The following is an open letter to the members of the U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate. While the author has sent this letter to Representative Kay Granger, (R), 12th Congressional District, Senator John Cornyn, (R), Texas, and Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison, (R), Texas, you are encouraged to copy this letter, or write one yourself, to your House and Senate representatives.
History has demonstrated that each and every time efforts to "stimulate" the economy through the confiscation of the private resources, personal wealth and the productive capacity of the people has been tried, it has resulted in utter failure. Uniformly, this failure has resulted in driving the national economy to greater depths of pain and difficulty over longer periods of time. Hold your representatives accountable for their votes on this issue, be they Democrat or Republican. It is time for patriots to once again stand and defend the nation; you and me! May we ever reject the poverty of Marxist Socialism!
The "Open Letter to Congress" follows:
To those men and women entrusted with the great honor and responsibility of representing the people of the United States of America,
Greetings,
It is with the greatest abundance of grief and foreboding of impending danger to the survival of our nation that I write to you today. At this very moment, as the lives and hopes of American citizens are being irrevocably damaged by the actions of our new and misguided government, the opportunities of entrepreneurs, and the workers they depend upon to deliver their goods and services to market, are being destroyed by partisans bent on the destruction of capitalism and the advance of the parasitic political philosophy of socialism in America championed by the Democrat Party!
I implore you to refuse to hear the demands of the tyrannical left! As one who, after decades of military service, with active duty in Vietnam and Afghanistan, and one who is personally suffering today from long-term unemployment due to the parasitic philosophy of government in Washington this day, stop taking the resources of American productivity away from those in private industry and enterprise! Instead, if you truly desire to stimulate the economy, cut taxes and government spending to only those levels absolutely required for civil government and national defense! Stop the attack upon American businesses and cease to choke the engine of economic development through the confiscatory doctrine of the federal treasury by the Democrat Party! Indeed, the objectives of the Democrat Party seek not only to confiscate the property, wealth and productive capacity of the current citizens of this nation; but, if they are successful, they will likewise reach far into the pockets of Americans yet to be born to support their efforts to rob the nation of its treasury!
In the days leading up to the American Revolution the colonists objected to the concept of “taxation without representation.” Colonists recognized that the reality of their circumstance prohibited them from having a legitimate voice in the affairs of government through the English Parliament.
Instead, the Crown and Parliament argued that the colonies benefited from a virtual representation by members of Parliament who exercised a benevolent governance toward them. The colonists rejected such representation, as well they should. After all, what honest American could suggest that “property-owning adult males…virtually represented non-voting women, slaves and men without property” [http://u-s-history.com/pages/h640.html]?
Certainly you cannot presuppose that you are the virtual representatives of the best interest of generations of Americans yet to be born [at least those who are not destroyed through abortion]! Yet in the legislation before you, you are appropriating the very productive capacity of these citizens before they have even been conceived! How utterly shameful if you agree to this!
Answering arguments against the colonist’s objections to unrepresented taxation, an anonymous writer of 1775 wrote:
But an American can have no possible influence in the choice of an English senator; and an English senator, when he taxes an American, cannot tax himself also, because he has no property in America to be taxed: yet self-taxation is the sole pledge of the taxer, for security of the taxed. He, who does not tax himself, taxes others without feeling: he may, therefore, tax without propriety, and without measure; may take, not only a fifth, or a fourth, but the half, or even the whole of property; and make the wealthy subject an impoverished slave. The wisest forms of government, adverting to the imperfection of human nature, have, as much as possible, avoided leaving one man at the mercy of another; they have ever contrived some rational restraint on action, some bond of reciprocal safety.
You allow, that “the colonists inherit all the privileges of Englishmen, all the privileges that their ancestors had.” They then inherit the grand privilege of Englishmen, free government; but this privilege they do not enjoy, if they are taxed without being represented. It is an axiom which cannot be too forcibly impressed on the mind “Government cannot be free, where property is taken not given.”
Sandoz, Ellid, Ed., “A Constitutional Answer To Wesley’s Calm Address, by Anonymous (1775)” Volume: Political Sermons of the American Founding Era, 1, [ISBN: 0-86597-181-1 (Pages 425-435), Edit Year: 1998]; ConSource.org.
The hounds of the U.S. Treasury, the I.R.S., may soon, I expect, be searching through all of my personal history to try and discover some means of punishing me for speaking out on this subject. So be it! I have defended the United States of America over more than three decades against all enemies, both foreign and domestic. If they try to silence men and women who cry out against the destruction of the economic and moral foundations upon which this nation was founded, and you, our elected representatives stand by supporting it, the shame and guilt will be yours!
Defeat this confiscatory bill being presented falsely as a “stimulus”! Instead, allow Americans to keep what they earn and produce, only requiring the support of those functions of government that are essential for sound civil government and national defense.
Represent us with integrity and honor; not the greed of a socialist government!
This “open letter to Congress” may be found on the web at: http://Combatsoldier.blogtownhall.com.