We the people ALLOWED government to take money from us and to call it taxes- We ALLOWED them to keep raising those taxes with the understanding that it takes a lot of money to run a government- but there is NOTHING to state that we must continue to ALLOW them to both take more and more money from us AND to saddle us with unconstitutional laws and violations to our rights-
Think of it this way- someone comes up to you and demands that you pay them ‘protection money’ You think it over, and decide the benefits are worth it, and you AGREE to do so (You still have a choice- you can say no) Then that person begins demanding more and more- and threatening you if you refuse (You STILL have the CHOICE to say no) Then they begin forcing you to buy their goods only, and forcing you to violate you conscience and religious convictions, and threatening to throw you in some dungeon if you don’t
You can do one of two things, You can REFUSE to ALLOW them to keep taking money from you and form alliances with other ABUSED peoples, OR you can comply and feel as though you have no choice- thinking ‘well it’s the law- therefore there is no choice’
I ask, is it legal for people in power to keep taking more and more money from it’s citizens AND to require them to violate their consciences and religious beliefs? Who would make up such laws? Only criminals would- Thieves, Abusers would
But of course we will all comply because there isn’t a large enough majority who will stand together against an abusive govenrment
“We the people ALLOWED government to take money from us and to call it taxes- We ALLOWED them to keep raising those taxes with the understanding that it takes a lot of money to run a government- but there is NOTHING to state that we must continue to ALLOW them to both take more and more money from us AND to saddle us with unconstitutional laws and violations to our rights-”
From a moral and revolutionary perspective I agree with you we are justified in throwing off this government. But from a practical perspective I tell you we have nether the support or the means to do so at this time.
We need to build both in our people and our States before we are able to stand up to the tyrant. Given the sheer size and scale of the Federal Leviathan this could take quite a while.
Right now Washington is still too strong, and too big. We have no choice but to act intelligently to bring it down. To turn its own lawless corruption against it, and reposition ourselves and our states to take full advantage of its fall in replacing the few necessary authorities Washington has usurped over the years.
Only after the decline of Federal power will we be even capable of standing up to them in any revolutionary sense.