If one can be a conscientious objector to military service and be given a role that, without relieving one of the duty of service, does not require one to pull a trigger and kill another human being, so should taxpayers be able to pay taxes without being forced to fund illegal activity.
‘‘When my time and labor is used to supply me and my family with the things necessary for survival, that is not income, it is a trade and if taxed, becomes slavery. Since all taxes on wages are slavery, it needs to end.”
Absolutely true, and it is slavery indeed.
Long ago the people of this nation resigned themselves to suffer this governmental abuse of power, it became a compliance under duress, a submission under threat of punishment. So likewise, just as we have resigned ourselves to accept this theft, we also have become conditioned to accept, albeit grudgingly, every other form of tyranny. And in so doing, we have relinquished our freedoms through an abdication of our responsibility to maintain them.
Only a damn fool pays a single cent more than he must. Because we largely despise how our taxes are spent, for some years now our plan has been to reduce our taxable income to the absolute minimum and use every legal deduction available.
STARVE THE BEAST at every level, city county, state and federal.
The country started with this-
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers FROM THE CONSENT OF THE GOVERNED...
Can my neighbors consent together to take my life and property?
Here is a bit of what Frederic Bastiat said in his book "The Law", first published November 14, 1849.
“Everyone wants to live at the expense of the state. They forget that the state lives at the expense of everyone.”
“When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it... Sometimes the law defends plunder and participates in it. Thus the beneficiaries are spared the shame and danger that their acts would otherwise involve… But how is this legal plunder to be identified? Quite simply. See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them and gives it to the other persons to whom it doesn’t belong. See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime. Then abolish that law without delay - No legal plunder; this is the principle of justice, peace, order, stability, harmony and logic.”
“Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place.”
T. L. you couldn't be more right on the $$. During the debates on passing the 16th, (memory fades here) one of the original yes votes was quoted as saying that this tax would never touch the head of a working man. This very idea was what spurred my various positions. It's also what opened up the rest of the political/congressional bunch of traitors to me.
Amen!
Great article and very true! Taxation on income is slavery. It sure as hell isn't voluntary.
‘‘When my time and labor is used to supply me and my family with the things necessary for survival, that is not income, it is a trade and if taxed, becomes slavery. Since all taxes on wages are slavery, it needs to end.”
Absolutely true, and it is slavery indeed.
Long ago the people of this nation resigned themselves to suffer this governmental abuse of power, it became a compliance under duress, a submission under threat of punishment. So likewise, just as we have resigned ourselves to accept this theft, we also have become conditioned to accept, albeit grudgingly, every other form of tyranny. And in so doing, we have relinquished our freedoms through an abdication of our responsibility to maintain them.
Only a damn fool pays a single cent more than he must. Because we largely despise how our taxes are spent, for some years now our plan has been to reduce our taxable income to the absolute minimum and use every legal deduction available.
STARVE THE BEAST at every level, city county, state and federal.
The country started with this-
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers FROM THE CONSENT OF THE GOVERNED...
Can my neighbors consent together to take my life and property?
Here is a bit of what Frederic Bastiat said in his book "The Law", first published November 14, 1849.
“Everyone wants to live at the expense of the state. They forget that the state lives at the expense of everyone.”
“When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it... Sometimes the law defends plunder and participates in it. Thus the beneficiaries are spared the shame and danger that their acts would otherwise involve… But how is this legal plunder to be identified? Quite simply. See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them and gives it to the other persons to whom it doesn’t belong. See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime. Then abolish that law without delay - No legal plunder; this is the principle of justice, peace, order, stability, harmony and logic.”
“Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place.”
T. L. you couldn't be more right on the $$. During the debates on passing the 16th, (memory fades here) one of the original yes votes was quoted as saying that this tax would never touch the head of a working man. This very idea was what spurred my various positions. It's also what opened up the rest of the political/congressional bunch of traitors to me.