Like many Americans, I took 15 minutes out of my day Tuesday to vote. Much to my dismay, there was nothing for me to vote on. The friendly old man behind the desk at my local elementary school smiled and gave me an "I Voted Today!" sticker, but in fact I had not voted at all. That experience grew like a seed and began to gnaw at my soul.

Who is in charge of what we vote on anyway? Ninth grade civics students could probably provide a long, detailed answer, but the fact is that fundamentally, we the people decide what appears on each ballot. The shocking thing about the months leading up to May 8th, 2001, is that evidently nobody thinks there is anything important enough to vote on!

This astounds me. Not unpredictably, the thing that astounds me most is why everyone is not pissed off about the incredible tax burdeon Americans suffer today. Tax Freedom Day is the date after which you get to keep the money you earn. The chart at right should shock you. It shocks me.

We the people of the free United States of America are sick and tired of working nearly half the year to support a bloated, glutinous, and inefficient government. Decades of unbridled growth of the federal government have pushed us perilously close to socialism. Our elected "leaders" have strategically dulled our sensitivity to this burdon by increasing taxation steadily over years. It is time to repeal the layers of tax that have been heaped upon us. It is time to stop oppressing the oppressed and encourage all Americans to succeed. It is time to create an atmosphere in which working Americans can thrive on the fruits of their labor instead of feeding those fruits to the bottomless ogre in Washington. We recently elected a new president in part on the promise of a token tax cut. Now our elected "leaders" are deciding that we hard working Americans are able to scrap by without the tax cut we voted on.

Why doesn't that reversal infuriate everyone? Because we have been conditioned to accept. We have been bent over the log and rammed in the ass for so many years that we accept it as part of life. I believe the time has come to pull up our pants and stop accepting the federal government load they deliver on every paycheck. I believe it is time to vote on a tax repeal. Our founding fathers did it their way centuries ago in Boston. Today we are relegated to the ballot box. Who wouldn't vote to repeal the layers of tax we bear? Unfortunately, that's not the question. The question is why aren't the "leaders" we elect putting a tax repeal measure on the ballot for us? Think about it. Get mad.

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