As another Lame Cherry exclusive in matter anti matter.
In Thomas Paine's Common Sense, he records an interesting study as to the tax structure of England previous to 1776.
In that period, 11 million 642 thousand, 653 pounds sterling were the taxes collected in England on a population of 7 million. This excluded Scotland and Ireland.
This meant 1 pound 13 shillings and 3 pence on every man, woman and child.
5 million pounds went to pay the debt incurred by other wars, and the rest went to maintain the Empire in there being no surplus.
That 5 million in interest would be the financiers who started this debt lending which destroyed England and is now Obama destroyed America in his trillions of dollar looting spree.
Mr. Paine makes the comment that the war in America was costing in the land war, 5 million pounds per year. That is an enormous sum.
I place the numbers of the taxes collected:
2, 528, 275 Customs
4, 649, 892 Excise taxes
1, 300, 000 Land taxes at 3 shillings
450,000 Land taxes at 1 shilling
218, 739 Salt tax
280, 788 Taxes on stamps, bonds, indentures, leases, newspapers etc....
385, 369 Taxes on houses and windows
250, 000 Taxes on wine and coaches etc...
150, 000 Taxes on lotteries
I am a firm Biblical believer in the Tithe or 10% to maintain the State. That would mean that English people would have to earn almost 60 pounds per household of 3 to pay the taxes being spent in empire and there was not any way people were paid that enormous sum which would be akin to every American household earning 350,000 dollars per year.
I will not go into the absolute mismanagement of the British Empire in the lands not utilized, the lack of reward for those on their own small industry would have produced everything from salt to gold if the empire had gotten out of the way, as the American Government got out of the way of Americans to exploit resources which generated huge sums of revenue, but it harkens back to the reality that England was prosperous and productive, and in taxes could have lived well in a family living on almost 2 pounds per person.
It is all a lesson which the robbery against Americans in the 21st century is going to have to be balanced as the elite like in England create this monopoly where the poor exist and the rich live in luxury, and this is the course which is being inflicted upon Americans.
Market forces are no longer employed in lending money, debt, housing, education or healthcare, as it is all monopoly at set prices which are illegally set. The 2008 Obama crash saw prices go up in real estate and everything else in a Super Depression. That is impossible as no bank went bankrupt in the sense of losing properties in a town, but instead the properties were held, just like there was not a wholesale availability of automobiles to drive prices down.
If you observe the English taxes, there were no income taxes, but the taxes were all sales taxes or consumption taxes and they generated more than enough revenue. I worry this back and forth as prices in America are out of control to be inflated instead of deflated. Every project now is some million dollar building to 100 million dollar construction and every piece of equipment is one hundred thousand to half a million dollars.
The best solution for America is a Ronald Reagan deflation of the economy and it would be an acceptable thing to have collapse of the real economy, in which the financiers did not have opportunity like Obama carpetbaggers to inflate prices at the community level.
In the English exchange, there tax on Rum was 5 shillings and one 1 penny per gallon, in America that would be 1 silver dollar and 14 coppers. The rate would be about 1 dollar 1 cent in pound rate to 1 dollar 14 cents for the American. I place that here to show the rate as the rate listed is 1 pound equalled in exchange, four dollars and fifty three cents American.
Mr. Paine makes an Al Gore satire in Gore's carbon tax for breathing or farting would be equal to King George's Tax on sunlight. Yes the Crown charged 18 pence per window for the English to enjoy the sun
as much as they taxed the salt of the earth.
The allowance for American governmental expenses were 2 million pounds per year, in 1.2 for the military at war and 800,000 for the Continental and State Governments.
His assesement was that for every person in America with a population of 3 million souls, that it would cost about 20 cents per month to fund the government in time of war.
I will inform people that before that traitor Franklin Roosevelt rose to power that Washington DC shut down in summer as it was too hot, and American budgets were miniscule in requiring no income tax, and you will recall that America was a world leader in it had the best railroads and sufficient roads to move commerce.
I place this before you a Lame Cherry maxim, and the American Government was designed to PROMOTE the common good by defending person and property.
Governements have one purpose and that is to spend money which they get by stealing it from those whose work produces money. The purpose in spending money has no purpose, but how to waste it in the most extravagant of ways. The penal process appears then in criminalizing those who do not consent to having their money stolen.
Governments do not protect citizens ever, but protect themselves with army and police, from other governments or from their own citizens seeking to take what the government has confisicated.
Thomas Paine projects taxes out simply on one bushel of wheat per 20 acres of land to pay American debt. That is a most enlightened and low tax on Americans as much as his democratic import tax in using a consumption tax to raise revenues as people can decide on things imported as the necessities of food, clothing and energy could all be produced inside America.
This study is placed here for awareness in how all of these problems afflicting Americans and the world started in just one little tax which now has a spending rate of 40,000 dollars per every person. It would be cheaper to shut the regime down, and just pay every household 40,000 dollars as it would save the Treasury a trillion dollars a year.
Everyone knows the system has been deliberately broken to steal from you, make the government the thief as the money all ends up in a financier's account, done so to impoverish you, so you do not rise up and ruel yourselves.
This though is enough tax on your brains, but is to give you perspective on the historical context of taxes on populations in Anglo America.
agtG
