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March 14, 2018 - Health Ranger - Mike Adams
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Why the govt. doesn’t need your tax money!
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Mike Adams.
I saw a big alarmist article the other day.
By the year 2100, the oceans are going to rise 1.5 inches.
The Health Ranger Report.
I'm thinking to myself, one and a half inches?
That doesn't wipe out coastal cities, okay?
It's time for the Health Ranger Report.
And now, from naturalnews.com, here's Mike Adams.
Yes, it's tax season again with millions of Americans sweating it out, scrapping every little last piece of paper together that they can find to do their taxes, to pay their taxes that they think are funding the federal government.
But I'm here to tell you, the federal government doesn't need a dime of your tax money.
Thank you for joining me.
This is the Health Ranger Report.
My name is Mike Adams, the Health Ranger.
You can find more of my podcasts at healthrangerreport.com.
And I do this annual talk about taxes.
Yeah, I mention this every year just to remind people of the truth that the government doesn't need your money to fund its operations.
So you might wonder, well, how much tax money actually goes to the federal government?
And the answer is about three trillion dollars.
So your personal income taxes and, well, let's say personal income plus payroll taxes comes to about $3 trillion and corporate taxes adds about another half a trillion.
But that's a separate topic.
This is about the fact that you don't need to pay any personal taxes for the government to fund itself.
Now, the government spends a little under $4 trillion per year right now.
Let's just call it $4 trillion to round it off and keep this simple.
So you got it so far.
Taxpayers, personal taxpayers, are sending about $3 trillion to Washington, and Washington is spending about $4 trillion.
And of course, corporate taxes pushes in another half a trillion or so.
So the federal government is spending, of course, more money than it's taking in, which is adding to the total national debt, which is now about $20 trillion.
It more than doubled during Obama's eight years of economic suicide, from about $8 trillion to, well, now $20, almost $20.
So it more than doubled.
This tells you something very important.
If the government is spending more money than it's taking in, where is it getting the money?
You probably know the answer.
It's making it up.
It's creating counterfeit money, but it's the official money.
So in a sense, it's not counterfeit.
It's U.S. dollar money, right?
It's creating it out of thin air.
Literally creating the money out of thin air.
We used to say they're printing the money, but of course, this is not physical cash we're talking about.
It's just entries in a computer, right?
That's it.
It goes from the Federal Reserve and then to the Treasury as debt, by the way.
The taxpayers always owe this money back to the Federal Reserve.
Which can never be paid back, by the way.
Something else to think about because you always have to create more money to pay the interest on the money that has already been created.
So it's a Ponzi scheme, but we'll get into that later.
Nevertheless, if the government has to create money in order to cover the extra spending that it can't cover from the tax receipts that it's getting from people like you and me sending in our tax money, it brings up an obvious question.
Why can't the government just create...
Three trillion dollars a year and tell everybody, you don't have to pay any taxes.
And the answer is, they could.
The government can create a trillion dollars just like that.
They don't even...
It can happen literally overnight.
And if you want proof of that, just go back and look at the subprime lending crash of 2008.
When that happened, and we're talking about Lehman Brothers and Bear Stearns, you've got to watch my favorite movie called The Big Short, which explains it all.
But the entire global banking system almost cratered in 2008.
And in order to stop it from cratering, the federal government created, well, the Federal Reserve, which isn't part of the federal government, by the way, created right away a trillion dollars overnight.
And they flushed that counterfeit cash, well, money, into the banking system to try to keep some of those institutions afloat.
Now, they were able to save, of course, Goldman Sachs, no coincidence there, but other institutions were lost and bankrupt.
Such as Bear Stearns.
Now, how did they create this trillion dollars?
Again, it was just a computer entry.
That's all it was, is just some guy sitting at a computer and saying, one trillion dollars.
Enter.
And that's it.
That's how they created the money.
If they wanted to, they could do this every April 15th.
They could just type in $3 trillion, and they could tell everybody in America, don't worry, we got you covered this year, you don't need to pay your taxes.
They could literally do that.
And you might be wondering why they don't do it, and here's the answer that's shocking to everyone.
Because most Americans live in a delusional world.
False reality.
They think the check that they're writing the IRS is going to pay for the road pavement down the road or the school or the bridge that they drive over to get to work.
No, it doesn't.
There's no correlation between tax revenues and money spending at the federal government.
There's no You know, the spending isn't limited to the revenues.
They're not attached to each other.
They could take in one trillion and spend five trillion.
They could take in two trillion and spend four trillion.
Or they could take in zero trillion and spend four trillion.
And that's what I'm suggesting they do.
All they got to do is just say, everybody, don't pay your taxes.
But again, back to the question, why don't they do that?
The answer that will shock most people is that taxes are a form of control and oppression.
The entire point of the federal tax code is to keep you poor, is to keep you down.
It's to suffocate people.
The average American, the middle class, and the lower class, and make sure that people can't rise up and challenge the wealthy political elite.
It's all about keeping you busy with your nose buried in papers.
Living like a pack rat, collecting little scraps of receipts and paper in your pockets and filing cabinets, so every year you gotta pull the hair out of your head.
Going through all these files, and you've got to keep them year after year after year, boxes of files.
And if you own a business, it's even more insane.
You've got to have entire file cabinets, rooms full of file cabinets of papers and electronic records and receipts.
And it's enough to drive anybody insane.
And then of course you have to hire accountants to keep track of the numbers that you're going to use to calculate how much you're going to pay to the IRS that it doesn't need in the first place.
And then of course you have to hire a massive IRS to scare everybody into compliance by threatening to take their homes.
By threatening to garnish their wages.
By threatening to imprison the American people if they don't comply with this, quote, donation that you have to send to the federal government.
Yes, it's a form of fiscal tyranny.
It's all about keeping you in a state of constant fear and a state of constant confusion.
Because nobody knows the right answer to your taxes.
If you hire 10 different accountants to prepare your taxes, you'll get 10 different numbers of what you owe.
And if the IRS scrutinizes anyone's tax return a little too much, they can find violations.
They can find, perhaps, criminal violations.
They can target you, and that's what the IRS is all about.
And if you don't believe me, look back at Lois Lerner and the Obama administration that weaponized the IRS to go after political opponents.
Is anyone surprised after now finding out that Susan Rice and Ben Rhodes also weaponized the intelligence community to wiretap and surveil Trump team officials in order to leak those details illegally to the press?
Yes, the entire Obama administration was steeped in corruption and the weaponization of government to use against its political enemies.
Now that you understand that, you understand why they make the tax code so damn difficult.
It's deliberate, people!
They're not trying to help you with that.
I mean, how many pages of regulations are found in the federal tax code?
I don't know, 10,000 pages?
Who even knows?
Nobody can remember all that stuff.
No, not even a tax expert!
Can't remember all that stuff.
That's why they have offices full of bookshelves that are full of books, that are full of bookmarks, to try to find the right citation that they can use to justify some decision they're making on your taxes.
It's all insane.
If they really wanted to make it simple and help the American people, Maybe they would just have a flat tax.
Here, fill out your taxes on one sheet, pay 10% of everything you earned, or 15%, or whatever, 20%, whatever the number, just keep it simple.
If they wanted to make it simple, they could.
But what I'm telling you is that they don't even need to make it They don't even need your tax money at all.
They can say your taxes are zero.
Everybody pays zero.
Use the money in the economy.
Start a new business.
Hire some new people.
Buy some products that enrich some other company.
Invest in real estate.
Do whatever you want.
It's your money.
You earned it.
Why shouldn't you be able to keep it?
Now, to wrap this up, those of you who understand fiscal dynamics and, of course, monetary debasement and inflation might be raising your hand and saying, well, wait a minute, if you create $4 trillion a year in new money...
You're going to debase the value of the existing money in circulation, and that's why the government shouldn't do that, because they're going to cause inflation.
Well, my friends, they're doing it anyway.
It's called quantitative easing.
They're creating hundreds of billions of dollars in new money every month.
Not even every year, but every freaking month.
They're creating that money.
It's inflationary.
Why do you think prices keep rising on everyday goods, even though the government tries to bury the inflationary reality in fake numbers, you know, fake fiscal news, if you will?
They're creating all this money every month.
Quantitative easing.
Round one, round two, round three, round four.
And there's more coming.
So they're already creating a flood of fake money, but they're just not giving it to you.
Did you get your share of the trillion dollars that they used to bail out the financial industry?
Where's your share?
Right?
No, you didn't get your share.
Goldman Sachs got your share.
And everybody else's share.
Bank of America got your share.
Bear Stearns didn't get your share because I guess they didn't have enough high friends in high places.
But somebody got your share because they created the money, they just didn't give it to you.
They gave it to the banks, and they're still creating trillions of dollars all the time, and they're still handing it out to all the banks, and they're making you keep paying money that they don't need just so you stay busy and you stay oppressed, and they can selectively target you for an investigation or a prosecution.
They can keep you living in fear.
They can keep you delusional into thinking that you're funding the school down the road.
No, you're not.
The bridge?
The highway?
No, you're not.
Most federal money doesn't even go to that.
It's all Social Security and military and interest on the debt and Medicare.
I mean, and Medicaid as well.
That's where virtually all the money goes.
They're not filling potholes with the check that you write to the IRS. They're just keeping you poor.
Oh, I love it when people wake up to this reality.
They go, huh, you're actually right about that.
Why do we need to keep sending money to Washington when they can just create money overnight?
And they spend more than they have anyway, so they obviously have to be creating money.
If they can create money, why do they need our money?
The truth is, they don't need your money.
And if you think they do, you're a sucker.
Now, that being said, you might ask me, do I pay taxes?
You're damn right I do.
Because I don't want the tyranny of the federal government targeting me.
Nor you, right?
So I'm not actually saying that you should be a tax protester and not pay your taxes.
At the moment, because it is the law, it is the requirement, you should comply with it.
And so they don't come take your house and take your property and take your business and seize your bank accounts.
That's not good.
So I'm not saying that you should defy the system as it exists.
What I'm saying is we should all demand a reform of the system.
Change the laws.
Abolish the IRS. You know, initiate a nationwide flat tax or a fair tax or just a You know, just a tax on everything you buy.
Just put like a 25% tax on everything you buy and that's it.
That's the only federal tax.
End of story.
You buy more, you pay more taxes.
You buy less, you pay fewer taxes.
You can even give, I don't know, a $1,000 a year tax credit to those of lower income status so they effectively pay zero tax.
So if someone wants to go out and buy a luxury yacht for $150 million, you know, they should pony up like $30 million in taxes.
They can afford it.
Right?
And if you want to go out and buy a car, you got to pay taxes on the car.
You want to consume more, you pay more tax.
You want to consume less, you pay less tax.
It's very simple.
And everything you earn, you get to keep.
Which you get to invest, which creates more business growth, which creates more jobs, which creates more economic prosperity.
And, by the way, wouldn't it be great not to have to spend every April 14th staying up late at night scribbling a bunch of numbers on a piece of paper and hoping they don't pick you for some tyrannical IRS audit where they threaten you with prison time for making a typo or a calculation error that nobody else can get right either because nobody can remember the whole damn tax code.
It's insane.
We gotta simplify the system, reform the system, abolish the IRS, change the laws, And let us just get back to living without the tyranny of the tax code as it exists today.
Remember, it was created by corrupt politicians who themselves usually don't pay jack for taxes to keep you down and keep you suppressed, keep you confused, and keep you in a state of never-ending fear and even terror that the government might come after you one day if you don't pay enough.
That's what the tax code is really all about.
It's incredible.
All right.
And by the way, the implied message in all of this, for me personally, is I'm happy.
I am happy to contribute to a society if it's a meaningful contribution.
In fact, here's my last suggestion, and I'll wrap this up.
I would like a tax system where, when I write a check, I get to choose where it goes.
In the federal government.
So, let's see.
I want this percentage of my tax contribution to go to the Pentagon, let's say, if you want.
Oh, yeah, you can give them 5% or whatever.
I want this percentage to go to funding universities.
We'd have to mark that down to zero now since all they're producing is cry-bully snowflakes.
You could say, I want this other percentage to go to building a wall.
Yeah, that could be like 90% right there.
Build the wall and make it out of gold and have drone launch towers on it to monitor the whole situation.
Anyway, you get my point.
I'm injecting a little bit of sarcasm here, but what if you could have a system...
Where you get to choose where the money goes.
Let's say you love abortion.
You could say, oh, I want all this money to go to Planned Parenthood.
You could just write it in there.
Or maybe you want to support NPR. Or maybe you want to support, I don't know, pick your favorite program.
Maybe you want to fund science.
So that more scientists can study why so many people on Easter buy chocolate bunnies and eat their ears off first.
That's an actual science paper.
I just saw that because I scan the science headlines every day.
There's a PhD and a doctor at a university that just published a science paper on that.
No doubt that's government funded.
They called it like ear amputations for chocolate Easter bunnies.
Seriously.
If you want to fund that, be my guest.
That would be the ultimate solution.
If you're going to pay taxes at least, if they're going to make us pay taxes, at least let us choose where the tax money goes.
Otherwise, don't make us pay anything.
Just come up with the money yourself.
You federal people, you've got the computer.
Sit down there, type in three trillion.
Problem solved.
Give everybody else the day off because we're tired of filling out paperwork so that you can waste our money on stupid, useless programs that don't do anything for the country.
All right, if you want to follow more news about all of this, you can check my podcast out at healthrangerreport.com.
One of my websites is also called newstarget.com.
And if you want to follow, let's see, let's see, government news...
We also have conservative.news, by the way.
It covers conservative news, obviously, which is kind of fun from time to time.
We don't cover the chocolate Easter bunny ear amputations on that website, though, sadly.
That would make it more funny.
Thank you for listening, and take care.
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