In honor of tax day… Here’s a warning from Thomas Jefferson that applies even more today than it did when he wrote it…
We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty or profusion and servitude. If we run into such debt as that we must be taxed in our meat and in our drink, in our necessaries and our comforts, in our labors and our amusements, for our calling and our creeds . . . we will have no time to think, no means of calling our mis-managers to account, but be glad to obtain subsistence by hiring ourselves to rivet the chains on the necks of our fellow-sufferers. And this is the tendency of all human governments. A departure from principle in one instance becomes a precedent . . . till the bulk of society is reduced to be mere automatons of misery. And the fore-horse of this frightful team is public debt. Taxation follows that, and in its train wretchedness and oppression.
- Thomas Jefferson
This is exactly what is going on now. We have been loaded with so much debt it will take generations to repay it. Higher taxes and oppression are coming soon. And all because we have abandoned the principles of liberty.
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