If you were to oppose today’s complex and expansive tax structure because you wanted to keep more of what you earn, you would be completely justified.  The sinister effects of high taxes, however, go far beyond your right to keep the money you rightfully earned.  Let’s discuss the real reasons why we should all oppose over-taxation.

In America there is no royalty.  One need not descend from a special family to achieve success here.  In America, more so than in any other country, it is not who you know, but what you know.  If you are willing to work hard, make sacrifices, and have a product or service to offer your fellow citizens, success beyond imagination can be yours.  That’s what made our country great.

But now, elected officials, whom we sustain at our expense, have forgotten that they are answerable to us.  Their goal is to fill their campaign coffers for their next election.  And how do they do this?  By concocting massive government programs that benefit select constituents, who in turn make campaign contributions from the money funneled to them.

In alarming numbers, people are getting rich not by offering a useful product or service, but rather by bilking a system funded by our taxes.  Increasingly, financial success is based not on what one knows, but whom one knows.  This has a demoralizing effect on hard working, honest citizens who see the system reward the unproductive while penalizing the productive. 

This sinister and devious trend must not be allowed to continue.  Nor should it be overlooked or underestimated.  The hard work, cleverness, ingenuity and creativity which were formerly channeled towards making our country the greatest in history, are now being used to apply for sundry government grants and useless cockamamie programs.  Politicians promise undeserved rewards to unproductive constituents with our tax dollar.

One should not overlook the demoralizing effect that this trend has on our fellow Americans.  Nor should we overlook what it has done to the American family.  There was a time, not so long ago, that a man could support his entire family on his income.  His wife had the option of serving her country and family by being a homemaker and mother.  Being home for her kids when they needed her most. 

Today's high taxes make it impossible for most men to support an entire family.  And now, even with the added income of a wife, the couple struggles to make ends meet.  And as they go to work every day, making do with less, trying to save for the future, they see neighbors who have learned to bilk the system enjoy the unearned fruits of their cunning labor.  As more couples succumb to getting something for nothing, we are choking our economy.  We are killing our country. 

We must put an end to wasteful government programs immediately.  We must pressure elected officials to drastically reduce our taxes at once.  Hard working, productive Americans must be allowed to keep much more of their income.  This will not only eliminate the temptation of trying to get something for nothing, but will revive the economy, create real jobs, restore morale and productivity to a people that deserve nothing less.

We are a religious and ethical nation.  The truly needy will never be abandoned.  All others should learn to play with their own money, not ours.