'In place of a good society, the income tax has brought us endless
wars and generations of a welfare class that exists on redistributed
income confiscated from working people.'
By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts: Citizens of democracies think of themselves as free. This belief reflects their indoctrination, not the facts.
Historically, the definition of a free person is a person who owns his own labor. A serf and a slave did not own their own labor, and neither does a citizen of a Western democracy today. Today, April 15, is a good reminder of that fact.
Once upon a time April 15 was the deadline for paying one’s taxes for
the prior year. This imposed a burden on taxpayers not to spend all of
the prior’s year income, but to set aside the share of their earnings
that belonged to government, just as serfs had to set aside the
proportion of their labor that belonged to feudal lords, the government
of that time. Initially, only the federal government owned part of an
American citizens income, but then states followed as did the city of
New York. Americans who pay
federal, state, and city income taxes are actually taxed higher than
Medieval serfs and 19th century slaves on Southern cotton plantations,
which means that Americans are less free than serfs and slaves.