Rebel TV E40 Tax Day and the Abomination of Lies and Tyranny

April 15th rapidly approaches. Many of you have already filed you taxes, getting a return of some of your money, money the government borrowed from you without interest for the last year. Nice deal, for them. While they had that extra money along with everything else they steal from you, what did they do with it? We all know it is wasted, used to pay off political friends and contributors, it is wealth redistribution not to the poor but to politicians, career bureaucrats and the politically connected. We all know it yet we accept it, we put up with it and we continue to send our hard earned money to these looters and thieves.

This nation was founded on a revolution fought against unjust taxation. Taxation without representation was the battle cry. Now we accept it as normal in Washington. Nancy has done away with committee hearings where our representatives ostensibly get to look over these massive thousand page bills. The “American Rescue Plan” is a poster child for taxation without representation. Billions to bail out bankrupt blue states and cities. Did the rest of us have any say in what California, New York or Illinois did with their money? The waste, the stupidity, the deals with unions and payouts to illegals? No, but now our money is being confiscated to pay for their irresponsibility; but that is nothing new, our money has been stolen to pay for people's irresponsibility for a long time.

Back to founding principles. How about Jefferson's statement that it is immoral to take someone's money through taxes and use it for things that person finds morally objectionable? Most of our money is used to pay for things we don't want or approve of, unconstitutional things. Pallets of cash to Iran, baby killing all over the world, stimulus checks to felons and illegal immigrants, just to name a few recent examples. This is immoral and we should refuse to send another dime of tax money for these reasons alone.

The use, or abuse, of our money is one thing. How about the fact that they take it from us in the first place? The founders believed it was immoral to take what someone earned through their hands or with their minds. That is why direct taxes were prohibited in the Constitution. The products of our labor belong to us and us alone to dispose of as we see fit. That is the moral position. Only thieves and tyrants see it otherwise. The looters in Washington, and all politicians really, see our money as their money first, and what remains after taxes is our allowance. I mean, really, our system is so convoluted and immoral. The graduated income tax is a communist idea meant to punish success. Punish success, how stupid is that? The death tax, that's immoral on so many levels. Now they are proposing a wealth tax on what people have accumulated on their allowance. They want to expand the IRS to collect new and higher taxes with most of the money going to enforcement. Is this the government you want? A government that is going to double down on immoral taking and spending, a government that will gladly put it's boot on your neck if you whimper in protest?

Of course there is not enough money to steal to satisfy their obscene appetites. To make up the difference they are creating money out of thin air and turning it into debt. Deficits used to be in the billions, now they are in the trillions and most in the political class have adopted the idea that it doesn't matter. Those who object say that we are obligating our children, grandchildren and great grandchildren to repay this crushing debt. On its face that is immoral, stealing from future generations so a few in the connected political class can enjoy the fruits of their immorality. But beyond the obvious, are we obligated to pay the debt the government has accrued? Is it a contract we must honor like a mortgage or other loan? The sanctity of contract, a crucial principle of justice, does not apply to government promises to pay because the government does not promise to pay, it promises to make you and I pay. We were not asked for our consent, most of us disapprove, our representatives have no real input, and in no way can all this borrowing be justified by saying it is for the common good. How can we be bound by a contract others make for the explicit purpose of depriving us of our property for their own benefit? How can that be considered a valid transaction in any way? It can't.

Nothing the government does concerning money is moral. They take it from us by force, they use it for purposes we find objectionable and they borrow on our behalf when what they steal is not enough. And they have the audacity to say it is in any way voluntary and that it is all for the public good. Liars and thieves! Why any of us give these people our support and loyalty I will never know. But too many believe the lies, too many are happy receiving their pittance from the spoils and those who object do not have the courage to stop supporting this evil edifice of corruption. And so it will go on. We will be impoverished, eventually the currency will be destroyed but the political class will enjoy their plunder. And so the greatest experiment in personal liberty will meet its end all because you lacked the courage to withdraw your consent to this abomination of lies and immorality.