"Taxation without representation is Tyranny"
My son Moses will be 2 years old on July 4th, 2009. Until after July 4th, 2025, Moses will not have consent on taxation through his ability to vote for a representative. By my modest calculations, and the projections of more seriously regarded and professionally trained economists, the national debt, plus long-term liabilities not figured into that official number (ie social security, medicare) have a good chance of not being paid down to zero in the next 16 years. So with that in mind, how should Moses in any way be responsible for paying back that money once he is of age to vote and work? Funny enough, it seems that the uproar over 'no taxation without representation' that catapulted America into existence as a sovereign nation committed to liberty, was over tyranny much smaller than what Moses is going to face when in the future a huge cut of his labor is taken from him without his consent. Percentage-wise, I don't think that it is too crazy to say that 20% of his labor...