Chattel

Fair: marked by impartiality and honesty: free from self interest, prejudice, or favoritism


"All I'm saying is that those who have done well, including me, should pay their fair share in taxes."--Barack Obama


   Does anyone in view of my pixels really think that Barack Obama is interested in fairness? Do you see impartiality in the current tax code? Is there honesty among our so-called leaders today? Is Barack Obama free from self interest when he demonizes one economic class to curry favor with another? Does he operate without prejudice? Does he show favoritism? There is nothing "fair" about Barack Obama, yet he throws the word around with impunity.


   Mr. Obama wages class warfare like Genghis Khan rampaging across the steppes of central Asia. Remember what he told Joe Wurzelbacher:

   Mr. Obama and most of those in Washington, D.C. believe they should have complete access to your money. What they don't understand (or don't care to understand) is that your income is the physical representation of your labor. In essence, Obama and those like him in this government think that they OWN a certain percentage of you. Think about it: your income is earned by the sweat of your brow, the ache of your muscles, the intellect of your mind; and politicians have generated a tax system that lays claim to you.


Slavery: the state of a person who is a chattel of another


   You have become a slave. As currently implemented, the U.S. Tax Code makes you a slave; the chattel of others. Your sweat, your blood, your time (of which you have a limited amount) is exerted to earn income to provide for you and your family; yet the government lays claim to a percentage of that against your will. You are a slave.


   We all know that a certain level of taxation is necessary for the proper operation of our government, but what did America's 30th President have to say about it?


"Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery."--Calvin Coolidge


   President Coolidge was absolutely right; and this government is collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary. But, you may argue, we are running deficits and amassing debt. This is true, but it isn't due to a lack of taxation. It is due to excessive government spending, fiscal stupidity, and spiritual wickedness in high places.


   To top everything off, we now have "Eat the Rich" parties going on across America wearing the "Occupy" moniker. Protesters are demanding the full economic enslavement of the wealthy for the benefit of those protesting. They are railing against "Evil Corporations"; the same corporations that provide us with food, clothing, transportation, toiletries, energy, entertainment and countless other goods and services that make our lives better; and they are doing it with the full support and sanction of the President of the United States of America.


   It's time for a reality check for these folks. What does the Almighty have to say about this?


You shall not steal.--Exodus 20:15


You shall not covet your neighbor's house; you shall not covet your neighbor's wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor's.--Exodus 20:17


For even when we were with you, we commanded you this: If anyone will not work; neither shall he eat.--2 Thessalonians 3:10


   I've heard people in these protests claim that Jesus would support what they are trying to accomplish. No, he would not. He would not only not support their "occupation", he'd insist that they find an occupation.


But if anyone does not provide for his own, and especially for those of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.--1 Timothy 5:8


   That's pretty cut and dry, wouldn't you say?


   The income tax penalizes those that do the right thing; that work hard, that provide for their own, that seek to live responsibly. It rewards those that do not; those that seek to steal from others by using the government as the hitman. 


   The OWS protesters seek to suck the vitality out of the responsible and the successful like parasites slowly bleeding the life out of their host.


   The question you have to ask yourself is this: When is enough, enough? When will the American people stand up and say: NO! Not one more percent, not one more dollar, not one more drop of blood or bead of sweat! When will we have had enough? Is it to late? May it not be so.


Godspeed.