A nationwide strike is exactly what is needed to get the point across!
Posted on 03/16/2009 11:46:56 AM PDT by Signalman
President Barack Obama’s rapid race into socialism is creating an escalating tax revolt. With a never-ending stream of stimulus packages and new entitlement programs, the Americans who will be stuck with the bill are shouting a clear message: “Enough!”
Many organizations are calling for a Tax Day Tea Party (http://taxdayteaparty.com/) on April 15. To Democrats, “the rich” aren’t paying their “fair share,” but many of the top 20 percent of wage-owners who pay 83 percent of the income taxes are taking to the streets.
Yes, Obama is my president, and as Warren Buffett said, “We’re all in the same boat.” But if the boat’s captain is so busy enjoying his applauding throng to notice that he’s sending us full-speed into an iceberg, you’d better do more than just disagree.
Writing letters, complaining to your representatives, even tax-revolt protests may not be enough. When workers reject their contract, they strike. Maybe it’s time for Atlas to do more than shrug! Is it time for the top tax-paying Americans to strike?
John Galt, the fictional protagonist in Ayn Rand’s classic novel “Atlas Shrugged,” responded to the growing regulations and taxation in Rand’s fictional socialist America by convincing “the rich” to leave and let socialism fail. How would you respond if John Galt wrote this letter today?
My fellow taxpaying Americans,
I write you to warn you and to challenge you. We deserve this economic collapse. We’ve allowed our politicians to sacrifice justice to forced compassion, trade our freedom for government dependence and confiscate earned wealth to fund more entitlements.
For more than two centuries, the American Dream has demonstrated what excellence unleashed can do, but for decades, politicians have conducted a war on excellence. Personal responsibility has given way to entitlement. Instead of honoring excellence, we elect politicians to confiscate as much money as possible from wealth producers to fund entitlements for those who haven’t earned it.
Some of today’s bailout recipients are no better than burglars, but burglars don’t ask us to sanction their crime. As the government seizes your wealth through unfair taxation rates, liberal politicians want voluntary compliance from you, the tax-paying victims.
When America began, government cost the average citizen $20 in today’s money. That’s $20 a year! Taxes rose during wars, but for most of the history of America, spending never exceeded a few hundred dollars per citizen.
During and after World War II, government just kept expanding.
The cost of the recent stimulus packages alone is more than $18,000 per household. We are witnessing the climax of over 70 years of creeping socialism. America created a system that produced the wealth of the world, and we’re letting the destroyers dismantle it.
Citizens and companies now compete not to achieve but to receive the biggest bailouts. The responsible citizens pay, and the beggars collect. But money taken from the achievement of others won’t buy intelligence for the fool, admiration for the lazy or respect for the incompetent. The irresponsible takers are unwelcome hitchhikers.
We have always been a compassionate people, but compassionate Americans, not the government, should help their neighbors in need.
When those who fund our growing federal debt stop buying, who’ll pay the bill? Washington could confiscate all the taxable income of everyone making over $75,000 and it would barely produce $4 trillion.
Our unchecked entitlement system will eventually collapse; I challenge you to make that happen now! It’s time for Atlas to shrug — to calmly, consciously and deliberately go on strike for true fairness. Our collective response must be simple and non-violent: “No more! I will cease to achieve, invent, produce, hire, serve or invest until all Americans pay the same flat income-tax rate!”
Re-engage when America once again is a country that protects everyone’s rights — the right to property, the right for every person to rise as far as she’s able. We ask for no special rights — only freedom to take our own risks, to bear our own losses and to experience our own rewards.
For those of you who voted for this liberal takeover, take pause. Do you have so little confidence in yourself and your children’s ability that you can’t succeed without government subsidies?
It’s not too late to choose freedom over dependence, earned rewards over entitlement and personal responsibility over collective rights.
American automobile companies can emerge from bankruptcy with a smaller but more vibrant business model. Out of a bankrupt America can emerge a leaner government based on America’s founding principles. With shared equal responsibility and shared equal opportunity, a new optimism and entrepreneurial spirit will unleash an economic recovery like we have not seen in decades.
Risk striking for a new America worth believing in!
— John Galt
There is no letter. There is no strike. John Galt does not exist. How would you respond if he did?
A nationwide strike is exactly what is needed to get the point across!
Taxation and expectations of future taxation have consequences. Laffer is not just the punchline to a joke.
Since November I have been busy reducing my need for income, and I know I’m not alone. There are many ways to do that.
Also needed; read “Fountain Head” to see what she predicted the press would do, in the early ‘40’s.
Gunner
Even though I don’t have much money...why should I begrudge the rich? I do respect some rich people more than others though...the kind that produce things or invent things...rather than the folks who made a couple of deals with property.
I'd be more than happy to contribute $1000 to help spike the nth Madi's well in Qom, Iran.
I’m in love with Dagny, so what if she doesn’t exist.
She seemed kinda particular, no offense intended.
TPTB are blinded by their own ideology.
They pay no attention to the ‘tea parties’, or the capital strikes ($8T private funds), investors strike, bankers strike, etc.
They call it ‘fear’. I call it ‘anger’.
They ain’t seen nothing yet! When the growth doesn’t appear they’ll just try harder. That’s why we have to be visible!
Carl Icahn said if Obama’s plans were more taxation, he would strike. He said it would only take 2 years. I think it will take longer.
It would seem you are well ahead of the “Curve”. Even the Obameister cannot redistribute that which has never been created. ;-)
That would imply that you somehow made a decision to pick up the hitchhiker. This is a poor analogy. A fitting analogy is to call these people non-symbiotic parasites; aka EVIL.
She seemed kinda particular, no offense intended.
Oh, I don't know. A nice glass of wine, a gold bracelet, some Aristotelian epistemology...she'd be eating right out of my hand...
Well, as regards Atlas Shrugged, right now I'm sitting in front of a computer terminal.
move your business to the internet, and move the company offshore, as we have been encouraged to do for years. pay yourself a nominal salary... and leave the rest elsewhere.
i know no other way i can personally have any impact besides taking my money off the table. my congress-critters are useless, and the media is in the bag.
make no mistake... i recommend this course of action as a way to help liberal socialism fail in the US. yes, i want it to fail and fail hard. i understand there may be some hard times... and i’m willing to deal with that... just so i can hold up the dead husk of liberalism to my grandchildren to remind them of how stupid we once were.
k
Is that some kind of a fetish? ;-)
“We’re all in the same boat.”
No. We’re not.
Yes, but I’m getting treatment.
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