Taxation: the real crux of the Federal problem

Sorry to have taken so long before publishing another episode, but I have knee-deep in my most disliked activity: tax preparation. Now before you go thinking that I am against the Federal government levying and collecting taxes, I am not. I am, however, against the manner in which the Feds both stipulate and control the application of their own revenue streams. To really control an entity the size of the US Government, the control of the purse strings must be turned back to the people directly.

I mentioned a way in which this could be accomplished, but we now have to examine why the legislatures do not want any reduction in their control over the both the creation and distribution of tax streams. It is a simple matter of power and control. He who controls the flow of funds, controls the operation of the entity to which the funds are applied. This is so true with respect to the operation of the US Government. Our founding fathers were so afraid of a centralized government with the ability to tax without representation that they expressly limited the Federal government to 3 basic areas of responsibility (see the US Constitution) and then expressly reiterated this limitation in the 10th Admentment to the Constitution giving all operations and responsibilities not expressly delineated in the Constitution back to the States.

Since that time, the Federalist State has slowly, but surely eroded that concept through the growth of the Federal Bureaucracy where rule making has replaced representative government. The people no long have direct control over their government since most of the day-to-day operation is now in the hands of the Federal political class. This must be the first step in regaining control over and fixing the US Government.

I simply mean that we, the people, must put the US Government on a budget and demand via our votes that they stick to that budget. This also implies that you, the wage earner, has a better understanding of how to spend your money than the Federal Government. By denying the Feds an unlimited source of income via their ability to tax the public and then determine where the funds are to be spent, the US Government has become both its own source and use of public monies. This is a very dangerous set of circumstances. The US citizenry, regardless of political persuasion or ideology, must demand that the US Government live within its means, and that means must be set by the public directly since the Congress can no longer be trusted to limits its spending.

The one sure way to implement this control is to allow each citizen to determine the use of their tax dollars as outlined in my first blog entry (see "OK let's begin..." ). Without direct control the monies and how they are to be spent, the US Government and its "out of control" Congress will continue to over spend and then over tax its population. We the people must be able to demand of the US Government that they spend only what we allow them and only on those areas of public interest. Using the method outlined above in my first post, the citizens can take back the control of their government and have it do what they want it to do regardless of their political leanings.

Listen, the US Government now demands over $3 TRILLION dollars each year! That's 3 million million dollars! It's totally an unbelievable amount of money and with that money truly comes control. Control over your lives, your education, your medical decisions, etc. For that amount of money each year, every citizen should be able to be fed, clothed, and housed, it would seem, but still the US Government spends more than it takes in. We have LOST control and through the taxation process is the only way to regain that control. There is enough money and sense left in America where people of differing beliefs can come together to ensure that the most pressing needs are addressed while not funding those activities against we have issues. The only way to do that is to allow each citizen to ear-mark their taxes for those programs to which they have a firm belief. Its about time that the citizens get to have their own ear-marks, and not just the free-spending politicians. Put the politicos on a monetary diet, and the rest of the problems will begin to heal themselves. Continue the current lack of control, and the US Government will spin out of control even more than it already has done.

Nothing will happen in fixing America until its citizenry take back the control of their own government. It has ceased being a government: "of the people, by the people and for the people" and is now firmly in the control of the political ruling class.

Get angry, America, and take back control of your lives.