An excerpt from the Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking up Arms:
Parliament adopted an insidious maneuver calculated to divide us, to establish a perpetual auction of taxations where colony should bid against colony, all of them uninformed what ransom would redeem their lives; and thus to extort from us, at the point of the bayonet, the unknown sums that should be sufficient to gratify, if possible to gratify, ministerial rapacity, with the miserable indulgence left to us of raising, in our own mode, the prescribed tribute. What terms more rigid and humiliating could have been dictated by remorseless victors to conquered enemies? in our circumstances to accept them, would be to deserve them.
Thomas Jefferson and John Dickinson
Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking up Arms
July 6, 1775
Rewritten today as healthcare “taxation”:
All branches of the federal government adopted an insidious maneuver calculated to divide us, to establish a perpetual auction of taxations where people should be forced to provide for entitlements, all of the workers uninformed what ransom would redeem their lives; and thus to extort from us, at the point of the IRS agents’ shotguns, the unknown sums that should be sufficient to gratify, if possible to gratify, ministerial rapacity, with the miserable indulgence left to us of raising, in our own mode, the prescribed tribute. What terms more rigid and humiliating could have been dictated by remorseless victors to conquered enemies? In our circumstances to accept them, would be to deserve them.
Are impending restrictions on the 2nd amendment a means for the government to exact tribute of unknown sums (your fair share) with limited “resistance” for healthcare taxes, payroll taxes, death taxes, social security taxes and capital gains taxes? At what point will people recognized the same conditions as outlined below in 1775 by Thomas Jefferson and John Dickinson?








