Envy & Insincerity

Taxation has become a sordid game by cynical- insincere politicians. The progressive Income Tax is a moral issue, President Obama and most politicians are amoral and self-serving. The top 1% pays nearly 37% of the taxes; the top 10% pay 70% and the bottom 50% pay only 2.25%. Fairness it seems is rather subjective.   

                                                                                                                                   

AGI	2.25%	36.73%	58.66%	70.47%	87.30%
TOP 1%		$
TOP 5%			$
TOP 10%				$
TOP 25%					$
< 50%	$

2009 Tax Year

In 1913 the Federal Government didn’t need the money from an Income Tax. It was funded by import duties and excise taxes on distilled spirits. The farmers, workers and merchants that envied Carnegie never dreamed that the 16^th Amendment would make them all indentured servants to the government.  Envy and Insincerity are the two most destructive human weaknesses.
 

STATEMENT OF T. COLEMAN ANDREWS who was an IRS Commissioner for 3 years in the Eisenhower Administration.  He had the following things to say about income taxes after resigning.

“Congress went beyond merely enacting an income tax law and repealed Article IV of the Bill of Rights, by empowering the tax collector to do the very things from which that article says we were to be secure. It opened up our homes, our papers and our effects to the prying eyes of government agents and set the stage for searches of our books and vaults and for inquiries into our private affairs whenever the tax man might decide, even though there might not be any justification beyond mere cynical suspicion.”

“The income tax is bad because it has robbed you and me of the guarantee of privacy and the respect for our property that were given to us in Article IV of the Bill of Rights. This invasion is absolute and complete as far as the amount of tax that can be assessed is concerned. Please remember that under the Sixteenth Amendment, Congress can take 100% of our income anytime it wants to. As a matter of fact, right now [1953] it is imposing a tax as high as 91%. This is downright confiscation and cannot be defended on any other grounds.”

“The income tax is bad because it was conceived in class hatred, is an instrument of vengeance and plays right into the hands of the communists. It employs the vicious communist principle of taking form each according to his accumulation of the fruits of his labor and giving to others according to their needs, regardless of whether those needs are the result of indolence or lack of pride, self-respect, personal dignity or other attributes of men.”

“The income tax is fulfilling the Marxist prophecy that the surest way to destroy a capitalist society is by steeply graduated taxes on income and heavy levies on the estates of people when they die. As matters now stand, if our children make the most of their capabilities and training, they will have to give most of it to the tax collector and so become slaves to the government. People cannot pull themselves up by their own bootstraps anymore because the tax collector gets the boots and the straps as well.”

“The income tax is bad because it is oppressive to all and discriminates particularly against those people who prove themselves most adept at keeping the wheels of business turning and creating maximum employment and a high standard of living for their fellow men.”

“I believe that a better way to raise revenue not only can be found but must be found because I am convinced that the present system is leading us right back to the very tyranny from which those, who established this land of freedom, risked their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor to forever free themselves…”

                                                                        http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T._Coleman_Andrews

Why does Obama want to raise the marginal rates on select individuals making more than one-million dollars when it won’t solve the deficit problem?  When you start salami slicing groups like AGI over $10 million, AGI over $1 million and AGI over $500,000 - now substitute Russian-Americans for the first group, Polish-Americans for the second and Jewish-Americans for the third. It's all purely arbitrary and just as amoral. Especially when it does not solve the problem as it does not stop deficit spending, so much for utility and practicality. What is his reasoning then? Envy.  

“In business, the rise of the welfare state froze the status quo, perpetuating the power of the big corporations of the pre-income tax era, placing them beyond the competition of the tax-strangled newcomers. A similar process took place in the welfare state of the intellect. The results, in both fields, are the same.” Philosophy: Who Needs It, by Ayn Rand

Republicans need to make this a moral issue and link it to actually solving a problem- the only effective solution is to cut real spending as compared to slowing the rate of growth (of government spending). This salami slicing of citizens that destroyed equal treatment under the law effectively destroyed our constitution and the morality of the nation.

--Rhoetus

Does Obama Want America to Fail?

If I Wanted America to Fail. . .

Tax Freedom Day?

STATEMENT OF T. COLEMAN ANDREWS who was an IRS Commissioner for 3 years in the Eisenhower Administration.  He had the following things to say about income taxes after resigning.

"Congress went beyond merely enacting an income tax law and repealed Article IV of the Bill of Rights, by empowering the tax collector to do the very things from which that article says we were to be secure. It opened up our homes, our papers and our effects to the prying eyes of government agents and set the stage for searches of our books and vaults and for inquiries into our private affairs whenever the tax men might decide, even though there might not be any justification beyond mere suspicion."

"The income tax is bad because it has robbed you and me of the guarantee of privacy and the respect for our property that were given to us in Article IV of the Bill of Rights. This invasion is absolute and complete as far as the amount of tax that can be assessed is concerned. Please remember that under the Sixteenth Amendment, Congress can take 100% of income anytime it wants to. As a matter of fact, right now it is imposing a tax as high as 91%. This is downright confiscation and cannot defended on any other grounds."

"The income tax is bad because it was conceived in class hatred, is an instrument of vengeance and plays right into the hands of the communists. It employs the vicious communist principle of taking from each according to his accumulation of the fruits of his labor and giving to others according to their needs, regardless of whether those needs are the result of indolence or lack of pride, self-respect, personal dignity or other attributes of men."

"The income tax is fulfilling the Marxist prophecy that the surest way to destroy a capitalist society is by steeply graduated taxes on income and heavy levies upon the estates of people when they die." "As matters now stand, if our children make the most of their capabilities and training, they will have to give most of it to the tax collector and so become slaves of the government. People cannot pull themselves up by the bootstraps anymore because the tax collector gets the boots and the straps as well."

"The income tax is bad because it is oppressive to all and discriminates particularly against those people who prove themselves most adept at keeping the wheels of business turning and creating maximum employment and a high standard of living for their fellow men."

"I believe that a better way to raise revenue not only can be found but must be found because I am convinced that the present system is leading us right back to the very tyranny from which those, who established this land of freedom, risked their lives,their fortunes and their sacred honor to forever free themselves..."
                                                            http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T._Coleman_Andrews

Medical Care & Totalitarianism

The Therapeutic State

“From the descriptive point of view, the difference between the physician and the veterinarian is that the former treats human diseases or sick people, whereas the latter treats animal diseases or sick animals. From the moral and political point of view, the difference between them is that the physician is expected to be the agent of the persons who are his patients, whereas the veterinarian is expected to be the agent of persons who own sick animals. In proportion, then, as the physician becomes the agent of the State and in proportion as the State is totalitarian, the physician becomes, from a moral and political point of view, a veterinarian- that is, the agent of a State who owns its citizens, just as the farmer owns his animals. This is why killing animals is part of the normal function of the veterinarian and why incarcerating people is, and killing them may yet become, a part of the normal function of the physician employed by the Therapeutic State.” --Dr. Thomas Szasz

Does Your Job Depend on Economic Growth?

Our continuing crisis of Government Debt:

Ron Paul for President

Why I support Ron Paul

By Rhoetus

The "Conservative Movement" is dead. Its founders have all passed away; Frank Chodorov, Leonard E. Read, Bill Buckley Jr, Whittaker Chambers, M. Stanton Evans, Rev. Edmond Opitz, Friedrich Hayek, Henry Hazlitt, Willis E. Stone, Robert HW Welch Jr, Barry M. Goldwater, Ronald W. Reagan, et.al. 

There was some hope that the election in 1980 of Ronald Reagan as President of the United States, the “movement” had influenced public opinion enough to turn the preverbal corner toward traditional American ideals. The “Movement” had been weakened in recent years its strength had been drained by squabbling about single issue politics and Conservative politicians that governed like Left-Liberals. Alas, the younger generation having taken the reins of publications such as National Review has lost the meaning. With their 15 minute attention span they no longer advocate individualism and strict observance of the US Constitution. They seek legitimacy in supporting the established Progressive government institutions. They are no longer motivated to advocate free-market solutions instead of government programs. 

Not since Barry Goldwater ran for President have I seen such ad-hominem attacks against a candidate that doesn’t tow the party line. I still remember quite vividly all the vicious attacks on Goldwater, how he was too extreme and would cause a nuclear war, etc. Ronald Reagan too was attacked when he first ran for Governor, that he was only an “actor”; he could play a Governor but was not qualified to govern. 

It’s been nearly 32 years since Reagan was elected President, what is the state of our union? We have an American Empire that teeters on bankruptcy. It’s every socialist’s wet dream in 1890; who could not even imagine how their dreams have been realized. This reminds me of the novel: “Looking Backward” by Edward Bellamy. 

Now the established conservative media are using Nelson Rockefeller’s strategy targeting Ron Paul and using the same tactics. The American system is bankrupt and Romney’s presentation of technocratic management will be ineffective in solving our debt crisis, freedom choking regulations, government intervention in all aspects of both our private and business life. We need a “Velvet Revolution” here in America. We Americans can learn from Vaclav Havel and Vaclav Klaus.

The Czech’s reestablished freedom in their country after years of brutal repression from a totalitarian system.

There is no “Third Way” – we must reject the ideas of the Progressives whether they call themselves Democrats or Republicans. If we don’t restore our liberties under the Constitution now, when?  

May the "First" Family Have a very MF Xmas

Wishing every one a very merry Christmas filled with optimism and good cheer. 

May the President Barack Obama have a very MF Global Xmas too!

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