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An increasing number of 'regular' people get fed up with more and more taxes and government control. It is not some fringe group of the population any more that wishes there was less, or even none, of it.
This author received an email from a friend reflecting this sentiment. This friend can not, by no stretch of the imagination, be considered a tax protester - legal or illegal. Let me give you the content of this chain letter and then I will explain what is wrong with it even though it is well intentioned.
Taxes!!!
How Many Taxes!!!
This puts it all in perspective.
This is about as clear and easy to understand as it can be - read it!!
The article below is completely neutral, ...not anti republican or democrat.
Charlie Reese, a retired reporter for the Orlando Sentinel has hit the nail directly on the head, defining clearly who it is that in the final analysis must assume responsibility for the judgements made that impact each one of us every day.
It's a short but good read. Worth the time. Worth remembering!
545 vs. 300,000,000
EVERY CITIZEN NEEDS TO READ THIS AND THINK ABOUT WHAT THIS JOURNALIST HAS SCRIPTED IN THIS MESSAGE. READ IT AND THEN REALLY THINK ABOUT OUR CURRENT POLITICAL DEBACLE.
Charley Reese has been a journalist for 49 years.
545 PEOPLE - By Charlie Reese
Politicians are the only people in the world who create problems and then campaign against them.
Have you ever wondered, if both the Democrats and the Republicans are against deficits, WHY do we have deficits?
Have you ever wondered, if all the politicians are against inflation and high taxes, WHY do we have inflation and high taxes?
You and I don't propose a federal budget. The president does.
You and I don't have the Constitutional authority to vote on appropriations. The House of Representatives does.
You and I don't write the tax code, Congress does.
You and I don't set fiscal policy, Congress does.
You and I don't control monetary policy, the Federal Reserve Bank does.
One hundred senators, 435 congressmen, one president, and nine Supreme Court justices equates to 545 human beings out of the 300 million are directly, legally, morally, and individually responsible for the domestic problems that plague this country.
I excluded the members of the Federal Reserve Board because that problem was created by the Congress. In 1913, Congress delegated its Constitutional duty to provide a sound currency to a federally chartered, but private, central bank.
I excluded all the special interests and lobbyists for a sound reason. They have no legal authority. They have no ability to coerce a senator, a congressman, or a president to do one cotton-picking thing. I don't care if they offer a politician $1 million dollars in cash. The politician has the power to accept or reject it. No matter what the lobbyist promises, it is the legislator's responsibility to determine how he votes.
Those 545 human beings spend much of their energy convincing you that what they did is not their fault. They cooperate in this common con regardless of party.
What separates a politician from a normal human being is an excessive amount of gall. No normal human being would have the gall of a Speaker, who stood up and criticized the President for creating deficits..... The president can only propose a budget. He cannot force the Congress to accept it.
The Constitution, which is the supreme law of the land, gives sole responsibility to the House of Representatives for originating and approving appropriations and taxes. Who is the speaker of the House? Nancy Pelosi. She is the leader of the majority party. She and fellow House members, not the president, can approve any budget they want. If the president vetoes it, they can pass it over his veto if they agree to.
It seems inconceivable to me that a nation of 300 million can not replace 545 people who stand convicted -- by present facts -- of incompetence and irresponsibility. I can't think of a single domestic problem that is not traceable directly to those 545 people. When you fully grasp the plain truth that 545 people exercise the power of the federal government, then it must follow that what exists is what they want to exist.
If the tax code is unfair, it's because they want it unfair.
If the budget is in the red, it's because they want it in the red ..
If the Army & Marines are in IRAQ , it's because they want them in IRAQ
If they do not receive social security but are on an elite retirement plan not available to the people, it's because they want it that way.
There are no insoluble government problems.
Do not let these 545 people shift the blame to bureaucrats, whom they hire and whose jobs they can abolish; to lobbyists, whose gifts and advice they can reject; to regulators, to whom they give the power to regulate and from whom they can take this power. Above all, do not let them con you into the belief that there exists disembodied mystical forces like "the economy," "inflation," or "politics" that prevent them from doing what they take an oath to do.
Those 545 people, and they alone, are responsible.
They, and they alone, have the power..
They, and they alone, should be held accountable by the people who are their bosses.
Provided the voters have the gumption to manage their own employees...
We should vote all of them out of office and clean up their mess!
So, can't we all agree with this? Doesn't it sound all reasonable and good to get somebody else in the captain's seat?
Sorry, but we tried that and it did not work. Remember how this all started here in the good old US of A? As a country free of the oppression of the king, right? With a constitution safe-guarding the freedom and privacy of its citizens. With a very limited government!
And what happened? Mainly two players played musical chairs. No chair was ever removed so when the music stopped either blue or red sat on the chair, and independent of who made it onto the chair the population's freedom and privacy was reduced bit by bit.
Thus the solution to all these taxes and invasion of privacy could not possibly be to put the other guy in the chair. The solution can only be to have no chair.
Now I already hear the obvious objection that there would be nobody to build and maintain our roads! - Really? - When have you last seen a politician building a road?
This question might first seem silly but take a second look, unbiased by public education - it becomes quickly obvious that it's people like you and me who actually build the streets, like the contractor down the street. Mostly they are the richer ones because the politicians reward their supporters with unreasonable high pay (you remember the $200 hammer, yes?) but, still, they are business men, trying to make a living.
Without the government contracts they would still be contractors, maybe a little bit more honest, but still in the same business of building streets, now competing with other road builders. The principles of the free market would quickly weed out the bad apples and we will end up with better products for less money.
The only losers in this scenario would be the poor politicians, but I don't think too many tears would be shed, except by those politicians of course. This Author believes that deep down we all know that the men in government are not here to help anybody but themselves.
Now comes the difficult part to understand. A sane person can not understand the motives and thought-processes of the insane. He just can't. He can observe and collect empirical data on how the insane functions, but a gut understanding is not possible. As a sane person we just can not understand that somebody would want to control others and so we attempt to create a reality for us that would explain why somebody exhibits this strange urge to control. If this politician were to actually help people, that would fit into the reality of a sane person. In his wicket mind the politician knows that and uses it. Thus he pushes help, help, help when it is in fact furthest from his mind. He is indeed unable to understand real help.
Just as we can not expect the dog to purr, so can we not expect the politician to feel empathy for his constituents. Just as demanding the dog to purr has no chance of success, so will demanding from the politician to behave ethically has no possible way of succeeding. An unbiased look at history will clearly prove this.
Therefore, if we want to remedy the current situation we have to stop asking and petitioning the politicins, we just have to take them out of the loop and the best way is to take away their funding and mostly just ignore their ranting. Ranting that we do not love our country, that we endanger our children and that we support terrorism. Just the opposite is true.
The required change has to start within ourselves. We cannot wait for something else to happen, somebody else making the first step, or blaming anything or anybody for the current situation. We have to just face the fact that we have been duped and make the decision not to allow that any longer.
Sure, there is the fear we have to deal with that on the way out the tyrants will try to hurt us. And to be realistic, they will succeed in some rare cases. But are you still driving your car despite the fact that there is a real chance you will have an accident? Certainly, we always take risks to gain something. This author believes that the risk we take in the case of ignoring a politician is small compared to the possible gain of freedom and privacy.
Overcoming fear is a process that can be practiced and learned. This is what this site is all about - so, let's get started! Join this community and find out how many there are with the same urge to live free.
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