Deliberate Over-Taxation - No Better Than Theft

Deliberate Over-Taxation Is Theft.

There is some legitimacy to the view that, in a democratic country, the government is entitled, by the consent of its subjects, to forceably confiscate wealth [taxation] to pay for the cost of government and the services it provides.

Where that legitimacy is undermined or even destroyed is when, in a nominal democracy like Canada, the government is not accountable or responsible to its subjects, and it not only constantly and consistently confiscates more wealth than is actually needed for the above-stated purposes, but it diverts that wealth to partisan purposes, contrary to the needs and interests of its subjects. In so doing, it is no better than a country run by thugs and theives, like ByeloRussia, Zimbabwe or the ilk.

That is the case in Canada and has been the case for too long. Enormous surpluses of taxation revenue, estimated to grow to over $9 Billion in fiscal 2005-2006, and in a similar range in the past few years, reflect a combination of incompetent fiscal management and governing-party greed. Perhaps these funds are sought by the Liberals to fund additional, yet undiscovered, scandalous excesses like the Adscam money-grab, the gun registry debacle, the pilfering of the Employment/Unemployment funds, or the HRDC give-aways, but these are not legitimate reasons for confiscation of subjects' money.

I do not consider the Liberal government as legitimate, ruling as it has for many years without the voting support of a real majority of Canadians. Our governmental structure also places and retains too much power in the hands of the Prime Minister and an out-of-control bureaucracy, and too little in the hands of Members of Parliament and a Senate that ought to be elected. Canadian government has for too many years been more of a dictatorship than a democratic institution. Because of this history, the apparent consent of the governed is largely illusory and meaningless.

Given this analysis, the confiscation of subjects' wealth, resulting in obscene surpluses, is nothing better than theft and plunder.

A good beginning towards righting this wrong would be to return the confiscated wealth to those it was taken from. This could involve tax cuts for the future, to ensure that the theft does not continue, and refunds to those of us whose wealth was stolen. Nothing less would suffice.

Another good step would be create laws allowing criminal prosecution of our politicians for their outrageous behaviour. How can we be so anxious to criminally prosecute business executives whose avarice and greed has defrauded investors and, at the same time, ignore a similar kind of behaviour by politicians? Should I hold my breath in expectation of fairness and justice? Not bloody likely!

On an aside, but nevertheless a related issue, why does a large segment of the electorate, primarily Ontarians, continue to support the Liberals despite their record of greed, dishonesty and theft? I have never been a Conservative supporter, but I cannot undertand how they could be any worse than that?

European Cowardice Re: Islamist Terrorism

I couldn't have described it better. So here is a biting criticism of the timidity of liberal Europe's response to Islamist Terrorism. Since Canada's response is so similar to Europe's, this article applies with equal force to the Liberal regime and the cowards of Canada.

Our biggest problem in dealing honestly with the looming threat of Islamist violence and terror is the legacy of mind-rot created by Trudeau's multiculturalist policies, which have resulted in Canadians being ashamed of Canadian values and virtues and an unwillingness to demand of Islamists and other immigrants that they conform to our values instead of us adapting to and conforming to theirs.

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Matthias Dapfner, Chief Executive of the huge German publisher Axel Springer AG, has written a blistering attack in DIE WELT, which is Germany's largest daily newspaper, against the timid reaction of Europe in the face of the Islamic threat.

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EUROPE - THY NAME IS COWARDICE

(Commentary by Mathias Dapfner CEO, Axel Springer, AG)

A few days ago Henry Broder wrote in Welt am Sonntag, "Europe - your family name is appeasement." It's a phrase you can't get out of your head because it's so terribly true.

Appeasement cost millions of Jews and non-Jews their lives as England and France, allies at the time, negotiated and hesitated too long before they noticed that Hitler had to be fought, not bound to toothless Agreements.

Appeasement legitimized and stabilized Communism in the Soviet Union, then East Germany, then all the rest of Eastern Europe where for decades, inhuman, suppressive, murderous governments were glorified as the ideologically correct alternative to all other possibilities.

Appeasement crippled Europe when genocide ran rampant in Kosovo and even though we had absolute proof of ongoing mass-murder, we Europeans debated and debated and debated and were still debating when finally the Americans had to come from halfway around the world, into Europe yet again and do our work for us.

Rather than protecting democracy in the Middle East, European appeasement, camouflaged behind the fuzzy word "equidistance", now countenances suicide bombings in Israel by fundamentalist Palestinians.

Appeasement generates a mentality that allows Europe to ignore nearly 500,000 victims of Saddam's torture and murder machinery and motivated by the self-righteousness of the peace-movement, has the gall to issue bad grades to George Bush... even as it is uncovered that the loudest critics of the American action in Iraq made illicit billions, no, TENS of billions, in the corrupt UN Oil-for-Food program.

And now we are faced with a particularly grotesque form of appeasement ........

How is Germany reacting to the escalating violence by Islamic fundamentalists in Holland and elsewhere? By suggesting that we really should have a "Muslim Holiday" in Germany.

I wish I were joking, but I am not. A substantial fraction of our (German) Government and if the polls are to be believed, the German people, actually believe that creating an Official State "Muslim Holiday" will somehow spare us from the wrath
of the fanatical Islamists.

One cannot help but recall Britain's Neville Chamberlain waving the laughable treaty signed by Adolph Hitler and declaring European "Peace In Our Time".

Appeasement legitimized and stabilized Communism in the Soviet Union, then East Germany, then all the rest of Eastern Europe where for decades, inhuman, suppressive, murderous governments were glorified as the ideologically correct alternative to all other possibilities.

Appeasement crippled Europe when genocide ran rampant in Kosovo and even though we had absolute proof of ongoing mass-murder, we Europeans debated and debated and debated and were still debating when finally the Americans had to come from halfway around the world, into Europe yet again and do our work for us.

Rather than protecting democracy in the Middle East, European appeasement, camouflaged behind the fuzzy word "equidistance," now countenances suicide bombings in Israel by fundamentalist Palestinians.

Appeasement generates a mentality that allows Europe to ignore nearly 500,000 victims of Saddam's torture and murder machinery and motivated by the self-righteousness of the peace-movement, has the gall to issue bad grades to George Bush... even as it is uncovered that the loudest critics of the American action in Iraq made illicit billions, no, TENS of billions, in the corrupt UN Oil-for-Food program.

And now we are faced with a particularly grotesque form of appeasement ........

How is Germany reacting to the escalating violence by Islamic fundamentalists in Holland and elsewhere? By suggesting that we really should have a "Muslim Holiday" in Germany.

I wish I were joking, but I am not. A substantial fraction of our (German) Government and if the polls are to be believed, the German people, actually believe that creating an Official State "Muslim Holiday" will somehow spare us from the wrath of the fanatical Islamists.

One cannot help but recall Britain's Neville Chambeerlain waving the laughable treaty signed by Adolph Hitler and declaring European "Peace in our Time".

What else has to happen before the European public and its political leadership get it? There is a sort of crusade underway,an especially perfidious crusade consisting of systematic attacks by fanatic Muslims, focused on civilians,
directed against our free, open Western societies and intent upon western Civilization's utter destruction.

It is a conflict that will most likely last longer than any of the great military conflicts of the last century - a conflict conducted by an enemy that cannot be tamed by "tolerance" and "accommodation" but is actually spurred on by such gestures, which have proven to be and will always be taken by the Islamists for signs of weakness.

Only two recent American Presidents had the courage needed for anti-appeasement .... Reagan and Bush.

His American critics may quibble over the details; but, we Europeans know the truth. We saw it first hand: Ronald Reagan ended the Cold War, freeing half of the German people from nearly 50 years of terror and virtual slavery. And Bush,
supported only by the Social Democrat Blair, acting on moral conviction, recognized the danger in the Islamic War against democracy. His place in history will have to be evaluated after a number of years have passed.

In the meantime, Europe sits back with charismatic self-confidence in the multicultural corner, instead of defending liberal society's values and being an attractive centre of power on the same playing field as the true great powers, America and China.

On the contrary - we Europeans present ourselves, in contrast to those "arrogant Americans", as the World Champions of "tolerance", which even (Germany's Interior Minister) Otto Schily justifiably criticizes. Why? Because we're so moral? I fear it's more because we're so materialistic, so devoid of a moral compass.

For his policies, Bush risks the fall of the dollar, huge amounts of additional national debt, and a massive and persistent burden on the American economy - because unlike almost all of Europe, Bush realizes what is at stake - literally everything.

What else has to happen before the European public and its political leadership get it? There is a sort of crusade underway, an especially perfidious crusade consisting of systematic attacks by fanatic Muslims, focused on civilians,
directed against our free, open Western societies and intent upon Western Civilization's utter destruction.

It is a conflict that will most likely last longer than any of the great military conflicts of the last century - a conflict conducted by an enemy that cannot be tamed by "tolerance" and "accommodation" but is actually spurred on by such gestures, which have proven to be and will always be taken by the Islamists for signs of weakness.

On the contrary - we Europeans present ourselves, in contrast to those "arrogant Americans", as the World Champions of "tolerance", which even (Germany's Interior Minister) Otto Schily justifiably criticizes. Why? Because we're so moral? I fear it's more because we're so materialistic, so devoid of a moral compass.

While we criticize the "capitalistic robber barons" of America because they seem too sure of their priorities, we timidly defend our Social Welfare systems. Stay out of it! It could get expensive! We'd rather discuss reducing our 35-hour workweek or improving our dental coverage, or our 4 weeks of paid vacation, or listen to TV pastors preach about the need to "reach out to terrorists". To understand and forgive.

These days, Europe reminds me of an old woman who, with shaking hands, frantically hides her last pieces of jewellery when she notices a robber breaking into a neighbour's house.

Appeasement? Europe, thy name is Cowardice!