My Thoughts on Income Taxes
By jimrob | June 24, 2007
When it comes to taxes, my opinion is based on scripture. Give to Ceaser what is Ceaser’s, and to God what is God’s. The paper within my wallet says “United States Federal Reserve Note”. It is merely a piece of paper issued by a private bank, used in the act of trading one thing for another. It is their currency for their economic system. If they want some of it back, fine. It’s their paper.
No American has to pay income tax. If you don’t have a job, you don’t have an income, and therefore don’t pay taxes. Don’t laugh - up until we all became convinced we had to participate in this space-aged world of high-priced disposable gadgets and gizmos, most worked for their own needs. You built your own home, raised your own food, and provided for yourself.
Today, we don’t live that way. Instead of working for ourselves, we work for someone else. In return, that someone pays us for our services in the form of government-backed paper. We then exchange that paper (or more increasingly, exchange numbers from one financial account to another) for the things we once acquired on our own.
We live lives of comparative luxury. Most of us work eight hours per day. When we finish our “work” (most of us have no concept of what real work is), we head to our 1500 square-foot homes. We then plop down in our recliners, crank up the AC, and watch TV until we head off to bed.
In contrast, those who were around just a few generations ago lived lives that would give most of us overweight, overfed, diabetic heart attacks waiting to happen a… well, heart attack. Instead of a simple eight hour per day, five day per week “work” schedule, people often worked twelve to sixteen hour days, six days per week. Homes were usually just a kitchen, setting room, and bedroom. Air Conditioning? Forget it. Want to be entertained? Get a deck of cards.
By choice, we work for someone else so we can afford our modern-day lives of cable TV, high-speed internet, and constant entertainment. We willingly participate in the economic system so that we work less hours and have more fun. The price to pay? An income tax, which when looked at in a different light, is really just a membership fee to a life-long vacation club.
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