The Federal Mafia

[Mike Coleman]

Steven Elling <ellings at kcnet.com> writes:
> Our country was founded on the basis of a government for the people, of the 
> people, by the people.  Meaning the government is subservient to us the 
> citiziens of the United States of America.  The government really started 
> to take control of our lives around World War II.
...
> We need to take back control of our government by saying no to the Federal 
> Income Tax.

All the complaints notwithstanding, I imagine the majority of us citizens are
actually reasonably happy to be paying taxes when they're applied in a
generally useful way.  We have a hard time agreeing about what to spend the
money on, but then we can hardly agree on no-brainers like (the foolishness
of) access to automatic weapons.

Compared to Enron and Worldcom, the bureaucratic part of the government is
looking pretty good.  As for being controlled, these days I feel a lot more
controlled by corporations than the government.

Mike