Short Take: The Income Tax is Chattel Slavery
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The Income Tax is Chattel Slavery.
Name one aspect of A 1984 society or chattel slavery that is not in principle part of the income tax. You are observed in every transaction, and your children are born into the same bondage.
13th Amendment outlawed slavery, 16th made it universal.
The income Tax is Chattel slavery.
It is an infinite debt that can never be paid off, a debt that no amount of money can ever make you free of, and instead, you and all your descendants will eternally be having your wages garnished and all your transactions tracked and subjected to reporting requirements as if you are a parolee from a debtors prison. You have no right to avoid self-incrimination, no right to be secure in your private papers... you MUST report and it must be accurate and you must volunteer information on any crime you may have committed if you gained a single dollar via it.
You are not free, your children are not free, and you have none of the rights any of the founders would have considered the basis of being a free man. You are a chattel slave and as chattel so are your children.
The income tax is chattel slavery.
Now you might recoil at me saying this, you might be horrified at me comparing America's "original sin" with the tax code. You might say "I get what you're saying Kulak, but don't you stretch it too far? Aren't you being needlessly inflammatory? Aren't you needlessly insulting the most sensitive of American sensitivities?"
But tell me, How did this subject get so "sensitive"?How did America conclude Slavery was their "Original sin"? How did this religious language infect the nominally secular republic? How indeed did America come to erect a state church which preaches black slavery as "original sin", as opposed to the religious original found in the faith of their forefathers?
You've probably lived in a democracy all your life, do these subjects rise to prominence via rational debate? Do the philosophers and accomplished men all get together every quarter and decide on the quarterly priorities and topics of the empire's discussion? Was there some great meeting where it was decided every school-child must now spend countless hours on the subject of race and space-travel and the facts of the requisite engineering will now just be a waning subset of retro-futurism discussed by nerds?
No! It was asserted. It was inflamed. It was bullied into the public discourse and then bullied to the forefront of the discourse, by people willing to be unreasonable, people willing to say the words that will start a fight and keep saying them til that fight was pouring into the streets.
The income tax is chattel slavery.
We're supposed to cheer as racists and slave owners are cut down by Jamie Foxx portraying an escaped slave in Hollywood movies... where are our own films of tax resistors cutting down IRS agents?
We are supposed to wring our hands and wonder at reparations for a slavery that ended over 150 years ago, where are productive Americans' reparations for the slavery they've been forced to suffer for the last `100 years!?
We're supposed to celebrate the fall of the American South and the financial ruin of their master class... we could likewise speculate on the fall of Washington, Dc, and the confiscation of every pension, household, and privilege of the bureaucratic class, that the destruction of their wealth might form the incomplete reparations to the American productive class.
The Income Tax is Chattel Slavery.
You might still be appalled, you might recoil at what many would describe as a perverse manipulation of moral language...tell me: when in politics is moral language NOT a manipulation?
When government-assigned school teachers train children to feel guilty not for anything they've done or even any known ancestor has done, but merely for the color of their skin, or the country of their birth, is that not a moral manipulation? When the curriculum then sets about teaching them that any challenge or questioning of the powers of the same government that has assigned that teacher (and was complicit in those crimes) is a moral failing of the same origin as that guilt... is that not a moral manipulation?
You are raised to believe that every war crime this regime commits is inherently justified every excess committed, every city firebombed, every war of destruction, both atomic bombs, every dog shot and compound burnt to the ground, children and all… is merely regrettable but inherently justified, a mere stepping stone to a more perfect union, a digression upon the road to a more finely tailored subjugation... and at the same time you are trained to recoil at any resistance to that subjugation. Bombing civilian infrastructure and water facilities and causing a humanitarian crisis is merely another horror of war when done by the regime from the air… bombing uniformed soldiers of the regime however, is terrorism when done from the ground.
When a regime wants independence from America’s enemies they are noble freedom fighters, when an American state wants independence from the federal government… treason.
What an excellent moral system to inculcate in a slave population, in subject people, that nothing their masters do, no matter how egregious, is ever wholely unjustified… whilst no resistance, no matter how restrained, proportionate, or nobly done, is ever short of damning.
And yet you can choose to reverse this moral subjugation… you can choose to not be the inevitable hateful prisoner, not be the justified vanquished, not be the atoning penitent forfeiting a percentage of all you make to those who will say to your face are your moral superiors… you can accept different values.
The Income Tax is Chattel Slavery.
You will find that what provokes the nod of accepted wisdom and the cry of outrage is not anything inherent to the ideas, nothing so noble as reason or merit, but merely confidence, frequency, and consistency of its assertion. The manipulation of the human tribal instinct for acceptance and to repeat the words of the group...
So why accept the words of your enemies?
You can choose new words, and your group can assert new moral axioms, new shibboleths, and new sacred phrases.
And if you repeat them, and if you insist upon them, I think you'll find they develop a power of their own in time.
The Income Tax is Chattel Slavery.
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This seems like a misunderstanding of what chattel slavery and the income tax are. Chattel slavery refers specifically perpetual inherited bondage that allows people to be treated like commodities. Let’s look at the differences:
The United States government is not allowed to buy or sell people.
Tax payers are able to exit this system by renouncing your citizenship, which is definitely pricy but this is not a thing under chattel slavery. The Roman form of slavery allowed buying your freedom, same thing with indentured servitude. These are easier claims to defend but are still wrong however.
Tax payers are not compelled to work, shares of their labor income are taken by the government. This is more similar to either theft or indentured servitude depending on how you want to describe it.
This is probably your worst piece in that it just comes off as incredibly preachy without making arguments for why the object level is true. You make appeals on the meta level but I didn’t notice anything getting into why income tax is a subset of chattel slavery.
The US government taxing citizens who are outside of the country is probably the most ethically dubious part of income tax. It is pretty easy to conceptualize taxes as basically a rent associated with existing on someone’s property(and all land is government property under english common law, people just own perpetual leases to it). This seems to line up with the monopolization of the powers of nobility by governments. You could probably achieve a better outcome by directly charging a land rent(lvt) however.
What's your point? Do you think all of government a waste? If not, how should it be maintained? By charity? If by taxes, what makes income tax special? One of your more preachy pieces.