Now we're rolling!

The value of my property has gone into the toilet. Two years ago, when the free fall started, the County came in and revalued my property for tax purposes so that I can fund the school district. Did the value of my property go down? Of course not. It went up. Way up. So much so that I pay taxes on a property that is worth less than 2/3 of what it is being taxed at. My property taxes DOUBLED at a time when I would have to PAY someone to buy this house.

Enter the insurance company. A company I have been with for more than a decade and never filed a claim with. I carry 4 different policies with this company. We have made minor improvements in the basement of this house in the last three years. After an external inspection of the home and a brief phone questionnaire, the replacement value of the home alone is proposed to go up by 50%, raising the premium by about 65%.

There is now talk of seizure of 401k's and Roth's, because it is apparently not enough to steal straight from our paychecks anymore. In looking into getting OUR money out of a retirement plan--not even the company match, just the money my husband's EARNED-- the Imperial Federal Government has mandated that 20% be taken off the top, 10% penalty for getting OUR money out, with the possibility of MORE tax liability at filing time!

We are paying Social Security Tax, Federal Income Tax, Medicare Tax, State Income Tax, Local Income Tax, County Property Tax, County Sales Tax...These are just the big ones that I can think of off the top of my head! There are embedded Taxes on fuel, alcohol, tobacco, and sugar, and truthfully in everything that we buy. The manufacturer is taxed heavily by the Imperial Federal Government as punishment for being Capitalist and trying to make 8% profit on what they sell. That heavy taxation is passed on to the consumer in the price of the item so that the company can make its 8%, reinvest it in the process of production, and continue making said product.

And then the money we have left over to save, if there is any, is taxed if we earn too much interest on it! It is taxed if we try to actually gain access to it when we need it, to the tune of no less than 30%!

Wake the hell up, people! LOOK at your paycheck! Look at your receipts! Look at your bills with all of the hidden taxes. Look at the taxes and fees on your cell phone bill, your ISP bill, you cable/satellite bill! We are being robbed BLIND because we are too lazy to do anything about it. We are so used to our ideals and creature comforts and this ridiculous notion that OUR government would NEVER act like YOUR government. Like parents that are completely blind to the horrendous behavior of their OWN children while condemning other parents, we have refused to come out from behind our privacy fences and security systems and really stand up to the criminals that we are forever electing to office.

-$7,000,000,000,000.00!!! Look at that number, people. That's a negative. That's a debt. That's a deficit. That number is only getting bigger. Where do you think that money came from?! Government DOES NOT MAKE MONEY! It "BORROWS" money. From the People and from other Governments! What happens when these other Governments try to collect? What happens if WE try to collect? Our Government is spending our money before it even steals it from us in the form of taxes. Where do you think that 7 trillion dollars our government doesn't have is going to come from? (Look at your check stub again...)

This isn't about Party, people. This is about a corrupt Government that has us all in financial chains. It all needs to be brought down. The tax system, social security, WELFARE (not Entitlement Programs or Public Services!), the two-party system, career politicians, term limits or the lack thereof, non-Citizens and non-taxpayer voting, career students voting...None of it is working any more!