Drop Yer Gun and Grab Yer Wallet
If the government even hints at taking firearms people go ape shit, but when they openly declare that they’re going to take your money no one cares. When was the last time government took your guns? Never. When was the last time they took your money? Today.
And every day you buy something.
And every time you get a paycheck.
And when you get married.
And even when you die.
It’s called a tax and they’re everywhere.
The government constantly absorbs the wealth we accumulate and no one complains no matter how absurd the tax is, but even whisper “gun confiscation” and the torrent of almighty hellfire is unleashed. Don’t get me wrong, I own guns and like them. But the incredible fervor with which people defend the 2ndamendment should be channeled into defending their pocketbooks.
Why? Because it’s the free market economy that made America the financial and technological powerhouse that it is. The freedom to pursue whatever the hell you want to sets the conditions for creativity and exploration that this nation has benefitted from time and time again. Samuel Colt, Henry Ford, The Wright Brothers, Robert Goddard, Alexander Graham Bell, Jonas Salk…the list of inventors who maximized their potential in a country that allowed them to goes on and on.
Imagine if we had a government that took 75% of everything you made (and yes there are governments that do). Your creativity and ambition would die immediately. You’d never unleash your full potential on the world because all the fruits of your labor would just be confiscated.
The government should take enough to money to provide security and set the conditions for us to succeed (which includes education).A tax free society is a fable and in order to keep our position in the world we all have to give a little, but a government that takes a massive proportion of our wealth and redistributes it in the name of “economic stimulus spending” is really called socialism. How’s that working out for North Korea?
So if you really want to accuse the government of inherently un-American behavior, focus your watchful eyes on how much it’s taxing you and what it’s doing with your money. If people protected their wallets with as much enthusiasm as they protected their holsters we’d have more accountability, less waste, and ultimately more money to do whatever we want with…like buy more guns.
Follow Surly Bastard @Curmudgeonism
And every day you buy something.
And every time you get a paycheck.
And when you get married.
And even when you die.
It’s called a tax and they’re everywhere.
The government constantly absorbs the wealth we accumulate and no one complains no matter how absurd the tax is, but even whisper “gun confiscation” and the torrent of almighty hellfire is unleashed. Don’t get me wrong, I own guns and like them. But the incredible fervor with which people defend the 2ndamendment should be channeled into defending their pocketbooks.
Why? Because it’s the free market economy that made America the financial and technological powerhouse that it is. The freedom to pursue whatever the hell you want to sets the conditions for creativity and exploration that this nation has benefitted from time and time again. Samuel Colt, Henry Ford, The Wright Brothers, Robert Goddard, Alexander Graham Bell, Jonas Salk…the list of inventors who maximized their potential in a country that allowed them to goes on and on.
Imagine if we had a government that took 75% of everything you made (and yes there are governments that do). Your creativity and ambition would die immediately. You’d never unleash your full potential on the world because all the fruits of your labor would just be confiscated.
The government should take enough to money to provide security and set the conditions for us to succeed (which includes education).A tax free society is a fable and in order to keep our position in the world we all have to give a little, but a government that takes a massive proportion of our wealth and redistributes it in the name of “economic stimulus spending” is really called socialism. How’s that working out for North Korea?
So if you really want to accuse the government of inherently un-American behavior, focus your watchful eyes on how much it’s taxing you and what it’s doing with your money. If people protected their wallets with as much enthusiasm as they protected their holsters we’d have more accountability, less waste, and ultimately more money to do whatever we want with…like buy more guns.
Follow Surly Bastard @Curmudgeonism
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