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A Year in Review

We started this blog not too long ago, in an attempt to show, without any reason for debate, that Americans are already over-burdened with taxes. Taxed2Debt was born before the stimulus package, before Obama-care, and before the Republican Bank Bailout.

We already had our work cut out for us, but now this? There’s not even a cliché that defines the amount of spending we’ve seen in the last year. And the bill has yet to come due.

We’ve seen a lot of changes, and now have seen the landscape change politically, but none of this changes a basic fundamental truth: that the least amount of taxes provides for the most good for the country.

We’re working on some posts coming up over the next few weeks. Thanks for checking in on us, and a Happy New Year’s to you and yours.

Money is not all they want to tax.

A Chinese newspaper recently had an editorial encouraging all countries to adopt their population control methods.  They are stating that this is because of man-made global warming, which they say will only be curtailed by having less babies.

Could you imagine a baby tax?  A one baby maximum?  How would they enforce this?  Like huge criminal penalties like China?  Prison, genocide?

This is one reason why fighting over-taxation is key to keeping America free.  Government with ultimate power can make ultimate decisions on your life.

“It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you.”  D Cheney

Hope everyone has a great week-end.

Tax Man’s News

Here’s a Los Angeles Time’s piece against Wisconsin’s Obey and his lack of common sense.

When they send your jobs to the hospital, you send their jobs to the morgue.  That’s the Chicago way.

A Note on Slavery

Abraham Lincoln was a Republican.

Democrats and some modern historians would try to argue that Lincoln’s views were closer to the democratic party these days, but all this talk is lawyer speak for: we don’t want to be remembered as the party of slavery.

During the mid-1800′s, the south was mostly democratic, with the Republican party being born from anti-slavery sentiments.

It’s baffling how anyone could try to argue differently, but it’s not that shocking.

The democrats are attempting a new type of slavery now, so why shouldn’t they try to rewrite history? No, this is not a slavery based on physical restraints and this type of slavery holds no discrimination of race. This is a slavery of dependency, of giving up freedom in all areas of life.

The democrats are attempting to establish a dependency on the state. “What can the government do for you?”

After what Reid had said yesterday, which is just an echo of what many democrats have been saying for years, it’s important to look at one of the Republican’s slogans before the civil war: Free Labor, Free Land, Free Men.

Sorry to harp on this, but it offends me not as a conservative or a republican, but as a historian.

Reid’s Deed

Health care Reform, as it exists in its state now, is a large, eternal bill.  Here at Taxed2Debt, we agree with attempts to make health care more affordable, we just disagree with the current proposals and those proposals taxing people to make it happen.  We support those who are against this new leviathan–this government entity that won’t be able to be killed once life is breathed through it–public health care.

Here’s what Harry Reid said today:

Reid is implementing a trick here, one that gives us a teachable moment.  What Reid just said was not only a historical inaccuracy, but it was a blatant fallacy, an appeal to emotion.

An appeal to emotion is an argument one uses to play on the emotions of the listeners, in order to get them to agree with the same conclusion.  For instance, if I wanted you to vote for my ice cream at the county fair, I wouldn’t just give you a taste, but tell you that my great-aunt gave her life preserving the recipe during the ice cream wars so that decades later you would taste her favorite ice cream.  Her blood was spilled on that Rocky Road.  Can you feel the desire to vote for me now?

Often times you’ll see speakers/leaders revert to this fallacy when they don’t have any content.  This bill shouldn’t need tricks or false pleas to the heart.  The democratic leadership realize that people don’t want Public Health Care, and they’re having to dig deep.

“These are the highest tax increases ever,”

The article above talks about how strapped states are for cash, and how every tax is about to go up.  Depressing.

It also goes on to talk about something we’ve been harping on here at Taxed2debt: taxing through class warfare.

Rich people owe us something, right?  They must owe somebody something, because they’re about to get a big chunk taken out of their collective hind-parts.  Listen, I’m not rich, last time I checked.  But I want to keep the rich people in our country.  It’s good to have them buy things and literally spread the wealth around. And just because someone has earned more with their own hands, this should not put open the floodgates of burdensome tax increases for them–which will stifle spending, innovation, new businesses.

New York state and California are great examples of high taxation causing  people to leave.  Now, more than ever, people have the freedom of mobility, so if you’re about to lay burdens down on some, you better be ready for true change.

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It would seem like this is a new problem, but in truth it was not.  It’s a problem as old as early colonial America.  In the early Plymouth colony, circa 1625, there was an epiphany by the local people.

The colony went from a collective farming system to an individual farming system.  The results were two-fold: first, production among the farms sky-rocketed.  Secondly, those men who were not working previously, content to let the women raise the kids and till the fields, were now having to get back in the game.

Socialism/Communism does not work–because people aren’t going to bust their tail for Ed.  Who is Ed?  That’s the problem–we don’t know.  People work hard to feed themselves and their own.  Conservatism, it is common sense.

–Pilgrim information is from The Mayflower, Philbrick

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Who is the enemy camp?

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