Do we even need taxes?

Why does the government tax us? Before 1913 there was NO FEDERAL INCOME TAX! What did the government do? They protected us and our rights - including protecting us from big governement. What happened? Government became convinced that they needed to protect our economic welfare as well.

There has been a lot of talk recently about the New Deal by Roosevelt. I knew nothing about it and the media assumes that we all do.

The New Deal was a series of economic stimulus packages (sound familiar) during the Great Depression to help the unemployed and to reform financial practices.

Doesn't sound too bad, right? But before the Depression the government had very little control over "the economy and money supply, intervention to control prices and agricultural production" according to Wikipedia.

What is crazy!!!! to me is that there were DEMOCRATS that started the American Liberty League to oppose the New Deal. There were also Republicans that opposed it as well.

There are only three things left from the New Deal - Social Security, Securities and Exchange Commission (which is a government agency that controls stock exchanges) and Fannie Mae.

Our government believes that all government is good and so they should be the ones that hand out the money. They should be the ones to educate our children, care for our parents, and provide us with healthcare.

What happened to the purpose of government? Once again the lines have been crossed. Before the New Deal government existed to protect and to punish wrongdoers. After the New Deal the government became the country's god, trying to be sovereign over every aspect of life because it believed that people were either bad or in trouble and since the government is good, and supposedly self sufficient, then who better to save the dying masses from their pitiful lives?

Like most people, I get tired of the doomsday mentality in the news. I see good things happening. Thankfully, our government doesn't want to take away our religious rights... yet.... and thankfully, I can still choose to put my child in private school or homeschool, and thankfully, the government is still trying to get the bad guys. So I am not trying to be a doomsdayer.

Don't forget! April 15th many people are getting together on tax day to voice their opinion about taxes.