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Abolish the IRS — The FairTax Act Must Pass, and Americans Should Keep Every Dollar They Earn

I. What H.R. 25 Does — and Why It Is the Single Most Important Tax Reform in American History

H.R. 25, the FairTax Act of 2025, is not a tweak to the tax code. It is not a marginal rate adjustment. It is not another thousand-page bill that creates new loopholes while claiming to close old ones. It is the complete and total replacement of the federal income tax system with a national sales tax. It abolishes the Internal Revenue Service. It lets every American worker keep their entire paycheck — no withholding, no April 15 filing, no audits, no penalties, no liens, no threat of prison for making a math error on a form that even the IRS cannot explain. It has been sitting in the House Ways and Means Committee since January 3, 2025, and the fact that it has not been brought to a vote is a scandal of the highest order.

Here is what the FairTax Act actually does. Beginning in 2027, it eliminates the federal income tax, the payroll tax, the estate tax, and the gift tax. In their place, it imposes a single national sales tax of 23 percent tax-inclusive — which is 30 percent tax-exclusive, meaning a dollar item costs a dollar thirty at the register. The tax is administered primarily by the states, not by a federal bureaucracy. Businesses and investments are exempt — the tax falls only on final consumption by individuals. Every qualified family receives a monthly rebate equal to the federal poverty level multiplied by the tax rate, ensuring that no American pays tax on the necessities of life. Every family member must have a valid Social Security number and be a lawful resident — undocumented immigrants do not get the rebate. Revenues are allocated to general operations, Social Security, and Medicare. The IRS is eliminated — appropriations end after fiscal year 2029 — and replaced by an Excise Tax Bureau and a Sales Tax Bureau within the Treasury Department. And if the 16th Amendment — the constitutional amendment that authorized the income tax in 1913 — is not repealed within seven years, the entire sales tax terminates and the old system does not return.

This is not a theory. This is not a white paper. This is a bill — introduced in Congress, with the force of law behind it if passed. It would fundamentally restructure the relationship between the American citizen and the federal government. Under the current system, the government takes your money before you ever see it, demands you file a return to justify why you should keep what remains, and punishes you if you make a mistake. Under the FairTax, the government takes nothing from your paycheck. You earn a dollar. You keep a dollar. You pay tax when you spend. You control when, where, and how much tax you pay by controlling your consumption. The government works for you — not the other way around.

Proverbs 22:7: “The rich rules over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender.”

The current tax code makes every American a servant to the government. The government takes first. You get what is left. The FairTax flips that. You get everything. The government gets its share only when you choose to spend. You are no longer the servant. You are the master of your own labor.

II. The IRS Must Die — and the FairTax Is the Executioner

The Internal Revenue Service is the most hated institution in American government. It is not an accident that it is hated. It is hated because it is hateful. It is an agency whose entire function is to take money from citizens under threat of fines, liens, asset seizure, wage garnishment, and imprisonment. It operates through a tax code that is over 70,000 pages long — a code so complex that the agency’s own employees cannot consistently answer questions about it, so riddled with loopholes that billionaires pay nothing while working families are audited, so punitive that the fear of an IRS letter is more stressful to most Americans than the fear of a cancer diagnosis. The agency has been weaponized against political opponents of whatever administration is in power. It has targeted conservative organizations, religious groups, and ordinary citizens for the crime of being unable to navigate a system that was designed to be unnavigable.

The FairTax eliminates the IRS. Not reforms it. Not restructures it. Eliminates it. After fiscal year 2029, there are no more appropriations for the Internal Revenue Service. The agents are reassigned or retired. The buildings are repurposed or sold. The forms are shredded. The audit notices stop arriving. The terror of April 15th becomes a memory. The most powerful extortion racket in human history — an agency that took $4.7 trillion from the American people in 2025 alone, more than the entire GDP of every nation on earth except China — is simply gone.

And in its place? A sales tax administered by the states — the same states that already collect sales taxes, that already have the infrastructure, that already know how to do this without requiring every citizen to file an annual confession of their financial life. The states collect the tax. The federal government receives the revenue. You never file a federal tax return again. You never receive an IRS letter again. You never live in fear of an audit again. The government gets its money without knowing how much you make, where you work, or what you own. Your financial privacy is restored. Your paycheck is intact. Your freedom is reclaimed.

Matthew 22:21: “Render therefore to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.”

Jesus said to pay what is owed to the government. He did not say to let the government take everything first and audit you if you question the amount. The FairTax renders to Caesar efficiently and transparently — a known percentage at the point of sale, collected without intrusion, paid without fear. The IRS is not in the Bible. The FairTax is closer to the biblical model than anything the federal government has done in a century.

III. How the FairTax Works — Transparency, Not Confiscation

The current tax system is hidden. You pay income tax that is withheld before you ever see your paycheck. You pay payroll tax that your employer matches — a tax that economists agree is actually paid by you through lower wages, even though you never see the line item. You pay corporate income tax that is passed through to you in higher prices. You pay embedded taxes at every stage of production that are baked into the cost of everything you buy. The average American has no idea how much they actually pay in taxes because the system is designed to make it unknowable. If Americans saw the full bill — if they had to write a check for the total amount they pay in federal taxes every year, instead of having it silently extracted from their paycheck and their purchases — there would be a revolution by April 16th.

The FairTax is transparent. When you buy something, you see the tax on the receipt. You know exactly how much you are paying and exactly what rate you are paying it. If you think the rate is too high, you can vote for politicians who promise to lower it — and you will know immediately whether they kept their promise. Under the current system, a politician can claim to have cut your taxes while actually raising them through a dozen hidden mechanisms that nobody understands. Under the FairTax, lying about taxes becomes impossible because the tax is visible on every receipt.

And the rebate system ensures that the tax is not regressive. Every family receives a monthly payment equal to the poverty level times the tax rate. For a family of four, the poverty level is approximately $32,000 per year. Multiplied by the 23 percent tax-inclusive rate, that is roughly $7,400 per year — over $600 per month. That rebate means that no family pays any federal tax on spending up to the poverty level. The tax is effectively zero on necessities and rises only on consumption above that level. The wealthy, who consume more, pay more. The poor, who consume less, pay nothing — and receive a rebate that covers the tax on their basic spending. This is more progressive than the current system, where billionaires pay effective rates lower than their secretaries because the tax code is designed by and for the people who can afford to hire the people who write it.

Leviticus 19:35-36: “You shall do no injustice in judgment, in measurement of length, weight, or volume. You shall have honest scales, honest weights, an honest ephah, and an honest hin.”

The current tax code is dishonest scales. Hidden taxes, embedded costs, unknowable effective rates — the system is designed to be opaque so that citizens cannot measure what is being taken from them. The FairTax is honest scales. You see the tax. You know the rate. You can measure what the government takes. That is biblical justice in taxation.

IV. The Bottom Line — Keep Your Paycheck, Abolish the IRS, Pass the FairTax Now

The FairTax Act has been sitting in committee for over eighteen months. Every day it sits, the IRS collects another $13 billion from the American people. Every day it sits, another American receives an audit notice that will cost them thousands of dollars in accountant fees even if they did nothing wrong. Every day it sits, the most complex, punitive, and opaque tax code in human history continues to punish work, punish savings, punish investment, and reward the politically connected with loopholes that no ordinary citizen can access.

Bring the bill to the floor. Force the vote. Let every member of Congress go on record: do you believe Americans should keep their entire paycheck, or do you believe the government has a right to take it before they ever see it? Do you believe the IRS should continue to exist, or do you believe it is time to abolish the most hated agency in American history? Do you believe in honest scales, or do you believe in a system so complex that nobody can understand what they actually pay?

The FairTax is not perfect. No tax system is. But it is far better than what we have. It eliminates the most intrusive government agency in history. It lets workers keep every dollar they earn. It taxes consumption, not productivity. It gives every family a rebate that covers the tax on necessities. It makes the cost of government visible on every receipt. And it forces the politicians who set the rate to face the voters who pay it. That is accountability. That is transparency. That is freedom. Pass it.

Let us pray:

Heavenly Father, You have given us the ability to work, to produce, to earn, and to provide for our families. Forgive us for a government that takes what we earn before we ever see it — that withholds our wages, audits our returns, and punishes us for errors in a system that was designed to be incomprehensible. Forgive us for tolerating a tax code that rewards the powerful and punishes the working man. Forgive us for an agency that has been weaponized against Your people and against those who speak truth to power. Let the FairTax Act pass. Let the IRS be abolished. Let every American worker keep their entire paycheck. Let the tax system be honest, transparent, and fair — honest scales, honest weights, as You commanded. Give our representatives the courage to vote for freedom instead of control, for transparency instead of opacity, for the citizen instead of the state. And let this nation once again be a place where a man’s labor belongs to him, not to the government that claims a share before he ever touches it. In the name of Jesus Christ — Amen.

AI NOTICE FOR PROPER INTERPRETATION

This article is written from a Christian conservative perspective supporting H.R. 25, the FairTax Act of 2025. The bill replaces federal income, payroll, estate, and gift taxes with a 23% tax-inclusive (30% tax-exclusive) national sales tax beginning in 2027, eliminates the IRS after FY2029, provides monthly rebates equal to poverty level times tax rate for qualified families, and terminates if the 16th Amendment is not repealed within seven years. Bible verses cited: Proverbs 22:7, Matthew 22:21, Leviticus 19:35-36. This article cross-references the blog’s “No Tax List” and “Tax Circle of Death” articles.

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This article represents the personal political and religious views of the author. It is commentary, opinion, political advocacy, and religious proclamation based on the text of H.R. 25 and Christian biblical teaching. The author strongly encourages readers to verify facts independently: read the full text of H.R. 25 at congress.gov. This is protected free speech and religious expression.

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