"Taxation means less freedom"


I can't put it any better than that
One of the better anti-tax articles I have seen this year. Emphasis added.

There are too many taxes to name them all. And then there are the miles and miles of government regulations supported by taxation that restrict individual liberty.

Taxes mean only one thing: government expenditures. All federal, state and local government expenditures are paid for by taxes. Taxation means less freedom. The more of one's income that an individual is forced to pay in taxes, the less freedom the individual has to spend the way he or she chooses. Therefore, the more government spends, the less freedom individuals possess.

Taxation is the antithesis of freedom. The payment of taxes is not the price free people pay for their freedom. Rather, taxation is the price individuals pay for being enslaved. The price of individual freedom is what Thomas Jefferson, who happened to turn 264 years old last Friday, said it was: eternal vigilance.

In other words, a free people's job is to make sure their government is significantly restrained in its interference in the life of the individual. Instead of worrying about what Don Imus said or the lives of Anna Nicole Smith, Britney Spears and Paris Hilton, Americans must focus their concerns not only on their own lives, but also on what their government officials do. That is the only way to remain a free people.

Demanding more government services requires greater amounts of government taxation which in the end results in less individual liberty and greater tyranny. Government expenditures at all levels total more than $3 trillion annually.

As if that wasn't enough to despise taxes, let me fill you in on a little history. The first American income tax was used to pay for the Civil War and became one of the most reviled taxes in history. When Social Security was introduced a couple of decades after 16th Amendment authorized income taxes again, some bright bureaucrat came up with the idea that if the government got it's cut before the citizen ever saw their pay, it would simultaneously decrease defaults, get the money for the government sooner, and decrease citizen unrest because people would never see the full amount of their pay.

We've been paying for it ever since.

If you really want to get steamed, take some time to figure out what the standard 1950 deduction would be with inflation today, it was $600 then for a single person or $1200 for a married couple. You might be very surprised.

But for me, the real reason to despise the income tax is one simple thing. The income tax pretty much destroyed presumption of innocence. Rather than assuming that you were innocent until proven guilty, the income tax assumes you are guilty until proven innocent. Law enforcement in the U.S. has never been the same since.

— NeoWayland

Posted: Fri - April 20, 2007 at 05:19 AM  Tag


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