Our Problems Are Not New [FREEDOM TO CHAINS]
Akira the Don, Paul Harvey
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Now then, what makes a nation strong? Taxes? (Heh) There’s nothing new about those either The first income tax was paid by Abraham It was written on a rock by the Hand of Divinity and handed to Moses At the top of Mount Sinai and You might want to remember this It was at the flat rate of 10% It promised the wrath of God on anybody Who tampered with or violated that law Christ was born in Bethlehem Because Joseph was On his way to pay his taxes Joseph was a relatively well-to do landowner Yet the taxes exacted by Caesar Augustus were so exorbitant That he didn’t have enough money left over To employ a trusted messenger For the mission so Though his wife was great with child He made the journey himself (Journey himself, Bucko) And Christ was born in Bethlehem because Joseph was On his way to pay his taxes And Christ was born in a manger because there Was a housing shortage when he got there Our problems are not new Christ was born in a manger Because there was a housing shortage Our problems are not new Christ was born in a manger Because there was a housing shortage Our problems are not new At Runnymede the Magna Carta was handed To King John on the end Of a sword denying to royalty The right of unlimited taxation Yet, you know it was for Us, the American People, to become the First in recorded history ever voluntarily to Surrender our rights to private property? Oh, yes we did With an innocent sounding Constitutional Amendment, the Sixteenth Which says that "Congress shall have The power to lay And collect taxes on incomes From whatever source Derived" and we forgot to put any limit to The extent to which we could tax ourselves Conceivably we could be taxed Out of all private Property we could be taxed not 70%, 80% 90% but at 100% We could be awakened one morning and Find the government owns the farm, and The house, and the car, and has A mortgage on the church, legally Historically, whenever any nation has Taxed it's people More than 25% of their national income Initiative was destroyed and that nation Was headed for economic eclipse Presently the American People are being taxed 33% of their total income History says we’ll roll forward on Momentum for a little while But we’d better get some more gas In the tank pretty quick History says we’ll roll forward on Momentum for a little while But we’d better get some more gas In the tank pretty quick History says we’ll roll forward on Momentum for a little while But we’d better get some more gas In the tank pretty quick History says we’ll roll forward on Momentum for a little while But we’d better get some more gas In the tank pretty quick Christ was born in a manger Because there was a housing shortage Our problems are not new Christ was born in a manger Because there was a housing shortage Our problems are not new Christ was born in a manger Because there was a housing shortage Our problems are not new Christ was born in a manger Because there was a housing shortage Our problems are not new
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