Live Free!

Back to work!  I actually really enjoy working for the company that I work for.  The people are great and the company is well run.  (That is why I choose to work here 12 years ago.)  The thing that I don’t like is paying taxes.  It seems like I am paying someone to violate my rights.  The government supports all sorts of things that I would never put my own money towards.  I am very generous with my time and money.  I do not need the government to do it for me.  I spend many hours every month with Scouting, Church and other organizations plus the money that I contribute.  The U.S. has some of the most generous people in the world!  However, if you look at State and Federal income tax (~35%), plus sales tax, plus property tax, plus fuel tax (why do I have to pay the State and County $85/year to heat my own house???)  The list of taxes go on and I by the time that you put them all together, I figure that I pay 50% in taxes every year!

Honestly, I see taxes as a form of slavery.  We don’t pay them willingly.  If we don’t pay the IRS is quick to inform you that you will be prosecuted.  How is this different than slavery?  The government is the slave owner and they decide what you can keep and what you have to pay them.

Do you know how much good I could do for my family and the community if I had that money in my own account instead of the governments?  Did you know that before 1913, except for a couple short periods for specific purposes, there was no income tax?  I could site this, but won’t because I really think that this is common knowledge.  Anybody can check it by just Googling it, if they don’t already know this.

So, when was our countries greatest growth?  The 1800’s!  For the last hundred years we have made some good advances, but really we were riding the momentum of the first hundred years, as I see it.  During that time the world went from struggling to feed ourselves, living in houses with no floors or indoor plumbing and very little education to having food available to help feed the rest of the world, and floors and indoor plumbing being an expectation, and having schools that generated the most educated populace in the world.  That was done due to our freedom and the ability to create. 

Now days, you can’t create without a permit!  Sure some people will say that we need to protect the environment, the neighbors, etc., but really we already had those laws in place with our Common Law and the Bible which says “Love your neighbor as yourself” and “…do onto others as you would have done onto you.”  Really those two statements about sums it all up!  All the extra laws that have been put on the books restrict our liberty and essentially make everyone a criminal because of the silly notion of “Ignorance of the law is no excuse.”  This is silly because how can anyone know all of the laws that we have on the books these days?  As long as a person uses reasonable judgment and no intention of harming another person or their property, then he should be allowed to do it.  As for the subjectivity of “reasonable judgment,” that is the original purpose of the Trial by Jury.  If you read about our original government and the court system, you will see that it was really all addressed from the start and that in the last two hundred years we have royally messed things up!  We have taken all of the responsibility away from juries and judges and individuals and we have given it to the government, which is what the American Revolution originally fought against.

I could go on for a long time about this and cite many other examples, such as “mandatory sentencing” which is one of the worst things that we have done to our judicial system.  However, you should be getting the idea and it is really best if you educate yourself on these things.  My goal is for more people to begin to wake-up and start correcting the world around us.  As soon as people recognize that we are all free or as the Founding Fathers would say, “Sovereign Beings,” the government loses its control over us and we will be able to return to our full potential and make the most of the world around us.

Live Free!