{"id":1856,"date":"2007-12-27T04:08:58","date_gmt":"2007-12-27T09:08:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1856"},"modified":"2007-12-27T04:08:58","modified_gmt":"2007-12-27T09:08:58","slug":"slavery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1856","title":{"rendered":"Slavery"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Taxation is Slavery”.\u00a0 It’s the old Big-L Libertarian saw.\u00a0<\/p>\n

And, as Tracy at Anti-Strib notes<\/a>, it’s also on the brink of being a literal thing:<\/p>\n

Audrey Davison lives alone, gets a $620 Social Security check each month and worries about the sharply rising taxes on her four-bedroom house. Davison, 76, raised her family there and after 43 years, she really doesn’t want to leave Greenburgh.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Greenburgh doesn’t want her to leave, either.<\/p>\n

The town is pushing a program that would let seniors work part-time, for $7 an hour, to help pay off some of their property taxes. <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Davison, who suffers from arthritis and sciatica and needs a walker to get around on her bad days, said she pays about $12,000 a year in property taxes –<\/span><\/strong> perhaps $2,000 to the town – and has already taken out a reverse mortgage to pay her bills.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And if years of working at $7 an hour doesn’t work, the city can still <\/em>auction off the property!\u00a0 Everyone wins!<\/p>\n

Except the taxpaying\u00a0senior, but hey, why start caring about taxpayers now<\/em>?\u00a0<\/p>\n

Eberly:<\/p>\n

This is liberal “thinking” at it’s finest. There is no mention anywhere of lowering taxes or even freezing them for retirees. No, liberals want to keep raising taxes and then expect you to work longer to pay for their government programs.<\/p>\n

The modern day slave is subservient to the liberal welfare state run amok.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Freedom is “happiness to pay for a better Minnesota<\/strike> Greenburgh, Winston”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Taxation is Slavery”.\u00a0 It’s the old Big-L Libertarian saw.\u00a0 And, as Tracy at Anti-Strib notes, it’s also on the brink of being a literal thing: Audrey Davison lives alone, gets a $620 Social Security check each month and worries about the sharply rising taxes on her four-bedroom house. Davison, 76, raised her family there and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-money"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1856\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}