Howdy all! Have you all paid your tribute to the American Citizens club? Annual fund drive ends this week! Some folks around the country are celebrating this weekend. Remember, as long as Obamacare is the law, the IRS will have plenty of personnel to make your day a special one! (Do they make happy face emoticons with vomit pouring out?)
Any hoo,..
My heart is confident in you, O God; my heart is confident. No wonder I can sing your praises! ~ Psalm 57:7
It is a singular advantage of taxes on articles of consumption that they contain in their own nature a security against excess. They prescribe their own limit, which cannot be exceeded without demanding the end purposed - that is, an extension of the revenue. ~ Alexander Hamilton, Federalist No. 21
It's interesting what Hamilton says here. The advantage of taxing goods is that it will limit the excessive consumption of those goods. And as a by product, it will also increase tax revenues for the government. And I guess this philosophy, if you will, stood on good ground for a long time. Governments at all levels used taxes to gain revenue and limit overly excessive use of goods such as gasoline. Not a totally bad idea for sure. But now, that whole concept is being perverted. Increase the taxes on goods for the revenue, but also there is the expectation of continued excessive use of those goods. And, when there is a need to increase the availability of goods based on supply and demand, the government will not support the increased production. It would rather instead get the goods elsewhere. This forces the price of the goods themselves to 'necessarily skyrocket' as one famed economist once said. And then add on the tax, and you have the makings of a good revolt on your hands. Sound familiar? Yooooo betcha!
So, what to do? Well, do what we have done for the past few years. Go to rallies, bring your signs and garbage bags. Sing patriotic songs, scream at the government with words of good taste and biting truth. We own this country, and have vested the powers of government to congress and the president. Funny they think it's the other way around. But, I don't recall there were tea party members in the original constitutional congress along with Franklin, Madison, Washington or Jefferson. Hmm, too bad they don't teach that stuff in school anymore. No, I guess these great founders and all the rest had some guidance of their own to help them formulate the greatest government structure this earth has ever seen. They had confidence in Him that they would get it right, despite the disagreement and even ridicule they experienced. I and a great many of you obviously have confidence in Him that our federally elected employees will finally see the light and follow the laws passed down to us all by their predecessors, AND also follow the instructions given them by their employers, who would be none other than We The People. I am confident this will happen. I know it will. How do I know? It's simple; it has to. There is no other option. So I am confident it will happen. No wonder I can feel so at ease through all this craziness. See you this weekend at the tea party rallies!
Take care, God bless,
AND STAND WITH ISRAEL!!
Tom Kiley
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