National Deficit

Obama has unveiled his 2011 budget. It will cost 3.8 trillion dollars even after the supposed deficit cutting. On top of this, it will spike the tax rate for the rich. Let's once again go back to the founders. The founders knew that government and taxes were a "necessary evil". Although they are necessary, the founders also wanted freedom for Americans. To balance this out, they make taxes as low as possible, and only put taxes on things like tobacco, alcohol, and overseas trade. As a result, the people were happy, and free. Obviously, there were still poor people, but a lot fewer of them. Today tobacco, alcohol, and overseas trade make up 3% of our taxes. This means that 97% of the taxes that we have today were not originally intended by our founders. This includes income tax, sales tax, property tax, etc. etc... The founders started a revolution against England, partly because their taxes were at rates that were extremely low compared to today. Frankly they revolted because England had become what our country is currently becoming. The king had taken away all of their "unalienable rights" that were "endowed by our creator". They had destroyed to liberties of the people, and that is what our leaders are doing today. They forget that the money is ours, not the governments. They forget that what we do on our own property is our business even if it hurts us or is unethical, and they forget most of all that we have rights that they cannot simply take away on a whim.
So now that I've ranted and annoyed all of you who read this... I will once again offer my solution. My solution is simply this: Instead of taking away the liberty of the people, let's take away the liberty of the government. To do that we must throw away all dependence on the government. This includes all of the government programs that we have our money stolen from us to fund. This includes health care, and medicaid, and, the government printing our money for their own purposes, and unions, and any other program that could be run by a private business more efficiently, which is almost every one of them. We need to repeal thousands of laws that tie down our freedom, and instead "tie down the government with the constitution". Our laws have already been created and cannot be changed. Our laws don't include Not being able to choose between health insurance companies, or not being able to own a gun, or even not being able to take drugs. We are given the right of liberty, but our government has replaced it with "freedom" which they own, and can change whenever they see fit.


"When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness."