 The President is calling for an
end to the sequestration budget
caps that he had proposed a few
years ago in 2011. His new
budget is likely "dead on
arrival" with the republican
Congress, but it is purely a
political budget that simply
lays out the markers for the
up-coming Presidential debate in
2016. If one looks closely to
the currently presented budget,
it seems obvious it mirrors the
politics of the democrat senator
from Massachusetts, Elizabeth
Warren.
If the President had his way
there would be a minimum of $74
billion dollars in new spending.
Even with those new, higher
taxes calling for a mandatory
14% tax for corporations doing
business in other countries,
even though they are being taxed
already in those countries, it
would still not eliminate the
deficit spending. The
President's budget increases the
capital gains tax up to 28%,
from the current 15%. The
President likes to make people
believe it is only the "rich"
people who would pay the capital
gains tax. However, for each
person in the country who has
retirement funds tied to the
stock market, such as 401 (k),
would have to pay that increased
tax as well. His new budget also
raises taxes on the nation's
largest banks as well. When
those taxes are raised, the
middle class pays for them
proportionally just as much as
the nation's wealthiest do.
The bottom line is the American
people are paying more taxes
than ever before. The new budget
will continue to produce an
annual deficit of $470 billion
dollars. With an annual spending
rate that will exceed $340
billion dollars along with the
deficit spending he has called
for, it will exceed the Gross
Domestic Product (GDP) expected
at about 3% growth, it will
amount to the American citizen
supporting a large government
that mandates personal spending
in taxes at a marginal rate of
approximately 67%. That is
outrageous and unsustainable for
the average, middle-class
citizen. Compare this to the
conditions Americans experienced
in the infancy of the founding
of our country. America's
Revolutionary War broke out in
April 1775. The British Empire
had poked the people living in
the thirteen colonies living
across the Atlantic. Great
Britain had treated the
colonists as subjects of the
King who needed to pay taxes
from their sweat and toil
without having anyone to
represent their interests.
The battles throughout the
Summer, Fall and Winter of 1775
had been met with some
indifference by many of the
colonists who had not yet worked
up enough dissent to rebel
against the King. Sentiments
were changed, however, by
Britain's tyranny and cruelty,
along with the growing number of
battles and emotions that were
fueled by statements written in
the paper, "Common Sense" by
Thomas Payne.
Great Britain's King had exacted
taxes unduly, the King's men
were unjustly cruel. "Government
by kings was first introduced
into the world by the Heathens,
from whom the children of Israel
copied the custom. It was the
most prosperous invention the
Devil ever set on foot for the
promotion of idolatry. The
Heathens paid divine honors to
their deceased kings, and the
Christian world hath improved on
the plan by doing the same to
their living ones. How impious
is the title of sacred majesty
applied to a worm, who in the
midst of his splendor is
crumbling into dust!"
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"As the exalting one man so greatly
above the rest cannot be justified
on the equal rights of nature, so
neither can it be defended on the
authority of scripture; for the will
of the Almighty, as declared by
Gideon and the prophet Samuel,
expressly disapproves of government
by kings. All anti-monarchial parts
of scripture have been very smoothly
glossed over in monarchial
governments, but they undoubtedly
merit the attention of countries
which have their governments yet to
form. Render unto Caesar the things
which are Caesar's is the scriptural
doctrine of courts, yet it is no
support of monarchial government,
for the Jews at that time were
without a king, and in a state of
vassalage to the Romans."
"Near three thousand years passed away from the Mosaic account of
the creation, till the Jews under a national delusion requested a
king. Till then their form of government (except in extraordinary
cases, where the Almighty interposed) was a kind of republic
administered by a judge and the elders of the tribes. Kings they had
none, and it was held sinful to acknowledge any being under that
title but the Lords of Hosts. And when a man seriously reflects on
the idolatrous homage which is paid to the persons of kings he need
not wonder, that the Almighty, ever jealous of his honor, should
disapprove of a form of government which so impiously invades the
prerogative of heaven."
"Monarchy is ranked in scripture as one of the sins of the Jews, for
which a curse in reserve is denounced against them. The history of
that transaction is worth attending to."
So, according to Payne, continuing with submission to the King of
Great Britain was the same as participating in the sin the
Israelites of old had perpetuated from "heathen" nations. The only
answer was to sever ties and declare independence.
With the motivation from the "Common Sense" and the white-hot words
of Thomas Payne ringing in their ears the Continental Congress met
at what is now the Independence Hall in Philadelphia, the city of
"Brotherly Love." Virginia's delegate Richard Henry Lee called for
the colonies to demand independence from Great Britain. Throughout
June the debate raged in the Congress no doubt recalling some of the
battles and the unfairness of the taxation imposed by the King. With
the persuasive words of Thomas Payne and others who wished for
secession ringing in their ears, the Continental Congress called
upon Thomas Jefferson of Virginia, John Adams of Massachusetts,
Roger Sherman of Connecticut, Benjamin Franklin of Pennsylvania and
Robert R. Livingston of New York to write and submit for
consideration a draft statement that would serve as justification
for secession of the colonies from Great Britain.
By July 2, 1776 the smaller committee from the Continental Congress
had presented the Declaration of Independence, written primarily by
Thomas Jefferson over a two day period, to the Continental Congress
on July 2nd. The Congress voted for independence on that day, but on
July 4, 1776 the Continental Congress formally adopted the
Declaration of Independence as their singular voice to the Monarch
of Great Britain they would no longer be subjects belonging to him.
So, on July 4, 1776 Americans took a stand against tyranny and
injustice.
Americans are going to have to re-study their history and determine
if they continue to want to accept the unjustly demanded taxes of
today or use their power of the Constitution and representative form
of government to stand against the tyranny and injustice of out of
control taxes and demand a more equalized tax process.
[By JIM KILLEBREW]
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