"The power to tax is the power to destroy." Compensation for labor is not income. Income is gain. Whatever your work is, you're giving your life, time and energy for money and perhaps benefits worth money. The one cancels out the other, ergo no gain. If you invest a thousand dollars and it becomes eleven hundred after a year, that one hundred you made is gain and therefore legally taxable. You have made money with money. Obviously the income tax system is built on massive fraud. The biggest fraud is that income taxes are totally unnecessary. They exist to control, intimidate, and impoverish the masses. The money printers can create any funds required for any project, civilian or military. Just like wizards conjuring up spells. Beautiful, Don, thank you.
And they prove that they can get whatever money they want whenever Ukraine needs a new infusion, or we have to clean up Israel's latest mess, Heretic. Thanks!
You're welcome, Don. Germane to topic: Roscoe Egger was commissioner of the IRS from 1981 to 1986. During his retirement dinner speech he said: "If the American people ever wake up to the fact that the IRS operates over 90% by bluff, the system will collapse overnight." Thanks again.
Yes it was. Speaking of perverts in power: Here in Zoo Jersey, many years ago while on unemployment comp. I was compelled to attend a class on job searching. My classmate was a fellow originally from Chicago (Chi-.congo). His best friend who moved to NJ with him was a brilliant computer programmer who took a position with the NJ Dept. of Taxation in Trenton, the state capitol. He left after 2 years for a much higher paying gig with a private company but while there, he said that at the top tier of the NJ government, every man is a homosexual and every woman a lesbian. No matter how competent and qualified you are, you must be a pervert to enter the ranks of highest state power, no exceptions. It's a safe bet that transsexuals are included in that maleficent miasma now.
Your welcome, Bro. Here's more: Years ago I played in a band in NY city. The bassist formed a digital imagery media company in Manhattan with our manager that achieved great success making him very rich. His clients were some of the world's largest corporations and the U.S. government as well. While we were still in touch, he told me that in the U.S. State Dept. for example, all of the "men" were fagots. Their wives were just window dressing. As an anecdote, he dealt with many celebrities and celebrity wannabes. He said without exception, they would do anything for fame and fortune including selling their wives (or husbands as the case may be) mothers, sisters, and daughters into sexual slavery and/or being filmed having sex with quadruped animals. I kid you not. This is par for the course in a Kali Yuga.
You are correct to a certain extent. What we do in the private sector is supposed to be private. You can have a gain and not be taxable. The tax code is federal and requires that the source of the gain has to be federal because federal persons (like federal employees, federal corporations and agencies), federal places, and federal subject matter is what the US (federal) CONgress has authority over.
I emphasize CON because that is what 'government' has always been.
Because of the Supremacy Clause in the U.S. Constitution, which all the individual states ratified (the process flawed notwithstanding), Congress has statutory authority over the states. However do not construe that to infer that the IRS is a lawful entity or acts in a lawful manner. The same Constitution declares that any laws inimical to its precepts (or entities created by U.S. law, in this case the IRS) are null and void ab initio. If anyone believes that this is adhered to or recognized, I have some prime swampland in Florida to sell you.
Study Title 26 US Internal Revenue Code until you truly understand it. It will change your above understanding of Congress' pretended authority over the States. It is war by deception. There would be no need to write the tax code the way they do if they had authority over the States.
The authority of the Congress (and Executive and Judicial branches) of the federal government over the states far precedes the establishment of the IRS. As aforestated, it is in the Supremacy Clause of the U.S. Constitution as affirmed by U.S. Supreme Court rulings. Further, the main gist of the 14th Amendment, which also well preceded the IRS, was to force the states to apply the federal Bill of Rights to state citizens. Though much maligned, the 14th is the basis of all civil rights legislation, including but not exclusively the very important, 42 USC 1983. (Sue State officials acting under color of law.)
And there you go folks. An authoritative response from a guy who appears knowledgeable but obviously has not studied Title 26 US Internal Revenue Code until he can teach it to others. Listen to him. Don't bother to do your own research.
I don't need to study Title 26 to refute your fallacious claim that Congress has no authority over the states. I've done that. The 16th Amendment authorizes a direct income tax (non-apportioned) on U.S. citizens and has always been upheld by the "Nine Swine" (U.S. Supreme Court). I don't ask anyone to listen to me, I just put the information out there, take it or leave it. The bottom line is that the System cares little for legal niceties, they enforce compliance because they have the muscle to do it. There is no pretense about it. Power comes out of the barrel of a gun, whether in Chairman Mao's Red China or the Oligarchic Slobocracy known as the USA.
I get the feeling Trump lied about everything since 2015 and could not wait to pounce on the entire world like he's doing right now. He's a delusional mentally ill out of control egomaniac. Hegseth and Netanyahu are equally if not more insane.
Idk, Pit. I still think he's an actor. This appears to have clearly been the goal all along, and for whatever reason they waited until his second term to unleash this would be Trumpenstein the Great. Thanks.
I can't disagree with you there. He could likely be the puppet, and blustery mouthpiece of Netanyahu. He does not like to be on the losing side of anything. He is trapped by his own mind and his masters. Only crazy people burn everything to the ground then steal the wealth of others. Maybe usury on steroids is the goal of this B.S.
Donald, I just did my taxes and, after my employer already withheld $8,700 in income tax and another $7,000 in social security tax and another $1500 in medicare tax and after already having had $5,500 withheld for state income tax as well as sending my County nearly $4,000 in property taxes I still owe Uncle Sam another $3,600.00. So, as of April 15th, I will have paid nearly $30,300 in taxes. This of course does not include the thousands I have had to pay in sales taxes and franchise taxes. More than a third of my income goes to pay taxes.
And what do I get for these taxes? Well, I admit that I at least get some benefit from state taxes. I at least get to drive on the roads that my taxes help fund. But what do I get for the $12,000 I pay to the Federal government? Not a goddamned thing. Well, check that, I might get to say that my meager income tax probably funded a rivet on one of the missiles being lobbed at hapless Iran. I suppose I should be proud of that, right? MURICA!!
I get absolutely no benefit from federal income taxes. None. Nothing. Nada. Zip. Zero. Bupkiss. not a damned thing.
I wish I could just refuse to pay the taxes but the government will take everything I have worked for and all of my property and probably throw me in prison as well. Perhaps the "unhoused" have figured out a way to get away from the dregs of taxation.
If I could deduce some benefit for paying taxes I am willing to pay my share but there is nothing the US government does that directly benefits me in my daily life. Nothing. Defense? Naw, our military is spread thin throughout the world making war against hapless sad sack countries like Iran and Syria.
I appreciate you sharing that, Canker. That has always been my point- WHAT are being taxed FOR? So that worthless politicians can further line their pockets? I have never been helped by my government in my entire life. Like you, I am afraid that I'll one of the ones they go after if I stop filing. After all, I kind of stand out with years of writings online, and 10 books that mark me as a hopeless Thought Criminal. If only we could be sure that millions of others would join in the protest. That's the problem- we just cannot come together in a common cause, to overthrow our tyrannical leaders. Thanks!
Ironically, if everyone just stopped paying taxes we could starve the beast. Are they going to put a hundred million people in prison? Not likely. Unfortunately, the American people are either too stupid, too distracted, or too divided to ever unite on such a thing. This alone makes my eyes want to bleed before my head explodes.
That stupid Turbo Tax advertisement where they use the tag line "Now this is taxes" absolutely makes me insane. They spew that line out like it is a pleasure to pay taxes, like getting a massage or taking a restful vacation. Turbo Tax can kiss my ass. I will never use their filthy product.
Our only option in this pathetic excuse for a "nation" is to keep paying as long as we can or join the ranks of the "unhoused." I can't leave the nation and move to Costa Rica or Argentina like a lot of wealthy "investors" and substack authors encourage us to do. No, I am stuck. I am neither rich nor poor, I am staunchly lower middle class. So, I am stuck to forking over to this pathetic immoral excuse for a government at least a third of my hard earned wages for which I get nothing in return.
The older I get the more and more I find myself hating on this Country. What is so demoralizing, Donald, is there is nobody in any positions of power.....anywhere......with any desire to reform anything, fix anything or make anything better for the masses. NOBODY. Not Republicans. Not Democrats. Not Independents. Not church leaders. Not County Councils. Not City Mayors, State Legislatures, State governors, NOBODY.
How does this end and when does it end? Probably when I am placed on the cremation table and even then the government has its slimy tentacles involved with taxing what meager portions I leave behind for my posterity. Inheritances I have already paid ample taxes on.
I certainly understand your frustration and dismay at the state of the country. And you're right about nobody in leadership positions really giving a rat's ass about any of it. My personal take on that is that they know the country is irrevocably broken and they're simply securing their own interests before it all goes south while keeping up the facade of a working government. Then you've got the Marxists, almost exclusively comprised of the democrat party, actively working against anything that would benefit people as a whole, because they capitalize on causing people pain. Wherever there are Marxists, there is death. That's why their color is red. It will end when the country is destroyed. George Washington saw that in a vision. Henry Gruver saw it in a vision. I believe it's going to happen because the weight of our sin is too great. Not that it wasn't before, but now we've gone after our children with the transgender insanity and other political indoctrination, and there's an injunction in the Bible against anyone who harms children.
On your comment on the color "Red". Yes since Rothschild hung his sign outside his usury business 500 years ago, red has been the understood color of socialism and communism (which they support). Look at all the communist countries in the world- red flags.
Then in the elections in USA of 2004, suddenly the media reversed that with the confusing "Red" and "Blue" states. They turned over that color recognition, and now blue stands for the communist states.
Interesting, Kal. Red was my favorite color for a long time. And I love pizza. And I was #33 in basketball. lol. I wish the Catholic Church would start speaking out against usury again. Thanks!
The United States of America will atone in blood for all of the abortions that have been committed. The time is near. We can all feel it deep in our bowels.
So we can pay our oppressors and their suppliers. Where do the jackboots and grifters get their pay and who supplies them?
We also pay for thugs to terrorize other defenseless people and boondoggles, such as the ethanol industry among many other things.
These are some of the reasons I only worked enough to get by. Could have easily made 3 or 4X the money but that would mainly raise my tax bill. I live in a very small house, drive a small and old car, and enjoy a tiny bit of freedom so obtained.
I don't know the exact quote but Thomas Jefferson, I believe, said that the definition of tyranny is taking money from an individual and using that money to pay for things that that individual is opposed to.
I'm the same as you, John. I am solidly lower middle class. I live in a very modest home and drive an eighteen year old pick up truck. The only thing I have of any real value is a 1968 Camaro that I lovingly maintain. The annual tax on that bad boy is $20.00. I do all I can to pay as little tax as possible. I feel sorry for all of these suckers who buy their expensive mini-mansions and pay out the asses for their property taxes. Not me. I'm downsizing everywhere. Got rid of a couple of cars so I pay less for car taxes. I pay less for house taxes. The only place they really get me right now is income tax. All my kids have grown up so I don't have any credits to apply anymore. The sick bastards!
Yup. That's me. And the only debt I ever had was for a house. Paid that off pronto too. Always laughed at those who needed to keep in fashion, (I could never care less) and who had to chase after the latest toys, baubles, and trinkets.
I marvel at the knuckleheads with their Teslas and monster trucks too. I wonder how much interest they waste on such things.
I always remember my grandparents and how they made do with almost nothing yet were always of good cheer.
It still annoys me that I have to "rent" my paid off property to some pathetic overbearing, undeserving skunks in the form of property taxes.
I think yer correct about that Jefferson quote too, but i do not recall the exact source.
Same here. Bought a modest home, one that could easily be paid for, paid off my mortgage in 10 years. I have been in the home for 24 years and have no intention of moving. I have watched all of my neighbors vacate their homes in favor of bigger mcmansions a quarter of a mile away. Their property taxes double.
In my neighborhood the latest crave is side by side UTVs, electric bikes and golf carts. Not cheap but everybody has them. Most likely they are in debt up to their eyeballs paying large portions of their incomes in interest payments to the banks. They don't care.
Property taxes make my eyes want to explode. Especially when one of my neighbors or family members talk about being "free" in America. I always tell them to stop paying their property taxes and they'll see how free they really are. Ironically, most of the dunces don't know they pay property taxes because the bank pays them out of their mortgage escrows. The daft idiots have no clue. We don't own anything in the USA. The insidious "property tax" makes sure that the government owns it all and we, the puny serfs, are just rentin it.
I'm trying to live on less and less in preparation for the inevitable time when we simply don't have as much anymore.
Yeah, I know of folks who pay tens of thousands of dollars a year in property taxes for their shoddy cardboard McMansion, slapped together by the uncaring and just shake my head.
Then there are the Big Trucks pulling $150,000 boats or trailers with 4 $15,000 ATVs or snowmobiles, none of which I would take if someone paid me to get 'em off their hands.
How brain dead must a creature be to get more than a 10 minute thrill outta junk like that? And to more than likely go into debt for it too???
Great points about the property taxes and "fweedum" as well.
You literally live right inside of my thoroughly-pissed off mind! I quit judging people quite sometime back for the “sin” of wanting some meager creature comforts and then experiencing financial travails because of that very human desire. And I’m referring to folks who work hard and yet never get even get a bite at the Apple the 1%ers live daily. It’s all so infuriating. And now we must do battle with the local greedy bastard public “servants” who are ramming AI data centers down the throats of unwilling constituents. I have to keep reminding myself that this is not our home.
The late Sen Coburn from Oklahoma, and now currently, Sen Rand Paul, have published yearly government waste reports over the last 20 years or so. The waste and fraud is so outrageous, one would think they were reading from The Onion, or some other satirical publication.
You touched on 1913 toward the end of this article. Indeed, that may have been the most damaging year to our Republic in history. That 1st year of the Wilson administration brought us the Fed, the national income tax, and a nationalized Senate. This consolidation of federal power was of epic proportions. This foundation of banker/corporate/ government control has led to loss of freedom and wealth for the working class American.
Tariffs and excise taxes ran the national government for almost 150 years. Freedom flourished, and the newborn US prospered like no other country ever had. The problem, however, was that sound, metal- backed currency kept fedgov in check and severely limited the amount of multimillionaires and billionaires. This was unacceptable.
"...that may have been the most damaging year to our Republic in history."
I think it may have been 1788. That's when the principles of the revolution were finally co-opted. Mercy Otis Warren would probably agree since that's when she wrote criticizing the impending constitution,
"Sic transit gloria Americana." (Thus passes the glory of America.)
The Bill of Rights was tacked on around 1791 but has turned out to be another fraud amongst many.
And please don't call it a republic even tho it's been advertised as such. It has clearly been a plutocratic, oligarchic, rule by money, not the many. It has always been a RINO.
I just found this by chance and thought you might find it of interest.
“ … the term republic, is of very vague application in every language. … were I to assign to this term a precise and definite idea, I would say that, purely and simply, it means a government, by it’s citizens, in mass, acting directly and personally, according to rules established by the majority: and that every other government is more or less republican in proportion as it has in it’s composition more or less of this ingredient of the direct action of the citizens.
such a government is evidently restrained to very narrow limits of space and population. I doubt if it would be practicable beyond the extent of a New England township.
Thomas Jefferson to John Taylor, 28 May 1816
Also, speaking of Franklin, have you ever read his "Silence Dogood" letters to the editor? They are eye popping. My favorite is No. 4.
Benjamin Franklin attended school for two years, and his schooling ended when he was ten.
This is Ben Franklin (as Silence Dogood) at age 16 :
“…I reflected in my Mind on the extreme Folly of those Parents, who, blind to their Childrens Dullness, and insensible of the Solidity of their Skulls, because they think their Purses can afford it, will need send them to the Temple of Learning, where, for want of a suitable Genius, they learn little more than how to carry themselves handsomely, and enter a Room genteely, (which might as well be acquir’d at a Dancing-School,) and from whence they return, after Abundance of Trouble and Charge, as great Blockheads as ever, only more proud and self-conceited.
…[and] he, without much Study, presently interpreted it, assuring me, That it was a lively Representation of HARVARD COLLEGE, Etcetera. I remain, Sir, Your Humble Servant,
I think that may be a matter of semantics. During the 19th and 20th centuries, there was numerous commerce legislation , written by Congress, that contained the word"tariff."
Good article, Don. You might not be aware of the extent of property tax fraud. Local govt officials get huge sums of money (that they mostly STEAL) from issuing "school board bonds". The scam has been enlarged by REASSESSING real estate HIGHER so that more bonds can be issued. This fraud has created TRILLIONS in LOCAL DEBT.
the way Australia works, local council charges rates to ( purportedly) fix roads and bury the rubbish, schools hospitals police firefighters are state matters dealt with state taxes and the spillover from the federal goods and services (10%) tax. so our local rates are not the killers yours are. good, as I have to children, do not go anywhere hardly, and have little rubbish. ditto with social security welfare. it is a federal matter . that is why your wage taxes are lower but land rates are scarey. oh and as local rates are based on property unimproved land values, if they all go up , that does not mean that rates go up. they are regulated, and the local council has to apply for permission to raise them beyond inflation. if the area is gentrified then the people would demand more services, then they might raise them for an overall higher budget.
Subsidies, bailouts, grants to "special" interests, and padded contracts to name just a few.
Income taxes amount to fines for working and creating. Get caught speeding, you pay a fine (punished). Get caught working and you pay taxes (punished); no fundamental difference.
It's called fweedum, but most of us wouldn't unnerstand.
'Income Tax' is not even constitutional (not that that seems to matter any more). The only 'constitutionally legitimate' income tax is on Federal Government employees.
For an interesting look at how we were duped into believing that our income could be taxed see https://youtu.be/6N2_A97T8zM.
For an interesting look into how the U.S. was transitioned into the current "Debt Slave" economy in 1913 see https://youtu.be/Ltvwvvn4Nhs.
I have to question again the very inconsistent number of restacks my articles get. Based on the number of likes and comments, there should be a lot more. Maybe it's part of my shadow banning, maybe I'm just getting more paranoid. At any rate, please restack when you like. These numbers are very important in growing your platform. Thanks!
Great piece!!! Just my perspective, you and a lot of decent authors are unknown. I first saw you on Lew Rockwell, realized you were on substack and began following you. From there I learned of your books and have all but one of them I believe. They are all exceptional. I have gifted them to let others know about you. The non Irish control the mainstream. They are not going to let anyone know that someone like you even exists. We are all going to have to find a way out of their system and begin building better decentralized options. It will be increasingly painful to do by design, but it is the only hope for not only our physical survival, but for our children and grand children as well. Thanks for all you do! You always have a spot in NWMO where you are appreciated.
First of all, great essay Don! You really nailed it. While not all of us are plugged into the things that you usually talk about, taxation is one that hits us all.
"I would really like to unplug from this monstrosity of a system. Stop filing taxes. Everyone should."
Yes, we would but the fear of jail awaits you. The IRS is the enforcement arm of the Federal Government; make no mistake about it. They will come after you and take everything you own and leave you on the street. It is their money, legal tender, not ours. Ever since the Federal Reserve: It's not Federal and there are no Reserves.
Could we ever possibly hope to have a Jubilee in our times?
Yeah, a few years back they came after me for a minor mistake. They managed to squeeze less than $100 more out of me for the trouble. But I'm sure the sadistic smart @$$ wench that audited me got a cheap thrill or two out of annoying and humiliating me for 3 or 4 hours.
I don't know what can be done, Realist. I still think he's acting, but he's doing a really convincing job of someone who has lost his mind. Invoke the 25th Amendment? Impeach? I don't think enough Republicans would join in. Thanks.
I don't think he's crazy. I think what's happening now is a humiliation ritual. Sociopaths love shaming their victims. Think about how embarrassing it must be for the MAGA faithful to have voted for him twice. This is after screaming for four years that the previous election was stolen from their candidate.
"Whenever the people need a hero, we shall supply him." Albert Pike 33rd Degree Freemason.
I actually think that there may be plans afoot to use the 25th amendment to remove him from office. It is all a show though so I wouldn't read too much into it even if he is removed.
Either the 25th, or a faked death...so he can be put out to pasture with Jeffrey Epstein. They all have their bug-out bunkers. Some are leaving earlier than others. It sure looks like the Trumpenstein Project is heading for the grand finale.
This was the most demoralizing and depressing read yet. I couldn't even muster a chuckle anywhere.
1913 seems to be the key year for when most of US tax woes began - for the ordinary person, but windfall for the 1% - who even invented tax-free "charities" for themselves to shelter their wealth from the tax rules they also made up for the rest of America.
"The power to tax is the power to destroy." Compensation for labor is not income. Income is gain. Whatever your work is, you're giving your life, time and energy for money and perhaps benefits worth money. The one cancels out the other, ergo no gain. If you invest a thousand dollars and it becomes eleven hundred after a year, that one hundred you made is gain and therefore legally taxable. You have made money with money. Obviously the income tax system is built on massive fraud. The biggest fraud is that income taxes are totally unnecessary. They exist to control, intimidate, and impoverish the masses. The money printers can create any funds required for any project, civilian or military. Just like wizards conjuring up spells. Beautiful, Don, thank you.
And they prove that they can get whatever money they want whenever Ukraine needs a new infusion, or we have to clean up Israel's latest mess, Heretic. Thanks!
You're welcome, Don. Germane to topic: Roscoe Egger was commissioner of the IRS from 1981 to 1986. During his retirement dinner speech he said: "If the American people ever wake up to the fact that the IRS operates over 90% by bluff, the system will collapse overnight." Thanks again.
like the coercion of the covid jabs and the lockdown measures.
Speaking of waking up, wasn't it the sex pervert, J M Keynes who admitted that inflation was another way to tax people on the sly?
And why so many perverts in power? Must have something to do with humiliation. domination, sadism and psycopathy. Like what went on at Abu Ghraib.
Yes it was. Speaking of perverts in power: Here in Zoo Jersey, many years ago while on unemployment comp. I was compelled to attend a class on job searching. My classmate was a fellow originally from Chicago (Chi-.congo). His best friend who moved to NJ with him was a brilliant computer programmer who took a position with the NJ Dept. of Taxation in Trenton, the state capitol. He left after 2 years for a much higher paying gig with a private company but while there, he said that at the top tier of the NJ government, every man is a homosexual and every woman a lesbian. No matter how competent and qualified you are, you must be a pervert to enter the ranks of highest state power, no exceptions. It's a safe bet that transsexuals are included in that maleficent miasma now.
Thanks for that. It's consistent with what I've observed as well.
Your welcome, Bro. Here's more: Years ago I played in a band in NY city. The bassist formed a digital imagery media company in Manhattan with our manager that achieved great success making him very rich. His clients were some of the world's largest corporations and the U.S. government as well. While we were still in touch, he told me that in the U.S. State Dept. for example, all of the "men" were fagots. Their wives were just window dressing. As an anecdote, he dealt with many celebrities and celebrity wannabes. He said without exception, they would do anything for fame and fortune including selling their wives (or husbands as the case may be) mothers, sisters, and daughters into sexual slavery and/or being filmed having sex with quadruped animals. I kid you not. This is par for the course in a Kali Yuga.
You are correct to a certain extent. What we do in the private sector is supposed to be private. You can have a gain and not be taxable. The tax code is federal and requires that the source of the gain has to be federal because federal persons (like federal employees, federal corporations and agencies), federal places, and federal subject matter is what the US (federal) CONgress has authority over.
I emphasize CON because that is what 'government' has always been.
Because of the Supremacy Clause in the U.S. Constitution, which all the individual states ratified (the process flawed notwithstanding), Congress has statutory authority over the states. However do not construe that to infer that the IRS is a lawful entity or acts in a lawful manner. The same Constitution declares that any laws inimical to its precepts (or entities created by U.S. law, in this case the IRS) are null and void ab initio. If anyone believes that this is adhered to or recognized, I have some prime swampland in Florida to sell you.
Study Title 26 US Internal Revenue Code until you truly understand it. It will change your above understanding of Congress' pretended authority over the States. It is war by deception. There would be no need to write the tax code the way they do if they had authority over the States.
The authority of the Congress (and Executive and Judicial branches) of the federal government over the states far precedes the establishment of the IRS. As aforestated, it is in the Supremacy Clause of the U.S. Constitution as affirmed by U.S. Supreme Court rulings. Further, the main gist of the 14th Amendment, which also well preceded the IRS, was to force the states to apply the federal Bill of Rights to state citizens. Though much maligned, the 14th is the basis of all civil rights legislation, including but not exclusively the very important, 42 USC 1983. (Sue State officials acting under color of law.)
And there you go folks. An authoritative response from a guy who appears knowledgeable but obviously has not studied Title 26 US Internal Revenue Code until he can teach it to others. Listen to him. Don't bother to do your own research.
I don't need to study Title 26 to refute your fallacious claim that Congress has no authority over the states. I've done that. The 16th Amendment authorizes a direct income tax (non-apportioned) on U.S. citizens and has always been upheld by the "Nine Swine" (U.S. Supreme Court). I don't ask anyone to listen to me, I just put the information out there, take it or leave it. The bottom line is that the System cares little for legal niceties, they enforce compliance because they have the muscle to do it. There is no pretense about it. Power comes out of the barrel of a gun, whether in Chairman Mao's Red China or the Oligarchic Slobocracy known as the USA.
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I love this, and never realized it before!
money printing is a tax in the form of inflation and/or higher interest rates (unless catering for real growth).
I get the feeling Trump lied about everything since 2015 and could not wait to pounce on the entire world like he's doing right now. He's a delusional mentally ill out of control egomaniac. Hegseth and Netanyahu are equally if not more insane.
Idk, Pit. I still think he's an actor. This appears to have clearly been the goal all along, and for whatever reason they waited until his second term to unleash this would be Trumpenstein the Great. Thanks.
I can't disagree with you there. He could likely be the puppet, and blustery mouthpiece of Netanyahu. He does not like to be on the losing side of anything. He is trapped by his own mind and his masters. Only crazy people burn everything to the ground then steal the wealth of others. Maybe usury on steroids is the goal of this B.S.
I used to think that too, but it’s apparently also about domination, humiliation, perversion, sadism, and who knows what else.
Ineffably sick stuff.
Yeah he’s a controllable chaos agent. He’s been primed by Roy Cohn (name checks out) for decades to thoughtlessly follow orders from “them”
which faggot was McCarthy's side kick before that. and why istwas not a house of ungoy american activities. (ie the jews, ie the unnonirish)
The wait was the occult numerology alignment, 45(9)-47(11). A Freemason thang.
Long have I believed that Trump is not a solution to what ails America. He's a symptom of a very sick and degenerate political system. Nothing more.
"I saw nothing but vacant placidity in their eyes. Their main preoccupation seemed to be keeping track of their many medications."
This is America.
Great post.
Thanks, Wilson!
Slaves to Pig Pharma.
Donald, I just did my taxes and, after my employer already withheld $8,700 in income tax and another $7,000 in social security tax and another $1500 in medicare tax and after already having had $5,500 withheld for state income tax as well as sending my County nearly $4,000 in property taxes I still owe Uncle Sam another $3,600.00. So, as of April 15th, I will have paid nearly $30,300 in taxes. This of course does not include the thousands I have had to pay in sales taxes and franchise taxes. More than a third of my income goes to pay taxes.
And what do I get for these taxes? Well, I admit that I at least get some benefit from state taxes. I at least get to drive on the roads that my taxes help fund. But what do I get for the $12,000 I pay to the Federal government? Not a goddamned thing. Well, check that, I might get to say that my meager income tax probably funded a rivet on one of the missiles being lobbed at hapless Iran. I suppose I should be proud of that, right? MURICA!!
I get absolutely no benefit from federal income taxes. None. Nothing. Nada. Zip. Zero. Bupkiss. not a damned thing.
I wish I could just refuse to pay the taxes but the government will take everything I have worked for and all of my property and probably throw me in prison as well. Perhaps the "unhoused" have figured out a way to get away from the dregs of taxation.
If I could deduce some benefit for paying taxes I am willing to pay my share but there is nothing the US government does that directly benefits me in my daily life. Nothing. Defense? Naw, our military is spread thin throughout the world making war against hapless sad sack countries like Iran and Syria.
Taxation WITH representation SUUUUUUUUCKS.
I appreciate you sharing that, Canker. That has always been my point- WHAT are being taxed FOR? So that worthless politicians can further line their pockets? I have never been helped by my government in my entire life. Like you, I am afraid that I'll one of the ones they go after if I stop filing. After all, I kind of stand out with years of writings online, and 10 books that mark me as a hopeless Thought Criminal. If only we could be sure that millions of others would join in the protest. That's the problem- we just cannot come together in a common cause, to overthrow our tyrannical leaders. Thanks!
Ironically, if everyone just stopped paying taxes we could starve the beast. Are they going to put a hundred million people in prison? Not likely. Unfortunately, the American people are either too stupid, too distracted, or too divided to ever unite on such a thing. This alone makes my eyes want to bleed before my head explodes.
That stupid Turbo Tax advertisement where they use the tag line "Now this is taxes" absolutely makes me insane. They spew that line out like it is a pleasure to pay taxes, like getting a massage or taking a restful vacation. Turbo Tax can kiss my ass. I will never use their filthy product.
Our only option in this pathetic excuse for a "nation" is to keep paying as long as we can or join the ranks of the "unhoused." I can't leave the nation and move to Costa Rica or Argentina like a lot of wealthy "investors" and substack authors encourage us to do. No, I am stuck. I am neither rich nor poor, I am staunchly lower middle class. So, I am stuck to forking over to this pathetic immoral excuse for a government at least a third of my hard earned wages for which I get nothing in return.
The older I get the more and more I find myself hating on this Country. What is so demoralizing, Donald, is there is nobody in any positions of power.....anywhere......with any desire to reform anything, fix anything or make anything better for the masses. NOBODY. Not Republicans. Not Democrats. Not Independents. Not church leaders. Not County Councils. Not City Mayors, State Legislatures, State governors, NOBODY.
How does this end and when does it end? Probably when I am placed on the cremation table and even then the government has its slimy tentacles involved with taxing what meager portions I leave behind for my posterity. Inheritances I have already paid ample taxes on.
I certainly understand your frustration and dismay at the state of the country. And you're right about nobody in leadership positions really giving a rat's ass about any of it. My personal take on that is that they know the country is irrevocably broken and they're simply securing their own interests before it all goes south while keeping up the facade of a working government. Then you've got the Marxists, almost exclusively comprised of the democrat party, actively working against anything that would benefit people as a whole, because they capitalize on causing people pain. Wherever there are Marxists, there is death. That's why their color is red. It will end when the country is destroyed. George Washington saw that in a vision. Henry Gruver saw it in a vision. I believe it's going to happen because the weight of our sin is too great. Not that it wasn't before, but now we've gone after our children with the transgender insanity and other political indoctrination, and there's an injunction in the Bible against anyone who harms children.
On your comment on the color "Red". Yes since Rothschild hung his sign outside his usury business 500 years ago, red has been the understood color of socialism and communism (which they support). Look at all the communist countries in the world- red flags.
Then in the elections in USA of 2004, suddenly the media reversed that with the confusing "Red" and "Blue" states. They turned over that color recognition, and now blue stands for the communist states.
Interesting, Kal. Red was my favorite color for a long time. And I love pizza. And I was #33 in basketball. lol. I wish the Catholic Church would start speaking out against usury again. Thanks!
"but now we've gone after our children"
The United States of America will atone in blood for all of the abortions that have been committed. The time is near. We can all feel it deep in our bowels.
You are correct about the Marxists.
Everyone should read the Commie Manifesto. If they did, a few may wake up.
It pays to consider who the Big Three were in the "Big One" as well. Rats of a feather, or something.
I've read it. We are deep into their manifesto playbook. With a docile and drugged up population I don't see any way out of this.
Yup. All of the "planks" have been imposed on us for some time to one degree or another.
Same with the "fake" Prtclz.
"WHAT are being taxed FOR?"
So we can pay our oppressors and their suppliers. Where do the jackboots and grifters get their pay and who supplies them?
We also pay for thugs to terrorize other defenseless people and boondoggles, such as the ethanol industry among many other things.
These are some of the reasons I only worked enough to get by. Could have easily made 3 or 4X the money but that would mainly raise my tax bill. I live in a very small house, drive a small and old car, and enjoy a tiny bit of freedom so obtained.
I don't know the exact quote but Thomas Jefferson, I believe, said that the definition of tyranny is taking money from an individual and using that money to pay for things that that individual is opposed to.
I'm the same as you, John. I am solidly lower middle class. I live in a very modest home and drive an eighteen year old pick up truck. The only thing I have of any real value is a 1968 Camaro that I lovingly maintain. The annual tax on that bad boy is $20.00. I do all I can to pay as little tax as possible. I feel sorry for all of these suckers who buy their expensive mini-mansions and pay out the asses for their property taxes. Not me. I'm downsizing everywhere. Got rid of a couple of cars so I pay less for car taxes. I pay less for house taxes. The only place they really get me right now is income tax. All my kids have grown up so I don't have any credits to apply anymore. The sick bastards!
Yup. That's me. And the only debt I ever had was for a house. Paid that off pronto too. Always laughed at those who needed to keep in fashion, (I could never care less) and who had to chase after the latest toys, baubles, and trinkets.
I marvel at the knuckleheads with their Teslas and monster trucks too. I wonder how much interest they waste on such things.
I always remember my grandparents and how they made do with almost nothing yet were always of good cheer.
It still annoys me that I have to "rent" my paid off property to some pathetic overbearing, undeserving skunks in the form of property taxes.
I think yer correct about that Jefferson quote too, but i do not recall the exact source.
Same here. Bought a modest home, one that could easily be paid for, paid off my mortgage in 10 years. I have been in the home for 24 years and have no intention of moving. I have watched all of my neighbors vacate their homes in favor of bigger mcmansions a quarter of a mile away. Their property taxes double.
In my neighborhood the latest crave is side by side UTVs, electric bikes and golf carts. Not cheap but everybody has them. Most likely they are in debt up to their eyeballs paying large portions of their incomes in interest payments to the banks. They don't care.
Property taxes make my eyes want to explode. Especially when one of my neighbors or family members talk about being "free" in America. I always tell them to stop paying their property taxes and they'll see how free they really are. Ironically, most of the dunces don't know they pay property taxes because the bank pays them out of their mortgage escrows. The daft idiots have no clue. We don't own anything in the USA. The insidious "property tax" makes sure that the government owns it all and we, the puny serfs, are just rentin it.
I'm trying to live on less and less in preparation for the inevitable time when we simply don't have as much anymore.
Yeah, I know of folks who pay tens of thousands of dollars a year in property taxes for their shoddy cardboard McMansion, slapped together by the uncaring and just shake my head.
Then there are the Big Trucks pulling $150,000 boats or trailers with 4 $15,000 ATVs or snowmobiles, none of which I would take if someone paid me to get 'em off their hands.
How brain dead must a creature be to get more than a 10 minute thrill outta junk like that? And to more than likely go into debt for it too???
Great points about the property taxes and "fweedum" as well.
Nailed it DJ ... and since we will never overthrow them ... what to do, what to do ... 😜
Thanks for another great rant!
Thanks, J. Lee!
You literally live right inside of my thoroughly-pissed off mind! I quit judging people quite sometime back for the “sin” of wanting some meager creature comforts and then experiencing financial travails because of that very human desire. And I’m referring to folks who work hard and yet never get even get a bite at the Apple the 1%ers live daily. It’s all so infuriating. And now we must do battle with the local greedy bastard public “servants” who are ramming AI data centers down the throats of unwilling constituents. I have to keep reminding myself that this is not our home.
Lol. Well, that's very nice to hear, Ellen. Thanks!
just keep on repeating Theres No Place Like Home, Theres No Place Like Home, Theres No Place Like Home, wherever that is.
Or keep playing Bobby McFerrin's "Don't Worry, Be Happy".
The late Sen Coburn from Oklahoma, and now currently, Sen Rand Paul, have published yearly government waste reports over the last 20 years or so. The waste and fraud is so outrageous, one would think they were reading from The Onion, or some other satirical publication.
You touched on 1913 toward the end of this article. Indeed, that may have been the most damaging year to our Republic in history. That 1st year of the Wilson administration brought us the Fed, the national income tax, and a nationalized Senate. This consolidation of federal power was of epic proportions. This foundation of banker/corporate/ government control has led to loss of freedom and wealth for the working class American.
Tariffs and excise taxes ran the national government for almost 150 years. Freedom flourished, and the newborn US prospered like no other country ever had. The problem, however, was that sound, metal- backed currency kept fedgov in check and severely limited the amount of multimillionaires and billionaires. This was unacceptable.
Thanks Don
Thanks, Robert!
"...that may have been the most damaging year to our Republic in history."
I think it may have been 1788. That's when the principles of the revolution were finally co-opted. Mercy Otis Warren would probably agree since that's when she wrote criticizing the impending constitution,
"Sic transit gloria Americana." (Thus passes the glory of America.)
The Bill of Rights was tacked on around 1791 but has turned out to be another fraud amongst many.
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/72627/72627-h/72627-h.htm
And please don't call it a republic even tho it's been advertised as such. It has clearly been a plutocratic, oligarchic, rule by money, not the many. It has always been a RINO.
Very interesting. Thanks for the info.
Ben Franklin called it a republic. Take it up with him. Lol
I just found this by chance and thought you might find it of interest.
“ … the term republic, is of very vague application in every language. … were I to assign to this term a precise and definite idea, I would say that, purely and simply, it means a government, by it’s citizens, in mass, acting directly and personally, according to rules established by the majority: and that every other government is more or less republican in proportion as it has in it’s composition more or less of this ingredient of the direct action of the citizens.
such a government is evidently restrained to very narrow limits of space and population. I doubt if it would be practicable beyond the extent of a New England township.
Thomas Jefferson to John Taylor, 28 May 1816
Also, speaking of Franklin, have you ever read his "Silence Dogood" letters to the editor? They are eye popping. My favorite is No. 4.
Benjamin Franklin attended school for two years, and his schooling ended when he was ten.
This is Ben Franklin (as Silence Dogood) at age 16 :
“…I reflected in my Mind on the extreme Folly of those Parents, who, blind to their Childrens Dullness, and insensible of the Solidity of their Skulls, because they think their Purses can afford it, will need send them to the Temple of Learning, where, for want of a suitable Genius, they learn little more than how to carry themselves handsomely, and enter a Room genteely, (which might as well be acquir’d at a Dancing-School,) and from whence they return, after Abundance of Trouble and Charge, as great Blockheads as ever, only more proud and self-conceited.
…[and] he, without much Study, presently interpreted it, assuring me, That it was a lively Representation of HARVARD COLLEGE, Etcetera. I remain, Sir, Your Humble Servant,
Silence Dogood, (No. 4)
Yeah, I know he called it that. But then, he was not someone I'd trust much, and I wouldn't bother taking it up with him if I could.
Great, except tariffs are unconstitutional. Excises, duties and Imposts are required to be uniform; effectively a national sales tax.
I think that may be a matter of semantics. During the 19th and 20th centuries, there was numerous commerce legislation , written by Congress, that contained the word"tariff."
Earlier. I think Alexander Hamilton pulled off that bait and switch, which Lyndon LaRouche called "the American System".
Good article, Don. You might not be aware of the extent of property tax fraud. Local govt officials get huge sums of money (that they mostly STEAL) from issuing "school board bonds". The scam has been enlarged by REASSESSING real estate HIGHER so that more bonds can be issued. This fraud has created TRILLIONS in LOCAL DEBT.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7E6qX0rKNw
Thanks for sharing that, RBS!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-ErhNr_4So
the way Australia works, local council charges rates to ( purportedly) fix roads and bury the rubbish, schools hospitals police firefighters are state matters dealt with state taxes and the spillover from the federal goods and services (10%) tax. so our local rates are not the killers yours are. good, as I have to children, do not go anywhere hardly, and have little rubbish. ditto with social security welfare. it is a federal matter . that is why your wage taxes are lower but land rates are scarey. oh and as local rates are based on property unimproved land values, if they all go up , that does not mean that rates go up. they are regulated, and the local council has to apply for permission to raise them beyond inflation. if the area is gentrified then the people would demand more services, then they might raise them for an overall higher budget.
You definitely have a gift for writing exactly what I am thinking! Thank you.
Thanks, Splinter!
"Again, where does our money really go?"
Subsidies, bailouts, grants to "special" interests, and padded contracts to name just a few.
Income taxes amount to fines for working and creating. Get caught speeding, you pay a fine (punished). Get caught working and you pay taxes (punished); no fundamental difference.
It's called fweedum, but most of us wouldn't unnerstand.
Well said, John. Thanks!
"Now THIS is taxes!" - Turbo Tax
'Income Tax' is not even constitutional (not that that seems to matter any more). The only 'constitutionally legitimate' income tax is on Federal Government employees.
For an interesting look at how we were duped into believing that our income could be taxed see https://youtu.be/6N2_A97T8zM.
For an interesting look into how the U.S. was transitioned into the current "Debt Slave" economy in 1913 see https://youtu.be/Ltvwvvn4Nhs.
Thanks for sharing that, Splinter.
Excellent. Unfortunately, few there be that give a damn.
I spent a year of my life in Vietnam-- and for what?? No troops in Iran, our sons are valuable to us-- but not to the gov't!
I have to question again the very inconsistent number of restacks my articles get. Based on the number of likes and comments, there should be a lot more. Maybe it's part of my shadow banning, maybe I'm just getting more paranoid. At any rate, please restack when you like. These numbers are very important in growing your platform. Thanks!
Great piece!!! Just my perspective, you and a lot of decent authors are unknown. I first saw you on Lew Rockwell, realized you were on substack and began following you. From there I learned of your books and have all but one of them I believe. They are all exceptional. I have gifted them to let others know about you. The non Irish control the mainstream. They are not going to let anyone know that someone like you even exists. We are all going to have to find a way out of their system and begin building better decentralized options. It will be increasingly painful to do by design, but it is the only hope for not only our physical survival, but for our children and grand children as well. Thanks for all you do! You always have a spot in NWMO where you are appreciated.
I really appreciate the kind words, Celtic, and your generous support. Btw, what does NWMO stand for? Thanks!
Northwest Missouri
First of all, great essay Don! You really nailed it. While not all of us are plugged into the things that you usually talk about, taxation is one that hits us all.
"I would really like to unplug from this monstrosity of a system. Stop filing taxes. Everyone should."
Yes, we would but the fear of jail awaits you. The IRS is the enforcement arm of the Federal Government; make no mistake about it. They will come after you and take everything you own and leave you on the street. It is their money, legal tender, not ours. Ever since the Federal Reserve: It's not Federal and there are no Reserves.
Could we ever possibly hope to have a Jubilee in our times?
We are long overdue for a Jubilee, Brian. Thanks!
Yeah, a few years back they came after me for a minor mistake. They managed to squeeze less than $100 more out of me for the trouble. But I'm sure the sadistic smart @$$ wench that audited me got a cheap thrill or two out of annoying and humiliating me for 3 or 4 hours.
Loathesome.
Nice article. But what is to be done about the batshit crazy puppet that claims he is in control of this country?
I don't know what can be done, Realist. I still think he's acting, but he's doing a really convincing job of someone who has lost his mind. Invoke the 25th Amendment? Impeach? I don't think enough Republicans would join in. Thanks.
Correct again DJ ... too many graduates of Blackmail U. to do anything of the sort ... and the orange menace knows it 😜
I don't think he's crazy. I think what's happening now is a humiliation ritual. Sociopaths love shaming their victims. Think about how embarrassing it must be for the MAGA faithful to have voted for him twice. This is after screaming for four years that the previous election was stolen from their candidate.
"Whenever the people need a hero, we shall supply him." Albert Pike 33rd Degree Freemason.
......sigh........
I actually think that there may be plans afoot to use the 25th amendment to remove him from office. It is all a show though so I wouldn't read too much into it even if he is removed.
Either the 25th, or a faked death...so he can be put out to pasture with Jeffrey Epstein. They all have their bug-out bunkers. Some are leaving earlier than others. It sure looks like the Trumpenstein Project is heading for the grand finale.
Nothing will substantially change.
This was the most demoralizing and depressing read yet. I couldn't even muster a chuckle anywhere.
1913 seems to be the key year for when most of US tax woes began - for the ordinary person, but windfall for the 1% - who even invented tax-free "charities" for themselves to shelter their wealth from the tax rules they also made up for the rest of America.
Hard to find humor in it, Teresa. Thanks!