Death and Taxes
The inevitability of taxes is often compared with the inevitability of death. Most people have become so complacent with taxation, they view anyone who suggests that the income tax should be abolished as an extremist viewpoint. These people are complacent because the system breeds indifference through false incentives and fake rewards. These people are those who do not look into the principle of the matter or care to examine the moral implications of the income tax. The income tax is the first step to slavery.
The income tax, as it is carried out now through federal withholding, is a brilliant scheme. The government touches your money long before you do. Consequently, the direct effects of the taxes are not felt. Most people don’t take the time to realize how much of their paycheck is lifted right out from under them by the federal government. To top that all off, if a taxpayer takes the time to fill out the proper paper work, he or she will receive a nice check from the federal government. The recipients of such checks are ussually overwhelmed with joy, not realizing this is really a check written in return for their consenting to the theft of their money throughout the year. Why should the federal government get to touch your money before you do? Why are we so joyous at receiving a check that represents a small portion of what we have spent our time and effort earning throughout the year? What sick little puppets we all for dancing to the beat of the goverment slavery drum.
The income tax represents indentured servitude of old. We do not receive the full fruits of our labor and various efforts. Instead, big brother takes his portion, which goes to the direct funding of a government that restricts our rights at every turn– not the least of which rights is our right to property and, in a more serious extension, life.
In a previous post, i discussed the the right property as an extension of a beings right to life. In reality, it is our life, the moments that compose it, that we spend in exchange for money. We do this through labor. Obviously some peoples’ labor is in higher demand, so those peoples’ labor demands a higher charge. This demand, and the resultant money, is a reflection of their societal worth (not their intrinsic worth as a human being, which is something all together different, and, while on the subject, does not allow for the theft of anything, including money and wealth, from anyone, whether rich or poor). That money, therefore, is a reflection of our those moments of our life that we spend for society in some manner or another. As the federal government takes this money, they are in essence depriving you of your life. As a result, the money you do take in is not a reflection of the the labor you put out. Such a situation is truly indentured servitude to the one taking what should be rightfully ours.
In the long run, the above leads to further and further encroachment on our lives. The government, because there is no resistance from the general public, who are too busy trying to figure out how to spend thier refund and stimulus checks, is devouring more and more of the rights the citizenry of this country used to value so highly. As the money feeds the beast that is the federal government, they become more and more able to restrict the rights and freedoms that would have normally been outside of the reach of their power. The teleological end for any system akin to an wealth-empowered, government machine is tyranny.
Stop the blood flow that is your money and cut the beast off.
But as Murray Rothbard points out all taxes are, ultimately, taxes on income. Is then all taxation of goods an attack on life?
Just something to think on.
In other notes though, I do agree that the income tax is first in the things I want to see eliminated from the Federal Gov’t. Followed by the Federal Reserve, the BATF, and the Dept. of Edutcation (aka Disinformation)