Authored by: William Robert Barber
Tax policy is the cornerstone that sets the relationship of citizen to government. No other tangible will define the prevailing structural attitude or relationship of government to its citizens, or the degree of individual freedom than the tax policy of any given country. The less the tax percentage of taxable income is paid to the government the less the incursion of government into the affairs of business and individuals; the inverse is also true.

Government runs on an insatiable appetite of only one demand and that demand is more. More in size, more in power, more in incursion, and more of ones income paid to support the insatiable appetite of more. The government employees demand more money, more benefits, more intangibles, and certainly more tangibles; their demands are proportionate to the voter’s ability to curtail the growth of government.

Governing and government is complicated, burdensome, bureaucratic, inherently corrupt, and unthankful in nature; the more the people feed (via a larger percentage of taxable income) this governing apparatus the more complicated, burdensome, bureaucratic, and inherently corrupt, this unthankful system becomes.