The Needs of Society Produce Slavery

Adolf Hitler is credited with saying: "Society's needs come before the individual's needs." Over the course of the Twentieth Century, the needs of our society insatiably increased well beyond those observed by Federal and state constitutions. To fulfill these needs, myriad agencies, leviathan bureaucracy, intrusive regulations, and wasteful entitlement programs have been introduced which have dramatically extended the power and authority of government at all levels while steadily diminishing the scope of individual liberty originally earned by the blood of revolutionary citizens.

In exchange for their liberty, citizens are now charged with succouring the

leviathan state that has ensued. Income taxes, Social Security taxes, capital gains taxes, fuel taxes, death taxes, property taxes, school taxes, sales taxes, and excise taxes are but a smattering of the tribute now demanded by the publicans that serve it. This does not include taxes that are innocuously labeled fees that are collected for motor vehicle registrations, safety and emissions inspections, pistol permits, concealed handgun permits, building permits, hunting and fishing licenses, drivers licenses, privilege licenses, and so forth. Taxes and fees have become so numerous and pervasive, it is not likely for one to be able to recite all that are extant from memory.

When charged with succouring the state, citizens appear to serve the good of society but, with such responsibility coercively foist upon their backs; they enter a state of involuntary servitude. As such, the innocuous badge of "taxpayer" is synonymous with slave, serf, bondman, thrail, and so forth and overseers abound to ensure their compliance. In exchange for consideration of status, their employers keep (or “withhold”) the fruits of their labor, the merchants with whom they trade collect taxes, the bankers or money changers that provide them a sense of independence and ownership report their activities while providing access to their accounts, and the insurers with whom they are required to conduct business eagerly collect their fees while intruding upon privacy.

In other words, taxes and fees have made nearly every business and employer in the land a tax collector and by virtue thereof, defacto agencies of government. These agents pluck the fruits of citizens' labor while denying them so much as the opportunity to even touch what they have labored for. Moreover, for their own sustenance and profit, they willfully enforce governmental policies and regulations within their premises to ensure "Big Brother's" constant vigilance over the hoi polloi. Meanwhile, the "free" people, the citizens, simply accept their plight and, for the “good of society” pay and comply, as befits the indoctrination provided by mandated and supervised education.

“Society’s needs” are repugnant to liberty as is compliance with onerous taxes and regulations. Freedom originates individually, not collectively. One who has obligations upon his labor that are beyond his will and control is a slave and nothing more. To espouse the needs of society is to make pillage palatable while reducing the individual risks that may accompany the theft. Anything that comes by virtue of a tax, fee, or permit is a compromise to liberty that is absolutely intolerable and unacceptable for those who would maintain the pursuit of happiness postulated by Jefferson in 1776.