When you have an income tax, the government is everyone's pimp.
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When you have an income tax, the government is everyone's pimp. The government can extract anything from its taxpayers with little recourse.
When the US started the income tax it was 1% on incomes over $250,000 (adjusted) We now tax everyone 20-30% of anyone making over $600. Furthermore, your "fair share" is determined on how productive in enterprising you are. The more you stimulate the economy, the more you're penalized for it.
Indeed. The federal government is the most repressive religion of our time. Even Christianity (and even taking only its evangelical branch, throwing aside its more ... cerebral factions), which atheists and humanists detest as being militant and oppressive regarding "lifestyle", only "requires" this: that you give 10% of your earnings to God.
Compare that to the federal government which requires that nearly everyone who has any income to speak of pay at least 20% of what you earn (I'm a graduate student (i.e. I earn just enough for myself, I couldn't possibly support a family on my sole income), and I pay that rate, maybe a little closer to 15%, but definitely above 10%). God, despite all the blasphemous things that have been said about him, is far more permissive and lenient than the so-called "freest government in human history".
Liberalism, which aims to increase the role of this government and its "fair share" out of our earnings, is in fact the most oppressive philosophy/religion ever conceived. Sure, no one's been burned at a stake for speaking against their gospel, but millions have been and billions will be pecked to their deaths unless we stop it in our time.
P.S. Also, consider what happens when you don't pay income tax (IRS puts you in jail), and consider what happens when you don't pay tithe (your pastor will still be happy to just have you come to church). It's quite clear who is a greater oppressor.