Degrees Of Slavery Are Determined By Income Tax Rates

Rummaging through the closets, we found this gem, from Alan Keyes in 2000.  He explains that the concept of income tax is a slavery by degrees.
We included his presentation, in the 2000 presidential primary debate.

​Keyes explained;

"  If I had a deal with you that I was going to give you a preemptive claim to a certain percentage of my income, determined by you, how much of my money would you control? All of it. You're right. That's the principle of the income tax. Now, when I work or you work and somebody else controls 100 percent of the fruits of our labor, what do we call that? Slavery.
  The simple logic of the income tax is that it's a slave tax. These gentlemen argue about whether the chains should be lighter, whether they should be heavier. I think it's time that, as a tax- enslaved people, we rise up and make it clear we want the chains off. Abolish the income tax and return to our original Constitution of liberty.
  I think that as you listen to all these folks, you need to get a little aggravated with the fact that they're all going to give you something. And if you stand back and realize what it is, you'll realize that it's your own money. (Laughter.) And at some point, you need to start asking yourself, "I don't want you to give me this and give me that." Why won't they give you back control over your own money?

When the master wants more, the slaves's needs are secondary.

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  Why won't they let us go back to the Constitution our founders wrote, which had a tax system based on tariffs, duties and excise taxes, sales taxes, that puts the people themselves in charge of the incidence of taxation, so that you can decide that if you need a tax cut today, all you'll need to do is change your habits of consumption? You'll be back in control of your own destiny.
  That is the tax approach that I recommend, radically different from what they're all talking about. They want to remain the gatekeepers of your money. I want to put you back in charge of that money. It's the only basis on which we can hope to regain that freedom that we're supposed to have as a people. Abolish the income tax. Return to the original Constitution of our country and put the people of this country back in control of their own destiny." - Alan Keyes

Former UN Ambassador, Alan Keyes