more people combine their "non-existent" authority to command someone else that they cannot do a thing, such as using any drug for example, or anything else for that matter beyond the law of trespass? There is nothing which grants any group the authority to vote another out of their rights to do anything which does not intentionally harm another! In other words if an adult wants to go home and shoot heroin, which I strongly detest, it is not my right to tell them they cannot do so, but I do have a right to inform that individual that they should not be doing so because it may kill them.
Governments responsibility, (beyond the law of trespass that is), should only go so far as to inform one that something is unhealthy for you, not incarcerate you for doing it!
"Political power," said Mao Zedong, "comes out of the barrel of a gun." Ultimately, the only way to stop the ruling class's government from trespassing on our inalienable right to liberty is via a military campaign ending in its complete defeat. A daunting task, yes ... proposing utopian constitutional panaceas and bitterly haranguing people with tedious philosophical arguments about things they already agree with you about is much easier ... but the only thing that has a chance of success.