by Victor Thorn
August 17, 2003

NOTE: The Victor Thorn show airs every Monday night – 9:00 pm eastern standard time – on the Reality Radio Network – www.realityradionetwork.com.

Well, America, congratulations! We've finally distinguished ourselves now as OFFICIAL SLAVES of the United States government. Yes, you heard me correctly. We are now working, for the first time ever in our history, over half the year to pay Uncle Sam the Tax Man.

Yup, it's now official. According to Americans for Tax Reform, a group that keeps an eye on such matters, Americans had to work until July 11th of this year to pay off their DEBT to the U.S. government. Texas Representative Ron Paul calls this "Cost of Government Day" where "the average American has worked enough in the calendar year to pay for government at the federal, state and local levels."

Can you see what's going on? Can you hear the tide of rolling socialism washing over us? Although I cover this topic much more extensively in my book, The New World Order Exposed, take a look at how much we are now required to work to pay off our various tax debts to the government (on all levels):

January – 31 days – all money earned goes to the government – SLAVERY
February – 28 days - all money earned goes to the government – SLAVERY
March – 31 days - all money earned goes to the government – SLAVERY
April – 30 days - all money earned goes to the government – SLAVERY
May – 31 days - all money earned goes to the government – SLAVERY
June – 30 days - all money earned goes to the government – SLAVERY
July – 11 days - all money earned goes to the government – SLAVERY

Is it starting to sink in yet?...

There are 365 days in every year, and Americans are now working 192 of them for NOTHING - to pay our slave-debt! That comes to 52.6% of our total wages. Now, for a long time the commonly agreed upon tax rate was 48%, which still meant that we kept more of our money than we gave away. But not any more. In fact, we’re now working 17 days longer for our "Cost of Government Day" than we did only three years ago. So, just like that, the government added 2 ½ more weeks of NON-PAID labor to our enslavement since the year 2000.

With all this infuriating information in mind, let me ask all of my fellow Americans a question: in the future, do you think we’ll be working even MORE days to pay off our enslavement debt, or less? If you don’t know the answer, let me remind you that our federal deficit will exceed $455 billion this year (in February 2003, President Bush said that this deficit would only be $304 billion) while we’re spending $1 billion dollars a week to rebuilt Iraq (not to mention our forays in Afghanistan, Africa, and God knows where else).

So, what happens when our government spends more money than it takes in? Answer: it borrows more money from the international bankers, which subsequently increases our national debt, and thus the total amount of yearly interest we must pay. To make up for this deficit, try to guess what our government is going to do. Decrease spending? Hardly! The Bush Administration (supposedly fiscal conservatives, but we know that’s a joke) is outspending the socialist Clinton Democrats in every area, including HUD, schooling, health care, and community development (but who would notice). (As an aside, doesn’t it seem funny that even though we keep funneling more and more money into these programs, none of them seem to get any better?)

Anyway, here’s the bottom line: every time the government goes further into debt and borrows more from the international bankers, OUR TAXES GO UP! Don't believe me? In 1913, when the federal income tax bill was enacted, the government took only 1% of our wages. Now we’re being taxed, in whole, 52% of our wages! We’re working until July 11th to pay our tax-slave debt to the government. And if this trend continues, soon we'll be working into AUGUST. As I illustrate in The New World Order Exposed, there isn't much differentiating us from slaves on a plantation in pre-Civil War times. Can you hear what I’m saying?

To close, I’ll only ask one more question – why are we surrendering such an exorbitant amount of our money via taxation without putting up any fight about it? When will it end? The answer is: not until we do something about it. Will we rebel at 55% of our wages being stolen … 60% … 65% … how about 70% … nah, why don’t we push it until 75% - that way the government gets 3/4s while we get to keep ¼. I'm reminded of an old saying that goes as such: Power never concedes power until it is demanded to do so. It's time to start DEMANDING, folks … it's time for a revolution!

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