Wisdoms from the Journey - Vol IV (Nov 2011 thru Apr 2012)

Joy in taxes …
(04/15/2012)
“None are more hopelessly enslaved
than those who falsely believe they are free.” ~ W. Goethe
HAPPY TAX DAY everybody! … OK, I know this is not the happiest of
days for most of you Americans. In all likelihood, you are either groaning about
the money you were “forced to pay” or you are fretting about being late with that
payment. I used to pay taxes in the United States and now I pay lots of taxes here
in Germany — so I get it. Of course, this post is not really about paying taxes. It’s
actually about your Freedom … I have a motto in life that has served me well over
the years: Choose to want to do it, or don’t do it at all. Indeed, if you are moping
or whining about doing anything in your life, you are not really benefiting yourself
or anyone else by doing it.
How does this Truth relate to paying taxes? Quite simply: either pay them
Joy-fully -- or don’t pay them at all … period!
Now I realize that this advice seems pretty tricky for most Americans,
especially once the following facts become evident:
Fact #1: The IRS can indeed throw a U.S. citizen in jail for not paying their
income taxes. That this act is unconstitutional & thereby completely illegal is
irrelevant; they truly can do this.
Fact #2: Not one penny of your income tax dollars goes to pay for any of
the services you think they are paying for. That’s right, your income tax dollars
— all of them — actually help pay for the ill-advised spending policies of our past
& current “leaders” (i.e. the interest on the federal debt). Oh yeah, a significant part
of them also help fund the “just wars” that the American military is currently
fighting (as well as all those “just wars” that we are currently planning to fight in the
near future).
“If the American people ever allow the banks to control the issuance of their currency …
the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property,
until their children wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered. The issuing power
of money should be taken from banks and restored to the people to whom it belongs. I sincerely
believe the banking institutions having the issuing power of money, are more dangerous to liberty
than standing armies.” ~ Thomas Jefferson
Of course, if you support paying the Federal Reserve trillions of your hardearned
dollars, and if you support the current U.S. military operations that are
actually creating hundreds if not thousands of new “terrorists” every day, then feel
free continue to pay those taxes. Rest assured that I will think just as highly of
you whether you do so or not.
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