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75 PERCENT OF U.S.
BUDGET
IS
FOR 'WELFARE STATE'!
By: Gordon
Bishop
The United States started out as the "Freedom Nation" when it adopted
the finest Constitutional Republic in the history of civilization.
That was right after the successful American Revolution ended.
Our Constitutional Republic worked quite well until the
20th Century, when socialism started sweeping across Europe
and then into America under President Franklin Roosevelt�s "New
Deal." |
Today, more than 75 percent of the federal budget is spent on "welfare
state" programs, and the percentage increases each year. It�s called
"incrementalism" �creeping socialism. We�re becoming a socialist state without
even knowing it, or caring, which is worse.
None of these "welfare state" programs can be found in our Constitution or
Bill of Rights. They emerged slowly, sneakily, one at a time, imperceptibly
eroding our Constitutional rights as taxpaying voters.
These "changes in law" were supported by a federal government that created
these programs as "giveaways" to taxpayers to win their votes.
Except it was the taxpayers who were paying for their own entitlements,
such as Medicare, Medicaid and other socialist programs.
America has been on a self-destruct coarse ever since the United States
Congressed approved the 16th Amendment, creating a federal income
tax 90 years ago. The 16th Amendment was "illegal" because it was
not properly ratified by the 38 states at the time of its adoption in
1913.
Neither the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), nor the Treasury Secretary and
Congress, want to deal with this historic issue. Not even the U.S. Supreme
Court wants to hear the case, although it has had many opportunities to do
so.
There are several lawsuits pending in the federal courts on the illegality
of the 16th Amendment, but they have yet to be heard. That�s
government�s way of delaying the inevitable. After all, abolishing the income
tax and restructuring our federal government according to the Constitutional
laws set forth by American�s founding fathers would put an end to this massive
"welfare state."
But the politicians, special interests and the bureaucrats have taken over
our expanding, out-of-control federal bureaucracy to the detriment of working
taxpayers and the quality-of-life of our citizens.
Not too long ago, a one-income family was enough to make it in America. Now
a two-income family holding two or more jobs no longer guarantees a safe and
secure life for millions of American citizens. Spending and inflation have
impacted workers and families hard over the past 40 years.
Today, if a President could get tax rates down to 5 percent or less,
taxpayers would make that President a super-hero, right up there with George
Washington and the Great Emancipator, Abe Lincoln.
That will not happen in today�s wasteful welfare state. Liberals would
attack the President as an extremist trying to destroy our bloated federal
government.
Liberals viciously attacked President George W. Bush when he tried to limit
the top tax rate at 33 percent. That�s one-third of our income for one single
tax!
America is in deep fiscal trouble for a nation that was founded on freedom.
Remember the 1776 Tax Revolution? That was pittance (tea and stamp taxes),
compared to today�s oppressive tax burden.
Through exorbitant taxation, government now owns every taxpayer.
The ultimate cover-up has been the biggest of the Big Liberal Lies: That
is, the government debasing of its own currency so badly that comparisons with
the past are difficult.
Today, a $10,000 annual income makes you a poor person living on welfare.
In 1960, it was enough for a one-income family to live comfortably � the "good
life!"
For example, a 1960-dollar is worth less than 10 cents today. That�s real,
insidious inflation.
Between punishing taxes and inflationary dollars, taxpayers are on a
downhill treadmill.
Soon, we�ll all be impoverished millionaires.
The U.S. Constitution not only charged the federal government with
preserving the value of money, but also specifically authorized it to punish
counterfeiting.
What we have had for many years is a counterfeit government that no longer
represents the working, taxpaying voters.
America�s 1776 Tax Revolt against the King of England has been wiped out by
our own federal government.
That�s the crime of the century � and it began with the 1913 federal income
tax.
"Published
originally at EtherZone.com : republication allowed with this
notice and hyperlink intact."
Gordon Bishop is a national award winning author,
historian and syndicated columnist, and New Jersey�s first
"Journalist-of-the-Year" - New Jersey Press Association/1986. He
is a regular columnist for Ether Zone.
