Yo-mentum: Unions bully Boccieri into flipping

As it was criticized at the Founding, so it is that we find ourselves in the nightmare predicted by Anti-Federalists:

In what manner then will you be eased, if the expences of government are to be raised solely out of the commerce of this country; do you not readily apprehend the fallacy of this argument. But government will find, that to press so heavily on commerce will not do, and therefore must have recourse to other objects; these will be a capitation or poll-tax, window lights, &c. &c. And a long train of impositions which their ingenuity will suggest; but will you submit to be numbered like the slaves of an arbitrary despot; and what will be your reflections when the tax-master thunders at your door for the duty on that light which is the bounty of heaven. It will be the policy of the great landholders who will chiefly compose this senate, and perhaps a majority of this house of representatives, to keep their lands free from taxes; and this is confirmed by the failure of every attempt to lay a land-tax in this state; hence recourse must and will be had to the sources I mentioned before. The burdens on you will be insupportable-your complaints will be inefficacious-this will beget public disturbances, and I will venture to predict, without the spirit of prophecy, that you and the government, if it is adopted, will one day be at issue on this point. The force of government will be exerted, this will call for an increase of revenue, and will add fuel to the fire. The result will be, that either you will revolve to some other form, or that government will give peace to the country, by destroying the opposition. If government therefore can, notwithstanding every opposition, raise a revenue on such things as are odious and burdensome to you, they can do any thing.

The landholder of old is the political elite of new, willing to have you shoulder any burden for them in any way possible. Your health? Tax it to death. Your window lights? Your energy shall be taxed until you cannot use any. In the name of doing ‘good’ the government can only do ill as that is the nature of taxation and commerce. That is why taxes must be light, services limited to the very few necessary to run the government and the government keep out of our lives so that we may be free to find our own way and create the good.

The path of Republics was criticized and the Constitution seen as having major problems in 1787-89, and yet we are told to forget these people who told us why the Constitution needed to be strengthened and power reigned in even more than it was. The document was not perfect then, and its path set for those willing to twist it over time. In that Hamilton did say it would take time for those who wanted to do so and he was correct.

When government can use the power of commerce to compel you to do its bidding, that is taking your positive liberty from you and using the power of government not to restrict you but to force you to do the bidding of government. When government can do that with your health, your life is in its hands for it can deteremine what you will and will not have in the way of life to the convenience of government. Your rights and liberty be damned.

That is the answer to ‘if Congress could do anything then why does it only do a few things?’ When you say Congress can compel then it can do anything at the whimsy of Congress without regard to the people in either positive or negative light. Then Congress holds all at its choosing, not yours. You are no longer a citizen, you are not even a subject although you are subjected to government. You are an object of government, a slave to government which can determine who buys what to its own choosing, not yours. That is why we restrict that negative liberty and we, the people, are to make a more perfect Union. Not government as it is but a tool, and a poor one at that compared to individual liberty and freedom.

I do not agree to give up my positive liberties and rights to Congress or any government. They are mine to build society with, I do not relinquish that to any government. Ever. Taxation on commerce is one thing. Compeling people to do good is an evil beyond all others. When our negative liberties that we entrust for restricting those who harm societies as individuals is applied to make individuals do good, then it has been perverted beyond recognition. The limited good of that negative liberty has now become an unlimited evil. And our rights as citizens become the plaything for the elite, which is tyranny.

ajacksonian on March 19, 2010 at 1:34 PM