Americans are slaves to system of taxation

We supposedly fought a war over slavery so we could make us all slaves.

The wrongly named Civil War (appropriately named War of Northern Aggression) gave us a strong central government. Lincoln initiated the income tax.

If you tell the employee you want him or her to work 60 hours per week but you are only going to pay for 30 hour per week and the employee does not possess the possibility of seeking employment elsewhere, is that not slavery? Try to opt out of paying your income taxes? You have no choice. Therefore, you are a slave.

Why should one person pay a higher percentage of his or her income than another American? Do they get more freedom, liberty, justice? Can they vote numerous times during an election? Do they have more rights than any other American? Progressive income tax is the 2nd plank of the Communist Manifesto.

The anti-Federalist Founding Fathers were totally against direct taxation. They supported import tariffs and fees for services rendered. The Federalists (should have been called Socialists) wanted a strong federal government. All 13 states requested no direct taxation be added to the Bill of Rights. Madison, who personally wrote the Bill of Rights, excluded this request.

As Trump said, “We will never become a socialist country.” I agree. We will just call it something else. Every plank of the Communist Manifesto is already supported by a large department within our government. However, there is not one department supporting our Bill of Rights. Not one!

The 10th plank of the Communist Manifesto is free public school. And you wonder why our schools are failing our children. Do I need to say more?

Direct taxation makes us all slaves. It also facilitates a larger, stronger and more demanding central government.

May all us slaves bow to the all-powerful slave master, our government.

MIKE CLIFFORD Bentonville