First Among Equals

In my worldview, there is no such thing as democrat or republican, liberal or conservative, there are only douchebags who inhabit Washington DC and they are all equally worthless. The only difference between any of them really comes down to what special interest gets rewarded and whose ox gets gored.

Here is head douchebag Senator Harry Reid in an interview being asked about taxes. Pilfered from the Free Liberal Blog, click on the pic to watch:


How is his answer to the question even considered coherent? Oh that's right, it's not.

We really should have more contempt, skepticism and yes, outrage with our government. We pay, depending on who you ask, between 40 and 50 percent of our earnings to the government in the form of taxes. Slaves in this country before the Civil War at most, would pay 10 percent of their earnings towards their slave masters. But slaves could actually save their money and buy their freedom. Oh yeah, and the purchasing power of those dollars wasn't being devalued at the rate of 10% per year by inflation either.

I pilfered this link from Hotair.com

Why Everyone Should say F*** you to the IRS

You want smaller government? You want accountable government? Tired of working half the year for the bureaucratic class? The fight starts right at the point that the government takes your property from you. If that branch of the government isn't accountable to anyone why should any other branch be accountable to you? They already have what they want.

IRS Flouts Court Orders, Refuses to Release Data on Its Tax Enforcement Activities

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is flouting three court orders requiring it to regularly provide a nationally recognized researcher with the statistical data she needs for her studies, according to a court action brought today by the researcher.

Read the rest here.

Nino Brown says F*** You to the IRS Part II

Wesley Snipes was acquitted today on the felony charges of "tax evasion". He was however convicted of 3 misdemeanor charges of failing to file tax returns. The New York Times has the writeup here.

The whole idea of the income tax has always offended me. From the way that it picks and chooses or "targets" who has to pay and who doesn't (so much for equal protection under the law). To how invasive it is into the privacy of our citizens (you show me your tax return and I can tell you who you are). To the way that it's enforced (is there such a thing as a tax preparer industrial complex? Yes, there is, we spend as much with tax lawyers, H+R Block etc. in administering the income tax as we do in collecting it. You don't think that there's not a lobby for THAT special interest).

This country was FOUNDED on a tax rebellion. It was fashionable at one time to tar and feather the tax collectors. It is certainly true that the founding fathers never intended us to work 5 months out of the year for the government. I'm in the prime of my earning years and the only thing I see is red ink for all the promises that our government is making that it can't keep. And who are the people who are making money in this country? The people who work or have contracts with the government.

In a perverse way, I hope that we do have an economy that crashes. I hope that we have a depression and that we have inflation that runs up to 20 percent. I hope the government becomes insolvent and China decides to cash in its dollar holdings. It may be the only thing that knocks some sense into everyone and makes people realize that more government is NOT the solution. It's the problem. /rant (just kidding IRS, DHS, FBI, CIA, SEC, FEMA, and BATF)

The Handwriting is on the Wall

The press is starting to see realize what a central banking system actually does to money. It devalues it, encourages and enables government largess and malinvestment, it exaggerates business cycles:

So why have investors been abandoning conventional assets, such as government bonds and stakes in blue-chip businesses, in favour of a metal that appears to offer no reward for holding it? The answer, I'm afraid, is crumbling faith in the world's central banks, and in particular the US Federal Reserve, where the presses have been working overtime.

Some argue that the soaring gold price has been driven by temporary anxiety over global instability. The metal is a safe haven in troubled times. But answer me this: when was the last time the world felt like a cosy hideaway? Ever since mankind turned up, Planet Earth has never been a safe place.

Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, a more muscular Iran and the unpredictability of Moscow are contributing to nervousness. But what's really upsetting investors is the speed at which money is being printed by governments, especially America's, that cannot face the problem of funding wild expenditure plans solely from reserves or taxation.

The whole article is here and is a great summary of why everyone should be pissed off that the government is stealing your nest egg at the rate of 10% per year and why England, after a 100 year absence, is going to surpass America in standard of living.

One thing that should not be forgotten is that up until 1913, this country didn't even have a Federal Reserve Bank. We didn't have an income tax either. In fact, if we got rid of the income tax, and replaced it with nothing, spending levels would drop to those of 10 years ago. Didn't we have enough government back in 1998?

Pilfered from Lew Rockwell