Personal Freedom and Power IV:  Taxes Diminish Personal Power

“The power to tax is the power to destroy.”

-Chief Justice John Marshall

Every tax imposed by government diminishes the power of the person taxed.  Excessive taxation obstructs choice and entrepreneurship, which restricts freedom and prosperity for the individual taxed and the entire community.

Some pundits are saying that the big banks like JP Morgan and Bank of America are too big and need to be broken up, in sort of a preemptive antitrust enforcement. But it would be far better if we just let the free market work, as we should have been doing all along.

Increasing Debt Ceiling, No Budget, Unrestrained Spending, And A Spinning Debt Clock... Obama’s Road To American Serfdom

By: Jim Hoft with Andrea Ryan

Buckle up.  Here we go...again.

Today, May 16th, in an attempt to do the job that the Democrat-controlled Senate has failed to do for 1,113 days, Senate Republicans forced votes on five budget proposals.  As expected, all five budget proposals failed, with not a single Democrat voting for any one of them. 

There will always be a party for giving more to the rulers, that the rulers may be able in return to give more to them.  Hence as all history informs us, there has been in every State & Kingdom, a constant kind of warfare between the governing & governed:  the one striving to obtain more for its support, and the other to pay less.  And this has alone occasioned great convulsions, actual civil wars, ending either in dethroning of the Princes, or enslaving of the people.

Today, May 16th, in an attempt to do the job that the Democrat-controlled Senate has failed to do for 1,113 days, Senate Republicans forced votes on five budget proposals.  As expected, all five budget proposals failed, with not a single Democrat voting for any one of them. 

Good News From Wisconsin- Local Democrats and far left activists are in a panic! With less than three weeks remaining in the Wisconsin recall race, Governor Scott Walker is up by nine points in the latest We Ask America poll.