Fair Tax or Flat Tax,
We all end up poor.
We deny that we have,
What all can see:
We are spending, and spending,
Well beyond our means!
As National Pooring continues,
And decay sets in,
Our Debt Funding will stop,
For the Permanent Welfare Debt Bin.
So what do we do?
Says I to you,
Keep paying ourselves Welfare,
And not pay the Debt?
With no Welfare checks,
Comes the pain of withdrawl,
Oh! What shall we do?
With no Social Security, Medicare and such,
The pain will be awful,
Just awful I say!
With the present dual system,
Of Debt Funded Welfare,
And true governing costs,
We must end Welfare to ourselves,
Or all will be lost.
Taxing and funding is fine as it is,
The problem is the narcotic of Welfare,
That has almost done us in - - - - .
So ask yourself,
Can you get by,
With current high taxes,
And no Mailbox Eagle flying by?
Very nice!
“We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our selection between economy and liberty or profusion and servitude. If we run into such debts as that we must be taxed in our meat in our drink, in our necessities and comforts, in our labors and in our amusements, for our callings and our creeds...our people.. must come to labor sixteen hours in the twenty-four, give earnings of fifteen of these to the government for their debts and daily expenses; and the sixteenth being insufficient to afford us bread, we must live.. We have not time to think, no means of calling the mis-managers to account, but be glad to obtain subsistence by hiring ourselves to rivet their chains on the necks of our fellow suffers. Our landholders, too...retaining indeed the title and stewardship of estates called theirs, but held really in trust for the treasury, must...be contented with penury, obscurity and exile.. private fortunes are destroyed by public as well as by private extravagance.
This is the tendency of all human governments. A departure from principle becomes a precedent for a second; that second for a third; and so on, till the bulk of society is reduced to mere automatons of misery, to have no sensibilities left but for sinning and suffering... And the fore horse of this frightful team is public debt. Taxation follows that, and in it’s train wretchedness and oppression.”
Thomas Jefferson on taxation and public debt.