The "Debt Crisis" Charade

While going back and forth about the debt crisis, we forget the fact that the government (both federal and local) act like they have a right to your earnings. They don't. We are not subjects of royalty.  

Our elected politicians act like they have some moral and ethical right to decide how much of your income they can spend, and if you are lucky, they will give you enough back to live off of after they've spent what they wanted and as they please, and even take a cut out of it to pay their own salaries. 

Politicians and government have absolutely no moral claim to anyone's earnings whether they are a president, a Congressman or a majority of voters. Yes, tyranny can exist under majority rule, just ask slaves in the pre-civil war South. We are not subjects or slaves and the politicians are not lords or masters. They do not have a right to place us in virtual tax servitude.

Government exists to protect your right to keep what you earn not steal, take a cut or siphon it off every way it can think of. But,  don't take my word for it, read it for yourself; "all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men."

By the way, if you don't recognize this it is from the Declaration of Independence, which states the fundamental purpose our government was created, to protect our right to be FREE from government oppression of all kinds (this principle is called LIBERTY) and this includes wealth redistribution!

You wonder, if government doesn't take our money by force, how will we pay for things like this protection guaranteed by the Constitution.   Well, that is not my problem and that is another question, but it still does not change the fact that it is wrong to steal from citizens.  But, like any merchant, the government needs to persuade us to VOLUNTARILY support it's functions and if it cannot do this, this does not somehow or morally give it the right to take our labor and money via force, intimidation, threats and worse.  If it did, then who do we need it to protect us from?

The debt crisis is simply a sign that things are completely out of control, like Greece, and government is too big, spends too much, and takes way more than it needs.  

There needs to be a much better way and no, tinkering around the edges won't fix it. What we've been doing for the last many decades is not the answer. Forcing people, rich or poor, to give more and more is not the solution to anything but making us all poor. Then again, maybe that is the desired effect?