We are not living the American Dream.
We are in financial nightmare.
The US government funds its existence with credit cards.
Governments, including the current administration, are spending what they have on programs they can’t afford, and it’s “we the taxpayers” who are being forced to pay for their insane finances.
According to the Federal Budget Committee for Responsibility figures, the government borrow about $6 billion a day.
as an editorial board member of washington post caveat:
“This country is reaching a perilous time when debt as a percentage of the overall economy is at its highest level since World War II. We will end up in an unknown scenario that jeopardizes our ability to invest in the future, unduly burdens future generations, and requires cuts to critical programs such as Social Security and Medicare. It’s not the future everyone wants.“
Shall we talk numbers?
of government bond (the amount the federal government has borrowed over the years and has to pay back) is $31 trillion and grow again $19 trillion by 2033roughly translated as $246,000 per taxpayer again $94,000 per person in the country.
Most of its debt accumulated over the last 20 yearslargely thanks to the financial shrewdness of four presidents, ten congresses, and two wars.
The amount that the country currently owes is 130% greater than Gross Domestic Product (All products and services produced in one year by labor and property supplied by citizens).
In other words, the government spends more than it earns.
The United States ranks as follows 12th most indebted country The world owes much of its debt to the Federal Reserve, large investment funds, and foreign governments. in short, Japan and China.
Interest payments on government bonds are estimated to exceed $395 billion this year, far more than the government spends on veterans’ benefits and services. According to the Pew Research Centerprimary and secondary education, disaster relief, agriculture, science and space programs, foreign aid, natural resources and environmental protection Combined.
according to Rational Federal Budget Boardthe interest we paid on this borrowed money was “nearly twice what the federal government spends on transportation infrastructure, more than four times what it spends on K-12 education, and almost four times what it spends on housing. That’s more than eight times the amount we spend on science, space and technology.”
In 10 years, those interest payments will be exceed the entire military budget.
This is a financial tyrant.
We pay off our gift certificates by politicians who promise to pay off our national debt, revitalize our economy, rebuild our infrastructure, protect our borders, keep us safe, and keep us all healthy, wealthy and happy. It has been sold.
None of that has happened, but while governments remain unrepentant, unfazed, and undeterred from wasteful spending, we still have debts we didn’t create.
Indeed, the country’s budget deficit (the difference between what the government spends and what it receives) is still $1.5 trillion.
If Americans managed their personal finances the way their government mismanaged their national finances, we would now be in debtor’s prison.
Despite government propaganda being promoted by politicians and the media, the government is not spending. our tax to make our live better.
We are blindly deprived so that the government elite can get richer.
In the eyes of the government, “we the people, the voters, the consumers, the taxpayers” are but pocketbooks waiting to be elected.
“We the People” have become America’s new permanent underclass.
Consider: The government can seize your (purchased and paid for) house and car for non-payment of taxes. Government agencies can freeze and seize bank accounts and other valuables if they simply “suspect” wrongdoing. Also, the IRS insists on getting the first cut in your salary to pay for government programs that you don’t have a say in.
We can’t really have a say in how the government operates or how taxpayer money is used, but we are forced to pay through our noses anyway.
We don’t have a real say, but it’s governments escaping us at every turn, endless wars to fund the military-industrial complex rather than protect us, poke that produces little to no The Barrel Project, and a police state that only works to imprison us within its walls.
You are not free when you have no choice, no voice, no real choice when it comes to government claims on your property and your money.
Of course, it wasn’t always like this.
Early Americans noted that the philosopher John Locke said, ” Natural rights to life, liberty and property.
However, it didn’t take long before the American government began levying taxes and claiming citizens’ property to pay for the Civil War. In fact it took him 100 years.As new york times ” reports.Due to widespread resistance, it was scrapped in 1872.“
The government decided to claim some of the citizens’ wealth for their own use and reintroduced an income tax in 1894. Charles his Pollock challenged the tax to be unconstitutional, and the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in his favor. Pollock’s victory was relatively short-lived. Members of Congress banded together in their determination to tax the income of Americans and worked together to adopt a constitutional amendment that overturned Pollock’s decision.
On the eve of World War I, 1913, Congress enacted a permanent income tax Via 16th Amendments to the Constitution and the Revenue Act of 1913. Under the Revenue Code, an individual with income over $3,000 may be taxed from 1% to 7% on income over $500,000.
Everything went downhill from there.
Not surprisingly, the government uses its taxing powers to advance its own imperialist agenda, and courts have repeatedly upheld the government’s authority to punish Or imprison those who refuse to pay taxes.
We are struggling and making tough decisions about how to spend the little money that actually goes into our pockets after federal, state and local governments have taken their share ( This does not include stealth taxes imposed through tolls). fines and other financial penalties), the government collects taxes, piles up debt, spends ridiculously irresponsibly, and continues to do what it pleases with little regard for the plight of its citizens.
On top of that, every war that the United States aspires to fight abroad is being waged with borrowed money.As Atlantic According to the report, “U.S. leaders are essentially finance the war with debt, in the form of purchases of US Treasuries by US-based institutions such as pension funds, state and local governments, and countries like China and Japan. “
Of course, it is we who have to pay back that borrowed debt.
for example, American taxpayers have been forced to pay more than $5.6 trillion since 9/11. For the so-called “war on terrorism”, costly and endless for the military-industrial complex. This is the cost per taxpayer to wage wars abroad, to occupy foreign countries, to provide financial aid to foreign allies, to fill the pockets of defense contractors and to oil the hands of corrupt foreign dignitaries. Equivalent to approximately $23,000.
Keep in mind, that’s a fraction of what the Pentagon spends on America’s military empire.
United States too spend more on foreign aid About $300 billion was spent over five years.is more than 150 countries worldwide receive U.S. taxpayer funding, most of the funds go to the Middle East, Africa and Asia.or price tag keeps growingthat too.
As forbes ” reports.US foreign aid outpaces federal funds spent by 48 of the 50 state governments each year. Only the state governments of California and New York spent more federal money than the United States sends abroad each year. “
Most recently, the United States Allocated approximately $115 billion for emergency military and humanitarian aid to Ukraine since the invasion of Russia.
as Dwight D. Eisenhower warned In a 1953 speech, he said that in this way the military-industrial complex grew richer and the American taxpayer did little to improve our lives, to ensure our happiness and well-being, and to ensure our freedom. are forced to pay for programs that do not.
This is not a way of life.
But it’s not just the endless wars of governments that are drying us up.
We also want money for surveillance systems to track our movements, money to further militarize the already militarized police force, money to allow the government to raid our homes and bank accounts. money to make it possible, money to fund schools where children learn nothing. All about freedom and how to comply, and more.
There was a time in our history when our ancestors said “enough is enough” and stopped paying taxes to governments they considered illegitimate. They stood their ground, slowly shutting out attempts at self-government and refusing to support a system that refused to hold them accountable for crimes against their people. I sowed
Unfortunately, in the more than 200 years since we had our own government, we’ve had bankers, traitors, and number-manipulating bureaucrats pollute the waters, steal our accounts, and get back to where we came from. rice field.
Again, we’ve got a tyranny that the rulers of the empire do as they please.
Again, the judicial system claims that people have no right under a government that requires them to march in step with its orders.
And once again, you must decide whether to keep marching or stop and march towards freedom.
But what if we pull out our wallets and don’t comply with the federal government’s exorbitant demands?
What if you didn’t dutifully line up to drop your hard-earned dollars into the collecting bucket, but weren’t questioned about how it was spent?
What if, instead of silently sending tax checks in the vain hope of a small profit, you could do a little math yourself and start deducting from your taxes the programs you refuse to support?
as I make clear in my book Battlefield America: War on the American People and with its imaginary counterpart Diary of Eric Blairif we don’t have the right to decide what to do with our hard-earned cash, we have no right at all.
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