Thoughts on indebtedness.
Let us imagine for a moment that you go to a restaurant, you place an
order for a hamburger. The proprietor of the restaurant tells you the cost is
$5 for the hamburger, and you pay $5 for the hamburger. You get your food.
No problems. Well worth the money you paid for it. No complaints.
Then when you are done eating, the owner of the restaurant shows up at your
table, apologizes profusely, explains that he underestimated the real cost
of providing you with the hamburger he agreed to serve you and hands you a
bill for an additional sum he had to borrow in order to provide the meal
plus interest since the start of your meal. Do you pay it? Of course not.
You, the customer, entered into a verbal contract with the proprietor of
the restaurant to provide you with your meal at the price agreed to by all
parties prior to the transaction.
If the proprietor of the restaurant has miscalculated the cost of meeting
his agreed-to obligation to the customer, is the customer obligated to
cover the shortfall? No. The proprietor of the restaurant is responsible
for the error, and if he cannot meet his agreed-to obligations for the
agreed-upon price, he should declare bankruptcy, go out of business, and
make way for a new restaurant with better fiscal sense.
Simple common sense.
Let us imagine for a moment that you live in a nation, and you request
some benefits. The government tells you the cost is $500 for the benefits,
and you pay $500 in taxes for the benefits. You get your benefits. No problems.
Well worth the money you paid for them. No complaints.
Then when you have your benefits, the government shows up at your door,
apologizes profusely, explains that it underestimated the real cost
of providing you with the benefits it agreed to provide and hands you a
bill for an additional sum it had to borrow in order to provide the services,
plus interest since the start of your use of the benefits. Do you pay it?
Of course not. You, the citizen, entered into a verbal contract with the
government to provide you with your benefits at the taxes agreed to by all
parties prior to the transaction.
If the government has miscalculated the cost of meeting the agreed-to
obligation to the citizen, is the citizen obligated to cover the shortfall?
No. The government is responsible for the error, and if it cannot meet it's
agreed-to obligations for the agreed-upon price, it should declare bankruptcy,
go out of business, and make way for a new government with better fiscal sense.
The claim is constantly made that "we" (meaning the citizens) have already
spent the almost 6 trillion dollars that the Federal Government owes and that
therefore "we" (meaning the citizens) must repay it. This is nonsense. No
taxpayer alive now ever voted or otherwise agreed to allow the government to
borrow money on their behalf and agreed to underwrite the resultant ruinous
interest obligation. No citizen spent that money. The government spent it, to
keep promises it had no business making in the first place.
The Federal Reserve Act (Otherwise known as the currency act) was voted
into law December 23, 1913. The people who voted in that law are all dead.
No taxpayer alive today had anything to say about repaying any money the
government borrowed to keep it's promises. We did not have any choice in
the matter. We did not choose to accept this obligation. It has been forced on
us. It was manufactured for us.
Certainly the young people who are becoming voters and taxpayers this year
have had no say at all about the almost 6 trillion dollar debt that our
government hands to them and says,"This thou shalt pay". To so encumber
our children without their permission is at best indentured servitude; at
the worst outright slavery.
We The People didn't borrow that 6 trillion dollars. We The People, those of
us alive today, paying taxes today, have never had the opportunity to decide
whether or not we are obligated to cover the bad debts of a government that
gets elected by selling $5 dollar hamburgers, only to tell us after election
day that they really cost $7 and we are now obligated for that additional $2.
Every man, woman, retired senior citizen and even the tiniest newborn baby
are being told that they owe $22,556 extra for services that were bought and
paid for by an agreed-to tax rate.
Are those tiny newborn babies really obligated for $22,556 because of a law
passed 84 years before they were born?
Are those tiny newborn babies really obligated for $22,556 because our
government makes promises it cannot keep?
Or is it time for the Federal Government to declare bankruptcy and make
way for something better?
