The Mother Of All Tax Hikes Is Coming For You...

BRACE YOURSELF... because the mother of all tax increases is on the way. I say this because the mother of all government bail outs has just happened, and somebody will have to pay for it. Get ready people it’s going to get ugly, eerily similar to the crash of 1929. We have the dark clouds of international tumult with Russia invading democratic Georgia, China gaining strength, Iran and North Korea becoming nuclear, Venezuela using it’s oil money to buy Russian arms and hosting Russian forces, tens of millions of radical Islamic fascist bent on our destruction, not to mention that most of our petroleum (the life blood or our economy) is coming from our enemies.

Back to taxes. Our country had no personal income tax until 1913, when the 16th Amendment was added to the constitution. At that time the lowest bracket paid 1% and the top bracket paid 7%. Under current tax codes the lowest bracket pays 10% and the top bracket pays 35%. Today those who make above $153,542 (top 5% Annual Gross Income) pay over 60% of the total taxes paid. By contrast those who have an Annual Gross Income of less than $31,987 pay less than 3% of total taxes paid. So in essence those who pay 3% of the bills (the majority) can vote into office politicians who will force those who pay 60% of the bills (the minority) to pay even more.

The extortionist politicians get the votes ...

and the bottom 3% get to shake down the rich.

You may not care that the rich get fleeced, and are considered evil and vile, until they lower the tax brackets, and come for you. During World War II (1944-45) the bottom bracket was at 23% and the top bracket was at 94%. Let me ask you, if the government started taxing 94% of your income what would you do? What do you think would happen to businesses? If you don’t think that could happen, think again. Look at what happened this week with the 600 billion dollar (will probably end up as 2 trillion dollars) bail out. Overnight without a vote, one man controlled the financial destiny of 300 million people.

"Government is not reason; it is not eloquence. It is force. And force, like fire, is a dangerous servant and a fearful master."

George Washington

"I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. Already they have raised up a moneyed aristocracy that has set the government at defiance. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs."
Thomas Jefferson

"If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered."

Thomas Jefferson

The battle lines...

First let me say that I am not a Republican, I have never liked John McCain’s positions, and I view McCain as the “Way lesser” of the two evils. I am a conservative, and rather than be defined by someone else I will lay things out the way I see them.

First, I believe the founding fathers had it right, and we should strictly adhere to the constitution as written, with all the freedoms it guarantees. Originally we separated from England to escape the tyranny of the King (Large centralized government lead by a dictator with smaller despots). The founders broke away from a dominating and oppressive government. One of the first acts of resistance was the “Boston tea party” where they protested decrying “taxation without representation”.

Later, our country came to another cross roads at the civil war. Immediately people think of slavery and that’s true, but in the beginning it started over taxes (tariffs). The north believed in a strong central government, and the south believed in states rights and smaller government. The big industry of the time was the textile trades coming from the cotton fields of the south. The southerners were embittered about the heavy taxation imposed on them from the north for use in the north, and they went to war, (whoever wins the war gets to write the history books).

So here we are again and the sides are clearly formed. Those on the left are in favor of a large central government. Those on the right are for states rights and less government. And guess what the big issue is again, that’s right TAXES. In recent times it started with Franklin D. Roosevelt who started the social security system. This created a permanent voting base for FDR’s party (Democrats), and massively increased the size of the federal government. This marked the implementation of a philosophy that greatly divides our country today, which is the “redistribution of wealth”. Take money from the “EVIL” rich and give it to the poor, this is called “class envy”. Hitler used class envy against the Jews to inspire his countrymen to carry out the most unspeakable and hideous acts. Class envy is still a very effective form of manipulation.

Later in the 60’s L.B.J. started what he called the “great society” (welfare, or entitlement programs), which created a group of voters with total dependency on a strong federal government. This was like an atomic bomb to the family unit; the result is that now unwed mothers make up to 37% of all US births. If an unwed mother gets married she loses her welfare, so she doesn’t get married. The more kids she has the more money she gets, so she has different baby’s daddies. The fall out has been devastating. So now it takes a village to raise kids, a very big expensive village, paid for by tax dollars and human tragedy. But hey, it brings the votes in. If your dependant on the government, you’ll vote for your political sugar daddy.

So here are the new battle lines. Big government with redistribution of wealth, were virtually every aspect of your life will be regulated by big brother. Verses states rights, individual responsibility, free market driven by competition and supply and demand (i.e. capitalism).

Just this week we have seen another huge shift in our government, that is the nationalization of the banking/stock market, insurance, and housing markets. There was no vote. We just took a huge step towards socialism, and we did not have a say in it. This was a VERY SAD DAY for the U.S.

I’ve gone a little long but next time I’ll touch on national defense and sovereignty, illegal immigration and border defense, imminent domain and property ownership, or whatever.