We’re All Slaves to the State–
It’s Tax Day, have you done your “patriotic” duty to pay the government’s ransom yet?
Of course, taxes are generally due on April 15 but were extended to April 18 this year. That extension was not because of Good Friday (which of course the government does not recognize) but because of Emancipation Day, which is recognized locally in Washington, D.C.
It really doesn’t matter what exact day it is; the truth is that it’s the annual reminder that the American people are slaves to the state. Still, most Americans keep their blinder on and continue believing that America is somehow a bastion of freedom, even after two years of the government calling us “nonessential,” when nothing could be further from the truth. We pay for unconstitutional bureaucracies, like the National Institutes of Health which isn’t much interested in investigating injuries to the drugs they force us to take but rather tracking “COVID-19 related discrimination.”
Every year, Americans willingly surrender loads and loads of information that is none of the government’s business and fork over their money to remain “free.” Oh, and the government has new plans to force you to submit to facial recognition to file taxes online which the vast majority of Americans will gladly do because its “easy,” and their ”comfort” and “security” is far more important to them than their personal liberty.
And if you don’t pay everyone’s favorite government bureaucracy, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), you’ll be locked in a cage. Just ask Irwin Schiff, but more on him in a bit.
The IRS and the income tax have always been unconstitutional and, above all else, immoral. It should be to our shame that we allow this theft to continually be perpetrated against us.
The income tax has always been based on a lie, the American people initially being told it would only be the rich who would pay when the 16th amendment passed. And of course, we have more politicians clamoring for a new tax on the rich which all American will actually pay.
“They used the same clever trick to get the income tax passed back in 1913,” wrote Martin Armstrong. “Only evil people who earned more than $3,000 a year would have to pay. Of course, $3,000 in 1913 was 150 $20 gold coins and that at $2,000 an ounce today is $300,000. So they pitched it as targeting the millionaires, but it came down to less than the millionaire just as they are doing today with the billionaires.”
We’re All Slaves to the State–
Armstrong added: “Just as now EVERYONE must file income tax or go to prison, the WEALTH TAX will also come down as they constantly need more money. So if your house doubled in value, you will have to pay 20% of that value to the IRS even if you did not sell it. And then, if it drops by 50% next year, you will NEVER get a refund.”
But over the last two years, this reality has been exposed like no other time in the history of the income tax. Consider this, both sides of the uniparty believe in Modern Monetary Theory (MMT), the laughable assertion that the government has some magical money tree that can print money at will. Of course, that’s nonsense, but let’s give it some credence for an exercise. If the government can print whatever it wants, why are we the people taxed at all? It’s to remind us that we’re owned by the state.
And if you have doubts that both sides believe in this laughable theory, Donald Trump literally said America could never be insolvent because it can print whatever it wants as a candidate in 2016. Joe Biden agrees. A Bernie Sanders advisor even praised Trump last year effectively for getting “conservatives” on board with MMT.
Jonathan Culbreath wrote this absurdity for The American Conservative: “The common conservative objection to government spending is not only based on a faulty economic model, but it also serves as a mental obstacle to using government capacity for purposes conservatives are supposed to care about. The debate around family policy is a particularly relevant case in point. Industrial policy is another. These are policies that would bring concrete material benefits to families and help to rebuild many of the communities and social ties that conservatives claim to hold dear. With the obstacle of an outdated economic paradigm removed, objections directed against policies that would clearly benefit thousands of American families can be recognized to be ideological.”
We’re All Slaves to the State–
And I’m sure Culbreath, who clearly believes in socialism, will tell us all he hates socialism.
What do we get for this outrageous spending? We get price inflation, which is actually at around 17% using 1980’s standards, according to Shadow Stats. The next stop is stagflation, and we haven’t seen anything yet in how bad things will get.
But, back to the main point of this piece, that the IRS and income tax is a reminder that we’re slaves. Consider how Irwin Schiff, who died in 2015 at the age of 87, was treated for his thought crimes.
Schiff was arrested and given 14 years for basically writing a book making the argument that the IRS and the income tax is unconstitutional. He had several run-ins with the government regarding taxes and was ordered by a court in 2004 that he could not speak about nor sell his book The Federal Mafia. Others could sell his book, but not him. He was asked at a speaking event about the book, and he answered. That was his “crime.”
Irwin’s son, Peter Schiff, described how his father died, chained to a hospital bed like a dog. The government refused compassionate release requests for Irwin Schiff’s final days.
“His crusade to force the government to obey the law earned him three prison sentences, the final one being a fourteen-year sentence that he began serving ten years ago, at the age of 77,” Peter Schiff wrote. “That sentence turned into a life sentence, as my father failed to survive until his planned 2017 release date. However, in actuality the life sentence amounted to a death sentence. My father died from skin cancer that went undiagnosed and untreated while he was in federal custody. The skin cancer then led to a virulent outbreak of lung cancer that took his life just more than two months after his initial diagnosis.”
Schiff added: “The unnecessarily cruel twist in his final years occurred seven years ago when he reached his 80th birthday. At that point the government moved him from an extremely low security federal prison camp in New York State where he was within easy driving distance from family and friends, to a federal correctional institute, first in Indiana and then in Texas. This was done specially to give him access to better medical care. The tradeoff was that my father was forced to live isolated from those who loved him. Given that visiting him required long flights, car rentals, and hotel stays, his visits were few and far between. Yet while at these supposed superior medical facilities, my father received virtually no medical care at all, not even for the cataracts that left him legally blind, until the skin cancer on his head had spread to just about every organ in his body.”
Just remember, if you are guilty of thought crimes or not paying the government’s ransom, you are dangerous. That’s the reality in modern America.
“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out… without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.”—H.L. Menken
We’re All Slaves to the State–
