H.I.&M.E.H. Prince Don Louis Pèpin

In my last blog, I revisited the early history of America based on the conflicts with England over Taxation and Representation.  Representation, under the English system of government, equated to limited control of the direction and prioritizing of the spending of tax dollars, as well as, the imposition of said taxation.  Furthermore, they were to have a voice regarding the duties and pricing associated with imports and exports. 

The colonists were legal citizens and, for the majority, in good standing.  Nevertheless, they were being crushed under excessive taxation, without any benefit for their financial support, and no say in the matter in either parliament or the courts. 

Every citizen in a country ruled under the philosophies of Democracy, a constitutional monarchy, or a Republic have a responsibility of stewardship.  Stewardship is the care and protection of a given place for the benefit of current and future generations.  A part of Stewardship, in our modern era, comes in the form of taxes.  It is necessary to have some form of taxation or levy to insure the communal aspects of the society remain viable and strong.  These aspects come in the form of roads, utilities, military, and peace keeping forces, like police and fire fighters.

However, somewhere in the modern history of America; the original intentions of our founding fathers has become lost, along with the safeguards.  Over the last two centuries, we have allowed the individual rights of our citizens to be tricked and stolen from us.  America has transformed into a police state with a combination of self proclaimed elitist, high taxation and socialist undertones. 

Unfortunately, our currently elected officials believe they are actually ancient nobility and royalty.  They are above the masses.  They give themselves raises, private and complete health care with no co-pays, and a retirement plan superior to anything available in the private or public sector, all without the approval of their constituents.  They pay nothing for these benefits and many more.  They are paid for by the citizens of America, through our taxes.

Remember, they created these benefits and, then, voted them into law, not the people.  Sadly, they believe they deserve it and have earned it.  Unfortunately, according to them, we have not. 

We, actually, pay our entire working life into a retirement plan and for senior health insurance.  We are charged over fifteen percent of our gross income, between employer and employee contributions, to Social Security and an additional one and a half percent to Medicare.  If we live long enough to receive these benefits, we are charged an additional hundred dollars a month, as a health insurance premium. 

I am not going to discuss the gross misconduct by Congress and the Office of the President, as well as, the financial issues associated with these services here.  I will dedicate a whole blog entry in the coming weeks to the subject. 

These supposed representatives of the people, who have given themselves free retirement and health care, have the nerve to call the services, which we pay for every day, an entitlement.  For the record, entitlement means a benefit given without compensation to a group of people which is paid for by another, in this case, the inference is the government.  The entire preposterous notion is an insult to our intelligence and it makes me furious.

America has returned to the time of the colonies. We are taxed to fuel a bureaucracy in which we are neither consulted or allowed to be heard.  These self styled elitists have effected our debt, credit rating and lifestyles.  They have played petty games and paid homage to large corporations.  Yet, corporations do not vote. 

There are even laws being placed on the books to allow these individuals to have us arrested and held, indefinitely, without the benefit of trial, for speaking out against them.  These laws, which they create and vote into effect, are being buried in other legislation to disguise and hide them from the general public.  The Constitution and the Bill of Rights are being trampled and destroyed by the very people we elected to protect them.  

Unfortunately, our government is not the only problem.  Over the last fifty to sixty years; we have had a new class of citizen develop, people who think America is a socialist nation.  These individuals believe they are owed everything and the government must provide for them.  They are serial welfare abusers.  These individuals are scattered among every ethnicity and gender.  They have the same mentality as the Elitists of Congress and the Whitehouse with no intention to change.  Their benefits are smaller but the principal of being owed is the same.

It is worthy to note that neither group could exist or continue their illegal and immoral behavior without our quiet compliance.

Our founding fathers never intended either group to exist and would have started another revolution over the waste and abuses created by both these groups and passed on to us, under the guise of taxation. 

Furthermore, they would have never agreed to the socialistic tax structure shoved down our throats and manipulated behind closed doors as part of backroom deals.  It is not the responsibility of the few to carry the burden of the many.  In other words, tier based taxation is wrong.  Tier based taxation is Socialism, which is a nice way to say Communism-lite.  It is unethical, immoral and unconstitutional to burden the successful with the national debt while leaving the less fortunate, as well as, the extremely wealthy (elite), free of the burden.  Everyone should share equally.   In plain English; all Americans should be taxed at a fixed rate; no tiers, no deductions. 

Europe has worked from this system with great success and vitality.  Their current financial problems stem from the sins of the Government and the financial institutions, worldwide, in other words, poor stewardship. 

We need a fixed tax rate on gross income and retirement, as the by-product of work, should always be tax exempt.

      H.I. & M.E.H. Pr. Fra' Don Louis Pèpin, who is known in America as H.I. & M.E.H. Pr. Fra' Dr. Donald Lee Pippin, Jr. or H.I. & M.E.H. Pr. Fra' Dr. D. Lee Pippin is the Prince Grand Master of the Sovereign Military Hospitaller Knights of the Imperial Order of the Carolingian Empire and its American Association, Noblesse Oblige Charities, Inc.

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