Taxation Without Representation is Tyranny
Are We There Again?
Representative Government
The most fundamental aspect of a representative form of government is representation. Constituents elect a representative (or representatives) to a government body to represent their interests. This is done through the process of voting in elections. Voting serves as the mechanism for choosing someone to represent a constituency. The right to vote and the right to representation go back to the earliest forms of democracy and is a critical function of a republic, a form of government in which the state is governed by the representatives of the citizens and has no hereditary monarch. Without the vote, there are no elections and therefore there is no representation.
What happens when the elections are illegitimate due to fraud? Or, what if voters elect representatives to a legislative body that is ignored, disbanded, or fatigued into submission by another authority or branch of government? The latter is what happened to those who lived in the American colonies and this is what caused them to declare their independence from England. After a series of punitive taxes without legislative representation, followed by a series of additional abuses, the colonists decided they could no longer continue to live under tyranny.
In the modern United States, elections have been under scrutiny due to allegations of election fraud. The allegations stem from several election-related problems including the verification of signatures on mail-in ballots (a significant factor in elections), in-person voting disenfranchisement, and problems with vote tabulators. If there was election fraud in any of the previous two or more elections, then was the will of The People accurately represented? Do We The People have proper, political representation?
“History doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes.” ~ Mark Twain
Is history rhyming? To have a better understanding, let’s first take a look at some of the events taking place in the colonies before the beginning of the War for Independence and then compare them to the 2020 election in the modern United States.
The American Colonies
On Oct. 7, 1763, King George III issued a proclamation that claimed British control over all land transactions, settlement and trade west of the Appalachian Mountains. This angered colonists because it took away their Western claims to sovereign authority. The proclamation would be followed by the Sugar and Currency Acts of 1764 and the Quartering and Stamp Acts of 1765. Before these tax acts, the colonies were exempt from measures designed to raise revenue. Parliament decided to end this exemption to raise revenue to pay for the British military presence in North America.
The measures from Parliament were met with anger and protest in the American Colonies. The first set of Acts (Sugar and Currency Acts) motivated colonists to gather at town hall meetings to discuss courses of action. They cried out about taxation without representation in Parliament. Under English law, they felt they had the right to representation. What followed was widespread boycotts of imported goods from England.
The second set of Acts (Quartering and Stamp Acts) were extremely punitive and further angered the colonists. The Stamp Act in particular required colonists to purchase a special stamp for newspapers, almanacs, legal documents, broadsides, playing cards, dice, diplomas, licenses, and custom documents. Colonists responded with organized resistance. They formed a network of secret organizations, called the Sons of Liberty, that would harass and intimidate stamp agents in charge of collecting Parliament’s stamp act taxes. They were successful in persuading all of the appointed agents to resign before the law took effect.
On October 9, 1765, 27 delegates from nine colonies showed up at New York City’s Federal Hall to form what was called The Stamp Act Congress. They met for 18 days. The main argument of the delegates was that neither the British Crown nor Parliament had a right to tax the colonies without representation in Parliament. They also argued that only colonial legislatures could tax colonists, but only if they had representation in that same legislature. Earlier that year, on May 30, Patrick Henry would clearly articulate these same principles in the House of Burgesses with the passage of the Virginia Resolves.
Parliament would go on to ignore any attempt made by the colonists to redress their grievances with their King and Parliament. The two sides would find themselves at war with one another ten years later.
Modern Elections in the United States
The 2020 elections were and still are a controversial topic for discussion. It’s probably the most controversial in recent history, aside from the controversy over the origins of Covid. The election results are now widely known, as it’s been nearly three years since they took place.
On January 20, 2020, Joe Biden was sworn in as the 46th President of the United States. However, millions of Americans still don’t accept the results of the election. A recently published CNN poll shows that ”69% of Republicans and Republican-leaners say Biden’s win was not legitimate.” Here’s a link to the article, if you want to read it. I know, I know, it is CNN. Wade carefully through the rhetoric.
A number of accusations cast doubt on the legitimacy of the election results. In Arizona, Gubernatorial candidate Keri Lake claimed in her election lawsuit, “that Maricopa County failed to verify voter signatures on mail-in ballots,” while Abe Hamadeh, Candidate for Arizona State Attorney General, claimed that the tabulation machines used to count votes “failed to properly count hundreds of votes in his favor.” This was outlined in a May 17, 2023 article published by Votebeat Arizona. Candidates seeking relief through the courts found themselves on the losing side.
While this drama played out in the courts, an effort was made in the Arizona legislature to address election concerns. Unfortunately, most of the proposed election reforms did not pass.
In Michigan, evidence of voter fraud appeared during an investigation by the Muskegon Police Department. According to an article by The Gateway Pundit, the Muskegon, MI City Clerk, Ann Meisch asked the police to investigate after she witnessed a woman dropping off 8,000 -10,000 completed voter registration applications.
The article can be found here, but here are a few excerpts:
A bombshell report following The Gateway Pundit article revealed that a Democrat PAC funneled over $11 million to a dark money group to register voters for Joe Biden’s presidential campaign. The report cites FEC records and has videos of people dropping off multiple ballots in the middle of the night. If you’d like to read it, click here.
There is also evidence of election fraud in several other states including Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Nevada, and Georgia. Issues pertaining to mail-in ballots and signature matching have been the most prevalent of all. Needless to say, most of this has been covered extensively by others. It isn’t practical to cover it all again here. Suffice it to say, there’s evidence of election fraud and corruption all around the country. There have also been several attempts by candidates to present their evidence in the courts but most of those efforts have not been successful thus far, particularly with respect to the Presidential Election.
If We The People cannot have honest, legitimate, and fair elections, then we simply do not have a representative form of government. It doesn’t matter if we vote or not if the elections are rigged.
Taxation Without Representation is Tyranny
Are you still paying your taxes? I bet you are. Every time you engage in commerce regulated by the government, you are paying a tax. Americans pay taxes on practically everything and they hardly bat an eye. That means that we’re all paying for this fraudulent system in one way or another. We’re not getting honest elections although we’re paying for them. By virtue of the rigged elections, constituents aren’t being represented. So, we’re basically being taxed on everything and getting nothing in return, except for tyranny.
Furthermore, the currency is becoming worthless because the Federal Government has no fiscal sanity, no balanced budget, and nobody to stop them from unlimited spending. US Debt Clock is a real-time tool for looking at various financial data, including the U.S. National Debt. It has a lot of data in real-time. Be sure to also take a look at the Dollar to Barrel of Oil Ratio when you go to the website. It’s just an interesting data point to keep in mind for the future. The United States is $32.6 Trillion in debt and that number is rising exponentially. It will not be very long into the future when the currency of the United States crashes and we will experience runaway inflation.
It is important to understand the fundamentals here because we’re getting screwed. To make matters worse, the IRS is said to be adding up to 87,000 new agents. The IRS could confiscate every dollar from every person living in the United States and it still wouldn’t pay off the debt. The corrupt political system gets to send revenue agents after us if we don’t pay our taxes while interfering with our individual right to representation. Does that sound fair to you?
“A Republic if you can keep it.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
Regardless of whether or not history is repeating or rhyming, we may be facing an inevitable collision course in the future. In order to keep our republic, we must restore integrity, fairness, and honesty to our elections. Otherwise, we will find ourselves in the same dire situation that American Colonials found themselves in 247 years ago.
We are being taxed and we aren’t being represented so the best way to change that is by spreading the word to friends, neighbors, family members, and as many others as possible. Speaking up and spreading the word is the best possible tool for achieving the objective. It is a peaceful way to educate others and I expressly emphasize that we remain peaceful.
There will be those who do not understand or who do not want to listen. Do not give up on these people. They are under a spell and that spell can be broken using prayer. We can also plant ideas that will later grow into understanding when these individuals can no longer deny reality. Remember, the American Colonists endured about ten years of tyranny before engaging in a kinetic war with England for independence. Kinetic war is not our objective and we do not want it at home. We can’t raise our families in war zones. The colonists exhausted every peaceful avenue before being forced by the British to defend their lives. War for them was unavoidable.
At present, I believe there are still peaceful options. Pressuring legislators on the State level by calling and sending emails about election reform is one option. Do you know how rare it is for a constituent to handwrite or type a letter and then mail it to a legislator? When someone takes the time to mail a letter, it signals to a legislator that the constituent should be taken seriously. Hand-written letters carry weight.
Another peaceful option is to hold an Article V Convention of States to propose amendments for ratification that would be written to reign in the Federal Government. Similarly, a body of citizens within various states could organize for the purpose of applying political pressure on state legislators to enact election reforms or to get ballot propositions before voters in the next election cycle that do the same. The key to change is involvement. Each one of us has to get involved to do something on some level. Another way to do this is to start organizing local town hall meetings with other community members.
Either way, this will take some additional time and patience. We will all have to endure and hold on through this struggle until we restore our Republic. When that time comes, we shall be free from this tyranny and we will make sure that this never happens again. We will succeed. The best part of all is we already have all of the tools we need. We have each other, the wisdom of the Founders and we have God.
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