What our government is doing to us today pales in comparison to what King George did to our ancestors.They revolted over much less.Our federal government is taxing us much more than King George and that is without considering federal taxes on income!Even King George didn’t dare tax income.
Gradually becoming fed up with the taxes of King George our early colonists kicked off the American Revolution with the Boston Tea Party. Our current long-suffering citizenry is gradually awakening to the threat to our freedom that is the result of excessive taxation and spending. This has caused the birth and phenomenal growth of the grass roots
T.E A. Party movement. The letters in the name spell the word, tea, but the acronym represented is “Taxed Enough Already”. What unites those attending T. E. A. Parties is their common dissatisfaction with excessive government taxation and its bedfellow, excessive government growth and spending. Our Congress, to the very significant extent that it controls the media and education, is doing its utmost to dismiss and ignore the T. E. A. Party activists. The problem is that there are thousands of T. E. A. party groups throughout all 50 states and they have web sites and social networks that are spreading the truth across the Internet. With the T. E. A. Party movement, the government is up against the American political center and it includes citizens of all political registrations, excluding only the far left and far right radical ideologues. After all, the government taxes and spends the income of Democrats, Republicans, and Independents alike.
There is a Congressional Gang in D. C. within the Congress. Only a small minority of the 535 members of both chambers remain uncorrupted by this gang. This bi-partisan cancer has grown to the point where it threatens the survival of our Republic. However, this Congressional gang in D. C. is beginning to see the hand writing on the wall. The election of Senator Scott Brown was a resounding wake-up call. Senator Brown did not even realize the contribution of the T. E. A. Party movement to his election. He said as much in post election interviews. The contributions to his campaign came from across the nation and did not have any label on them because the T. E. A. Party is not yet a party in the usual sense. They don’t register voters or raise money in support of specific candidates. Not yet. What they do raise is AWARENESS and knowledge is power. The awareness raised among Massachusetts voters of all stripes moved them to vote for the candidate who was most in tune with the T. E.A Party agenda. Politicians are going to have to face the fact that they can no longer get the vote of a large bloc of their constituents simply because they are the candidate of the Democratic or Republican Party. Because of the Internet, politicians face a huge paradigm shift in how they approach governing and campaigning.
There is a parallel between the development of the Congressional Gang in D. C. and organized crime gangs. In their early stages the main racket of the Mafia was the “protection” racket. Under the direction of a “family”, store keepers had their earnings confiscated to protect against the loss of life, limb, and livelihood. They were left with enough to keep the cash flowing. Of course, the gang needed the cooperation of politicians, judges, and officers of the law so they had to buy as many as necessary. Just as with the Congressional Gang in D.C., organized crime was given a giant boost by an Amendment to the Constitution. In 1919 the 18th Amendment (Prohibition) took effect and kicked off an era of unprecedented prosperity for organized crime and their bought officials. It took 14 years to get “Prohibition” repealed by the 21st Amendment. By that time the corruption engendered had poisoned all levels of government. The criminal gangs expanded and solidified their control in prostitution, gambling, drugs, hijacking, labor unions, and even elections. The Congressional Gang in D.C. has developed a synergistic relationship with these criminal activities. After all, in return for confiscating our income they are always at the ready to institute a program to “protect” us from every evil…and any other threat, real or otherwise. Our Congress has come to operate the greatest “protection” racket in history.
As with organized crime, the Congressional Gang in D.C. began its transformation from servant of the people to master of the people with an amendment (16th) to the Constitution. To get control of the people Congress had to get control of their income. Their efforts to do so began long before they succeeded (1913). Congress had passed an income tax in 1894, but they were shut down by the Supreme Court which ruled that direct taxation of income was a clear violation of Article I of the Constitution (1895). Ratification of the 16th Amendment in 1913 gave Congress the power to tax income from whatever source derived without limit (other than what the citizenry would tolerate). The slogan used to garner support for the 16th was “Soak the Rich”. The promise was that only a very small percentage of the income of the very wealthy would be collected and distributed to all. They began that way but have gradually come to confiscating about 40% of all American income to fund federal spending. Now no living American has experienced what the country was like when Americans enjoyed life as our Founding Fathers intended. Filing income tax returns has been institutionalized as an annual/quarterly pain in the posterior.
It was no coincidence that the Federal Reserve Bill was also passed by the Congressional Gang of 1913. Like today, that Congress paid only “lip service” to transparency. The details of the establishment of the Federal Reserve were hammered out by the most powerful bankers and congressional leaders at a private estate on Jekyll Island off the coast of Georgia. Congress passed its control of the money supply (economy) of the United States to a cartel of powerful private bankers. This gang of bankers would lend the Congressional Gang all the money its greedy heart desired. They would have a blank check to spend free of fiscal responsibility. To cover the interest on their loans to the Congressional Gang the banker gang would have the collateral of the income of all working Americans! The Congressional Gang would tax the hard earned money of their constituents to buy their votes to secure their own income! For decade after decade the Congressional Gang has invented new ways to spend the flood of money withheld from our paychecks. They most often create programs that make voters dependent on government for aid, oversight, and intervention (PROTECTION). Smells like a criminal enterprise, doesn’t it? Have the American people benefited from this 1913 departure from our Constitution? Consider that in 1913 unemployment was about 1 % and our per capita income was the highest on the planet, and we weren’t in unsustainable debt. Ask yourself, “Are Americans better off now than they were prior to 1913?”
The change we need is a return to our Constitution sans the 16th amendment. It begs for repeal as did the 18th. The Congress needs to end the Federal Reserve and return to the gold standard in issuing its own currency. Congress needs to pass the FairTax Bill to fund their only proper constitutional raison d’etre, to protect our borders and provide for the national defense. Congress needs term limits. Our 50 States need to reclaim their rights under the 10th Amendment.
The only reason our economy is in shambles is that the thieves in congress and the Federal Reserve are loathe to give up the most lucrative racket ever conceived. It’s up to us to “throw the bums out” and elect men and women who will support the FairTax, term limits, the gold standard with the end of the Fed, and the 10th Amendment.
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