The Grace Commission [1984] determined that:

-One third of all income taxes is consumed by waste and inefficiency

-One third is not collected due to the underground economy

-100 percent of all income taxes are absorbed by interest plus government contributions to transfer payments

"All individual income tax revenues are gone before one nickel is spent on the services which taxpayers expect from their government."

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