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The number one problem that is causing the increasingly rapid destruction of our country is the corruption of our leaders in Washington. The corruption stems from the tremendous amount of power they have accumulated and the manner in which they work together to wield that power to keep themselves in office. This is not to say that everyone in government leadership is corrupt. However, there is such a prevalence of corruption that the honest legislators, judges and executives can do little to counteract the corrupting influences. It is a well known adage that “power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely”. In our society the major corrupting influence is money which is the source of power.

Power in our society comes from having a lot of money. If power corrupts and power comes from money then it follows that there is much more opportunity to be powerfully corrupt when one has a lot of money

The government has a lot of money. They get it from the citizens and they get more from the citizens than most of us realize. In fact, the government gets so much money from citizens that the base of power in this country has shifted from where the founding fathers wanted it to where they didn’t want it to be. It has moved from the citizens to the government.

Please take a few minutes to look at the list of taxes we pay as shown in the table at http://www.nowandfutures.com/taxes.html. This table shows that on average across the country citizens in 2005 paid about 54.4% of their income to various governments.

Frankly, this number should be increased by 7.65% to include the half of the Social Security and Medicaid tax that is paid by employers. A self-employed person pays this entire 15.3% themselves. That would bring the total tax percentage per average US citizen to 60%. And remember that you are taxed again on social security income once you start receiving it.

Even if we are off on the high side by 10% the government collects half of everything you earn. Chances are you never knew how high your tax rate really is because the government effectively hides from clear view all of its sources of income.

Our country was founded on the principle that the people are in charge of the government. For that to be true the people have to have more power than the government has. But over the years the amount of tax burden imposed by the government has continued to increase. Power in our society follows money. As our taxes have increased we have gradually been transferring the balance of power from the people to the government.

The first year in which there was a federal income tax was 1913 In that year the tax rate for people making $20,000 or less was 1%. The tax on people making over $500,000 was 7%. In the year 2000 the tax rate for people making $43,850 or less was 15%. The tax rate for people making over $288,350 was 39.6%.

Let’s take this apart a little bit. If I make $20,000 a year and get a 2% pay raise that means the government also gets a 2% pay raise based on my income. But the government keeps raising the tax rate on my income. This means the governments ‘pay raise’ over time is actually greater than my pay raise over time. If I can live within the pay raise that I get every year why can’t the government. Why do they need a pay raise that is greater than the pay raise that I receive? Perhaps a better question is ‘Why do I permit the government to do this?’

Let’s work the total effective tax burden calculation a different way.

The Fair Tax Organization (see www.fairtax.org ) claims that the federal Fair Tax rate is revenue neutral with current taxation methods at 23%. Please note that this is only the federal piece of the tax burden and doesn’t include all the sources of taxation show at http://www.nowandfutures.com/taxes.html . Assuming w were to move to a Fair Tax the state and local government will want to add in their own Fair Tax burdens totaling an average of 10%. Suffice to say that the total Fair Tax then would be somewhere north of 23% plus 10% for a total federal, state and local average Fair Tax rate of 33%. This brackets the professional estimate of average tax burden per citizen across the country at somewhere north of 33% and somewhere south of 60%. To be conservative let’s call the high end of the bracket 50%. That represents a huge daily transfer of personal wealth to the government. That transfer of wealth is a transfer of power. The greater the transfer of power the greater the tendency toward corruption.

On top of this 33% to 50% tax burden the government now wants to institute national government-run health care. The conservative estimates of the money each of us would pay to the government for this health care is about 6% of the average income for individuals across the country. This increases the amount of our salary we send to the government to somewhere between 39% and 56%.

Let’s go back to the opening paragraph of this article.

The number one problem that is causing the increasingly rapid destruction of our country is the corruption of our leaders in Washington. The corruption stems from the tremendous amount of power they have accumulated and the manner in which they work together to wield that power to keep themselves in office. This is not to say that everyone in government leadership is corrupt. However, there is such a prevalence of corruption that the honest legislators, judges and executives can do little to counteract the corrupting influences. It is a well known adage that “power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely”. In our society the major corrupting influence is money which is the source of power.

There are a lot of reasons to protest government-run health care. One of them is the reluctance of congress to participate in the plan themselves. That has to make anyone suspicious! This article adds a reason that PeacockWatch hasn’t heard raised to the appropriate level by any of the media except in some regard by Glenn Beck on Fox News. The reason is that our government has become corrupt because it controls so much money and has become addicted to that control. We hear about that corruption all the time. The people who are responsible for our Treasury and for tax regulation are tax evaders who are not investigated by the Congress. That is corruption! Pork is added to new congressional bills all the time and others in Congress support that pork because they know that they will need support for their own pork additions at some future point. This is wasteful and corrupt!

Our government is corrupt because it controls too much of our money. They spend this money to keep themselves in office and increase their personal power. Now they want to reallocate an average of 6% of our income from commercial enterprise to the government’s pocketbook. Is it because they want to feed their addiction?

The government is addicted to the money we work hard to earn. As they get more they want even more. The only way to stop this addiction, and the criminal activity that always accompanies addiction, is to take away the government’s financial drug. If we agree to feed the government’s addiction by paying them money for our health care then we are guilty of being enablers.

Let’s return power to where the founding father’s wanted it to be. Let’s return it to the people. The first step may be to reject government managed health care.

Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny. – Thomas Jefferson

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