Joy in taxes … ( 04 / 15 / 2012 )
Joy in taxes … ( 04 / 15 / 2012 )
“ None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free .” ~ W . Goethe
HAPPY TAX DAY everybody ! … OK , I know this is not the happiest of days for most of you Americans . In all likelihood , you are either groaning about the money you were “ forced to pay ” or you are fretting about being late with that payment . I used to pay taxes in the United States and now I pay lots of taxes here in Germany — so I get it . Of course , this post is not really about paying taxes . It ’ s actually about your Freedom … I have a motto in life that has served me well over the years : Choose to want to do it , or don ’ t do it at all . Indeed , if you are moping or whining about doing anything in your life , you are not really benefiting yourself or anyone else by doing it .
How does this Truth relate to paying taxes ? Quite simply : either pay them Joy-fully -- or don ’ t pay them at all … period !
Now I realize that this advice seems pretty tricky for most Americans , especially once the following facts become evident :
Fact # 1 : The IRS can indeed throw a U . S . citizen in jail for not paying their income taxes . That this act is unconstitutional & thereby completely illegal is irrelevant ; they truly can do this .
Fact # 2 : Not one penny of your income tax dollars goes to pay for any of the services you think they are paying for . That ’ s right , your income tax dollars — all of them — actually help pay for the ill-advised spending policies of our past & current “ leaders ” ( i . e . the interest on the federal debt ). Oh yeah , a significant part of them also help fund the “ just wars ” that the American military is currently fighting ( as well as all those “ just wars ” that we are currently planning to fight in the near future ).
“ If the American people ever allow the banks to control the issuance of their currency … the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property , until their children wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered . The issuing power of money should be taken from banks and restored to the people to whom it belongs . I sincerely believe the banking institutions having the issuing power of money , are more dangerous to liberty than standing armies .” ~ Thomas Jefferson
Of course , if you support paying the Federal Reserve trillions of your hardearned dollars , and if you support the current U . S . military operations that are actually creating hundreds if not thousands of new “ terrorists ” every day , then feel free continue to pay those taxes . Rest assured that I will think just as highly of you whether you do so or not .
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