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Show LAWMAKING AND TAXATION The lawmakers are in session, both state and national. Their time will be taken up considering tens of thousands thous-ands of new bills. The majority of laws proposed will further restrict individual liberty and at the same time make citizens pay, through taxes, for the limitations placed upon them. It is safe to say that 99 per cent of the measures up for consideration were not asked for by the people, are not needed by the people, and are not wanted by the people. Some individual individu-al or organization decides the peo pie should be assisted, uplifted or restricted re-stricted the result is a new law proposed pro-posed under which the proponents of the measure can see some advantage to themselves, either financial, political politi-cal or honorary. The bill for pass- . ing all new laws and later enforcing them, is sent to the taxpayers! no living laywer can keep track of new legislation. A citizen can hardly hard-ly pass a day without unintentionally breaking a law. Police departments can not begin to enforce the laws and ordinances. If they did, the courts would be so swamped that most of the offenders would not live long enough to come to trial. The result is that we are a nation of lawbreakers. And why do we all break the law? In most cases, because be-cause we are not aware of it. Obsolete Obsol-ete laws should be removed from the statute books, and thus eliminate the cost of "trying" to enforce them. The taxation question starts and ends with lawmaking. If anyone has any doubt about this let him read measures proposed in his state or the nation, and then check up the expense attached to the "new law." |
