reply to post by earthship35
No offense taken, and none meant to be given.
I am a little over a decade older than you, and I remember what this country was like in the seventies, and we had a great deal more freedom then.
Starting in the eighties is when they began to seriously work at taking away our liberties primarily through the war on drugs.
That is when they also began to make the push to get rid of family farms. Small businesses do take on an unfair percentage of the tax burden, in fact
the largest percentage of the federal tax burden, and small businesses whose business transactions do not cross state and federal borders should not
be paying so much money to the federal government.
The money going to banks and insurance companies is even worse. Ten percent is taken off the top of all credit card and ATM charges. That is a big
chunk. Then of course there are penalties and interest, and then of course high insurance costs because with loose laws governing business practices,
there is a lot more room to create lawsuits. The numbers of lawsuits skyrocketed after de-regulation was enacted.
People always want to blame government, but government is a necessary evil. It is the power and influence of the super rich that has grown out of
control through the mass redistribution of wealth that has occurred under de-regulation. It is the power and influence of the super rich that has
turned government against us.

