The income tax is a twentieth-century socialist experiment that has failed. Before the income tax was imposed on us just 80 years ago, government had no claim to our income. Only sales, excise, and tariff taxes were allowed.

Keyes was also especially critical of Pat Buchanan once saying during an interview on the Talk from the Heart program with Al Kresta (simulcast on KJSL-AM St. There were reports her family threw her out of the house and stopped talking to her. a culture evil enough to destroy the very soul and heart of my country? I cannot do this.

Keyes also hosted a radio talk show The Alan Keyes Show: America's Wake-Up Call and a television commentary show on the MSNBC cable network Alan Keyes Is Making Sense. Foreign Service in 1979 at the United States consulate in Bombay India and later in the American embassy in Zimbabwe. Keyes was appointed Ambassador to the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations by President Ronald Reagan and served as Reagan's Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs from 1985 to 1987; in his capacities as a UN ambassador among Keyes's accomplishments was contributing to the Mexico City Policy.