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Both Zohran Mamdani and Janeese George have built their popularity around returning economic dignity to working wage earners, and providing protections against existing exploitative practices. But neither have addressed the two major tools of oppression used today to exploit and steal what labor has produced, the first being “direct taxation” on a working person’s earned wage, which Patrick Henry denounced as follows:
“The power of direct taxation is the highest and most important power that can be given to any government… If you give this power to the federal government, it will come like a thief in the night to search your pockets and strip you of your property without your consent.”— Patrick Henry, Virginia Ratifying Convention (1788)
The second tool of oppression used to exploit our nation’s laboring class is a corrupted paper money system which Danial Webster condemned as follows:
“Of all the contrivances for cheating the laboring class of mankind, none have been more effectual than that which deludes them with paper money. This is the most effectual of inventions to fertilize the rich man’s field by the sweat of the poor man’s brow.” Senator Daniel Webster, May 25th, 1832
What is most surprising is, today’s un-apportioned “direct tax” on a working person’s earned wage blatantly violates the constitutional command that “No Capitation, or other direct, Tax shall be laid, unless in Proportion to the Census or enumeration herein before directed to be taken".
Keep in mind the Sixteenth Amendment does not read: “The Congress shall have power to lay and collect direct taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration.” Direct taxes, by the terms of our Constitution, are still required to be apportioned.
With regard to Federal Reserve Bank Notes [paper money] having been made a legal tender [“THIS NOTE IS LEGAL TENDER FOR ALL DEBTS, PUBLIC AND PRIVATE” See: Public Law 88-36 (the Act of June 4, 1963)] Congress violated the very intentions of our Founders. See: The Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787, reported by James Madison: August 16
[FN23] “This vote in the affirmative by Virga. was occasioned by the acquiescence of Mr. Madison who became satisfied that striking out the words would not disable the Govt. from the use of public notes as far as they could be safe & proper; & would only cut off the pretext for a paper currency, and particularly for making the bills a tender either for public or private debts.”
The sad truth is, neither the Republican Party Leadership nor the Democrat Party Leadership will work to restore our Constitution’s system of honest money and honest taxation, apparently because they both want access to the current corrupted tools of oppression so they may exploit and plunder the real material wealth which labor and industry has produced.
JWK
We are here today and gone tomorrow, but what is most important is what we do in-between and is what our children will inherit and remember us by.
Both Zohran Mamdani and Janeese George have built their popularity around returning economic dignity to working wage earners, and providing protections against existing exploitative practices. But neither have addressed the two major tools of oppression used today to exploit and steal what labor has produced, the first being “direct taxation” on a working person’s earned wage, which Patrick Henry denounced as follows:
“The power of direct taxation is the highest and most important power that can be given to any government… If you give this power to the federal government, it will come like a thief in the night to search your pockets and strip you of your property without your consent.”— Patrick Henry, Virginia Ratifying Convention (1788)
The second tool of oppression used to exploit our nation’s laboring class is a corrupted paper money system which Danial Webster condemned as follows:
“Of all the contrivances for cheating the laboring class of mankind, none have been more effectual than that which deludes them with paper money. This is the most effectual of inventions to fertilize the rich man’s field by the sweat of the poor man’s brow.” Senator Daniel Webster, May 25th, 1832
What is most surprising is, today’s un-apportioned “direct tax” on a working person’s earned wage blatantly violates the constitutional command that “No Capitation, or other direct, Tax shall be laid, unless in Proportion to the Census or enumeration herein before directed to be taken".
Keep in mind the Sixteenth Amendment does not read: “The Congress shall have power to lay and collect direct taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration.” Direct taxes, by the terms of our Constitution, are still required to be apportioned.
With regard to Federal Reserve Bank Notes [paper money] having been made a legal tender [“THIS NOTE IS LEGAL TENDER FOR ALL DEBTS, PUBLIC AND PRIVATE” See: Public Law 88-36 (the Act of June 4, 1963)] Congress violated the very intentions of our Founders. See: The Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787, reported by James Madison: August 16
[FN23] “This vote in the affirmative by Virga. was occasioned by the acquiescence of Mr. Madison who became satisfied that striking out the words would not disable the Govt. from the use of public notes as far as they could be safe & proper; & would only cut off the pretext for a paper currency, and particularly for making the bills a tender either for public or private debts.”
The sad truth is, neither the Republican Party Leadership nor the Democrat Party Leadership will work to restore our Constitution’s system of honest money and honest taxation, apparently because they both want access to the current corrupted tools of oppression so they may exploit and plunder the real material wealth which labor and industry has produced.
JWK
We are here today and gone tomorrow, but what is most important is what we do in-between and is what our children will inherit and remember us by.
