Politicians vis-a-vis Representatives

Politicians only ask two questions when asked to take action.

Politicians ask how will this action help me get elected or stay in office? or How will this hurt my getting elected or staying in office?

Representatives of the people ask how their action will help or hurt the people who elected them. Representatives are very rare. They put principle above politics.

Those in the House who didn't stand (Politicians) with Steve King of Iowa (Representative) when he proposed the FairTax as the solution to the financial crisis last February are self-serving indeed. They selfishly refuse to surrender the power they have over our lives by taxing our income. They have used this power to build for themselves a really plush life style that (it's only human) they are loathe to give up.

With control of the wealth of our nation they have much to sell to the Big Money interests that finance the campaigns of both parties. The basis of the power Congress has to dictate to us rather than represent us is the 16th Amendment and the Federal Reserve Act. Congress must give up the power to tax our income and take back from the Federal Reserve the power to coin money and determine the value thereof before our government can return to being the one created by our founding fathers, a nation established under God of free individuals governing themselves.

Only when the number of FairTax supporters grows to the point that they realize that there are enough voters to kick them out or keep them out of office will they pass the FairTax. While our numbers fall short of that, they will keep their "kingdom" intact. As long as they can issue and control our money they can snub their noses at us and even our basic rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness (prosperity).

Do all you can to recruit new Zappers to turn up the heat and run them out of our kitchen. This was our country. It can be ours again if we but will it to be!

Read the "Declaration of a National Day of Mourning and Demand for the REPEAL of the Income Tax"  HERE

John Hanson is founder of "ZAP the IRS" and a contributing writer for The Cypress Times.