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Title: The State Against Families
Source: UncleBob's Treehouse
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Published: Jan 31, 2011
Author: Bob Wallace
Post Date: 2011-01-31 11:42:01 by Turtle
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Views: 260
Comments: 1

It’s impossible to choose any exact point when the State started destroying families. I’d say it’s been more of a slippery slope than anything else, so you can’t choose any point and say, “This is where it started going downhill.”

But one watershed moment was in 1943, when Americans started having taxes withheld from their paychecks. Before then, Americans paid on tax day. But when they started having money withheld from their checks…the effect was great for the State and bad for the citizens.

Income tax withholding raised revenues from $686 million in 1943 to $7.8 billion in 1944. This meant the State got richer and all the citizens got poorer. Withholding was supposed to be a temporary wartime measure, but that’s not what happened. When it comes to the State “temporary” not only means “permanent” but is also means “ratcheted up every year.”

People thought the shortages and deprivations were caused by World War II. Some were. But how many were caused by the government taking over eleven times as much money from citizens in 1944 as 1943?

Another watershed moment was in 1971 when Nixon went off of the gold standard, allowing the Federal Reserve Bank (which is not federal, has no reserves, and is not a bank) to merry inflate to its hearts content, thereby allowing the quick destruction of the dollar.

The result of these two devastating things (there were other causes, of course)? Wages stopped going up in 1973, and have been flat, and in many cases declining, ever since.

If the State at the minimum had not withheld taxes from citizens, and not gone off of the gold standard, allowing to Fed to run U.S over a cliff, I suspect the average salary today would be about $70,000 a year.

How did these things affect families? When you factor in the immense destructiveness of radical left-wing feminism, oppressive taxation, Affirmative Action, and crushing economic regulations, what has happened now is that is takes both a husband and wife working to have even a middle-class existence. One with a few children.

Had the State stayed out of the economy, it would have been possible for a man and woman to both work part time and have a decent existence. Instead, these days, often both of them have to work more than full-time, which means giving their children to be raised by public schools. Very often this also means putting them in preschool so the parents can work.

Had both been able to work part time, they could spend much more time with their children and properly educate them, instead of having to scrub the dirt out of their brains that had been ground into them by the public schools.

It just astonishes me that some people still think the U.S. is a free country. Parents working more than full-time just to make ends meet, giving their children at several months old to be raised by strangers, then putting them in public schools from five to 17 (what does it take 12 years to learn anyway?) to have them taught things they don’t want them taught, having their lifeblood sucked out by the State and then being lied to by whackjob liberals that they are “undertaxed compared to Europe” (aka ‘nations of eternal warfare’)…and this is the way things are supposed to be?

People have claimed that married women work to buy all the goodies the couple could do without. That’s not true. These days, most of the time, if the wife quits working and they try to live on the husband’s salary, they end up living in a used mobile home. But a nice middle-class house? Get a time machine.

The U.S. is not longer at replacement rate. “Scholars,” puzzled, scratch their brains. Some do understand the destructive effect of the State on families and the economy, but not enough. How often do you see the truth in the mainstream media? Almost never.

None of these bad things can last. It never has in the past, it won’t now, and it won’t in the future. No one can predict when. But I’ll say this: it seems to be getting pretty close. )

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#1. To: Turtle (#0)

Great analysis of our sad state of affairs.

As the title of the book says, The State Owns It All, Including You .

Somewhere in Kenya, a village is missing its idiot.

Lod  posted on  2011-01-31   11:59:05 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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