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Populist Party Newsletter 04-19-07
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"The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets."
--Will Rogers
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A classic by Harry Browne:
Someday, I hope, April 15th will no longer be Tax Day but instead will be known as Freedom Day - a day to remember the huge, expensive, intrusive, and meddling government that once was and that we should be on guard against forever.
That can come only after we repeal the income tax and reduce the federal government to a size that can subsist on just the tariffs and excise taxes already being collected. No flat tax, no "fair" tax, no replacement tax of any kind - because government has been made so small an income tax is no longer needed to finance it.
Impossible?
Not at all.
A Little History
Many people aren't aware that America - conceived in liberty in 1776 - didn't have a permanent income tax until 1913. In fact, the Constitution of the United States prohibited an income tax.
For over a century, the U.S. government survived quite well without an income tax. It operated a small, constitutional government on the revenue from tariffs and excise taxes.
Tariffs are taxes imposed upon imported products, and excise taxes are imposed at the manufacturing level on domestic products. Because those taxes affect the prices of products, they were self-limiting. That is, the taxes couldn't produce unlimited revenue to the government.
If a tax was raised too far, the product would be priced out of the reach of the consumer, sales would fall, and the tax revenues would fall.
Thus, relying on tariffs and excise taxes, the U.S. government was able to raise only so much money and no more. The same was true of state and local governments: there were built-in limits to how much they could tax.
As a result, in 1913 federal, state, and local governments combined took in taxes only 8% of the national income.
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One of the greats...
HARRY BROWNE - WRITINGS ON LIBERTY
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by Brian Trent
There's a lesson in the Aesopian tale of the man who wanted to cook a frog. When he tossed the amphibian into a pot of boiling water, it leapt out to safety. The thwarted cook then changed tactics. He placed the frog in cold water... and slowly brought up the heat.
In much the same way, American freedom is slowly being cooked away. When I was growing up, "Papers, please!" was once the bark of Communist soldiers patrolling state lines. It's set now to become an American staple. Slipped insidiously into an $81 billion bill for "supporting troops" and "tsunami relief" was a tiny law - The Real ID Act of 2005 - which creates a de facto National ID card for Americans and requires it to be in place by 2008. Every driver's license will be required to include "physical security features" and "a common machine readable technology." The cultists who support this National ID card say that it's all voluntary.
And it is. You can refuse to comply, in which case you won't be able to open a bank account, enter a federal building, ride a plane or train, etc. Yes, quite voluntary. A nice card, containing all sorts of sensitive information about you, which can be scanned everywhere you go.
"This is almost a frontal assault on the freedoms of America when they require us to carry a national ID to monitor where we are," railed Missouri state Representative James Guest, a Republican. "This does nothing to stop terrorism."
One of only eight Republicans to oppose the measure, Representative Ron Paul of Texas added, "Supporters claim it is not a national ID because it is voluntary. However, any state that opts out will automatically make nonpersons out of its citizens."
Today we face a thriving identity-theft market. National ID will be like adding chum to a sea of sharks; a veritable African diamond war for the digital age.
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by Michael Boldin
Collateral damage is nothing more than a euphemism for state-sponsored mass murder. It is the term given to people killed in military actions who were "not intentionally targeted." In reality, this is pure propaganda. It has always been morally just to protect innocent people against aggressors. But, on the other hand, it has never been moral, nor has it ever been necessary, to bomb cities filled with innocent people.
We rarely see the faces or know the identities of those reduced to the status of collateral damage. It is a gray area where the victim becomes less than a person. Interestingly enough, during the Vietnam War, both Henry Kissinger and Robert McNamara used the term "integers" to describe those civilian deaths that they preferred not to have publicized as human beings. Such is the amazing power of doublespeak.
Civilians killed incidental to what the dominant power refers to as "progress" are called collateral damage, while those killed intentionally are victims of "terrorism." But all too often, unfortunately, it's quite difficult to tell the difference between the two. Governments regularly do one and call it the other, but the end result is still the same; dead civilians. So, no matter name you give it (War on Terrorism, Spreading Democracy, Regime Change, Defending our Freedoms), when war is taken to a civilian population, isn't it nothing more than terrorism and murder, even if you later call the victims collateral damage?
Come to think of it, there is probably no term that is more repugnant and immoral than the one that discards the importance of other people's lives are mere collateral damage; especially when their deaths become incidental to the conquest of some military or political objective. As collateral damage, these people suffer the same outcome as fat discarded by a butcher.
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