An awful lot people in this country do not pay certain taxes, particularly the income tax. However there are so many different kinds of taxes, that everybody pays some, one way or another. Why should the nonpayment of certain taxes, any taxes, take away anybody’s freedom of speech? We either have freedom of speech for all in this country, or we do not. Sadly, due to the ACLU and, I think Lyndon Johnson, we do not.
Public school teachers and university professors work for organizations that do not pay taxes, and like national public radio and television, even get government money. Yet teachers and university professors, and commentators on national public radio and television have free speech. Many, many other individuals in this country do not pay various taxes, yet they have free speech. Pastors work for churches, which do not pay taxes (though the pastors themselves certainly do), and they do not have free speech which is a Constitutional right guaranteed to all without any sort of required quid pro quo. Somebody please tell my why this is Constitutional.