Is “thou shalt not steal” a good idea? Or is thou shalt not steal as individuals a good idea—but OK if done collectively through majority rule? If it is against the law to steal from your neighbor, why is it then OK to legislatively steal from others via government? Is the redistribution of wealth American or is it in opposition to American Principles? Thomas Jefferson said in a letter to Joseph Milligan, April 6, 1816: “To take from one, because it is thought his own industry and that of his fathers has acquired too much, in order to spare to others, who, or whose fathers, have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association, the guarantee to everyone the free exercise of his industry and the fruits acquired by it.” Jefferson added in a Letter to George Logan on Nov. 12, 1816: “It is strangely absurd to suppose that a million of human beings, collected together, are not under the same moral laws which bind each of them separately.” It is obvious that our Founders respected the fruits of labor as the property of the laborer and that it was not to be shared forcibly through government—but what about today? President Obama said in September 2011: “If we’re going to make spending cuts, many of which we wouldn’t make if we weren’t facing such large budget deficits, then it’s only right that we ask everyone to pay their fair share” What is a “Fair Share”? Is it injustice to legislatively take more money from some and spare it to others? Is that fairness or theft? Are Social Security, Medical Care and all the other various taxes which support individual needs through government constitutional? Or should we have kept the fruits of our own labor—saved our own monies—and used those monies to buy private insurance and private pensions to support ourselves in retirement and during times of unemployment? Is it better to keep your money to supply your own individual needs— or is it better to give it to politicians so that they will save it for us now, and then benevolently provide it to us later as needed? LET HISTORY ANSWER THAT QUESTION… Calvin Coolidge said in his inaugural address on March 4, 1925: “The only constitutional tax is the tax which ministers to public necessity.” The Founders of America and Calvin Coolidge clearly believed that taxes were only to be levied for publicly shared necessities—-and never for individual wants or needs. This is, in my opinion, our number one problem today. We have broken one principle after another—and we are now to the point of being 17 trillion dollars in debt because we have created one UNCONSTITUTIONAL government program after another. Most of our debt can be traced back to our nation breaking two of the greatest commandments “Thou Shalt Not Steal” and “Thou Shalt Not Covet”—-today our government inspires envy, resentment and retribution. It does not inspire frugality, respect, ambition, and individual responsibility—it is in opposition to freedom and in support of equality in servitude. Our Government does not reward success—it polarizes it. As Claude Frédéric Bastiat in The Law: “But how is this legal plunder to be identified? Quite simply. See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them, and gives it to other persons to whom it does not belong. See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime. Then abolish this law without delay, for it is not only an evil itself, but also it is a fertile source for further evils because it invites reprisals. If such a law — which may be an isolated case —is not abolished immediately, it will spread, multiply, and develop into a system.” It is time we heeded Mr. Bastiat’s advice—our system has cancer and it is spreading….taxing and spending are the cause of our problems—continuing to tax and spend will only sustain and spread the cancer consuming our liberty…..
Posted on: Wed, 16 Oct 2013 19:18:05 +0000
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