Your Money, Please

5 Responses to Your Money, Please

1. liberranter says:

   August 21st, 2009 at 1:16 pm

   This isn’t surprising at all. Everyone, everywhere in the United Fascialist State of Amerika should be bracing themselves for an onslaught of new extortion attempts by the administrative subdivisions within which they live. Here in Arizona, the state legislature voted earlier this year to raise state income tax rates across the board, and the county in which I live just voted last month to raise property taxes. BRILLIANT move to make at a time when people are losing their jobs, can barely afford to hold on to their houses, and the local real estate market is flooded with unsold and foreclosed properties.

   What everyone with even a single functioning brain cell should by now realize is that the our politician overlords don’t give a damn about the fiscal welfare of us mere sheep. From the petty tyrants sitting on your local city council to the criminal gang of 535 on Crapitol Hill, they all hold one attitude in common: We, the Sheeple, are serfs who exist solely to sustain THEM. Our businesses are not our personal property, means by which we enrich ourselves and our families and enjoy the fruits of our own labor, but sources of revenue for the almighty State. Far from resisting their armed extortion, we are supposed to consider ourselves fortunate that we’re allowed to keep ANY of our income for ourselves.

   While the property tax increase in my county caused outrage, it didn’t cause riots which would certainly have been the appropriate response. (A friend of mine attended the council meeting at which the increase was passed and said that the council president, a liberal Democrat [surprise, surprise], broke out into an arrogant, condescending smirk when he announced that the resolution had passed, despite loud citizen protests). The good news is that I think the spring is wound tightly enough now that any future attempts to wind it tighter will cause it to snap.
2. Dan Davis says:

   August 21st, 2009 at 1:38 pm

   Worse than this, now that 30 years of “law and order” conservatism has turned law enforcement into a profit taking enterprise expect increases in roadblocks, higher traffic fines, increases in the number of search warrants issued along with a relaxing of the rules and laws governing seizures of personal property as well as probable cause. Watch the cost of text books explode and get prepared to buy rolls and rolls of 15 dollar a square foot Christmas paper or little Jimmy won’t get to go to the aquarium with the rest of his class.
3. Sal says:

   August 21st, 2009 at 9:13 pm

   Unless and until people realize that simply ‘kicking da bums out’ will only allow a replacement bum to be voted in, nothing will change. When a majority can be found on local city councils etc. who actually understand that liberty begets prosperity and begin to repeal all of the unnecessary, wasteful, and oppressive laws, taxes, and regulations, then things will begin to change locally. Starting small and being effective will cause cracks in the system on a larger scale and inspire bigger changes and embolden individuals to step up into more prominent roles (it will also bring the tyrannical ones out of the shadows). I realize this is very optimistic, almost fantasy thought, as the average sheep is so mind-numbed and conditioned to bend over and take the fiscal sodomy put upon them…..People shouldn’t be thinking in terms of ‘bracing themselves’ for more extortion. People should be saying, “I’ve had enough of this bullshit and it’s high time this monumental blunder gets shit canned. Stay out of my life, get out of my pockets, and get off my back.” But it doesn’t end there. Being angry while being ignorant of the principles of liberty won’t cut it. There’s a huge task in renewing the mind to grasp the principles of individual rights and liberty…..At this point I think the chances of walking on water are better.
4. clark says:

   August 21st, 2009 at 11:17 pm

   I saw a state government billboard ad today, “Your safety is our concern” – for drunk boaters. Every radio station on the FM dial seemed to have an ad at every break, “Drink and drive and we’ll catch you” and other very ominous sayings. Is that the ratchet up effect? Funny how this attitude doesn’t apply to Banksters and their minions.
5. Jeannie Queenie says:

   August 22nd, 2009 at 1:21 am

   Benjamin Franklin must have been next of kin to Nostradamus in his ability to foresee the future. When Ben said ‘nothing is certain but death and taxes’, how did he know that in the year 2009, the leader of the not so free world would lead us into the land of death and taxes? With the proposed healthcare plans we see the venturing into the land of death dealing via death panels….hell, not even Darth Vadar aka Cheney could scare us that much….and if they can’t get you via healthcare, why not tax them to death instead. This latest moronic malefactor of digging into our wallets for new license plates next year really does take the cake. I think I will pay the extra twenty bucks just to have special plates….perhaps something simple like KMAW (kiss my a_ _ WA),
   or FUTB (FU thieving bastards)…either way, the letters fit!
   At any rate, Sir Winston Churchill said it best on taxation….•”We contend that for a nation to try and tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.” I believe it was also Churchill who said, “If you are not a liberal before thirty you have no heart..and if you are not a conservative thereafter, you have no brain”. Obviously many brainless folks voted for death and taxes and prefer it to liberty, life, love of learning and livelihood.