Taxation is a form of ownership. There is no other way to look at it. Our current corporate tax rate is 35% (which is the highest in the world). This means that 35% of the profits made by every corporation in this country are confiscated by the government. If I own 35% of a company, I get 35% of the profits. The Federal Government effectively owns 35% of every Corporation in America. If your Corporation operates in a state with its own Corporate income tax, then you are also sharing ownership with your state. In personal income, this applies as well. If you have a tax rate of 20%, it can effectively be said that the government owns the right to 20% of your labor. This means that if I work a 40 hour week, then one of the days I work each week is not done to pay for my life, but is work I do to fund the government. Can that be defined as anything other than slave labor? We made slavery and involuntary servitude illegal in 1865, only to institute it in another form - called direct taxation - in 1913. If I work for somebody elses profit, that is nothing if not slavery. And if we try to not pay taxes - we get arrested at gun point and held involuntarily in captivity. Which makes taxation a violent act because anything that has to be enforced at gun point can only be defined as a violent act. And on top of this, we pay a tax on what we consume (sales tax), what we own (property tax), what we invest in (capital gains), and what we pass on to our children when we die (estate tax), to name just a few. At what point do we finally acknowledge that we are not a free people? - Calton -
Posted on: Fri, 17 Oct 2014 14:30:01 +0000
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