PING!
The Boston Tea Party was a revolt on 4 cents on the dollar. Where are we now? What a joke. A second American Revolution is in order.....
Federal taxes include excises taxes of 18.3 cents per gallon on gasoline and 24.3 cents per gallon on diesel fuel. Ohio taxes include excises taxes of 38.5 cents per gallon on gasoline and 47.0 cents per gallon on diesel fuel.
Gasoline is the low hanging fruit of hidden taxes. I figure that between my wife and I that gasoline taxes takes about $800 per year from our bottom line. (Thank God I don’t live in California)
Then there is the fact that corporations do not pay taxes, they collect them. Everything you buy has hidden federal taxes included in the price.
The average citizen pays easily half of their income in taxes (Federal, state and local).
A vote for a Democrat is a vote AGAINST America!
FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument
From related threads…
Patriots are reminded of the federal government's constitutionally limited powers, including the fed's Supreme Court-clarified, but now wrongly ignored, limited power to appropriate taxes.
“Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
”From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added].” —United States v. Butler, 1936.
In other words, and militia issue aside, patriots can bet that if a given federal domestic spending program is not reasonably related to the US Mail Service then the program is unconstitutional and probably win the bet most of the time.
"Article I, Section 8, Clause 7: To establish Post Offices and post Roads;"
Such spending is based on stolen state revenues which the feds steal by means of unconstitutional taxes according to the Gibbons excerpt above, taxes that career lawmakers cannot justify under Congress's constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers imo.
In fact, consider that the congressional record shows that Rep. John Bingham, a constitutional lawmaker, had clarified that the Founding States had left the care of the people uniquely to the states, evidenced by the 10th Amendment (10A), not the feds.
10th Amendment: The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
”[…] the care of the property, the liberty, and the life of the citizen, under the solemn sanction of an oath imposed by your Federal Constitution, is in the States, and not in the Federal Government [emphases added].” —Rep. John Bingham, Congressional Globe, 1866. (See about middle of 3rd column.)
Justice Brandeis later put it this way about "laboratories of democracy," the unique powers of the sovereign states to serve the people, depending on what the legal majority citizen voters of a given state want.
"It is one of the happy incidents of the federal system that a single courageous State may, if its citizens choose [emphasis added], serve as a laboratory; and try novel social and economic experiments without risk to the rest of the country.” —Justice Brandeis, Laboratories of democracy.
(Note that constitutional limits on states as laboratories of democracy is that states cannot establish privileged / protected classes or abridge constitutionally enumerated rights, and must maintain a constitutionally guaranteed republican form of government.)
So why are the corrupt, post-17th Amendment ratification feds now unconstitutionally dictating federal domestic policy?
Using inappropriate words like “concept” and “implicit,” the excerpt below from Wickard v. Filburn (Wickard) shows what was left of the defense of 10A-protected state sovereignty by the last of the state sovereignty-respecting majority justices in United States v. Butler, FDR’s state sovereignty-ignoring activist justices later blatantly ignoring the reasonable Butler interpretation of 10A when they scandalously decided Wickard in Congress’s favor imo.
"10th Amendment: The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."
”From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added].” —United States v. Butler, 1936.
"In discussion and decision, the point of reference, instead of being what was "necessary and proper" to the exercise by Congress of its granted power, was often some concept [???] of sovereignty thought to be implicit [??? emphases added] in the status of statehood." —Wickard v. Filburn, 1942.
The remedy for the unconstitutionally big federal government on our backs and its unconstitutional taxes…
Patriots need to elect a new patriot Congress in November that will not only promise to fully support PDJT's already excellent work for MAGA, now KAGA, but will also promise to do the following.
New patriot lawmakers also need to promise to work with PDJT to surrender state powers that the fed's have been stealing from the states back to the states.
And to make such restoration of state powers permanent, patriots need to further support PDJT in working with the states to repeal the 16th and ill-conceived 17th Amendments.
Remember in November!
MAGA! Now KAGA! (Keep America Great Always!)
"The “Holy Grail” of organized crime is to control government power to tax." —me
"The power to tax involves the power to destroy," —Chief Justice John Marshall, McCulloch v. Maryland, 1819.
"The 16th Amendment effectively repealed the involuntary servitude aspect of the 13th Amendment imo, evidenced by unconstitutional federal taxes." —me
"Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States." —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
"13th Amendment, Section 1:
Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude [emphasis added], except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction."
"16th Amendment:
The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration."
"The constitutionally undefined political parties are basically rival, corrupt voter unions, “union dues” paid by means of unconstitutional federal taxes. Belonging to a political party means that you are a subject, not a member.” —me
"Patriots need to support PDJT in demanding that Congress moves "April 15" tax day to the day before election day." —me
"The smart crooks long ago figured out that getting themselves elected to federal office to make unconstitutional tax laws to fill their pockets is a much easier way to make a living than robbing banks." —me
"Federal career lawmakers probably laugh all the way to the bank to deposit bribes for putting loopholes for the rich and corporations in tax appropriations laws, Congress actually not having the express constitutional authority to make most appropriations laws where domestic policy is concerned. Such laws are based on stolen state powers and uniquely associated stolen state revenues." —me
My corporations do not pay taxes so the dividends they pay me will not be double taxed
Let’s not forget The Fed picking your pocket with interest rates less than inflation and monetizing the national debt. Retirees and savers hardest hit.
Great thread. The CRIMINAL STATE has stolen our time of life via debt/taxation. Zero accountability. Zero representation.
STFU. Surrender your sons for war, your daughters/wives for degradation/rape. Work, pay taxes, DIE. Do not look at or question us. We are the United Criminals of America. You are our pawns/play toys. We are NEVER held to account. We can deflect/counterpunch all criticism better than anyone throughout history.