Tax code Tramples Freedom
The buzz concerning the need for massive reform if not the virtual annihilation of our crippling tax code is welcome. If our nation was founded on principles regarding individual freedom, serious questions come to mind when we consider the relationship between citizens of the United States and their government, viz-a-viz the tax code and its enforcement arm, The Internal Revenue Service. As free people, we acknowledge that our collective needs require government and that the government needs to be funded by the people, the consumers of government service. So far, so good.
When the people become disconnected from government so that government services and the costs of providing for them are served up to the people without the perception or reality of consent, freedom for the people becomes more illusion than reality.
When the government presents its bill to the people for services rendered, what we commonly refer to as taxation, and that bill cannot be understood by the average citizen because of the intricacies and vagaries of the tax code, freedom becomes more illusion than reality.
How many of us would tolerate an invoice for services rendered that required the hiring of a consultant to make sure that we did not pay more than we than we should? That is what we are forced to do when we are confronted with our tax bill. We have to hire accountants, experts in the tax code, to prepare our returns so that we are sure that we do not pay more than our fair share of tax. This is not freedom. This is not government serving the people. This is a people serving a bloated, all powerful government.
Excessive taxation is strangling our country. The ability of a people to afford the services of their government presupposes the economic vitality of that people to fund government. Taxation imposed by profligate legislators who have no qualms about spending other people's money will finally impede the exercise of sufficient commerce to provide the treasure to fund government.
A formerly free people will find that they now work for the government and not themselves.
When the people become disconnected from government so that government services and the costs of providing for them are served up to the people without the perception or reality of consent, freedom for the people becomes more illusion than reality.
When the government presents its bill to the people for services rendered, what we commonly refer to as taxation, and that bill cannot be understood by the average citizen because of the intricacies and vagaries of the tax code, freedom becomes more illusion than reality.
How many of us would tolerate an invoice for services rendered that required the hiring of a consultant to make sure that we did not pay more than we than we should? That is what we are forced to do when we are confronted with our tax bill. We have to hire accountants, experts in the tax code, to prepare our returns so that we are sure that we do not pay more than our fair share of tax. This is not freedom. This is not government serving the people. This is a people serving a bloated, all powerful government.
Excessive taxation is strangling our country. The ability of a people to afford the services of their government presupposes the economic vitality of that people to fund government. Taxation imposed by profligate legislators who have no qualms about spending other people's money will finally impede the exercise of sufficient commerce to provide the treasure to fund government.
A formerly free people will find that they now work for the government and not themselves.
posted by proudconservative | 11:41 PM
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