Monday, April 17, 2006

taxing

MacStansbury slams the kleptocracy:
"This Great Nation was not founded on the premise that the King, President, Bi-Cameral legislature, or any governing body called by any name has full access to the earnings of the Nation’s Citizens, and can demand a predetermined portion of said earnings at the whim of whomever is in charge, in exchange for the promise to not toss said Citizens in jail for noncompliance. No no no no NO!

It is the duty of the Citizens of the United States of America to stand up to the Oligarchy when oppression, however slight (this is not slight) is reigned upon us (misspelled pun intended). The Founding Fathers showed us the Way, and we have utterly failed in our duties to their legacy...

We the People are being fleeced by every elected member of Congress who does not see the moral affront of stealing the hard-earned income of the Citizens of the United States...

The 16th and 17th Amendments to the Constitution were a roadmap to a Socialist State, and in my humble opinion are two of the biggest legislative stains ever to rest anywhere near our Constitution...

This ends now. There is not one moral argument that can truthfully be made for the theft of one individual’s earnings and the reapportionment of same to another individual. Not one...

It is time for We the People to remember why America was founded in the first place, and toss out of office any representative who will not vow to disassemble the IRS, stop the income tax immediately, and work towards something along the lines of the FairTax...

Today’s Congressionals have completely mistaken what “no taxation without representation” means, because it has been made so easy for them to steal our money while telling us that they are the “representation” part... In other words, that they are our Representatives is not enough to define this taxation as “with representation”, because all “they” do is take our money and do with it what they please - 536 King Georges.

...Otherwise, this Great Nation has become that which the Founding Fathers despised so deeply that they called for open revolution on the King of England. I cannot stand for this for one more day, and it saddens me that the 200 million or so taxpayers of the United States are so very willing to go along with the charade, for whatever reason."
That being said, I don't agree quite as strongly with his anti-17th Amendment arguments. It seems that the phrase "Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely." would apply no matter how the power was granted.

p.s. While researching the FairTax idea, I found this story that makes me even more angry: IRS plans to allow preparers to sell data.

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