Sunday, October 21, 2012

Lessons Learned
In 1919 Congress passed the 18th Amendment prohibiting the sale of alcohol.   The citizens objected so much that by 1933 they passed the 21st Amendment, repealing Prohibition.
The government learned that you can't prohibit people from things they want; so Congress came up with another scheme to control the citizens.
Let the people have whatever they want, but put taxes on those items.   The higher the tax, the more control the government will have.
Most of these taxes are hidden in the price of the item such as the Federal Excise Tax on the tires you buy for your car.   The list of taxes you pay is incredibly long and includes Aviation tax when you fly somewhere, Gasoline tax, Telephone tax, etc.
These taxes can be raised at anytime in order to make an item or service so costly that the average citizen can't afford it.   As an example, in 1934 a tax was put on machine guns, in 1968, that tax was increased and many other guns were added to the list under the "Gun Control Act".
Since the government has decided to let us have anything we want as long as we're willing to pay the tax on it, they're talking about Gun Control without prohibiting guns.   A gun is useless without ammunition.   Very soon a Federal Excise Tax will be added to the price of bullets and will be increased every so often until most citizens won't be able to afford to shoot their guns.
Now, since Congress has learned how to restrict our freedom of ownership without prohibiting ownership, we should have learned that we can reverse any of their decisions as was done in 1933.
Over 75% of the population is against ObamaCare (called the Affordable Healthcare Act; which is not affordable), isn't it time that we forced Congress to repeal it ?   All we have to do is take a lesson from those that came before us in repealing Prohibition.
Of course, the very first step is to get rid of President Obama that caused this mess in the first place.

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