Don’t’ Wanna Be Your Slave

I heard an interview concerning how the payment of income taxes has lead Americans to become slaves to the government. Up until the passage of the 16 Amendment to the Constitution, a working man was allowed to keep the fruits of their labor. Once the government decided how much you were allowed to keep, they gained control of your income. Now the government decides how much of your money you are allowed to keep so the fruits of your labor belong to the master not to you. We have in essence become slaves to our own government.

Now if I remember correctly, there is also a Constitutional amendment against slavery. The test says, ”Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.” So apparently we are all guilty of committing a crime because our government has made us slaves.

When we have to work for more than three months just to pay the taxes on our income, there is a major injustice. Our government did just fine before the implementation of the 16 Amendment. It was just the desire to exceed the confines set up by the Constitution that allowed such a law to be put in place. Our Founding Fathers knew that an income tax was the road to socialism. They set the Constitution up to restrict the powers of a centralized government. The hatred of individual freedom and the love of power (money) have led us down the path of destruction. As Kunta Kinte said on more than one occasion, Yessa, Massa.

Not Cool

Cobb