ISONOMIA

A – TTACKS
     Death or Taxation?
Life is limited by Death.  Death by forceful Attack is
limited by taxing personal exertion to defend one’s life.
     Civil relations are the basis of Civilization:
Peaceful Co-operation,  Specialized Abilities,  and Trade.
Valid Government is a Social institution that is a means to
limit death inflicted by human attackers.  Taxation is the
price paid (to government) as a means to achieve this end.
How can we limit Death by Taxation?       States’ Rights?
Freedom  allows productive individuals to enjoy happiness!

St. Mamas   was the Patron Saint of Taxpayers.
MAMAS Kitchen Restaurant,  5885 Seminole Blvd,
provides Manna from Mamas!        “Keep working,
but don’t kill yourself.  Find what makes you happy
and do that.  For me, it’s easy.”
Mamas Antoniou was always busy refilling water
glasses,  serving up hot plates:  Creating Values:
Two other restaurants are located in Tampa,  Florida:
5524 S Dale Mabry Hwy,  and  9312 N Florida Ave.
Perhaps another restaurant will open in Tarpon Springs,
named the:  Mamas & Pappas !

Tennesseeans for Fair Taxation
endorse an Income Tax  and condemn  Sales Tax   as UN-FAIR.    Examine how this vision of  Tax Fairness is achieved and pronounce your verdict:
Instead of living as self-sufficient hermits - social interaction improves our quality of life.  A worker grows potatoes,  digs them out of the dirt,  and takes them to market to trade for apples,  shoes,  eggs,  and Mrs. Golem’s Pork Sausage.  Everyone gains by specializing in their best skills.  We co-operate with others and trade the goods we make.  This is not Mother Teresa who sacrifices for other people.                   FAT TAX
This person works to avoid starving!  Bringing the potatoes to market does not create a nuisance such as feeding ducks and pigeons in public parks.  Buyers are ecstatic about the convenience of trading their work for food,  without having to leave the city.  But the worker is penalized by an Income Tax  for delivering his goods to eager buyers.  Division of labor  is applied to the task of self defense.   Peace-keeping is similar to the work of Shepherds  who guard the sheep from attack by predators.  Police Officers arrest robbers,  murderers and vicious attackers.  Soldiers defend citizens from foreign invaders.  Physical conflict is avoided by resolving disputes in the courts.

    Law enforcement protects voluntary relations.
    Government protection is necessary because not everyone is pleasant and virtuous.  Protection money is collected by enforced taxation to pay for Government enforcement against criminals.
Government is the Social Institution which exercises a legal monopoly to use physical force.  Each Individual has the Right to self defense.  This Right is delegated to Government by consent of individuals.  No one has the Right to force others to work and support the needy,  or force others to feed and clothe and educate children of neighbors.  Charities ask for gifts to feed the hungry and fund scholarships.  Charity is Voluntary.   A Criminal  violates without consent:  by force!
Banks provide the vault,  and armed security guards  who protect the money of depositors.  This is not a gift  to the community.  Fees  are collected  to pay these costs.  Buyers pay for benefits received  because it is robbery  to seize goods  (values)  without compensation.  Workers pay the cost of Government  (maintaining the peace),  when they claim their earnings  by purchasing goods:  Sales Tax is collected  on the goods bought.

     The Income Tax -  which is promoted as a  Fair Tax,  is levied on the worker who produces the goods.  If the worker is self sufficient and produces all he consumes,  there is no Income or Sales Tax.
       The Torreador,  of Pamplona Spain,  is eager to be paid for his dangerous work,  but he screams:  “ Price Gouging ! ”  when he buys gasoline.  Buyers are eager to get the goods made by the worker,  but dislike rewarding him for his work.  They do not resort to robbery:  they vote to enforce Income Taxation.

Income Tax discourages the work to satisfy willing buyers.   Income Tax penalizes productive activity,  similar to speeding tickets and fines.  Robbery is transformed into tax collection by the democratic process.  Voluntary donations to charity are replaced by government enforced Taxes.
The Goods that a worker did not buy with his earnings are a loan to others.  A worker builds a house  and “loans it”  until the borrower repays the mortgage.  A worker harvests food and  preserves it for later use by trading it for money.  Years later,  he retires and claims the house he built,  and food he earned -  unless Income Tax  robs him of his earnings today.
Taxation is justified  to pay for  police protection from forced violation.  Why rob the Provider of goods,  instead of collecting this cost from voluntary buyers?  Income Tax of 100% is slavery.
     Is 90% Tax different?

     Saving is the first step toward more plentiful life.
The  “Haves”  produced,  traded,  and saved  their earnings.  Their wealth  was not robbed from the  “Have Nots”.  Thieves understand that  “who gets to use” a thing,  is more important than “who owns it.”  Savings are applied to increase abundance of goods –  which lowers costs and makes things more easily available to “Have Nots”.  Houses are lived in today by those who earn them later.  Home mortgages are a voluntary,  peaceful way to reverse the order of producing and using.  Robbery depends on production,  but payment  is not part of that scheme!  Yet  Income Tax  penalizes savings,  as robbery violates those who produce goods.  Citizens demand government charity  when afflicted by old age or illness.  Peaceful cooperators are replaced by destitute wards of the State,  who are parasites on producers.  The Farmer does not feed his cows to make them happy.  Neither does a benevolent Government -  which practices cannibalism to fund “services”  that voters desire.  Taxing Income redistributes Poverty,  not Wealth.  If it is better to give than to receive,  why penalize providers by Income Taxation,  and reward receivers by gifts?  Never ask a beggar if he deserves to clip you!  From Each According To Income,  To Each According To Need -  is Brutal!

     “ When the communist manifesto was published in 1848,  the second bullet point was a progressive tax system.  The progressive tax system and the philosophy behind it,  on the surface,  seems to be the basis for the U.S. tax code today.”  “ The only real check on the federal government  raising income taxes on working Americans  is the one the U.S. government realized during the Kennedy Era;  slaves are not generally very productive workers.”
     “ Before 1963, the top marginal tax rate in the United States was 91%.  If the government taxes its populace at a 0%  tax rate,  it does not raise any money,  but if it taxes its workers at a 100%  tax rate,  it does not raise much money either -  why work when you get no rewards for it.”      “ The theory of supply side economics and the Laffer curve  drove federal marginal tax rates from 91%  in 1963 down to 28%  when Ronald Reagan  left office.  Since more people were willing to stay in the work force,  the federal government’s tax revenues drastically increased due to these tax cuts.”  “ Another solution, which I strongly favor,  is lower taxes for everyone,  especially the middle class.  After all,  the US currently has an higher individual tax rate than most every former communist society,  including Russia and Vietnam.  Surely we can do better.”  Kirby R. Cundiff, Ph.D.  [ cundiff@nsuok.edu ]  is an Associate Professor of Finance at Northeastern State University  in Tulsa,  OK.


Governor Don Sundquist  gratified more volunteers
than “Parson”  William G. Brownlow when he left office.
Parson Brownlow was considered one of the state's
most hated governors during reconstruction.
Governor Sundquist defied campaign promises and
pushed a  Tennessee State Income Tax,  to earn
similar vehement opprobrium.

First Income Tax                       Morrill Tariff
Secession of New York City     Constitution C.S.A.

The A-TTACKS article was written then,
and offered to the  Tax Reform Panel  in Tampa,
chaired by Connie Mack,  Tue 8 March 05,
held at SAGO Networks,  W. Gandy Blvd.

What Is Government?
What it is -   Determines what it should do.  Should government be a servant of the people?  Then tax policy should be impartial,  and paid by citizens to the extent they  “consume”  this service -  which defends peaceful social relations.  Rep. Larry Miller,  D-Memphis,  defies imagination with this Heraclitian nightmare:  Tennessean.com     ( Tax on Lively Entertainment ).

     Should government Plan,
     and  Reconstruct citizens?
Authors and administrators of tax policy  would have a mandate described by Plato  in his   REPUBLIC  to transform a country into The New Jerusalem,  by vigorous escheatment and subsidies.  The Whiskey Rebellion in  Western Pennsylvania of 1794  was caused by the  “Intelligent Design”  of  “Alexander Hamilton,  a snotty aristocrat from New York City”.  Hamilton  “pushed through an excise tax on their whiskey,  America’s very first ‘sin tax.’  He called it a ‘pernicious luxury’ ”  and the  “newly formed United States slapped a  28 percent tax”  on the product of rural farmers.  This began the split of  Southern and Western agricultural states,  which were opposed to  political-tax exploitation,  by Northern States.  “George Washington led  thirteen thousand troops into Western Pennsylvania  to put down a cadre of outlaws  who refused to pay their taxes.”  ( Tax Revolt  by Phil Valentine,  Pages 100 - 102.)
This was not a learning experience.  The Volstead Act demonstrated that.  Political interests of Northern manufacturing states legislated Import tariffs on manufactured goods to collect revenue from imports to Southern states.  These were the first  “Fair Trade” Laws:  to capture the Southern market  of  Charleston Harbor.  General Sherman’s brother -  John Sherman burned another swath through Southern competitiveness with his Interstate Commerce act of 1887.  The ICC regulated and enforced Railroad freight rates  which were lower on manufactured goods shipped South,  compared to higher rates for the same category of goods shipped North  (from Southern textile mills for example).  The  Corn Laws  in Britain served the purposes of agricultural interests  by taxing imported grains to pay government expenses and protect the higher prices of domestic grain produce.  Richard Cobden worked to abolish the burdensome Corn Laws,  and helped eliminate the discontent and starvation which erupted across The Channel into the French Revolution.  Similar high taxation weakened Rome.  Price controls on food caused food shortages in cities.  Government enforced restrictions on market activity  destroyed the structure of maintaining defense against barbarian attacks.  Attilla pillaged Rome.      “Expenditure rises to meet income.”  Wrote C. Northcote Parkinson in his book:  The Law and the Profits.  We were taught:  “Human wants are unlimited” in economics class.  Yet the advocates of pubic indoctrination want to teach every child  a lesson in wishful thinking by increasing funding for schools.  This quote  reveals the reward of freedom  from this burden,  for those who came to this American Continent:
William Cobbett,  in 1829,  advised all tradesmen,  farmers and even gentlemen to emigrate to America,  as their sole means to escape from ruin.  The taxes,  he pointed out,  together with poor rates,  county and  parish rates,  came to  ‘ twice as much as the rent of all real property in the kingdom.’   He emphasized that  “What a man pays in taxes  is just as much of a loss to him  and of a loss forever,  exactly as much so  as if it were tossed into the sea.”   He brought his argument to its climax  in a passage which deserves quotation in full.

“. . . If we ride in a chaise,  or a coach,  or on a horse:
  if we keep a dog;  if we have a window to see through,
  a servant to assist us,  a large part of the cost is tax.
  We can have no title to property,  no right of occupation;
  we can neither lend nor borrow,  nor pay nor receive money;
  nor can we ask for law or justice without paying a tax;  and
  when the breath is out of our bodies,  the government demands
  a strict account of our bequests,  and takes from our children
  or others,  a large part of what we leave behind . . .”
Escape Winter:  Warm Topical Asylum?
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Your Sweet Valentine pays Dear -
because of  Sugar Daddy

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