The Taxpayer

"We The People." The phrase denotes a legal status. It defines who is legally sovereign, or who rules or governs. According to this legally defined status, The People are constitutionally endowed with the "power" of self-determination--freedom.

Within the general case of legally conferred sovereignty is the freedom to achieve a class status. While it is illegal to achieve a royal status, it is legal to achieve what is considered to be a ruling-class status. Members of this class, largely defined by economic, or financial, independence consider themselves to be beyond the legal status of sovereignty which is relegated to the crude ineptitudes of The People, royalty, and government (regulatory) authority generally.

Where government authority (the sovereignty of The People) must act, it should only act in support of the competent ruling class with the empirical proof of private sector success (Hamiltonianism). Treasury secretary Paulson is currently on Capitol Hill making the case for the Hamiltonian model of power and political economy because, he argues, if we do not support the ruling class, the sovereigns (The People) will be much worse off.

The argument effectively separates a class from the legal sovereign status and elevates it to a supra-sovereign status that is not "considered" a royal status but a managerial class with the impunity of a necessary natural condition of rulers and ruled, of forging order from chaos.

According to Paulson and other elitist bureaucrats, congress must act to finance the ability of the supra-sovereigns to forge order from the chaos, and without it, general crisis is assured. This is nothing but a subsidy, welfare, for the rich to maintain an oversurplus of wealth and power (the cause of the crisis), and a surplus of retributive value that "requires" central command and control to manage it and to be paid for by The People, the ruled, the subjects, the taxpayer (Hamiltonianism).

Legally, the status of the managerial class is subject to the sovereign--The People. It's time to exercise the legal power, the constitutional right, the righteousness, the collective wisdom of pluralistic processes that will ensure the general welfare and not the conceits of an illicit power elite that corrupts the Natural Rights, the peaceful prosperity, of The People.

Supra-sovereigns disclaim their exclusive status when it comes to the tax authority of The People. Why, the elit managers argue, do The People want to tax themselves? Obviously "We" do not. It is exacted by elit authority in an illicit ruler-subject relationship that can only be shammed as democracy, freedom and justice that supports an exclusive status that corrupts Constitutional authority and the virtue of the Natural Rights of Humanity (pluralism).

Interesting how the conceit of supra-sovereign status becomes The People when it comes to needing to tap the liquidity required to cultivate general peace and prosperity through the tax authority. So, we have McCain, for example, saying that tapping the needed liquidity, as Obama/Biden propose, "will increase your [The People's] taxes."

The People are looking for the liquidity, the water, that cultivates prosperity. If you want water, you have to go where the water is. That would be the upper class of incomes, the class that otherwise discalims the status of sovereignty for the ruling class, and rulers exercise the authority to tax. Indeed they do!

The sovereign, the rulers, We The People have the authority to tax. It's time to properly irrigate the fertile fields of peace and prosperity with the liquidity that is being deprived by the corrupt conceits of an exclusive, illegitimate command and control that exercises the politics of deprivation as the will of The People.

Obama/Biden 2008!

Very best wishes.