Sanctioned Blackmail

Who owns your home?

If you thought that you own your home you, my friend, are sadly mistaken. In the first place, if your home is mortgaged a bank actually owns your home and you are slowy buying it from them. In addition to this, your mortgage was probably repackaged and sold to a third party, likely a third party that has recieved a government bailout/buy-out. This means that there is a high probability that the government owns a certain percentage of your mortgage and therefore a certain percentage of your home.
"But Veritas," you say, "I've paid off my mortgage. I really do own my home!"
NO YOU DON'T!!! Do you pay property taxes? If you pay property taxes you have implicitly agreed that the government owns your property and you pay them rent for it. I will go so far as to say that there is no private property in this country any longer. With the states use of eminant (sp?) domain and implementation of property taxes private ownership of land is a joke! This is a serious infraction of our personal liberty! I fully understand that the government needs money to function and the primary way for it to raise funding is through taxation, however that taxation should, as much as possible, respect the rights of the individual. The large scale, state sanctioned blackmail of property owners needs to be reigned in if we are to have any hope re-establishing personal liberty in this nation.
Which leads me to my second point. THE SUREST WAY TO REFORM THIS COUNTRY IS TO REFORM THE TAX CODE. At this point I am not entirely certain what a proper federal tax code should look like, however I do know some things that need to be included. First: abolish the income tax. Second: abolish capital gains taxes. Third: Cap the size of the budget at 10% of the GDP. Fourth: Never allow the federal govenment to operate at a deficit in times of peace. Fifth: Eliminate ALL forms of wealth redistribution (i.e.- Federal support of state welfare programs, corporate bailouts, government subsidies to favored products like ethanol or wind energy).
So, how can the process of reforming the tax code be started? I believe the easiest way to start this process is to discontinue witholding income taxes. Aside from being unconstitutional, witholding taxes on incomes keeps people ignorant of how much money the governemtn is confiscating from them. An additional problem with the current system is that the government often overcharges people and then keeps the money for a year without paying interest on it. The tax rebates then paid out to the overcharged persons tends to engender a sense of gratitude to the government for cutting them a check. If the witholdings system of taxation were revoked and people had to pay their taxes by writing a check on April 15th, the dissatisfaction and outright anger would be so great that our officials would be forced to change the tax code.
Mission: Call your congressman and tell them to abolish the policy of witholding in-come taxes!

Note: My word processing software ceased opperations and I lost my spell check. Please forgive my typos and other such mistakes.