It’s been a long time since there was independence in the United States. From Eric Peters at ericpetersautos.com:
We are encouraged to celebrate the 4th of July – which is rarely referred to anymore as Independence Day – probably because Americans have become such a dependent people. They do not, of course, like to think of themselves that way.
But aren’t they?
Benjamin Franklin, who was a key player in the struggle for independence from Great Britain, was an independent man by the time he was about 40. So also John Adams, who – along with Franklin and Jefferson – negotiated the alliance with France that secured American independence from Great Britain. Franklin and Adams and other men of that time could and did achieve independence for themselves via “industry,” or hard work and prudent action. Franklin began as an assistant in a printer’s shop and became the most successful publisher in the colonies, which made him a wealthy and independent man by early middle age. He was thus able to spend the rest of his long life pursuing his many interests. He did not have to worry about having to work because he had plenty of money to pay for his needs for the remainder of his life.
He had this money because the government didn’t take it.
School kids are told all about “taxation without representation” – as if “representation” made “taxation” legitimate; the fallacy here is that the “representative” is your agent who acts according to your instructions when in fact he is a man who acts as he likes and claims his actions “represent” what he styles “the people.” And most people fall for this. They are rarely told how little in taxes the colonists – under the British – were forced to pay. There was no tax on income, for one. What you earned via your industry was entirely yours. As opposed to maybe 80 percent yours, after federal taxes. Then a bit less than that after state taxes. And less, again, after all the other taxes – leaving you in the end with perhaps 65 percent of what you earned. Which means having to earn back the loss in order to break even.
No inoculation no occupation. (honk, honk)
The 280k Americans killed in bioweapon attack on the fourth is disturbing, simulations sometimes hide the real thing.
Don’t forget your Goyslop and sportsball as arbeit macht fweedom fwies.
Honk, honk.
There are so many hidden taxes it is difficult to assess the true amount of taxes paid by citizens. I managed to calculate it once about 20 years ago, out of every dollar earned .85 cents goes to pay taxes, only .15 cents pays for a hard good or service. Property is taxed because the government has indebted your property, if they have the right to indebt it, you never owned it. There was a good reason to not allow the government to tax citizens directly, the power to tax (extorortion) is the power to destroy. No government protects its citizens, it protects itself from those it rules.
~ Chad Chadburn