And it happens to each and every one of us. I wrote my annual big check to the Fed this morning and will mail it here shortly. It is a money transfer that is in defiance of what the Founders felt was the freedom method for financing a small government.
The Founders wrote in Article I: ...direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this Union, according to their respective Numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole Number of free Persons...
IOW, a state with 3 times the population of State X had to end up paying 3 times the tax as the lesser populated State X. (The only functional way to have done that would have been to establish an amount of money to be raised and then to assign each state their share of it.)
Since larger states had more voting representatives in congress, this prevented MAJORITIES in Congress from robbing others blind to benefit their own needs. It says to me that the Founders were leery of poverty crowding into cities and outvoting lesser populated but more industrious regions. (Review a red/blue map by county of the USA, and notice that the blue is clustered in highly populated areas.)
Indirect taxes which are consumption taxes (sales taxes), on the other hand, are under the control of each individual citizen. You buy more, then you pay more. It's fair.
A direct tax becomes a money transfer scheme from the better off to the less well off. It's happening before our very eyes and demonstrating to us the wisdom of the Founders.
And it plays into the hands of the socialists and corporatists who use class warfare and elitism to take our money and use it to enhance their power by buying off constituencies and/or enriching themselves.
Those elites and those entitlement voters make possible the rule of a "dictatorship over the non-elites"....over us.
Here's the sad part, America. In the same way as generational welfare conditions those in it to believe that this is the way life is supposed to be, so having our children raised in a culture with a "dictatorship over the non elites" conditions them to accept that as normal.
See how effectively just two decades of homosexual propaganda has turned the thinking of average America to where it accepts this death-bringing behavior as "normal".
We worry all the time about leaving our children with this massive debt.
Far worse than that will be our leaving them on the road to serfdom, and if we don't fight against it, then we're affirming that it's just normal living, the way things are supposed to be.
At first Joseph protected his relatives, the Israelites, in Egypt. Eventually, though, a king rose who didn't remember Joseph. And those Hebrews ended up in slavery. They naturally grew right into it.
I think an analogy to the Magia is apropos here. The Bundys had a small buisiness raising cattle on the open range for about 50 years and then one day the Mafia came in and requested some “protection” money. Initially they paid the BLM (Bureau of Land Mafia) the protection money because it wasn’t that much and it was better to pay it than go through the hassle of trying to convince the courts that the Federal Mafia had no legal right to extort money from their enterprise.
Another 50 years goes by and the BLMafia puts the squeeze on the Bundys telling them that not only is the protection fee going up, but they can only raise a fraction of the cows they used to raise because the desert tortoise mob, the Environmental Protection Racket wants a cut of the protection money and their people want to set aside the land for the use of nobody. The neighboring companies pay the fee and attempt to limit the number of their cows and all eventually go out of business. The Environmental Protection Racket purchases the neighboring properties at a fire sale and push all the ranchers except Bundy off the land intending to use the land for a pet project designed to enrich the Mob Bosses who run both Rackets.
But Bundy refuses to pay the protection money. The mob sits quiet waiting for the wheels to get into motion on their Chinese/Mob Boss enriching solar scheme and then when the wheels are ready, it becomes necessary to take out the recalcitrant businessman and his family. They hire a bunch oh hit men and other mercenaries to take out the family and steal their cows.
What the Mafia didn’t take into account was that there would be a large contingent of good guys armed to the teeth ready to keep the Mob from executing their plan to take out the Bundys.
That’s where we are today. The Mob backed out, but will they continue their efforts to extort protection money and/or take them out or have the good guys prevailed?
While I love happy endings, the Godfather (Obama) has been disrespected and he is vengeful. His henchmen (Reid and Company) have vowed to finish what they started.