How Do We Control Washington DC? --By not giving the weeds more fertilizer.

By Charles Novitsky: Non-Credentialed Economist

If our founding fathers feared one thing—it was for their new creation in Washington DC to get too big. They looked upon the birth of  the Federal Government, as a medicine to remedy some of the disorganization present in the early states, and created what they believed was a league of states. But as with most medicines—too much can poison you. They worked hard to find the right dosage of Washington government, because the last thing they wanted, was for Washington to become like the British bully they fought so hard beat. They risked their lives, becoming British terrorists, to prevent the King's henchmen from telling them how to live their our own private lives. This arguably was the first "Civil War" on American soil, almost a century before Lincoln's civil war.

Unfortunately, we have seen, and will continue to see, greater and greater Federal growth, and more unconstitutional bullying by Washington. How big of a bully, no one can predict. This year the country of Cyprus confiscated part of the bank accounts of its citizens to pay its debts. Perhaps then, it may surprise some that Washington started bullying the states and its citizens nearly right away, just 20 years after the constitution was passed. Washington DC outlawed forms free speech, and arrested people if they dare criticize a politician. They called it the Sedition act of 1798. Benjamin Franklin's grandson was put in prison to die, for calling president Adams bald and querulous, amongst other adjectives. ( more info ) . But the sin of this unconstitutional sedition act was tiny compared to the big government started in the 1860’s by President Lincoln.

Yes, although we all "like to love" Lincoln, he was Washington DC's first big bully—he was the first president to forcefully draft men to their death to fight for the government, it was called conscription. He was the first American president to violate the constitution's intent of "Life & Liberty", and force our young men to fight and kill their brethren. In Lincoln's Civil War, Cain killed Abel, as his northern troops marched south, burning villages, farms, and killing nearly half a million of our southern brothers. Even raping women and robbing home owners as the troops left a path of blood and ashes in their massacre march ( more info ). The idea of a draft was so detested by American voters, there were even huge riots in the streets of New York over this new form of slavery of the population--military slavery( more info ). But lets not forget that Lincoln was also the first president to confiscate the peoples money with the income tax, though it was not permanent. He, like many Washington politicians, believed the state owns its people, and therefore should be entitled to take away their wealth and possessions, provided they simply had a good excuse. This income tax was called the “revenue act of 1861”.

Ever since this pivotal moment in Washingtonopoly, federal government has gained power using our tax monies to feed itself, to grow larger, to take still more tax money, to feed itself and grow larger, like weeds on the lawn. But in this case, the weeds have figured out a permanent way of getting their own bottle of fertilizer ( i.e. income tax money). The weeds are using the tax-fertilizer, to grow themselves, and now they are the size of the monster plant in “The Little Shop Of Horrors”.

The price these weeds make us pay to feed it, extracts the nutrition needed by the better, pretty plants desired on the lawn, even the fruit bearing trees. The weeds curtail and hamper business and job growth. They interfere in money creation and the entire economy, and thus feed off the maximum potential wealth, employment and prosperity of every man, woman, and baby. The weeds are even feeding off of future generations, through Washington debt, deficit, and borrowing. According to economists John Dawson, and John Seater, in the Journal of Economic Growth, the average American family would be six times wealthier, that’s about $330,000 dollars richer, if it wasn't for government siphoning off this productivity from our society. ( more info  )

But money, and the lost American wealth caused by big Washington are not the only issues. We have lost some of our freedoms, and history predicts it will likely get worse. We have the IRS, NSA, FBI, and other secret organizations, spying not only on citizens, but even on politicians in Congress. Some of this spying this took place before 9/11 as with the Watergate scandal, and even prior to that. So the excuse of needing to "prevent terrorism" is not entirely true, nor honest.

But it is when we look at all the other problems we got in this sour deal with the monster weed, that we start to realize its scope, and the futility in the system we feed each April 15th.  We have an Orwellian, autocratic government, that has indebted unborn children to a $17 trillion dollar debt, and takes a large percentage of productivity (GDP 25%) to feed itself and its crony minions. We have had far too many expensive wars since WW2, that have nothing to do with peace in America, though pro-war enthusiasts claim all sort of rationalizations. We have over two million Americans in prison, many for harmless, but arguably stupid drug use. Laws on drug use are forbidden to be made by Washington, according to the constitution's enumerated powers. It is written that only States may have that power, yet Washington has stolen the law anyway. Ever since the department of education was created in 1979, we have amongst the worlds worst school system. After 1979, American students fell to the bottom of  performance in math, amongst 31 other countries, based on an international test called PISA. Incidentally, making any laws or rules on education is also prohibited to Washingtoncrats by the constitution.

It appears that Washington DC is jinxed, and nearly everything they try to do, or try to fix becomes even worse. Just like the bungling plumbers seen in the Three Stooges movies, the more they try to fix the pipes, the bigger the leaks and disasters they cause.

In summary, and the main point is—we cannot allow Washington to get bigger and bigger and make these problems worse, while they claim they're solving them, after all in some cases, they've caused the problems in the first place. If Americans fail to see this pattern, and act to stop it, Washington will continue to feed itself, and like the monster weed on the lawn, destroy the entire home. The solution may be to take away the bottle of fertilizer ( i.e. tax money ) it has usurped to feed itself. We should therefore be wary of the forthcoming tactics they will try to use, like Internet sales tax, which is a national sales tax, that will give them even more money-fertilizer. You may one day wake up in horror, to discover this monster weed sleeping in your bed, breathing right beside you.