National suicide by a thousand cuts

This is part of an e-mail I got this morning. Maybe you got it too. These are just some of the ways that politicians are plundering the wealth that Americans have earned.....

Building Permit Tax
CDL License Tax
Cigarette Tax
Corporate Income Tax
Dog License Tax
Federal Income Tax (Fed)
Federal Unemployment Tax (FU TA)
Fishing License Tax
Food License Tax
Fuel Permit Tax
Gasoline Tax
Hunting License Tax
Inheritance Tax
Inventory Tax
IRS Interest Charges (tax on top of tax)
IRS Penalties (tax on top of tax)
Liquor Tax
Luxury Tax
Marriage License Tax
Medicare Tax
Property Tax
Real Estate Tax
Service charge taxes
Social Security Tax
Road Usage Tax (Truckers)
Sales Taxes
Recreational Vehicle Tax
School Tax
State Income Tax
State Unemployment Tax (SUTA)
Telephone Federal Excise Tax
Telephone Federal Universal Service Fee Tax
Telephone Federal, State and Local Surcharge Tax
Telephone Minimum Usage Surcharge Tax
Telephone Recurring and Non-recurring Charges Tax
Telephone State and Local Tax
Telephone Usage Charge Tax
Utility Tax
Vehicle License Registration T ax
Vehicle Sales Tax
Watercraft Registration Tax
Well Permit Tax
Workers Compensation Tax

Not one of these taxes existed 100 years ago and our nation was the most prosperous in the world. We had absolutely no national debt and we had the largest middle class in the world.

This is what career politicians have done to the greatest nation on Earth. They've intentionally nickle and dimed us right down the swirling toilet of doom. Our AAA credit rating is about to be taken away because of our massive, unsustainable debt and unwillingness to stop spending money we don't have. The increasingly progressive tax structure is stifling America's most creative entrepreneurs and venture capitalists....the ones who create jobs for the rest of us.

If you aren't panicked by the dangerous direction in which the US is being driven by the progressives in both parties, then you are one of three things, a degenerate moocher who likes getting free stuff that others earned, a self-anointed elitist who wants to control the lives of others, or simply a mental defective who doesn't have the sense God gave a guinea pig(one of the dumbest animals on Earth) and you are content to watch Idol and Housewives while being taken along by whatever forces are at work around you. All three are shameful examples of human failing.