The Greatest Lie Of All

The tax and spenders in the grow government first party are holding a tax summit this week to negotiate the terms of your fiscal surrender.  The main course is consideration of an income tax.  While they would like you to view this shift as ‘fair,’ the move is more about power than money because there is nothing ‘fair’ about a statewide income tax. 

Income taxes remove by force of law a portion of legally earned income from everyone who is employed within the political boundaries of the state.  This we are told is fair.  Everyone who works in New Hampshire should pay ‘their fair share.”  But it is not fair. (Just ask anyone who pays Massachusetts non-residency taxes.) It is a violation of the fundamental concept of no taxation without representation.  

People who do not live in New Hampshire cannot legally vote in New Hampshire.  They are therefore incapable of having a direct affect on how the government taxes them.  To suggest this is fair is to buy into the destructive entitlement mentality which is exactly where the tax and spenders want you.  They want you to feel entitled to other peoples money, preferrably from people who have no hope of using the political process to affect how the government mugs them.  In fact, that is entirely the point.

Income taxes allow the government to expand the patronage system which allows legislators and bureaucrats at the state level to manipulate the tax code to favor certain groups over others.  There is a risk of this with all taxes, but income taxes expand on the abuse exponentially.  The state government can create entire classes of people who pay no taxes but wield the same political or voting power to change their government (and how it taxes) as those who pay for most of the government they presumably share.  It gives non-payers an incentive to grow the imbalance in their favor by empowering them to elect representatives that will abuse the tax code to their advantage and at the expense of others.  Coincidentally, the party that just happens to support the income tax is the same party that promotes the spending and patronage system, and the concept of entitlement--the grow government first liberal progressive democrats.

So what happens if and when the democrats are not in power?  Do you want the republicans having the same power?  Can you be so certain they will use it to advance the democrat-liberal agenda?  Probably not.  We might hope they would roll it all back, but you don't dismantle an entire wing of government on a whim.  It just keeps sucking on your wallet while people pick at the edges to silence the rabble.  Once its there its not going away anytime soon.

You have to ask yourself if this a power you would afford to .03% of the states population? (roughly the number of people making all the decisions in Concord).  Do you honestly trust these idiots to make the right choices about how much money your town or city needs or deserves, and to do it without any strings or conditions attached?  These are the same majority of folks who have been spending recklessly regardless of your ability to pay for all their spending, for years?

The goal is and always has been to take those decisions away from you and give them to the state, and the only way they can do that is to control where the money comes from, so they can control where it goes.  Any state wide tax removes the middle man--you--and deprives you of your political power. It relieves you of your voice and deprives you bit by bit of your ability to control your own government. 

Spending is just a means to that end and there is nothing fair about it.