THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
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Volume XI, Issue # 103, April 15, 2009
Dr. Almon Leroy Way, Jr., Editor
Government Committed to & Acting in Accord with Conservative Principles
Ensures a Nation's Strength, Progress, & Prosperity
TAX DAY
By Alan Caruba
BAD PUBLIC POLICY & AMERICA'S CURRENT FINANCIAL PROBLEMS: THE PRESENT FINANCIAL CRISIS IS BASED
ENTIRELY ON U.S. GOVERNMENT MANDATES THAT REQUIRE BANKS & MORTAGE COMPANIES TO MAKE HOME LOANS TO
PEOPLE WITH LOW INCOMES & BAD CREDIT RECORDS. U.S. GOVERNMENT SPONSORED ENTERPRISES, FANNIE MAE &
FREDDIE MAC, WERE USED TO PURCHASE THOSE BAD LOANS, "SECURITIZE" THEM, & SELL THEM TO INSURANCE, BANKING, &
INVESTMENT FIRMS -- FIRMS THAT FELL VICTIM TO A NATIONAL PUBLIC POLICY BASED ON THE LEFTWING LIBERAL
BELIEF THAT EVERY FAMILY HAS A RIGHT TO PURCHASE & LIVE IN ITS OWN HOME, EVEN IF UNABLE TO KEEP UP THE
MORTGAGE PAYMENTS. THE MOVE AWAY FROM THE FREE MARKET CAPITALIST ECONOMY & TOWARD STATISM,
SOCIALISM, ENVIRONMENTALISM, CONFISCATORY TAXATION, & ECONOMIC REDISTRIBUTION IS ABOUT TO DESTROY
AMERICA. THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION & THE DEMOCRATIC CONGRESS, BOTH DRIVEN BY LIBERAL LEFTIST
IDEOLOGY & POLITICAL OPPORTUNISM, ARE MAKING MATTERS CORSIDERABLY WORSE!
FULL STORY:
Growing up as the son of a Certified Public Accountant and, later, as the brother of a CPA, the talk around the dinner
table was frequently about taxes and the Internal Revenue Service. Being quite young at the time, the minutia of the
discussion escaped me, but I came away with a strong sense of how the IRS could wreak havoc in the lives and
enterprises of clients who had run afoul of its impenetrable regulations.
These days, with the Tax Code of the United States being so huge and being added to on a daily basis, it is impossible
for anyone to understand the Tax Code. But one need only understand that those, like the current Secretary of the
Treasury and other appointees of the Obama administration, understood the need to avoid paying the full amount of
what was due, until or unless they were caught.
Cheating on one’s taxes has achieved a perverse patriotic status, given the way the federal government redistributes
the revenue via a Congress that exists only to pass multi-billion dollar spending bills, with thousands of “earmarks”
that are intended to ensure their reelection in their districts or states.
Moreover, the federal government has completely ignored the U.S. Constitution, which forbids “bailouts” that
disburse funds from the public treasury to private enterprises.
James Dale Davidson, American investment newsletter writer, Founder of the National Taxpayers Union and co-author
of several books on the way the government both collects and disburses tax revenue --
said:
“The politicians don’t just want your money. They want
your soul. They want you to be worn down by taxes until
you are dependent and helpless. When you subsidize
poverty and failure, you get more of both.”
The present financial crisis is based entirely on government mandates that required banks and mortgage firms to make
bad home loans to people who would, in a previous era, never have qualified to receive them and then used government
sponsored enterprises, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, to purchase those bad loans.
They, in turn, “securitized” them and sold them to insurance, banking, and investment houses that fell victim to what is
arguably an insane policy based entirely on the Liberal belief that everyone has “a right” to live in their own home, even
if they could not afford it.
Americans gathered in the hundreds of thousands from coast to coast on April 15, 2009, the day taxes are due, to protest
not just the manner in which the financial crisis was brought about, but to protest the present plans of the Obama
administration to carry out the warning Davidson issued.
“Tea Parties” are named for the best known tax protest in pre-Revolutionary, colonial America against those imposed by
England, the colonists demanding “No taxation without representation.”
The harsh reality of our present times is that Americans have no representation in either Congress or the White House.
The will of the people is being trampled upon by extreme Leftwing ideologues that ginned up and then used the fatigue
and disapproval of enough Americans for the previous Bush administration to acquire power.
Forgotten amidst this is the fact that many Conservatives protested the Bush policy initiatives ranging from No Child Left
Behind to a proposed amnesty for illegal aliens, to the failure of the former President to veto any spending bill for six of
the eight years he held the office.
We have arrived at a point where citizens must organize and gather in meetings around the nation to demand to be heard.
My fear, however, is that the Liberal Leftist, Democratic Party controlled Congress and, most certainly, President Obama
have no intention to listen or respond to the will of the American people.
Driven by the belief that the federal government alone knows best, and aided by the way state autonomy -- i.e., the
constitutionally reserved powers of the states -- has been steadily eroded by federal programs that can threaten to
withhold funding vital to the states' needs, the Liberals in charge know they must impoverish Americans in order to make
them entirely dependent on the central government.
It is no accident, as commentator Paul Driessen points out, that that the current indebtedness imposed on Americans
through spending and taxation “is more accrued debt than 43 previous administrations combined, and it doesn’t include
the cost of servicing this debt or the U.S.A.'s share of the $1.1 trillion ‘global stimulus’ devised by the Group of 20, to be
administered by professional spenders at the International Monetary Fund.”
Looming in the near future is a “climate change” bill that would impose a “cap and trade” government auction of “carbon
credits” that U.S. industries and businesses would be required to purchase. Every business enterprise would have to
spend millions to acquire these credits in order to use energy to produce the goods that constitute the wealth they
generate for investors, employees, and the economy in general. The cost of these credits would be passed onto
consumers.
There is no “climate change” crisis that can or should be addressed by the U.S. government. The Earth is not warming. It
has, for a decade, been cooling. This is due, in part, from reduced solar activity in the form of cyclical reductions in
magnetic storms known as sunspots.
The alleged “global warming” has been exposed as a huge hoax perpetrated on an international basis to enrich the United
Nations, while positioning it to become a global government.
The Obama administration is engaged in a vast effort to deny the expansion and development of the energy sources
America needs as its population increases and it is doing so under the false flag of “climate change.”
No amount of “clean energy,” solar and wind, will ever substitute for oil, natural gas, and coal. Vast reserves of these
energy sources exist and it is the U.S. government that refuses to permit access to them. Socalled clean energy constitutes
barely one percent of the energy used by the nation.
The debt imposed by Obama administration initiatives is deliberate. It cannot be blamed on the previous Bush
administration.
The lies being told daily by President Obama and the collusion of Democrats controlling the Congress are the single
greatest danger facing the nation.
One can only hope that the Tea Parties held on Tax Day mark a massive push-back against a plot to impose an
unconstitutional and un-American effort to render Americans too poor, too dependent, too weary to fight back.
The future of the United States of America literally hangs in the balance.
LINKS TO RELATED TOPICS:
Fiscal Policy: Taxation & Government Spending
Political Economy -- Philosophies, Systems, & Public Policies:
Government, the Economy, & Economic Prosperity
Political Environmentalism Versus Human Progress & Prosperity:
Policy Issues Relating to Energy, Environment,
& Natural Resources
The Earth's Natural History, Global Climate Changes,
& the Future of Human Life & Civilization on the Planet:
Science, Ideology, & Public Policy
Alan Caruba is a veteran business, science and political writer, a Public Relations Counselor, and Founder of the National
Anxiety Center, a clearinghouse for information about media-driven scare campaigns. Caruba writes a weekly commentary,
"Warning Signs," posted on the Internet website of the National Anxiety Center, which is located at
www.anxietycenter.com.
Caruba has a daily blog at http://factsnotfantasy.blogspot.com.
Caruba’s most recent book, Right Answers: Separating Fact from Fantasy, has been published by Merril Press. Books
previously authored by Caruba include A Pocket Guide to Militant Islam, The United Nations Versus the United States: The
UN's Plan to Control Planet Earth, and America: A Nation Without Borders -- A Pocket Guide to Immigration Issues.
© Alan Caruba 2009
Published with Permission of Alan Caruba
ACaruba@AOL.Com
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