Imagine the Government owning
everything and only giving you what it determines you need. A new twist on the
old Soviet motto is born, "To the State everything, to the People what's
left." And like the serfs who were sold with the lord's land, each new
election only changes your masters.
A new proposal by the British
equivalent of our IRS would have all wages sent to the Government by employers
and after the Government decided your proper deductions, it would then deposit
what's left in your bank account.
As draconian as this is, keep in
mind, this is only the logical extension of the income tax and in fact all
taxes. Taxation is nothing more than the Government declaring that it has 'first
right' to everything you own or work for - your paycheck, your savings, your
house, your land, and everything in it or on it - everything. You don't or
can't pay the taxes on piece of property they will come take it or seize your
other properties.
What is more destructive of Life,
Liberty or Property than this? What burden in more crushing than knowing what
your work for what you create is not yours. A new edict, a new program, a new
emergency and the Government comes and takes more.
Call this Serfdom, modern Slavery,
or Bondage it is not what a free People should tolerate. The Government of the
United States was not created to enslave the People. We are not Property of the
Government. It is time to reject taxation, and servitude, and fear and replace
them with a system which respects the Individual and safeguards their property.