Chattel slavery in this country was abolished in 1865 by the Thirteenth Amendment but tax slavery was instituted in 1913 by the Sixteenth Amendment, which gave the federal government limitless power to tax incomes. That is the chief reason most of us now work nearly half the year just to pay taxes. It s tacitly assumed that a government has the right to tax as much as it chooses. Only pragmatic discretion limits government rapacity. The taxpayer s sole defense is an exceedingly feeble one the vote and that is offset by the fact that people who live off the taxpayer can vote too.
Limitless taxation is the natural consequence of limitless government.
Spouses can be dumped, children can be aborted, parents can be abandoned, but you can t divorce the state. It owns you. It may not take everything you have even slaves have to be fed but there is no defining line beyond which it recognizes taxation as robbery. Knowing nothing of mine and thine, it s an enormous parasite. Once it can take anything, it can take everything .