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Quote Darios (www.Promethea.org) @ GNN
In the light of recent events and the frustration of government actions carried out in the name of the people who payroll them, (you and I), yet have little or no control or say over their actions, the Promethan Movement recently created a petition disavowing the use and abuse of taxes and the compulsion - ultimately by force - to pay tax for purposes not of our choosing.
I know many readers on GNN still believe that state interference remains the way forward for a happier and philanthropic society so they may not agree with what follows. Those of you who agree with the sentiments expressed however, please click through and demonstrate your support, it only takes a few clicks and you can retain the privacy of your email address when you sign the petition/register.
Peace to you all,
Darios.
Make your opinion known about the taxes taken from you and their (ab)uses.
Every year around tax time (if you live in America or another
country with a specific time to pay income tax), it can be
disheartening to know that because of insufficient public awareness you have to give up a substantial portion of your earnings; your own isolated protest against this theft, or the uses it's put to without your consent, wouldn't mean much.
So every year, you probably make the unfortunate but inevitable choice just to turn it in and try not to think about where it's going. (After all, considering some of the
"uses" agencies of the government have for your money, sometimes the best thing that could happen to it is waste along the way.)
Aside from taxes on income, there are of course many other "hidden" taxes you end up paying directly or indirectly, just by doing everyday things: going to the store, driving your car, owning a house or using the telephone - sales taxes, gasoline/petrol taxes, telecommunications taxes, a massive VAT (value-added tax) in many countries, property taxes, investment taxes, fees, etc.
Taxes are almost inescapable, almost wherever or however you live.But there is something you can do - and remind other people to do:
let everyone know why you are paying taxes. Let everyone know that you're paying taxes because you're being forced to, not because you're pretending along with the tax collectors that you're a consumer or customer who has a choice, and not because you agree with where the money is going.
You don't control where the money is going, so let the world know you don't support everything that other people do with your money, in your name.
You don't think taking money by force and intimidation is voluntary - and you don't think that's acceptable - so let the world know.
Only by taking this step can we begin to raise public awareness of the situation, and begin to change it.
Please read and sign this registry to make yourself heard:
Registry Disavowing Tax Compulsion and Abuses of Taxation
Please Click Here.
The registry reads as follows:
Registry Disavowing Tax Compulsion and Abuses of Taxation
We who are claimed as citizens, subjects, and obligatory taxpayers by the governments of the world,
Hereby reject the mandatory arrogation of our property known as taxation, by any government, no matter the country of our inhabitation, and regardless of any unwilling compliance ultimately obtained by the threat of intimidation, penalty, punishment, or other force.
Although we lack the means to resist, we wish it to be known that in no way should our compliance in the face of overwhelming force ever be interpreted as affirmation or support. Temporary acceptance of the situation by yielding money under implicit or explicit threat should not be interpreted as approval, any more than giving up money to
armed thievery or extortion.
We disavow any responsibility for the governmental policies adopted or actions taken by means of our involuntary economic support. We object to some or all uses to which our resources are applied in our name without meaningful control, and we object to that money being obtained from us by force.
We reject the contradictory claim that any form of mandatory taxation is voluntary, or that we are consumers or customers of government services obligated to pay taxes for any and all ends of government.
By definition, consumers and customers choose how they spend their own money, and whether they spend it, but we are allowed no such choice over the taxed money collected by governments from income, sales, exchange, or property ownership.
We deny the right of any government to expect or force our
subjugation in the matter of our own resources. We declare our own property inherently allodial and unowed, and hereby signify that its confiscation by any government is unwilling.
We demand freedom of choice and full control over the uses of our own money, the fruit of our own labor.
Sincerely,
The Undersigned |
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