We spent most of Independence Day in Canada, but have made it back home to the United States of America in time to celebrate the remainder of the day.
Yesterday, I mentioned the significant difference in how each country has chosen to utilize the Niagara Falls area.
Today, I will mention another significant difference between the two nations: taxation.
Canadian taxes are beyond reasonable.
I heard on the radio traveling home that a Canadian will work until noon on Wednesday to pay his or her taxes for the week.
That is fifty percent of ones income.
It is interesting to note that originally the Declaration of Independence did not say, “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness”, but rather, “life liberty and the ownership of property”.
The ability to earn an income and spend it as we desire is crucial to our freedom.
Using our talents and abilities to provide for ourselves is crucial to our personal happiness.
Yet, this is an area in which we gladly give away our freedom.
Continuing to elect representatives that are moving toward an increasingly larger government necessitating an increasingly larger tax burden on the individual is a vote against personal freedom.
Secondly, the willingness to incur large sums of debt at astronomical rates of interest so that ones paycheck is already dispersed before it even arrives is a vote against personal freedom.
Whether recognized or not, living a lifestyle of debt and a willingness to vote for anyone promising to take care of your needs it a vote against independence.
Why would any American vote against independence?
With great freedom comes great responsibility and we simply do not want that.
Overall, we are not cut from the same cloth as those that founded our nation two hundred and thirty-eight years ago.
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