How Is Wage Slavery Accomplished? It seems that our nation, much like many others, functions in a state of near perpetual warfare. The war in Afghanistan cost between 20-60 billion dollars a year between the years of 2001 and 2009, and cost between 100-124 billion dollars a year in 2010 and 2011. The government doesn’t add a new wartime tax each year, so how is it they are able to afford such an expensive war? That is where the wage slaves, us, come in. Pay attention because the way in which we are being tricked is so clever that most of us miss it completely. I am sure most of you have probably noticed that between 25-30% of each of your paychecks is removed to pay what is termed the federal income tax, so for example if I made $400.00 this week I could expect to keep about $300.00 of it. Before the year 1913 this tax was nonexistent, so what is its purpose? In 1982 Ronald Reagan requested an investigation called “The Grace Report” to provide the answer, and what he found turned out to be pretty interesting. The report states “With two thirds of everyone’s personal income taxes wasted or not collected, 100 percent of what is collected is absorbed solely by interest on the federal debt and by federal government contributions to transfer payments. In other words, all individual income tax revenues are gone before one nickel is spent on the services [that] taxpayers expect from their government. So there you have it, income tax exists solely to pay off our debt to the Fed, but why? What is the benefit of our government borrowing money from a private organization, creating a debt that includes interest, rather than taxing us as the need arises? A look at history might hold the answer. Roman politicians used to debase their gold and silver coins by shaving off the sides of them to mint new coins. Counterfeiting new coins allowed the politicians to fund wars and monuments to themselves, as well as funding things to keep their subjects content enough not to riot (i.e. an early system of welfare, public entertainment, huge community projects, etc.), and they were able to do it all without creating new taxes for people to pay. It was pretty early on that the roman politicians realized, creating new taxes causes discontent, and discontent can spell big problems for small groups of people who are in control of larger groups of people. An examination of current events suggests that this is also the dominant mentality of politicians in the last 100 years as well; I will illustrate this point using the income tax. As I had mentioned before, 25% percent of our check is absorbed each time we get paid to satisfy a debt owed mainly by the US government to the Federal Reserve. People, in large, pay the income tax without batting an eye, we remain completely complacent and that is why it is still able to exist. If our government wants to spend 100 billion dollars on the war this year and the Federal Reserve exists they can simply borrow that money from the Fed, and then we will slowly pay that debt off for them through the income tax; In doing this, most of America remains ignorant to the fact they are directly paying for the war and programs they may not support such as the NSA. However, if the government wanted to spend 100 billion dollars on the war this year and the Fed didn’t exist, they would have to create new tax to settle this war debt. In the second scenario, we are actually taxed less, but allowing the masses to know that they are paying a tax that directly pays for a war or other things they do not support could cause discontent. This is how wage slavery works, through complacency, because we are all complacent in paying the income tax it will continue to exist. If we as a society wake up and realize that this tax isn’t just a tax on our income, but a way for the government to endlessly borrow money from the banks, and get pissed off enough about it, change really can come. Sources: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Grace_Commission https://nationalpriorities.org/analysis/2011/annual-costs-war-afghanistan/ conservativetruth.org/article.php?id=2067 Read more @ realmoneymechanics.weebly Facebook URL: https://facebook/pages/Real-Money-Mechanics/697756100286926 Twitter URL: https://twitter/RealMoneyMech Vimeo URL: https://vimeo/realmoneymechanics Youtube URL: https://youtube/channel/UCHhSnzK64ErDSLbT2Rc29uw https://youtube/watch?v=Xbp6umQT58A The attached video was made by Stefan Molyneux
Posted on: Fri, 13 Jun 2014 13:47:33 +0000
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