Posted: 1/22/2012 7:51:42 AM EDT
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WHETHER we want it or not, we pay now for almost unlimited government––but a government which delimits our lives by dictating how we are fed, and clothed, and housed; how to provide for our old age; how the national income, which is the product of our labor, shall be divided among us; how we shall buy and sell, how long and flow hard and under what circumstances we shall work. There is only scorn for the one who dares to say the Government should not be infinite.
Bureaucrats rule us. They no longer believe that free men can manage their own affairs. Their central thesis is to take your money away from you on the presumption that a handful of men, centered in government, largely bureaucratic––not elected––can spend the proceeds or your toil and labor to greater advantage than you who create the money. Nowhere in the history of the human race is there justification for this reckless faith in political power. Excessive taxation produces resuits resembling evils of slavery and serfdom in the days of old. To illustrate: The Government takes in taxes over a third of the income of the average citizen each year .... It is indeed the modern although humanized counterpart, in the twentieth century, of the abandoned slavery and serfdom of the preceding centuries. The Russian dictator, Lenin, that implacable foe of the free enterprise system, predicted as early as 1920 that the United States would eventually spend itself into bankruptcy. Inflation is not a question of partisan politics. It can be controlled only if political parties really wish to stop it––only if both parties are determined to limit spending so as to be within our means. If financial output has to be increased in one segment, it must be correspondingly decreased in another. If defense spending has to go up, other spending, whether for housing, schools or social benefits, must be curtailed accordingly. The problem, a balanced budget, instead of being a mystic and untouchable phenomenon, is actually the commonest and most universal one in the world. It faces the head of every household every year of life .... Our swollen budgets constantly have been misrepresented to the public .... Taxation, with its offspring, inflation, said Lenin in support of the basic thesis of Karl Marx, is the vital weapon to displace the system of free enterprise. Lenin meant the system on which our nation was founded; the system which has made us the most prosperous people of all history; the system which enabled us to produce over half of the world’s goods with less than one-seventh of the world’s area and population; the system which gave our people more liberty and opportunities than any other nation ever gave its people in the long history of the world. The fundamental an, d ultimate issue at stake therefore is not merely our money––it is liberty itself: the excessive taxation of an overgrown government versus personal freedom. The least common denominator of mediocrity against the proven progress of pioneering individualism. The free enterprise system or the cult of blind conformity. The robot or the free man. - General (Ret.) Douglas MacArthur Gilt Tax A little boy wanted $100.00 so he decided to pray for it since everyone said he should. He prayed every night for two weeks, still no $100.00; so he decided to write God a letter. When the postal men received it they didn’t know where to send it and they forwarded it to the President. The President read the letter and told his secretary to send the boy a $5.00 check. When the boy received the money he was delighted and wrote God another letter thanking Him for his prompt reply and said, "I noticed that you routed your letter through Washington and as usual they deducted 95 percent." |