Your Money or Your Life: What’s Behind the Latest Government Scam to Rob You Blind?

   “The fact is that the government, like a highwayman, says to a man: ‘Your money, or your life.’  And many, if not most, taxes are paid under the compulsion of that threat.” -Lysander Spooner, American abolitionist and legal theorist.
   It used to be that the Constitution served as a bulwark against government abuses, excesses and wrongdoing.  That is no longer the case.
   Having been reduced to little more than a historic document, the Constitution now provides scant protection against government abuses, misconduct and corruption.
   Not only are “We the People” painfully vulnerable to the whims of any militarized cop on the beat, but we are also sitting targets for every government huckster out to fleece the taxpayer of their hard-earned dollars.
   We get taxed on how much we earn, taxed on what we eat, taxed on what we buy, taxed on where we go, taxed on what we drive, and taxed on how much is left of our assets when we die.
   Because the government’s voracious appetite for money, power and control has grown out of control, its agents have devised other means of funding its excesses and adding to its largesse through taxes disguised as fines, taxes disguised as fees, and taxes disguised as tolls, tickets and penalties.
   The government’s schemes to swindle, cheat, scam, and generally defrau ...