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Show UTAH INDEPENDENT March 25, 1971 Page 3 THOMAS JEFFERSON (Continued from Page 3 ) drafting of the Virginia civil code, a manual of Parliamentary Practice, (currently in use) written vocabularies of Indian languages, a Life of Christ, and a prolific series of letters and documents which have been compiled into over 25 volumes. Ilis personal library collection contained over 6400 volumes, which he contributed to form the nucleus of the Library of Congress. Thomas Jefferson had six sisters and four brothers and was 14 when his father died. Being the oldest son, he became the head of the family. During his schooling he studied in many fields and learned Latin, Greek and French. Then from school he went on to become a successful lawyer. He met and married Martha Skelton, a widow, in 1772; and although she lived only ten years afterwards, they had 5 daughters and one son. However, only two daughters lived to maturity. In politics he had become: Governor of Virginia for two years; Congressman in 1783;Min-iste- r to France from 1784 to 1789; Secretary of State in 1789; Vice President in 1796; President of the United States from 1800 to 1808. In 1809 at the age of 65 he retired to write letters on religion, philosophy, law, education, politics, and science. Many of, these letters became ) By Tom Anderson SUCKING MORE BLOOD With only 6 of the world's people and 7 of the world's land, in spite of our government, we account for 33 of the world's production. And we could greatly exceed that, were our politicians not subservient to a labor union tyranny which constantly dictates more and more pay for less t, d and less production. We should and could be a nation. We are the opposite. We can no longer comthe world on many items because our taxes arc with pete the largest single item in our We pay more in taxes than we pay for food. We pay more in gasol:ne taxes than we pay for all our clothing. The most outrageous tax shelter in our country is enjoyed by the labor unions. Unions n dollar business, including banks, apartoperate a ment complexes, hotels, coal mines, etc. tax free. Why? Because the politicians arc afraid to buck the Unions. It has been estimated that labor unions get approximately $1.5 billion tax free income annually. They use much of this loot to buy politicians and promote partisan causes and campaigns. And their members, in order to hold a job, are forced to perpetuate this colossal fraud. Union members have no civil right in most states, regarding whether they will or will not join the union. The unions', in effect, own the jobs and the workers and the politicians. The unions ladled e out more than $60 million from their gravy bowl trying to elect Hubert H. Humphrey. (Preparation H.H.H. triple strength.) It seems to me that the essence of the argument is not progressive vs. regressive taxation; not direct vs. indirect; not land value vs. land use, so much as it is the total amount of taxation. Confiscatory taxation is bad no matter how and on whom it is perpetrated. The purpose of taxation should be to raise the minimum amount of money necessary to support the minimum amount of government. The Original Sin which brought us to the brink of bankruptcy and dictatorship was the Federal Income Tax Amendment and its illegitimate child, Federal Aid. We should be taxed not according to our ability to pay. but according to the value of the services and privileges we get from the government. Taxation which is deliberately discriminatory and punitive is immoral. It is no more possible to reform our present tax system than it is to reform a whorehouse and they have a lot in common. The last "tax reform' legislation, passed overwhelmingly by the House two years ago, has been called the lawyers and accountants relief act of 1969. The bill is 368 pages in length. With a 226-pareport from the House Ways and e Means Committee, and a supplement report, it was made available to House members only three days before the final vote. There were two days of debate, with no amendments allowed. There is happily growing tax revolt. Many communities have voted down increased taxes. So, to the will of the people, the politicians devised revenue sharing. Revenue sharing means that the Federal Government takes our tax dollars to Washington and then returns a small part of them in the form of bloc grants to the states. Thus local leeches in government arc enabled to suck more blood out of the same turnip without getting the blame of being held accountable for how it is spent. To the politician and bureaucrat, the problem is how to pluck the goose with the least squawk; how to raise evcr-mor- c money for ever-mor- e government. To us beleaguered taxpayers, the problem is how to prevent government from spending any more money. In fact, it is how to drastically reduce the size, scope and cost of government. How to raise tax money is not nearly as important as how to lower government spending. More than 3 million people work to use the word loosely for Big Brother. Eliminating just 1 million of those jobs would save $7 billion a year and increase bureaucratic efficiency. The federal bureaucracy has increased 500 in a period when the population gain has been Incidentally, why is it that neither automation nor recession ever cause unemployment among government workers? The American Way anti-busine- ss low-cos- cost-of-livin- low-taxe- g. gc 143-pag- multi-billio- by-pa- ss tax-fre- 63. classic studies. Jeffersonian Democracy was a popular concept of people living under as little government as possible. To understand the greatness of great men, we need not look to their achievements of wealth, the honors heaped upon them by society, or their titles and offices. We look to their ideas and the brilliance of the principles which they conceived. To know Jefferson, or have reason to honor him, is to revere his words not his monuments of stone. It would be well for the people of America to read again the ideals and principles of government which were written by this founding father. J efferson wrote: 'What has destroyed the liberty and the rights of man in every government which has ever existed under the sun? The generalizing and concentrating all cares and powers into one body. When all government, domestic and foreign, in lit tie as in great things, shall be drawn to Washing- ton as the centre of all power, it will render powerless the checks provided of one government on another, and will become as venal and oppressive as the government from which we separated. The germ of dissolution of our Federal government is in the constitution of the federal judicworkiary; an irresponsible body and by ing like gravity by night Continued on Page 5 71, e jh,anion By PEACE-- ON jforum j Marilyn Manion THE ENEMY'S Early in the morning of March 2, an explosion rocked the Senate wing of the Capitol in Washington, leaving extensive damage in its wake. A bomb had been secreted in an unmarked lavatory, indicating sabotage with the cooperation of before the explosion, a telephone an insider. A half-hocaller warned a Capitol switchboard operator of the impending disaster. The anonymous caller pompously declared that the bombing was in protest of the Nixon involvement in Laos. Senator George McGovern blamed the outrage on our Vietnam madness. The accountability for this vicious act is thus casually tossed in the lap of the Administration with the incredible explanation that if we were not involved in Laos, the Capitol would not have been attacked. This specious reasoning has been used before to explain the whole era of protest: If the United States were not involved in Indochina, the Nation would not be plagued with the violence and criminal outrages committed in the name of Peace. There is another popular interpretation of the myriad of protesters. The New York savage acts performed by anti-wTimes used it to explain the bombing within the Capitol: The aim of the tiny minority of fanatics who are in the business of anarchy is to bring on a general repression in the hope that it will breed more rebels, more anarchists and ultimately the dissolution of society. This is a convenient theory to have about when one wants to berate J. Edgar Hoover for ur ar . TERMS suggesting that conspiracies may be afoot. However, our society at the present moment remains more permissive than repressive. The aim of the fanatics is twofold: to get the U.S. out of Indochina, and to destroy the United States Establishment as we know it. The latter goal is to be reached by effecting the former giving the Communists a stronger grip on more of the globe, thus weakening the free world in general and the United States in particular. The conspiracy is pressed for time, for they want our withdrawal from Indochina before Vietnamization is completed. They do not wish the South Vietnamese government to win the war. Those who wish to destroy America arc more interested in Communist victory than the possibilities of Vietnamization. Even the Washington Post admits that the program has cut American casualties drastically, even when allowance is made for the Laotian helicopter losses; it is turning more and more of the fighting over to the South Vietnamese. Lets face it; if you want Hanoi to win, you are not the least bit interested in helping the South Vietnamese defend themselves against the Communists. When push comes to shove, the question resolves itself into very few words: Are you for, or against, the United States of America? anti-Americ- an The American Way |