Degeneration

Are you aware that the average person in the modern United States of America is tased to the point that he/she must work until nearly June of each year to pay all the accumulated taxes, fees, fines, and etc,
This includes all the various misleading titles such as, Social Security, Income Taxes, Property Taxes, City taxes, county taxes, Excise taxes, sales taxes, Value added taxes, license fees, business taxes, self employment taxes, School taxes, etc, etc, etc.
Are you also aware that in the late 1700;s the good people of the American Colonies rebelled against the tyrannical government of the British Crown and oppressive taxation, they were willing to be branded Traitors and risk death in a myriad ways to resist a tax rate of about 3%.
And now we are looking at nearly 50% tax rate, and a government that intrudes into our private lives far far more than the British governemnt of that time ever dreamed, while maintaining the illusion on the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave.
The last I can only agree with, but the first???
The facts speak for themselves, right?
Look around for your self and ask yourself, "Whatever happened to the Republic for which We Stand?"