By Nathan Barton
This year, Americans will have stolen from them over $3.5 trillion in federal taxes and another $1.6 trillion in state and local taxes. That’s $5.1 trillion total — more than we spend on food, clothing and shelter combined. A staggering 31% of our income. (So calculates the Tax Foundation.)
On average (a VERY important point), that is 113 days into the year, counting holidays. In practical terms, assuming we all worked the “standard” 2000 hours per year, that means that 620 hours of our 2000 working hours (not counting vacation time), or nearly 1/3 of our “productive time” goes to support government. (And not very well – since government must borrow additional trillions to “stay afloat.” Or so the politicians say.)
It is as if we were all one-third slaves. Continue reading
The Price of Liberty 
Loving your chains of slavery
By Nathan Barton
For two-thirds of a century and more), the “Johnson Amendment,” a provision in the FedGov tax code that applies to all 501(c)(3) organizations and even religious groups that have NOT accepted the mark of the beast (501(c)(3) status) has been taking away the recognized freedom of religious grounds in the Fifty States. Groups that are recognized as such, and those who choose that “most-favored tax status” (such as charities and educational institutions as well as religious ones) must refrain from endorsing, opposing or financially supporting political candidates.
It was a “gift” (in the German sense of the word, at least) of that scum-sucking piece of Progressive “humanity” and shame of Texas, Lyndon Baines Johnson, when he was in Congress before he became president and gave us the Great Society and the Southeast Asian War. But I’m off subject.
During the 2016 campaign, Trump promised to deep-six it, and apparently has (with help in Congress, of course) started that process.
A lot of people don’t like it. Continue reading →