The Liberty Tree Lantern

How would you like an I.O.U. instead of your tax refund?  If you lived in California this is what would happen to you.  Is this fair?

The California controller has suspended $2 Billion Dollars in personal and business tax refund checks which are being delayed.  This affects over 2.7 million California taxpayers whose money they need to pay bills, buy food and other needs have had their money either delayed or stolen.   All of this debt is a result of huge State of California Big Government Socialist enormous spending programs and pork barrel spending to special interests.  A few of these huge and hideous Socialist programs are even for ILLEGAL aliens who are not legally supposed to even be in America.

The State is so low on cash that it is $346,000,000.00 in the red.  The controller has repeatedly warned the Governor and the legislature who have been stuck in grid-lock for the last two months fighting to maintain the huge socialist spending programs and “free stuff” for special interest groups in California.  The controller stated that he must “preserve cash to make the States payments.”   Well “The Liberty Tree Lantern” asks; “What if a taxpayer states to the IRS that he has to “preserve cash” to pay for his bills this year?”  What would happen to him?  Would the IRS accept that?  Why should the citizens of California accept that from the State of California?  The California controller said there are no other good options left.  Well is this a solution?  These folks depend on this money to pay their bills, support their family, support their children, AND IT’S THEIR MONEY!  It is NOT the State of California’s money!

The controller states that the fact of the matter is that there is a $42 BILLION Dollar budget deficit facing the Governor and the legislature.  They have done nothing up to this point to cut all of these California socialist “free stuff” spending programs.    And get this folks; The controller said that “this decision was based on the Constitution, Federal Statues, and various court cases over the years.” 

The Liberty Tree Lantern is here to tell you that The Constitution DOES NOT allow any government in the United States of America to do this to any citizen of this country.  Now we ask you fellow citizens, assuming that the controller is telling the truth that the courts have approved this UNCONSTITUTIONAL act by Government, than whose side are “the courts” on?  Are we the people going to wait for our refund checks to be suspended and then find that the courts are on the side of the Government?  Now you are starting to learn the difference between Socialism and Freedom (and why FREEDOM means freedom from Government but under the laws that WE The People did ordained and established in The Constitution).

Why should we allow the Government that “serves” us to withhold our taxes if when we have a “refund” coming they refuse to send it to us?  If I were in California I would tell the State to go to hell when they asked me to allow my employer to withhold my taxes!  In fact, perhaps I would check to see if I needed to “preserve cash” to pay for the rest of my family’s bills!

One more question;  Why should taxpayers in Wisconsin pay for $42 Billion Dollars of State of California debt?  Is it our fault, here in Wisconsin, that California is $42 Billion Dollars in debt?

See: Wisconsin and other Govenors Asking for $ 1 Trillion Dollars

Are we going to wait for our refund checks to be suspended, or are we going to put State and Federal Governments in their places before this nightmare happens to us?  Or, worse, are we going to let the U.S. Government raise our Federal withholding taxes, FICA (Social Security Taxes), payroll taxes (our invisible tax that really comes out of our pockets but you don’t even know it), FUTA taxes and Medicare taxes until the total tax taken out of our paychecks is 80% of our earnings?

Of course, Tom Daschle, Tim Geithner, Charlie Rangle and the rest of our U.S. Government officials will not have to worry about having their tax refund checks suspended, because they don’t have to pay their income or employment taxes when they work for a company like The Federal Reserve OR speak for special interest health care industry events OR be a Land Lord of multiple income properties.   Isn’t that special?

Who is going to bail us out, when Government steals 80% of our earnings, before we even receive our paychecks?  The Liberty Tree Lantern can answer this question.  We are going to bail ourselves out.  We are going to enforce the Laws of The Constitution on Congress, both State and especially Federal, to protect our earnings and property from them.

The Liberty Tree Lantern is here to tell you that the U.S. Congress is going to raise our withholding taxes to 80% of our earnings by 2012 or sooner to pay for the TRILLIONS in bailouts, and multiple massive socialist programs (otherwise known as “free stuff” to constituents like Universal Health Care), like Social Security and Medicare which are $90,000,000,000,000.00 ($90 TRILLION) Dollars in UNFUNDED liabilities, over the infinite horizon ALONE, not including any bailouts or any other Government programs.  Where do you think they are getting the money to pay for all of this?

Don’t you think it’s time that all of us start to care about what Government is doing TO US?  Don’t you think it is about time we, as INDIVIDUALs start to do something individually, like have the moxie to unite together to FIGHT to force our State Congress and especially our U.S. Federal Congressmen to obey the LAW as written in The Constitution, so that we have our rights, earnings and especially our FREEDOM?

According to our founding fathers it has always been our INDIVIDUAL responsibility to make sure our children are educated as to the meaning of freedom, what it encompasses, why it is better for the vast majority of individuals, why it creates INDIVIDUAL wealth, prosperity and happiness for the vast majority of citizens and what we individually, but united, have to do to enforce STRICT Constitutional law, with NO changes, on our Congressmen.  Now let’s start acting like ADULTS and take care of our personal responsibilities before our refund checks are suspended or our taxes are raised to 80% of our earnings! 

What are you going to do when your State and/or The Federal Government withholds your refund check?  You better think about it, quick!

Know any roofers with tar, will travel?  This Capt. will save the Turkey feathers from my spring hunt!  California, Bring your Congressmen to the Liberty Tree and we will recreate history.  Some Sons of Liberty have already hung an effigy of Senator Harry Reid in Menominee, MI last Independence Day at the lake front.  Might as well invite some more Congressmen to the party.