Now we know that both were lies. Maybe not lies when they were told but lies manifested none the less. It is up to us, the people, to do something. There are representatives in congress and the Senate who are sponsoring the fair tax.
There is a huge bureaucracy in Washington and Virginia that feasts off of the tax receipts from the hard working people in this country. They are career slum lords overseeing their real estate for profit only, not for the betterment of their tenants. This huge bureauracy, unelected, is the tyranny that Jefferson, Adams, Franklin, Mason et.al. warned us about. They are bloodsuckers and do not have our interests at heart. They only understand power.
Though unelected they wield considerable power as we can see every day with the major cabinet offices. We, as productive citizens are subject to the whims of millions of unnecessary regulations that bind our creative abilities like tethered sheep.
This bureaucratic morass is extremely entwined with the so called "K-Street" gang of lobbyists who spend millions of dollars of corporate money (the money we all earn for statists corporations as their loyal servants) to bribe the very people we send to congress to clean up the mess. Congress, on the other hand, is strapped by a wicked news media who have decided that the truth lies in government and we should all be a collective bunch of sissies. If any story depicts an individual accomplishment it is spiked in favor of an individual accomplishing because of a government program. You know the drill.
The fair tax, whether you agree with it or not, is at least a step toward ridding ourselves of what has become a hundred times worse than King George's tax on tea. If you don't agree with it please tell the rest of us how we can get rid of K-Street and its intertwined bureaucracy.
Otherwise, shut the hell up and go home.
We, as productive citizens are subject to the whims of millions of unnecessary regulations that bind our creative abilities like tethered sheep.
The first section addresses many bogus laws -- victimless "crimes" -- beyond the WOD. The remainder addresses Taxman's 64 post. "You" is used generically directed toward those that support violating persons unalienable rights.
If a person thinks they have been harmed by another person's act of possessing a drug then the person should take the drug possessor to court and convince an impartial jury. That way the "victim" may gain restitution for his or her pain and suffering.
You've never done that because you know that even if the judge didn't refuse the case as frivolous it would be highly improbable that you'd ever convince an impartial jury that the mere act of a person possessing drugs caused you harm.
Instead, you'll argue that drug possession and or use causes harm to society -- causes harm to the group. You'll take a communitarian stand. Of course, you'll have to turn a blind eye to reality. That is, for a group of people to exist there is a prerequisite that first the individual must exist.
Each time an individual is sacrificed -- in whole or in part -- the group suffers a loss. Protect the rights of the smallest minority -- the lone individual -- and the rights of all minorities and the majority are protected.
The federal government creates each year, on average, 3,000 new laws and regulations. Each one of those laws has people that support it and will argue why the new law is necessary. Proclaiming that without those new laws people and society will run headlong into destruction.
In reality virtually every person breaks one or more laws several times a year. Yet with every person violating the law people and society have not moved toward self-destruction. Instead, individuals and society have increasingly prospered.
Over the past several years and decades people and society increasingly prospered despite not having the supposed benefits of future laws yet to come. Today, people and society increasingly prosper despite not having the supposed benefits of next year's new laws or, new laws to come five, ten or fifteen years in the future.
Ninety-eight percent of the people do not knowingly initiate force, threat of force or fraud against any person or their property. Though, through widespread ignorance most people negligently support government initiation of force/harm against persons and their property. See War of Two Worlds below.
Setting aside for the moment that government officials in all three branches of government violate laws, if it were possible to apprehend all lawbreakers next week, society would run headlong into destruction. It would come to a screeching halt.
As it is, a very small fraction of lawbreakers are ever apprehended for the laws they violate. The few that are apprehended and punished cause a drain on their lives, families and society. Meanwhile everybody else that violates the same laws, while semi free, pay the price of having their brothers and sisters sacrificed for the greater good of society.
The beneficiaries are the politicians, bureaucrats and their automatons. They're parasites leeching off The People, the hosts. Value destroyers draining value producers.
Ir really is a war, to the death, between two groups of people: 64
War of Two Worlds
Value Producers
vs.
Value Destroyers
Politicians and bureaucrats work diligently to hide and numb much of the emotional dismay and stress that people would otherwise experience from funding the government. There's the politician and bureaucrat acting in a paternalistic superiority over ordinary people as demonstrated by the treatment they give the "patients". That treatment is to create an illusion that masks the pain while never addressing the real problem.
In fact they dare not address the real problem because they are the problem. For they create problems that need not exist in the first place. Problems that drain wealth and hinder the progress of people and society. The people pay trillions of dollars each year for that.
Solution: make the method of paying taxes transparent to everyone. Let each person experience the pain and dismay of paying taxes and soon, very soon in mass, people will increasingly reign in government spending and lawmaking.
In all probability the FairTax is the most transparent.
Benefits of the FairTax
Rep. Bill Archer, Chairman, House Ways and Means Committee:
"A recent survey was done, in Europe and Japan, of the major corporations and I was astounded at the results. They were asked, 'If the US abolished its income tax and went to a sales tax, would that have any impact on your decisions?' Eighty percent of the corporations said they would build their factories in the United States of America. Twenty percent said they would move their international headquarters to the United States of America."
That's the short list. For more information see fairtax.org or search: "national sales tax" OR "national retail sales tax"