How succinctly put.

And the support of the bureacrats whose job it is to facilitate the transaction.

I guess this is what is meant by "painless taxation" - the IRS does not skin you alive (or dead), it just takes everything!

It's a great thought.

Perhaps our legislators should place buckets on their feet intead of their heads.

Funeee!

May the Budweiser Clydesdales trot all over the front lawns of the IRS persecutors.

Another truism,

How true!

Would President Reagan please repeat that statement. I don't think I quite understood what he said. Did anyone?

Obviously a case of the blind leading the bland. Trying to fathom the 800,000 or so pages of the Tax Code is like trying to swim ten yards with your winter clothing and boots on. KS is quire right - scrap the whole darn thing and limit its replacement to no more than three pages (including the front and back covers).

Which of the mice will be bold enough to tie a bell on the cat? And still survive, of course! The speed of his probable demise will only be exceeded by the haste with which the other mice distance themslves from him and run for shelter in their holes.

Why Reston thinks it a duty to pay taxes to an illegal institution (Federal Reserve) through an illegal collection agency (IRS) can only suggest he knows nothing about their history or the sneaky, conspiratorial environment under which they came into being, His words smack of Marxism and of no respect for the ideals on which America was founded. Indeed one might well think Reston is either a traitor (to American ideals) or a bureaucrat in the employ of the system which he so reveres and extols. Spooner, thankfully, had no such delusions!

How true - unless. of course you happen to be a Haliburton or Bechtel man or even a favorted politician.

I think Trice doesn't have a clue as to where his taxes actually go. They do not go to provide us with government service - they go to the Federal Reserve and the government (IRS) is merely the collection agency for the private shareholders(Rothschilds, Warburgs, Rockefellers) who own all the shares in the FED. Look at the back of your income tax cheques and see to whom your tax dollars were depositied - it wasn't the U.S. Government!

It is regretable so many persona aspire to exercise power over others - espcially those who have no control over themselves.

True - unless the King and his armed forces have a mandate like George W Bush claimed on his re-election - that is "a mandate to do whatever he pleases." And, it appears, to whomsoever he pleases. GWB certainly knows how to power-trip!

Good Quote. A bit lengthy, But, then some ideas have to be expressed in context, not in sound bytes or one-line throw-aways. Should you want some more lengthy ones, I can give you some three-paragraphers which consumed the best part of a page or more - but were necessary for my readers to get the full impact and fully appreciate the topic and/or the author/speaker's attitude/viewpoint.

I think Reston has been brainwashed - probably by the education system. Join the National Guard?! I hope Reston does that and gets a good look at how fighting in Iraq defends our personal liberty back here in the USA. Also: The very idea these words can ever be interpreted to authorize organized crime to own and keep automatic weapons is so ridiculous Reston destroys his own credibility.

I believe it was Washington who said (I paraphrase) "Next to the Constitution, the firearm is a citizen's most valued possession."

Okay, just who will burst the bubble within which GWB states he lives? Not all the dead bodies returning from Iraq. He doesn't even want to have any pictutres of them published, much less see them for himself.The president lives in his own sheltered and protected cocoon and there is no room for the rest of America as he blithely sends young Americans to their death. The White House has been turned into a very deadly and uncontrollable Kindergarten.

To bad those who think they are impervious to the laws (i.e. both God's and man's e.g. the Constitution) cannot be touched or punished temporally by the laws which they ignore or transcend - but God will surely punish them in due course of time (which is running out).

Reston and Albany show their true colors by their own words. Neither, apparently is familiar with the caution/advice from those who fought to create America's freedom - i.e. a revolution every twenty years is necessary to ensure the vitality and integrity of our government. The fact Americans have neglected this advice is one reason why America is in the mess it is now. Bureaucrats and politicians consider themselves invunerable to our Constitution - and act as if they were/are meant to rule, not to administer.

God help America! We seem unable to help ourselves! (Except, of course, for certain politicians and bureaucrats!)

Mr del Gallego has targeted the crux of the matter. Man came long before government. Technically and factually, government is an invention of man. That man has allowed this invention to control and rule him only highlights man's stupidity and his wannton departure from his God-given role in life. In short, we are ruled by bureauractic robots. What God-forsaking fools we be!