Taxes and Withholdings

Do yourself a favor. The next pay check you get take a careful look at how much total you made and how much total you got to keep. For most people they will see they are being forced to give the government more each month than they pay for their mortgage or would pay for a mortgage if they could afford one, but can't because the government takes so much money.

A friend and I were looking at our paychecks. We earn about 55,000/year. Middle class by most standards. We discovered that the total taken from our checks each month is almost $2,000. Imagine if you were keeping all that money. Do you think you would be as concerned about retirement, your mortgage, making your bills, buying a car?

At some point we need to say enough is enough. I have written several letters to various Tea Party leaders across the country suggesting that we have a tax exempt month before April and send our non-representing representatives a message that this cannot and will not continue. There is nothing illegal about going exempt on your paycheck for a couple of checks as long as you pay your taxes in full by the end of the year.

I hope some of you who happen on this page will consider passing along the idea to those you know or to your local Tea Party leaders. If we can organize enough people to do this all the same month the flow of money to Washington will stop for that month and no doubt they will finally realize we are VERY serious about this and that they need to stop spending or they're going to have a real tax revolt instead of the equivalent of a tax sit in.

The government's obsession with spending our money needs to stop. Our money does not belong to everyone in the country. It is not a shared resource and was never meant to be. That is communism. The last time I check our government was a republic, which means the power resides with the individual, then with their community, then the state and last of all the federal government. Our non-representing representatives would have you believe it resides first with the federal government, but that's because those representatives don't know the constitution or if they do they hold it in disdain.

It is time our non-representing representatives learned anew that we the people are the ones who hold the power. When they talk about religion in "public" places consider for a money... who is the public? We are! That means those places belong to us not to the "government". Who is the government? We are! no our representatives.... they are just that representatives. They represent us as though we were there or at least that's what they're supposed to do.

Please pass it on, let's get something organized for a month of Tax Exemption and sent the message to Washington we're done with their out of control spending.