The Liberty Tree Lantern

Government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidise it. 

Well today the U.S. Congress has evolved! Instead of subsidising it, they bail it out for BILLIONS of dollars stolen from our earnings.  Now that is change we can believe in!

Soon, within five years, Government will be taking 80% or so of our earnings for “Federal Withholding”, FICA, FUTA, Medicare and Payroll taxes.  How the hell are we going to pay for a home mortgage if we are only ALLOWED to keep 20% of our earnings?  Is this the world, the America you want to live in?  Is the the world you want for your children?

What are you going to do about it?  If you really care, there are all sorts of recommendations on this blog site on what you can actively do.  But the first thing you have to do is BELIEVE!

You have to believe that We The People, without Government interference, by forcing Government to OBEY THE LAW in the Constitution, can fix our problems.  Government is not the solution to our current problems, Government has caused our current problems by scofflaw, tyrannical, despotic legislation and actions that have occurred for decades starting in 1913 with the illegal Federal Reserve Act.  Additionally income taxes on direct income is, according to Supreme Court cases, are also still constitutionally illegal because the 16th Amendment doesn’t result in taxation on anybody that wasn’t already taxable before it.  If they didn’t have it before the 16th Amendment and they didn’t have it after, then they don’t have it now.   This is in respect to the apportionment clauses in The Constitution.  Our Founding Fathers did this to make sure that the Federal Government wouldn’t become so powerful that they would usurp the power (and the money) of the free people.  Additionally, according to the 10th Amendment and other provisions of The Constitution the Government is only supposed to be “allowed” by LAW to do a very small number of things.  Basically the Government is supposed to be an agent of the State Governments, which are supposed to be independently huge and very powerful.  The reason for this is so if a State government screws up, taxes us too much, makes laws that oppose liberty, believes in Global Warming and uses it to usurp our power and money, or pollutes the state too much, we can run to another state for freedom, prosperity, clean air, clean water and a better life in liberty and the power of the individual.  Also we have the ability to approach our own state Assemblymen and read them the riot act right to their faces.  Something we can’t do at the Federal level unless we want to spend time in jail.

THE POWER TO TAX, IS THE POWER TO DESTROY.  Destroy what?  Destroy freedom and destroy our economy.  I hope our countrymen will learn of this, as they were “supposed to” be taught in our schools.

There were NO INCOME TAXES for almost 150 YEARS.  During that period the individual average “working” American man was the fastest prospering people on our planet.  During that time our country became a super power, all without “Income Taxes”.  I bet you weren’t taught about that in school either, were you?