Show THE DESIRE TO oil N in a remarkable book entitled the desire to own J A arnold secre aay manager of the american taxpayers league traces ou that this desire was largely the cause of man mans s long ascent up the ladder of civilization back in the dark ages that precede written history early man settled himself on a plot of ground little by little he began gathering together possessions these possessions he would defend with his life A the centuries passed other kindred desires appeared in the awakening brain of man the desire to earn to save to transmit property to his kindred of blood who followed his death As man got things as population centered government was established for mutual protection in the ownership of what he and others had this agency that he established called his government now says we are supreme you are citizens we are the state greater than you which you must obey and enforce es that usurpation by taxes and the manipulation of taxes income taxes and tariffs which are taxes if seen rightly then with control of the treasury having the army and navy a mere citizen is told plainly by heads of bureaus just where he gets off at mr arnold says the power of government over the purse must be limited government should be limited to governing policing protecting by laws making secure possessions not usurping control that thought will eventually have to be thrown off we have gone silly in a course that will have to be seen over long years before its wrongs will be recognized so far the symptoms are developing and a diagnosis can be made by some prudent writers it will be long before the public mind will reach that conclusion now so generally shared by leaders of either party and the leaders of the present party in power are seeking to gain control as a group over and do away with one man usurpation of government the desire to own will overcome the desire to redistribute and the government attempting to redistribute will be changed ownership isn t bad profit bad why change ownership into nonprofit non profit dwon leveling redistribution 6 |