May the IRS Burn....

“We might hope to see the finances of the Union as clear and intelligible as a merchant’s books, so that every member of Congress and every man of any mind in the Union should be able to comprehend them, to investigate abuses, and consequently to control them. Our predecessors have endeavored by intricacies of system and shuffling the investigation over from one office to another, to cover everything from detection. I hope that we shall go in the contrary direction, and that, by our honest and judicious reformation, we may be able…to bring things back to that simple and intelligible system on which they should have been organized at first.”—Thomas Jefferson, 1802.

Back when this was quoted the only “taxes” that were taken were from tariff imports (which was the only thing taxable at the time). There were no sales or income tax. In fact, article 5 of the Constitution prohibited any direct tax upon the citizens. Our fathers goal was to keep us away from the tyranny of the past governments by ensuring that we had freedoms of opportunity like never before. Woo hoo freedom. They saw that by limiting the power of the Federal Government to tax was the best way to limit its influence upon our ability to make decisions. This is a major part of the original thinking that we have forgotten. In our haste to make quick decisions, and our greed, we gave away our freedom to the government in the form of higher taxes charged directly against us. In doing so the Federal Government garnered more power than it was ever intended to have. This in turn has made the government able to use that power to make a large segment of the population dependant upon it. We lost our freedom because we were ignorant to the teachings of our own Fathers. It has been a subtle, gradual transition, and many will say that it is too late to change. I can only hope that we still have a chance to fix it. I say that we need a way to make the population aware of its own precarious situation. We need to react now, to quickly alter the course of our country by making people less dependant on the government for their problems. We need to restore our independence before it is too late, and the majority seeks the government as they would a Magic 8 Ball for answers. It starts with changing our policy on taxation, and that is why the Income tax has got to go. I fear that with our new president in office we will continue on a path away from democracy and towards socialism. The more responsibilities our government signs up for the more we will see freedom slip away. Everything has a price.