Your Money or Your Life: What’s Behind the Latest Government Scam to Rob You Blind?
Tue, 2016-09-13 22:04
News Staff
By John W. Whitehead
“The fact is that the government, like a highwayman, says to a man: Your money, or your life. And many, if not most, taxes are paid under the compulsion of that threat.”—Lysander Spooner, American abolitionist and legal theorist
It used to be that the Constitution served as a bulwark against government abuses, excesses and wrongdoing. That is no longer the case. Having been reduced to little more than a historic document, the Constitution now provides scant protection against government abuses, misconduct and corruption. Not only are “we the people” painfully vulnerable to the whims of any militarized cop on the beat, but we are also sitting targets for every government huckster out to fleece the taxpayer of their hardearned dollars.