April 15th, the dreaded Tax Day, was also a day full of TEA parties this year. Full of people fed up with big government, high taxes and corruption in Washington. The sad part about this is, it took this long to outrage people!
We had a revolution over 5-8% taxes and we have 12% - 40%+ income taxes today! We have a federal reserve printing money like it's a video game, causing a terrible boom-and-bust cycle that creates a bubble over and over again. However, there are three things that we should focus these protests on:
Taxes, Big Government and the Federal Reserve.
High Taxes
High taxes have come from originally high tarrifs, on exports and imports. During the ninetenth century the South and West, being the primary exporters of the USA, were the biggest effected by these tarrifs, and usually the North used the collected taxes more. So naturally, they wanted low tarrifs, and the North wanted high taxes.. this caused much disturbance in the Union and eventually led to the War for Southern Indepedance. Matter-of-fact, to prove my point that the war was over tarrifs and not slavery, go on read their constitution, sure it mentions slavery a little bit, but they knew it was on the decline, while protective tarrifs are clearly stated throughout! (http://www.civilwarhome.com/csconstitution.htm
In 1913, these tarrif wars were soon to be ended. They said the Income Tax would not exceed 1% and that tarrifs would stay low. Ha! Is that a joke? Tarrifs are pretty high, and income tax reached the height of 90% during World War II! Also, to those who think Abraham Lincoln did have socialist tendenacies, he enacted the first income tax ever, and created a collector that would become the IRS.
Federal Reserve
Ah.. Jekyll Island.. international bankers... inflation! It's a beauty! Alexander Hamilton, for everything I dislike him for, knew one thing.. we need a National Bank not a international bank that the federal government does not control. Hamilton did have great character, even if his economic philosophy was deeply flawed. However, the Federal Reserve was not an amendment, and it transfered the power to coin currency from the House of Representatives to a private corporation with special priveleges. However, it was still limited in power by the Gold Standard.. however, as we know, the Federal Reserve will destroy any limit it has.
June 1971, Richard Nixon announced we would go away from the Gold Standard and just like the dismantling of the Second National Bank of the United States of America, inflation and economic panic ensued!
Big Government
Both of these two things lead to Big Government. Big Government is controlled by a secret group, in this case the Federal Reserve, suppresses the people through taxes (Income Tax, Inflation) and wages wars. Now.. we are in over one hundred countries, we give everyone our weapons technology just so we can make better stuff! Then we occupy countries when we are trying to destroy Al-Qaeda, wow what a good idea! Remember Jefferson fought terror, but he never occupied Tripoli or Morrocco now did he! Afghanistan, Iraq, Columbia, Korea.. come on! Wake up! These wars are full of crap!
And, of course Support H.R. 1207!
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