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Tuesday, August 19, 2008
The Internal Rape ServiceThe IRS, a government agency put into place to fund our nations deficit? Or, a
modern mafia based on extortion,
fear tactics and blackmail? I believe it is the
latter of the two. The word blackmail comes from ancient Scotland. The
Highland
people would watch over a cattle farmers cattle for a steep price, but if you did
not pay, you were guaranteed
to wake up to an empty pasture in the morning. Is that
not what the IRS does? They tell you if you pay, your roads will
be fixed, your
schools will be better and our freedom left intact. But, if you don't pay, you will
lose your
money, your home and everything in it. Exactly how "free" are we as United
States Citizens? Apparently not
as free as we'd all like to be. I know everything
has a price, but goddamn, every year I watch more and more of my
salary disappear.
The worst part is, I don't have a choice, they just take it. I don't even have an
option
to decide what it's used for. I believe if you are going to take my money,
regardless of what I think, I should at
least get to decide where it goes. I think
each year we should get a list of all of our funded programs and earmarks
to decide
from. Each citizen should have to choose 20 or so different projects that they would
like to endorse and
when their money is unwillingly stolen from them each week, it
should be divided by 20 and put directly into the projects
they've decided to
endorse. At least then you could feel somewhat satisfied with your lost hours of
labor that
are raped from your paycheck. I do not like the thought of my money being
used to support able-bodied people who refuse
to work, or funding healthcare for
people who not only have no green cards, but can't habla a lick of English! I
don't
like paying 18 cents on the gallon to fund bridge and road projects that are never
even started let alone
finished. I believe we all need to pay for our freedom, but
all I ask is you make me feel like I am part of something
great, don't make me feel
like a rape victim in a group therapy program. We need to stop listening to our
politicians
and start asking the people these crooked liars represent. Ask the
people where they want their money to go and you bet
your ass they'll tell you. In
the words of Franklin Delanor Roosevelt, "The only thing to fear is the people
in
charge!", or something like that. Keep it real red, white and blue. -Word-
5:44 pm est
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