Excellent description of our actual situation from Jerry Bowyer over at Forbes:
…Increasingly our nation is divided, not between Rs and Ds, but between TIs and TBs: tribute imposers and tribute bearers. The imposers are gigantic banks, agri-businesses, higher education Colossae, government employees, NGO and QUANGO employees and the myriad others whose living is made chiefly by extracting wealth from other people. The bearers are the rest of us: the people who extract wealth from the earth, not from others.
What is the difference between crony capitalism and socialism? Not much. Both systems are based on a lack of appreciation of individual liberty. Both systems depend on elaborate centralized bureaucracies. In both systems, large proportions of people work for the government. Does it really make that much difference whether the government money is reported as W-2 income as opposed to 1099 income? Don’t the favored people become rich under socialism?…
A vast apparatus has been erected upon the body of America and it has entirely wrecked the nation – not only in terms of extracting wealth from us and hampering our wealth creation, but also throwing us in to a moral sewer where our kids get to contend with drugs, pornography and crime so that the Ruling Class can feel bohemian while they hide behind security gates and private police forces. This Ruling Class – the Tribute Imposers as noted above – simply have to go.
Cutting the government budgets – local, State and federal – is vital in and of itself: we face complete economic collapse because of our level of debt. But it is also important in another way – it allows us to de-fund our Ruling Class. From bureaucrats manning government agencies to taxpayer-subsidized “private” corporations, the people who make a mess of our nation live directly or indirectly upon us via the tax code. Cutting off their funding destroys their power (unemployed bureaucrats and banksters don’t have much authority) while also eliminating the need for a host of taxes and regulations, all built up for the sole purpose of enriching and protecting our Tribute Imposers.
This will be the oddest of revolutions – not only because it will be non-violent, but because it will really work out to nothing more, in the end, than changing a few laws and eliminating a host of regulations. Once done, America will be able to breath easy again and we’ll be able to get on with what America’s job has always been – building a better life for our selves and our children, and standing as a beacon of liberty in the world. Get rid of this great, useless rock of government and quasi-government corporations, and it will be like living in a new nation, again.
And so, let’s do it…
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