Pulling up
stakes can mean it’s time to move or it’s time to change what you are
doing. At one time in the history of the
United States if you loved being an American but were unhappy with the
political environment you were in you could pull up stakes and move to another
City, County or even a different State and that environment would change. If you were unhappy with the political
environment of the United States as a whole there was a time you could pull up
stakes and move to a different country, at one point in history you could even
find some undiscovered or uninhabited land and start a new country, not
anymore. In fact in both of the previous
cases there is no where else to go.
The
political environment of the United States
today is such that no matter what City, County or State you go to you are still
there. You are still in the same
political environment. In the brief life
span this Nation has enjoyed we have gone from being 13 Colonies under British
rule to 13 sovereign States with their own Constitutions uniting together for
the purpose of defense to 50 States that have given away their sovereignty to a
central Government that is usurping more power and control daily. There is no where to go within the United
States to change you political
environment. Sure there are States that
are making noise about regaining their sovereignty, some have even passed a law
or two to nullify some of the more freedom damaging laws the Federal Government
has passed. None so far have come right
out and reclaimed their sovereignty. The
political environment in the world is just as bad or even worse in many
cases. With all the problems we do have
in the United States it is still one of the freest places in the world to live,
it’s just not as free as it should be or as many believe it to be.
Due to the current political
environment across our Nation I now have to wonder how long it will be before
people start to pull up stakes in the sense of changing what they are
doing. Exactly what you can do when you
pull up stakes will depend on your financial status and whether or not you are
an employer, employee or self employed.
The reason I mentioned financial status first is because this is the
area that could have the largest effect on the Nation as a whole. With our ever growing National debt and our
Governments resistance to balance the budget the talk seems to always go to
increasing the taxes on the “rich”. The
“rich” are those that, according to the White House, make more then $250,000 a
year and do not pay their fair share of taxes.
These are the scum that find all the loopholes in the tax code that
allow them to pay a lower percentage of their income than their
secretaries. These are the bloodsuckers
that only earned their fortunes on the backs of those less fortunate than
them. These are the people that should
feel blessed to pay more, they should feel fortunate to be able to give more of
their blood money so that it may be given to those unfortunates that they stood
on to earn it, those unfortunates deserve it.
Well, at least those are the things that those with socialist ideals
will tell you to justify the taxing of the “rich”. What they won’t tell you is that the
loopholes they speak of are the ones that they wrote into the tax code to help
themselves and their “rich” friends.
They won’t tell you exactly what percentage of what appears to be income
of these “rich” individuals is put back into what ever business they started in
order to keep the business going, grow the business and hire more
employees. They also will not tell you
that much of the income of the “rich” comes from investments, investments that
are available to anyone that is willing to either do a little research or to
find someone they can trust to do the investing for them. They also will not tell you that any tax
increase on the “rich” will more then likely be passed on to either the
employees or to the consumer, they are businessmen, they did not get the title
of being “rich” by giving away their product or service. They also will not tell you that without the
“rich” many, if not all, of the products and services we now enjoy will not be
there, they are the ones that took the chance, invested their money and applied
their mind to provide these products and services for us. Sure they benefit from their profits but we
benefit from them, just look at your cell phone and try to create one from
scratch. The last thing they won’t tell
you, in fact they will not even think of this themselves since they would not
want to admit it, is that many of those that are benefiting from the “social”
programs provided for by the Federal Government and funded by the taxpaying
portion of the population contribute nothing to the welfare of the Nation. They do not provide a service or create a
product and they are not gainfully employed, if they were they would not need
the “social” programs. So exactly who is
obtaining their income on the backs of others, the “rich” that have earned it
or the “social” program recipients?
With those
thoughts now floating around in your head start thinking about the consequences
of the “rich” deciding they have had enough.
Start thinking about the employers and employees that may not be rich
but they are tired of working 40 hour plus work weeks and in many cases more
then one job while others are benefiting from their labor more then they
are. Our Government is giving the
impression that they will take care of you, don’t worry, quit your job and we
will take care of you. This is a great
plan until the local business owner goes to his factory and finds he has no
employees left, they have all gone on the Government dole. Now the local business owner goes belly up,
no problem, that’s just one more factory that was belching pollution into the
air out of business, just one more of those filthy “rich” that has gone down
with the ship. Oh yea, one more deserted
building that will be a blight on the landscape. We still have all those other “rich” that
have earned their money from investments to fall back on. We will have them only as long as they let
us. How long would it take before they
figured out they could be a whole lot happier if they were to turn all their
investments into a yacht filled with precious metals that could not be touched
by the Government? How long would it be
before they just liquidated their assets and disappeared in the fog they would
leave behind? If this was to happen
there would be no assets for the Government to redistribute, there would be no
“social” money being paid out, and there would be a very large portion of our
population that would have no idea of how to survive without the Government
telling them exactly what to do. Of
course there will always be those that refuse to quit, refuse to believe
anything is happening or refuse to accept Government assistance.
Unfortunately
it seems that the Federal Government does not believe the cash cow will ever
dry up. They are giving lip service to
making changes that will reduce our debt while in the same session they are
passing another budget with a huge deficit or passing laws that will create
more deficit spending. Anytime you see
the word deficit you can negate any thing that has been said about reducing the
debt, at best the only reduction to the debt is a possible reduction to the
speed at which the debt continues to grow.
There are different plans floating around Congress and being touted by
groups such as the Tea Party, but for any of them to work there has to be a
majority of the Nation on board with them.
Just as a thought let me give you
a 4 step plan;
1- All States reclaim their
sovereignty.
2- Abolish the tax code completely.
3- The States will determine what
type of revenue generating system they want for their State.
4- The States will pay an equally
apportioned amount to the Federal Government to provide for the common defense
of the Nation and for the necessary functions of the Federal Government
required to negotiate trade agreements with Foreign Nations. The Federal Government will also retain the
role of arbiter between the States.
Here are some of the benefits of this type of plan:
1- The citizens will have increased
control over the taxation of their hard earned income.
2- Increased control over the
States spending.
3- Prevent the taxes from someone
in FL from being spent on a bike path in NC.
4- States will retain the means to
control Federal spending by either approving or withholding funds.
A plan of this nature puts the Constitution back in the
drivers’ seat at the Federal level and States Constitutions back in control at
the State level. It allows the States to
have their own personalities, it allows the State and its citizens to determine
what is best for them, and it does not allow an individual State to dictate how
the entire Nation will act. This plan
could, and should, apply to all functions the Federal Government has taken that
are not authorized by the Constitution. Does
this plan have problems, sure it does, one I’m not an economist or accountant which
means I am probably looking at this in a very simplistic way, which may be the
way it should be looked at. Secondly, it
will end a lot of Government “social” programs.
Social programs are considered sacred to many Politicians, not so much
because they actually believe in them but more because they are a source of
voters, power and money for them. If
they really believed in what they were touting they would be out in the streets
handing out box lunches and working in soup kitchens, not flying around on
Government expense accounts and going to expensive campaign dinners. It would be a major task to get the support
necessary for a plan such as this, but it’s a plan.
Lastly we
need to think about where this is headed.
For over 100 years now the Government has been usurping power and in
truth turning every tax paying citizen into a tax slave. They have done this with little resistance,
they have done it gradually so that we don’t remember how it used to be; we
believe it has always been this way. We
are going to allow them to continue this gradual change until we find ourselves
all employed by the Government after they Nationalize all industries, just look
what they are trying to do to the health industry and the oil companies now,
look at what they tried to do with cap and trade and what they did to the auto
industry a few years ago. Nationalization
is the only way they will be able to ensure they have the income necessary to
grow the Government and grow the programs they are trying to put into place.
Steve Avery
