The Post-Partisan Emporium

  The American Tax Racket Involuntary extortion on a grand scale DONALD JEFFRIES This country fought a war for independence over taxation without representation. The Founders really, really didn’t like taxes. They dressed up as Indians at the Boston Tea Party. Over a pretty small tax on tea. They became incensed over a similarly modest tax on stamps. Our forebears called these things the Intolerable Acts. Since the early 1770s, our increasingly tyrannical government has implemented a lot of Intolerable Acts. Many people don’t realize that, until 1913, there was no income tax in the United States. You may well ask, how did they fund the government for well over a century without one? We had a growing military force, which Thomas Jefferson and the other wisest Founders would have opposed, a post office, roads and bridges. The odious withholding tax, which the beloved Franklin D. Roosevelt assured us would be but a temporary measure, dates from the 1930s. But as with so many unconstitutio

Go to the source to watch the video the demoralization of surrender make crime easy to prevent crime? EL GATO MALO pro tip: if you think that this is what “ winning the war on crime ” looks like, you might be suffering from severe demoralization. video: seriously, just stop for one minute and really consider this: dear citizen, our city has roving bands of violent thieves breaking into homes. mostly they just want your car. so leave your car keys out like milk and pastries for santa and perhaps the robbers will stop in the foyer and not come into the rest of your house to steal the rest of your things and menace you and/or your family. let that one sink in. yeah. seriously, did these people never read “if you give a mouse a cookie” when they were kids? this is just horrific. it’s not even remotely sane or reasonable. it’s not productive. every single thing about it is calculated to not only make you feel unsafe but to make those who would prey upon you feel safer. it’s surrender. you’