I don't trust the government to behave in a moral fashion. Especially with respect to taxation and the socialist agenda of many government employees (elected and bureaucratic).
Who's asking you to trust them.
[N]either the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt.
--Samuel Adams
All that is being offered in the NRST legislation is a clean slate, it is up to the American people to maintain it that way.
Providence has given to our people the choice of their rulers, and it is the duty, as well as the privilege and interest of our Christian nation to select and prefer Christians for their rulers.
John Jay, letter to Jedidiah Morse 28 Feb 1797
"It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become a prey to the active. The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime and the punishment of his guilt."
-John Philpot Curran: Speech upon the Right of Election, 1790. (Speeches. Dublin, 1808.)
- Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty--power is ever stealing from the many to the few.