1. Nobody is in bondage to the Government. The Government provides us with services, some of them good, many of which are bad. We pay taxes, for example, so that our military can keep invading armies from pillaging our land, raping our women, and killing our children. If you don't like it, you can leave. But we will always need taxation if we want to live and prosper.
2. Taxation has always existed, time whereof the memory of man runneth not to the contrary. At no point has this country, or any country, not taxed its own people, either directly or indirectly.
3. I don't like to pay taxes. I think taxes are much too high. But even assuming the socialists get their way and we wind up with 90% taxation, no rational person would trade places, even for a moment, with a slave. You clearly have no inkling of what true oppression means.
You know one of the funny things about the nirvana that CWWRINGERWINGER wants? The slave power opposed internal improvements for decades. Rail roads, canals, bridges --- they fought that tooth and nail. This was what the whigs, and Lincoln supported -- what DiLorenzo calls "corporate welfare."
Well of course the slave power got their wish -briefly- and were not burdened with being asked to provide internal improvements.
Then it turned out that the transportation system in the south was totally inadequate to fight a war! Ooops! Big ooops!
[stifling a chortle]
Okay, to continue. Wonder if CWWRINGERWINGER would have been willing to pay taxes to keep the Yankees out.
Nah, that smacks too much of wanting your cake and eating it too.
Walt