Why Liberals See Taxes as a Holy Sacrament & How This Destroys America
Marxism Equals Total Govt Ownership --An Inevitable Result of Perpetual Deficit Spending
Is tax revenue really the entire strength of a nation? In the Genesis story of Joseph in Egypt, to save themselves during 7 years of famine, Egyptians sold themselves into Pharaoh's slavery in exchange for food, till all they owned was themselves. Likewise, today Obama proposes Americans avoid a contrived economic apocalypse by embracing his call for perpetual deficit spending and permanently skyrocketed tax rates. Like ancient Egypt, if Americans follow this vision, we will all end up slaves. Yet, we won't be saved since the logical outcome is government will again own everything as we morph into default communism.Perpetual deficits can only lead to fiscal insolvency. Yet, liberals claim towering public debt is efficacious, a sacred talisman, magically creating prosperity and peace. But, if better societies resulted simply from massive government wealth confiscation, paradise would have flourished in Russia, instead of the smoldering hell on earth the Marxists created. Bizarrely, leftist politicians warn we cannot stop spending tidal waves of borrowed money or unacceptable injustices will occur. The misuse of tax policy to create certain economic death for America meant to push us into socialism is the topic of this essay.
I. USA's Colossal Deficit Spending Will Result in Tax Slavery
If an idea merely attracts eminent supporters, even the most outlandish notions become respectable. Deficit spending, or "Keynesian Economics" is such a theory, standing for the idea that during economic slowdowns there must be government deficit spending to replace lost investors or the markets will suffer irreparable harm. In fact, many experts argue that such government interventionism helped expand the Great Depression from a relatively mild dip into the largest economic disaster America had ever seen. With decades of unprecedented US deficits forecast, a worst case scenario has the Government claiming assumption of all debts and property so economic implosion does not occur. But are these alarming events orchestrated to insure a meltdown to give politicians the opportunity to seize the economy and institute an emergency socialist state?II. Why High Taxes Produce Poverty
A. Liberalism & High Tax Regimes
Why do worshipers of liberalism perpetually demand higher taxes? Since leftists tend to dismiss religion, one can interpret the call for high taxes a secular act of sacrifice for the deified state. After all, just because someone is an atheist, it does not mean they have lost all religious instincts.B. Effects of High Taxation
What results when taxes skyrocket? It's a Marxist trope that wealth is always stolen from the poor, so increasing taxation can only punish thieves. But further, when one examines the underlying core beliefs of Marxists, government is the only rightful owner of property since all things must be held in common for justice. So to increase tax revenue merely moves society's capital from the hands of wrongdoers to bureaucrats who can then return it to the poor, from whom it was unjustly taken. Despite liberal claims, there is no correlation between increasing tax rates and improved quality of life. Contra, after basic needs are accounted for, each penny in increased tax revenues actually decreases quality of life. Because income is property, and the more people are deprived of their property the less options they have to express their free choices in pursuit of life and liberty. And consider this --once the government has confiscated all income, there can be no liberty. Ultimately, what right does government have to take more taxes than is absolutely necessary? To accept that is to make government the god of men.C. Leftist High Tax Goals
First, higher taxes are justified either through an appeal to the "rights" of the poor, underclass, etc. Also, government needs to drastically increase services to establish a "just" reign. And third, because of an "emergency," more revenue can always be claimed. Obama has invoked all three in his rampant spending mission. Taxes are typically increased by liberals for wealth redistribution, or in the name of "Social Justice." But what is Social Justice? According to Friederich A. Hayak, in his Law, Legislation and Liberty, II, The Mirage of Social Justice, the concept is a muddled conflation of the idea of property equality and justice. Hayak quotes John Stuart Mill, Utilitarian philosopher who high-mindedly and destructively helped create the enduring socialist myth. He writes,Society should treat all equally well who have deserved equally well of it; that is, who have deserved equally well absolutely. This is the highest abstract standard of social and distributive justice; towards which all institutions, and the efforts of all virtuous citizens should be made in the utmost degree to converge.Such a broad and ill-defined definition of justice was bound to create disaster if seriously applied to society. In addition, the goal is not to preserve or increase wealth so that all members of society might gain via Reagan's "rising tide which raises all boats." Instead, this is a species of the progressive religion which "means well" and yet achieves the opposite outcome, or according to Hayak, is "the immoral consequences of morally inspired efforts."
D. Why High Tax Results in Poverty
The real reason expanding taxes creates growing poverty, after a certain threshold, is that government takes revenue away from the producers and hands it over to those whose efforts, by definition, only disperse wealth. For example, when we wildly increase welfare, taxed income formerly used to maintain and expand businesses are frittered away upon well-meaning but dilatory activities. Meanwhile, the economy shrinks as increasingly less resources are available to pay and support workers. Further, Thomas Sowell, in Applied Economics, Thinking Beyond Stage One, describes how high tax regimes drive out businesses over time, leaving less companies to pay higher taxes, while fewer workers vie for an increasingly scarcer pool of welfare revenue. It's a vicious cycle.III. The Murderous Demand for "Ethical Socialism"
A. Defining Socialism
What is socialism? Generally, the idea government owns all rights to production and delivery of all material goods and services. What this presumes is government has an inherent right to confiscate all privately created business and products. Yet, when this has occurred as in China or the USSR, massive sprees of government murder followed. But, setting aside this inconvenient fact, is it really true only group ownership of goods can bring justice? In other words, is socialism truly an ethical approach to property? Or was Jefferson correct in the Declaration:We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness (Locke calls this "Property").
B. Moral Tax Policy
What is the intent of moral tax policy? Adam Smith's views, from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nation, are summed up:Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism, but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice; all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things. All governments which thwart this natural course, which force things into another channel or which endeavour to arrest the progress of society at a particular point, are unnatural, and to support themselves are obliged to be oppressive and tyrannical.