Taxation is theft!

The Paradox of Taxation in America

I’ve never understood how America went from fighting a Revolutionary War over taxation without representation to a system where I’m taxed at every turn. The colonists rebelled against taxes like the Stamp Act and Tea Act, imposed by a distant government without their consent. Yet today, I work hard, and my income gets taxed—federal income tax rates can take up to 37% for top earners, according to the IRS for 2025.

A Cycle of Endless Taxes

I take what’s left after income tax, buy something, and face sales taxes—state and local rates combined can hit over 10% in places like California or Tennessee. That same money, already taxed, pays for my property, but then I’m hit with property taxes—averaging 1.1% of a home’s value annually, per the Tax Foundation, and higher in states like New Jersey or Illinois. I call this extortion!

Our Founding Fathers, like Thomas Jefferson, warned against overreach, saying, “To take from one, because it is thought his own industry… has acquired too much, in order to spare to others, who… have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association.” They fought for liberty, not this cycle of endless taxation.

A Tax Code Out of Control

The Declaration of Independence lists “imposing Taxes without our Consent” as a grievance, yet today, the federal tax code is over 70,000 pages long. The average American spends 13 hours just filing taxes, per the IRS. We need reform!

The national debt is over $35 trillion as of 2025, per the U.S. Treasury, and government spending keeps ballooning—$6.5 trillion in federal outlays last year alone, much of it on programs with little accountability.

Political Failures on Both Sides

The GOP talks a big game but often fails to cut waste or simplify taxes. Meanwhile, Democrats are obsessed with raising taxes and offer no real help. They push to tax the rich and corporations into oblivion—proposing top income tax rates as high as 39.6%, like in Biden’s early budgets, and floating wealth taxes on billionaires, like Elizabeth Warren’s 2% levy on net worth over $50 million.

They claim it’s fairness, but France tried a 75% supertax on high earners in 2012, and millionaires fled, tanking investment. The U.S. risks the same—companies like Apple and Tesla already park billions overseas to dodge high taxes, per a 2021 Senate Finance Committee report showing $2.6 trillion in profits stashed abroad.

The Cost of Tax Hikes

Democrats’ tax hikes don’t fix anything! They poured $1.9 trillion into the American Rescue Plan in 2021, yet inflation soared to 9.1% by 2022, crushing families, per the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Small businesses got pennies while fraudsters stole billions—$100 billion in pandemic relief was lost to waste and scams, per the Government Accountability Office.

Instead of cutting red tape or boosting jobs, Democrats double down, pushing corporate tax rates from 21% to 28% or higher, as in Biden’s 2023 budget proposal. The Tax Foundation warned this could cut GDP by 0.2% and kill 27,000 jobs, driving firms to China or Ireland, where rates are 25% or 12.5%. They’d rather tax companies out of the U.S. economy than fix roads, secure borders, or help working families like us!

The Promise of DOGE

The GOP must step up! The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), launched by President Trump in 2025, has exposed billions in improper payments—$334 million in rejected Treasury requests alone, per DOGE’s April 2025 report, due to missing or invalid budget codes. They’ve suspended payments to 33 providers suspected of fraud at CMS, like billing for dead patients, and cleaned up Social Security, marking 12.3 million records of people aged 120+ as deceased. This is real progress!

But without laws to lock in these cuts, a future administration could undo it all. The GOP controls the House and Senate—pass the Implementing DOGE Act (H.R. 199) now! Codify these $160 billion in savings, as DOGE claims, and stop career politicians like Susan Collins and Tom Cole from blocking reform. No more excuses—Republicans, fulfill the mandate, protect taxpayers, and make DOGE’s war on waste permanent!

A Call to Action

Corruption’s rampant, and I’m not sure we can save this country with this mismanagement. We’re taxed on income, purchases, and property—sometimes the same dollar three times over. Our Founders envisioned limited government, not this. We need a simpler tax code, less waste, and leaders who’ll fight for us, not their own power. Wake up, America—demand change!

Written by Christian Phillips