Government & Taxes!

Governments are formed by people. What kind of people is pretty important. People who are unprincipled, mean, and greedy don’t make up a very good government. The best people to form a government are those who are willing to be restrained by a higher authority than themselves. In America, that is the Constitution, although adherence to that is declining. Going back to the origin of the Constitution, we find that Americans were, for the most part, either Christian, or inculcated with Christian culture. Therefore, they were restrained, and even constrained by a higher authority than the Constitution. Indeed, the highest authority of all – GOD!

Today of course, GOD is irrelevant to most people as well as with our government, and as the Democrats say; “The only important thing is winning!” That puts them, along with most Republicans, in the above category of “unprincipled, mean and greedy”! Of course very few would see themselves as such. Scottish poet Robert Burns said; “O wad some power the giftie gie us to see oursels as ithers see us”. Or, translated into contemporary English, “Oh what power the gift He gives us to see ourselves as others see us.”

It’s rather hard to take an objective look at oneself and conclude that you fall short of perfection. As St. Paul said, “I would not have known sin were it not for the law.” It takes an objective source of truth to expose the fact that we are not only far from perfect, but that we are not viewed as perfect in the eyes of anyone but ourselves. Yes, even one liberal to another, they will find fault with each other. In fact, the only time that liberals seem to find themselves in solidarity and agreement of perfection is in their hatred of GOD and Christians.

With that in mind, it is easy to ascertain that any government to be led by a a liberal (one who is without GOD – an atheist in other words) and regardless of political party affiliation, will be unprincipled, mean and greedy. The founding fathers who initiated our Constitutional Federal government, although maybe not all Christians, were still willing to submit to Christian Biblical principles of self-government. Self-government is the most fundamental government there is.

When one exercises self government, that person will restrain themselves from murdering, stealing, lying, cheating, and in general mistreating anyone. When people of that mindset gather together to form a government, instead of being unprincipled, mean and greedy, they will be principled, kind and generous. Sadly, these kinds of obvious distinctives do not easily manifest themselves in the minds of the general public, and those who fall into the former category use lying and cheating methods to deceive the general public into voting them into office.

One of the tricks of the trade (political that is) is to deceive the voting public into believing that you, as a candidate, will act in the best interest of the voter. Why as a candidate, you will even steal from the “rich” to give to the “poor”! It’s the old Robin Hood syndrome, and it never seems to lose its appeal, even though the results over decades have proven disastrous. The poor seem to get poorer (and more dependent upon government largess), and the rich seem to get richer and richer beyond one’s wildest imagination. The rich get government favors in the form of subsidies. Those subsidies are the result of a socialist government model, so it is easy to conclude that socialism is for the rich, and not for the poor.

Take Elon Musk as one example. Elon, at this writing and at 54 years old, is worth $750 Billion! His wealth is derived from federally funded Tesla electric vehicles and Space X government contracts. Additionally, the Boring Company has a lot of state contracts. Twitter has done some federal government work as well. Receiving taxpayer money is, to a significant degree, socialist in nature. It is particularly clear when the money coming to the rich in in an arena where the government really has no business.

To establish government’s stated purposes, we need to look at the Preamble of the Constitution. There we are given a specific, and limited, objective for the purpose of government. “…in Order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessing of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”

The Supreme Court has chosen to go along with the leftist twisiting of the “general welfare” clause. The word general means as applies to all, or at least the vast majority. Welfare means health, happiness and fortunes of a person or group, but never the group at the expense of the person, nor the person at the expense of the group. Under those two definitions, a government would have to preclude anything that favored one person or group over another person or group.

In other words, it would not be either in the spirit of, nor in adherence to the letter of, the laws of the Constitution which is the supreme law of the land. Put into a clearer and more specific context, it would be wrong for the government to take money from someone who earned it honestly, and give it to someone who did not earn it i.e. welfare. Welfare comes in different forms. There is welfare for the poor which provides a subsistence living – maybe. Then there is welfare for businesses which would be called a subsidy. This entails the government deciding which businesses (or business men) deserve to be subsidized. This leads to a distortion of the marketplace as the subsidization process leads to a surplus of whatever is subsidized. This drives down the prices of the goods unless the demand goes up commensurately. Low prices create another conundrum for the government, but we will not dwell on that at this time.

As George Washington once said; “Government is like fire; a dangerous servant and a fearful master!” Whatever government gives, they can also take away. Therefore allowing government to “give” anything is very risky, and it should be avoided at all costs. By giving away anything, it must be duly noted that the government cannot give away anything without first taking it from someone else.

This brings us to the idea of taxes. The Constitution said that there would be no “direct taxation”. By direct, that would mean applying it “directly” to the individual – in other words, no income tax! The only taxes that were authorized in the Constitution were excises and tariffs. As regards an excise tax, it is an indirect tax applied to various goods, and it is included in the price of those goods at the time of purchase i.e. alcohol. A tariff is a fee or tax levied on any imported or exported goods, and again is indirect and included in the price of the goods.

In 1913, a private group of nefarious bankers were able to engineer into law the Federal Reserve – a private banking cartel that, according to former Fed Chair Alan Greenspan, answers to no government authority. The bankers knew what they were doing when they instituted the Federal Reserve. In the process, they engineered two other important pieces of legislation in that same year. One was the Income Tax. The purpose of the income tax was twofold. One, it was to be able to pull inflated (money increase) currency out of circulation in order to cool down prices which would increase with more money in circulation. The second purpose was much more complex and insidious. It had two results. One was to make the bankers exceedingly rich and powerful which it did. Secondly, it gave them the ability to manipulate the masses. If you can write your mortgage interest off of your income taxes, then there is an incentive for you to buy a house, and that means to go into debt. Renting becomes less attractive. That’s just one major example, and this writer could demonstrate hundreds of other manipulations that both distort the economy favoring certain sectors over others, and cause irrational human behavior.

One particularly irrational form of behavior was exhibited by the Roaring 20’s and the subsequent market crash in 1929 followed by a heavy economic depression in the 30’s and early 40’s. America was only able to extricate itself from the “Depression” by starting World War II. American bankers financed Hitler’s rise to power, but that’s another story again. The bankers did not want to be confined in their money crreation, but they were restrained and constrained by the Constitution declaring gold and silver as money – and so their paper had to be backed by something. In order to get around that little obstacle, the Wall Street boys and their banking buddies decided to print paper stock certificates. They then used the oft repeated “pump and dump” scheme to fleece the American puublic with fraudulent paper products that functioned much like money (currency). During this heady time, American’s moral standards declined precipitously.

Another less considered but equally important legislation in 193 was the 17th Amendment. To begin, America started with the states having two legislative bodies. The U. S. House of Representatives was designed to be representative of population. But, because the states founded the United States, small, less populated, states wanted to be equally represented. Therefore, the second legislative body, the U.S. Senate, was formed with equal representation in the form of two Senators for each state. Each state was to elect their Senators utilizing their State Legislatures to accomplish that objective. That made it possible for the Senators to be elected without all of the campaign hoopla, and also to be replaced if they did not properly represent the interests of the state and the legislative body that elected them. Now, was there room for shenanigans in this system? Of course! Nonetheless, it kept the state in charge, and independent from Federal controls. NOTE: a specific example of the effect of the 17th Amendment took place in Colorado in 1987 when U.S. Senator Gary Hart displeased the Colorado public and they tried to remove him from office. There was no mechanism for the people to do so, where under the 17th Amendment originally, the state legislature could have done that.

The 17th Amendment removed that safeguard, and put the election of the Senators into the hands of the voting public. This forced Senators to campaign, and to make all sorts of promises they couldn’t keep, and were not necessarily in the best interests of the state. It also opened up the door to a need for vast sums of money to run a campaign and to successfully get elected. As an example, the most expensive U.S. Senate campaign in history so far is $472 million! Now, even in today’s Federal Reserve inflated dollars, you know a lot of false promises and lies went by the wayside in order to obtain $472 million.

What the 17th Amendment did that was so egregious is to weaken the power and influence of the states. U.S. Senators started voting more on national issues and with less concern for their states they represented, and for the citizens who elected them. The big money started coming from corporations and PAC’s (Political Action Committees). The money got murkier and murkier, and the people controlling the U.S. Senators and their votes became more obscure by way of proxies!

Now, let’s get back to taxes. Taxes run a government – no way around it. To reiterate, before income tax, there were only excises and tariffs, and the Federal government was very weak and small, and the states were very independent and powerful. In addition to income tax, another tax began to occur, but before we go into that, let’s review a bit of history. The Federal Reserve boys were stymied by the Constitution that required that only gold and silver be recognized as money. Therefore, all of the paper money issued by the Federal Reserve and its U.S. Treasury outlet was backed by a measured amount of gold and silver as determined by the Coinage Act of 1792 and subsequently 1834 which made a minor adjustment of the gold silver ratio from 15:1 to 16:1. Through future manipulations, the Federal Reserve ultimately eliminated the gold and silver backing of America’s money, and so it left them free to print as much as they wanted. And, what was that “addition” to income tax? Infaltion – the increase in the money supply and credit, and deflation (the rug pull) which is the decrease in the money supply and credit. Americans get whipsawed every few years, and they can’t seem to figure it out!

Immediately below is a post done recently that explains how gold and silver have been recategorized from money to “collectibles”. The confiscatory taxes applied to “real money” i.e. gold and silver force you to want to take the corrupt and worthless paper instead. But, is that a good idea?

One Thin Dime! AI Is The “Control Grid”!

Following this, here are several other posts this author has put up over the years to alert Americans to their loss of freedom, privacy and property. Some posts have had the videos pulled. A You Tube search under the wording “Money for nothing” will yield a ripe harvest of videos.

Official Federal Reserve Web Site – Revalue Gold? (In Their Own Words!)

20 Minute History Of The Corrupt Goniffs Who Founded The Federal Reserve Bank!

The Federal Reserve & The Bible – Proverbs 20:10 Divers weights, and divers measures, both of them are alike abomination to the LORD.

Screw The Federal Reserve & The Bankers – Pay Cash!!!

Federal Reserve – Effective March 2020 – Here’s Their Web Site Link – No Reserves Are Required Of Banks – NONE!

Video – James Corbett Details The History Of The Federal Reserve & How Congress Gave Away America’s Sovereignty!

60 Minute Video – Peter Schiff Explains Dollars, Assets, Liabilities & Debt. The Federal Reserve Is Broke! So What?

Who Owns The Federal Reserve? (Hint – It’s A Private Cartel Of The Most Wealthy)

Will You Be Required To Use Crypto Currency By The Federal Reserve Known As “Project Hamilton”? Consequences Noted Here!

The Federal Reserve In Conjunction With The Big Banks Is Instituting A Chinese Communist Social Credit Scoring System – Bye Bye Freedom & Privacy!

Is Coronavirus Scare A Ruse To Introduce A Federal Reserve Bank Cashless Crypto Currency Society?

Musk, Paul & Trump – Never Thought This Could Happen. No More Income Tax? No More Federal Reserve?