Alabama Tax Legislation

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Taxalabama.com monitors legislation pertaining to statewide taxes and posts the synopsis of bills that have been read at least once in the House of Representatives or Senate.  Bills are read three times before they are voted on.

Taxalabama.com is updated every Tuesday and Thursday after both houses adjourn.

• "That the sole object and only legitimate end of government is to protect the citizen in the enjoyment of life, liberty and property, and when the government assumes other functions, it is usurpation and oppression." - Alabama Constitution of 1901, Section 35

• "Government is instituted to protect property of every sort...That [It] is not a just government, nor is property secure under it, where the property which a man has in his personal safety and personal liberty, is violated by arbitrary seizures of one class of citizens for the service of the rest." - James Madison, James Madison's Writings, ed. Jack N. Rakove. New York: Library Classics of the U.S., 1999. 515-516.

• "The number employed in government must forever be very small. Food, raiment and habitations, the indispensable wants of all, are not to be obtained without continual toil of ninety-nine in a hundred of mankind." - John Adams, The Works of John Adams, ed. Charles F. Adams. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1850-56. 6:280.

• “[T]he power to tax involves the power to destroy”
  Chief Justice John Marshall in McCulloch v. Maryland, 17 U.S. 316, 431 (1819)

• "The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is not as sacred as the laws of God, and that there is no force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence." - John Adams, The Works of John Adams, ed. Charles F. Adams. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1850-56. 6:9.

• "To give a man his life but deny him his liberty, is to take from him all that makes his life worth living. To give him his liberty but take from him the property which is the fruit and badge of his liberty, is to still leave him a slave." - Justice George Sutherland (Former U.S. Supreme Court Justice) in Cleon W. Skousen, The Five Thousand Year Leap. Washington, D.C.: National Center for Constitutional Studies, 1981. 173.

• THE COMMUNIST MANIFESTO'S 10 PLANKS
  >Abolition of property in land and application of all rents of land to public purposes
  >A heavy progressive or graduated income tax
  >Abolition of all right of inheritance
  >Confiscation of the property of all emigrants and rebels
  >Centralization of credit in the hands of the State by means of a national bank
  >Centralization of the means of communication and transport in the hands of the State
  >Extension of factories and instruments of production owned by the State
  >Equal liability of all to labor
  >Combination of agriculture with manufacturing industries
  >Free education for all children in public schools
  Karl Mark & Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto, trans. Samuel Moore. New York: Penguin Putnam, 1985. 104-105.