America finances statism

Dependence on government subsidies, grants, protection, entitlements, etc. has grown to proportions which make resistance to statism almost impossible. The insanity of this dependence is that government produces nothing -- all the money used to support the dependents comes from the American people. Future opinion of our actions will not be kind to us. We've destroyed the only thing that stands between us and tyrants - an inviolable Constitution. But it's not just the amendments -- some amendments, such as the 13th amendment, have been necessary due to oversight, or lack of will, in the beginning. We couldn't have made it without such amendments. But reason tells us that the 13th amendment was in the spirit of the Declaration of Indpendence -- it should have been a part of the orginal Constitution.

The egregious violations of the Constitution, such as the 16th amendment, have more to do with a shift in philosophy which is antithetical to the Declaration of Independence. Once we allowed government to tax us directly, to confiscate our income, based on the idea that income should be redistributed, we also allowed our philosophy to shift and to deny property rights. The income tax opened the door for our government to control us, to intimidate us into compliance, to wage huge wars, to redistribute wealth, to allow corruption to spread, to manage the economy, to pick winners and losers in industry, to create a mountain of debt, and, consequently, to transfer power from the people to the state.

The Declaration of Independence is a philosophical document which brought to life a New Order of liberty against the Old Order of domination by rulers over their subjects. The New Order was the epitome of the Renaissance and it brought a measure of freedom, reason and light to subjugation, superstition and darkness. This might be a quaint fairy-tale to those who talk about bending the cost curve and compromising like quivering sycophants to the throne to determine the amount of liberty and property we're planning to surrender, but for some of us believe the philosophical power of Declaration of Independence has never faded and is still applicable.

In large part, many Americans have become immoral dependents, trained to use the power of the state to take what belongs to others without an ounce of shame or second thought. Taking what belongs to others has become normalized -- most people expect the government to confiscate large amounts of the people's wealth to distribute as politicians see fit, and for whatever political gain they can dream. There are some in society who can't help themselves and are in true need of assistance, and there is no shame in receiving this type of help, although there are better ways to provide this assistance through the private sector -- but for many who merely pad their own well-being off the sweat of others, there should be shame.

 And if someone refuses to cough up the proper amount of their wealth, the state has a goon squad which will hunt them down make sure they pay the price for resistance -- unless the tax dodger has political connections, then the goons go blind, deaf and mute, but not without a wink. This is not to say that all the good people working for the IRS are goons, just that the IRS produces goon-like behavior from good and bad people alike.

I don't think I could work for the IRS, but you never know -- unemployed and offered a position, I might rationalize my decision and choose to take the job, and this is the danger of a powerful state -- it sucks people in and eventually becomes indispensable -- it can make good people bad over time. Hardly anyone is taught about the dangers of a powerful state, so it's natural for many that the state should collect money from those who have it and give it those who want it -- this is the way to fairness, right? What it does is limit the people's property, making it more difficult to excercise their free will. You could say that this not true, because the state helped many people buy homes who couldn't have afforded a home -- but who are these people indebted to -- FHA -- and who is now helping them out with their mortgages when they can't meet their obligations? The state. And if the state has their way, Fannie and Freddie will be their landlords.

The tenacles of the state are reaching into every area of lives, and we are financing every power grab they make. Doesn't make sense, does it?