It’s Not About Taxing the Wealthy … it’s About Taxing Grandparents

It’s Not About Taxing the Wealthy … it’s About Taxing Grandparents

Jeff Opdyke, Editor of The Sovereign Individual, November 25, 2012

Why Governments Are Corrupt

To me, this is the problem: The essence of government – the characteristic that sets it apart from all other institutions – is that it has the legalized privilege of using brute force on persons who have not harmed anyone. Overtly or covertly, this privilege backs almost everything government does.

Who would not be corrupted by the use of this power? Please, give me the person's name.

Here is another way to look at political power. There are two laws taught by all religions: Do all you have agreed to do, which is the basis of contract law… And do not encroach on other persons or their property, which is the basis of tort law and some criminal law.

Political power is the privilege of violating these laws.

Who would not be corrupted by this?

Today's federal government is so powerful that if we filled the House, Senate, and White House with saints and angels, in six months they'd all be wackos.

To expect government to produce something that has benefits greater than costs is to expect the nearly impossible. In most cases, government isn't the solution to mankind's problems… it's the cause.

The only lasting remedy is one any of the American founders would have recommended: Less government today, even less tomorrow, and so on, until we need a microscope to find it.

We have the opposite. The Keynesian polices of tax, spend, borrow, print, subsidize, and regulate are what got us into this mess, and the blockheads in Washington think more of the same will get us out.

Their new medical system and its taxes are icons of their attitude, which can be summarized as, "The torture will continue until morale improves."

Richard J. Maybury from the S&A Digest

Thomas Jefferson may have been the greatest of America's founders. In 1787, writing about political power, he said to Continental Congressman Edward Carrington…"If once [the people] become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, Judges, and Governors, shall all become wolves."

How to Really Maximize Taxes

If you raise the amount of dollars taxed, there are less dollars changing hands, and therefore less taxes.  If you reduce the amount of taxes, there are more dollars changing hands, and therefore more taxes.  The secret is determining the balance that results in the greatest number of dollars changing hands and the greatest number of dollars being collected for taxes.

Beality

John Roberts is a conservative and he is not dumb, mentally unstable, diabolical, a turncoat, a Souter or even just trying to be too nice.

So to recap the Roberts court through a brilliant tactical maneuver has: strengthened the limitations of the commerce clause and the necessary and proper clause by a unanimous decision, made Obama raise taxes on the poor and middle classes, converted Obamacare into a tax program repealable with 51 votes in the Senate, enhanced Romney’s and Republican’s fundraising and likelihood of being elected in November, weakened federal extortion and got the left to love Roberts and sing his praises all without anyone even noticing.

Richard Bolen, Lawyer

Fifty Years after the Declaration of Independence!

"May it be to the world, what I believe it will be, (to some parts sooner, to others later, but finally to all,) the signal of arousing men to burst the chains under which monkish ignorance and superstition had persuaded them to bind themselves, and to assume the blessings and security of self-government. That form which we have substituted, restores the free right to the unbounded exercise of reason and freedom of opinion. All eyes are opened, or opening, to the rights of man. The general spread of the light of science has already laid open to every view the palpable truth, that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God. These are grounds of hope for others. For ourselves, let the annual return of this day forever refresh our recollections of these rights, and an undiminished devotion to them."

Letter from Thomas Jefferson, Monticello, June 24, 1826

The letter excerpted above is considered one of the most sublime exaltations of individual and national liberty ever written. Jefferson’s personal vision of the Declaration of Independence he helped to write, and his vision of the American nation are vivid examples to the world of the blessings of self-government.  Jefferson soon died on July 4, 1826!

I hope you will make a good use of it.

Founding Father, and second president of the United States, John Adams also gave us words to consider today: “You will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make a good use of it. If you do not, I shall repent in heaven that I ever took half the pains to preserve it.”

John Adams

Celebrate the True Fourth of July

"This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave."

Elmer Davis