Posted on 04/15/2022 8:15:12 PM PDT by Paladin2
For decades on or about April 15, I published a tax day column pointing out that working Americans in our time are as enslaved as 19th century blacks on cotton plantations. I never in 30 or more years saw any response from any economist, historian, or anyone. I think my statement was regarded as too fanciful for comment. People think of slaves as beings of highly restricted mobility who are bought and sold like commodities. In that sense, we are not slaves. But in a wider historical sense we are.
A slave is a person who does not own his own labor. He is purchased not to be abused and to have his mobility restricted. He is purchased for his labor. Slaves were brought to the New World not because of “racism,” but because resources were abundant and there was no work force.
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Americans have been trained over the decades of the income tax to view tax-filing day, when they must under penalty of law submit the required percentage of their labor to government, as “bonus check from the government day” when many who were over-withheld look forward to receiving a Treasury check. The arrival of this check produces happiness. This happiness, together with the fact that most never receive the taxed income, which is withheld from their pay check, and do not experience having to turn over what they never received, disguises from them that they own no more of their labor than a 19th century slave or medieval serf. When they prepare their income tax, they are figuring not their slave status but the amount of the expected Treasury check they are to receive.
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“When you think about slavery in the proper economic way, instead of emotionally, every working person in the so-called “free world” is a slave for part of each year. Moreover, we cannot be freed from the obligation except by death or nonwork sustained through welfare by the work of others.”
We are all government workers
Misappropriation of funds is usually the fastest way to kill an organization, yet we’ve allowed it for generations. Why? Ugh, ask Yuri Bezmenov.
“A slave is a person who does not own his own labor. He is purchased not to be abused and to have his mobility restricted. He is purchased for his labor.”
Generally speaking, I own my own labor till I sell or trade it to another. After that, all else being equal, I am contractually obligated to provide the labor and the other is contractually obligated to compensate me.
I am not purchased for my labor...my labor is purchased from me.
I think he was referring to the government owning your labor.
For many people, the government gets a greater percentage of the earnings from their labors than they do.
On tax day you are forced to sign an oath to the government or go to prison. The government owns you and your labor.
“The government owns you and your labor.”
If so, the government can and should put to labor all those who are not laboring in contribution to society.
If so, you can not of your own accord stop such laboring.
If so, you can not transfer yourself and your labor to another organized society, owned as intangible property by the members of said society, in which you don’t have to contribute labor to the well being of said society. If you can find another one.
Indeed. Slavery is an “income” tax of 100%. Any lesser amount is merely a matter of degree.
Not widely known, but literally true. See Public Charitable Trust and Cestui Que Vie Trust. Try entering an SS# (with dashes) here:
When you exchange your labor for money there is no profit. That is an equal exchange. Supreme court ruled that the only thing that can be taxed via the income tax is profit, And even more exactly corporate profit. The 16th amendment simply does not apply to anyone who lives outside of the federal jurisdiction and who works as a laborer. My people are deceived.
Lincoln enslaved us all.
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