The burden of taxes is measured by the path they must travel in order to return to the hands from which they came. When this circulation is prompt and well established, schools, libraries, health clinics, roads and other infrastructure are always in good shape.

On the contrary, when given taxes do not return to the communities from which they came, then the continual payment of taxes produces nothing locally. These tax revenues do not return to communities because individual and corporate interests have siphoned off those tax monies for their own needs. This leaves city and county governments facing the unpleasant realities of under-funding or eliminating needed community services.

The reason the richest of the rich get tax breaks is that 1/10 of 1% of Americans gave 83% of campaign contributions in the 2002 elections.

Taxes pay for a civilized society. Campaign donors receive tax breaks at the expense of 98% of the American Nation. The tax burden has been shifted from corporations to ordinary citizens. A complete reversal has occurred over 24 years, 1982-2007. Now, three times as much money comes to the federal treasury from working people’s payroll taxes than from corporate tax payments.

Corporations are getting a free ride.

When individual and corporate incomes are not taxed properly, they gain too much control over government and legislation. Poverty is morally wrong, as are obscene concentrations of wealth. It is better to tax excess incomes, for it is better for this excess to be absorbed by government, than be dissipated by private individuals and corporations.

There are two specific principles, that for the health of the state, excess income is taxed heavily.

Principle One: Less profit, less taxes. Taxing excess income gives inducements to individual and corporate business entities to pay higher wages and greater benefits, and/or lowering the cost of material and services to members of society, thereby directly improving everyone’s quality of life.

Principle Two: The aggregation of wealth by a minority of society creates competing influences for society’s limited resources.

Wealth creates an opposition to the ideals of good government, and this competing ideal continually seeks more control and power over society’s limited resources. The more control and power individual and corporate wealth exert, the more of society’s resources are directed into their coffers and spheres of influence, and the less resources society has to pay for schools, libraries, health care, infrastructure repairs, police and fire departments. The federal government stops funding needed state and city programs, and increases funding to Corporations and Wealthy Individuals for increased profits.

How do individual and corporate interests get such great handouts? They give big donations to the congressional representatives on the tax-writing committees. Are not these donations straightforward bribes? The answer is YES. Are not these bribes illegal? The answer is NO. The bribes are legal.

They are given under the guise of federal elections campaign financing.

Are congressional representatives not required by the Constitution, and their oath to office, to be the citizens’ representatives, to act in the “public good”?

The answer is YES. They have violated their contract with their constituency. When one party breaks a contract, the second party is no longer bound by the agreements in that contract. Therefore, that contract is void, and these corrupt legislators are not protected by Constitutional guarantees of due process. The people, who are sovereign, can dictate terms for the new contract. Congress is without voice or recourse, and by the right of the people’s sovereignty, Congress must accept terms of that new contract

The financing of federal election campaigns by individual, corporate, and foreign interests is a national cancer. It is an equal or greater danger for our homeland than any perceived terrorist threat.

Federal Elections Campaign Financing is a National Crisis!

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