John Boehner is supporting the Ex-PATRIOT Act from Sen. Schumer and Sen. Casey. The United States has been classified as a police state, a tyrannical government, a fascist government and a dictatorship. It is difficult to classify our nation as a free Republic as intended by our founding fathers when people and corporations are fleeing to escape excessive taxation. We fought a Revolution based on the restoration of our God given Liberty. No taxation without representation meant the British government was not paying the colonists for the fruits of their labor by not allowing their interests to be represented in Parliament. They considered the theft of their labor to be slavery. Put this simple concept into the context of the Ex-PATRIOT Act below.
Our government is not representing the people. Does this mean that our only recourse is Revolution? Our founding fathers warned us of the consequences of vain and aspiring men. They also told us what our duty must be if we are to be free.
“Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms (of government) those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny”
“A society that will trade a little liberty for a little order will lose both, and deserve neither”
“Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.”
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.
Thomas Jefferson
Your Description of the Distresses of the worthy Inhabitants of Boston, and the other Sea Port Towns, is enough to melt an Heart of Stone. Our Consolation must be this, my dear, that Cities may be rebuilt, and a People reduced to Poverty, may acquire fresh Property: But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty once lost is lost forever. When the People once surrender their share in the Legislature, and their Right of defending the Limitations upon the Government, and of resisting every Encroachment upon them, they can never regain it…
John Adams
“Anyone who trades liberty for security deserves neither liberty nor security”
Benjamin Franklin
“If ever a time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin.”
Samuel Adams
Most people dismiss the words above; we will soon realize that apathy is a cruel master. Both political parties are complicit in our nation’s current state of moral and economic collapse as shown below. The only question left unanswered is how long our period of bondage will be.
David DeGerolamo
US CITIZENS NOW ONE STEP CLOSER TO BECOMING PERMANENT TAX SLAVES
This week, the universally stupid brainchild of US Senators Chuck Schumer and Bob Casey known as the Ex-PATRIOT Act inched a bit closer towards becoming law.
‘Ex-PATRIOT’ is an absurd acronym that stands for “Expatriation Prevention by Abolishing Tax-Related Incentives for Offshore Tenancy”. I call it the Tax Slave Act… and it proposes three key provisions:
1) Individuals who are deemed, in the sole discretion of the US government, to have renounced US citizenship in order to avoid US taxes, will be permanently barred from re-entering the United States.
2) Such individuals will also be required to pay a 30% capital gains tax to the United States government on ALL future investment gains derived from the US. Currently, non-citizens who do not reside in the US pay no US capital gains tax.
3) These proposals are RETROACTIVE, and, if passed, would apply to anyone who renounced his/her citizenship within the last 10-years.
During a Sunday interview with ABC News, House Speaker John Boehner threw his support behind the bill… certainly a big step towards its eventual passage.
Let’s pause briefly for a little history lesson–
