查理·里斯最后的专栏：545人对3亿人

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作者：Rick Loebach
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前言：读了就哭，打印并保留！
这应该登上每一家报纸的头版。
查理·里斯最后的专栏！

一篇非常有趣的专栏，完全中立。 一定要读到最后的诗。
查理·里斯为《奥兰多哨兵报》撰写的最后一篇专栏……他做了49年的记者。他即将退休，这是他的最后一篇专栏。

一定要读到最后的税务清单。

这篇文章尽可能清晰易懂。下面的文章完全中立，既不反共和党也不反民主党。查理·里斯，《奥兰多哨兵报》的退休记者，一针见血地指出了最终必须为每天影响我们每个人的判断承担责任的人是谁。这篇短文值得一读，值得花时间，值得铭记！

545人对3亿人 ——查理·里斯

政客是世界上唯一一群制造问题然后又反对问题的人。
你有没有想过，如果民主党人和共和党人都反对赤字，为什么我们还有赤字？

你有没有想过，如果所有政客都反对通货膨胀和高税收，为什么我们还有通货膨胀和高税收？

你我不会提出联邦预算，那是总统的职责。

你我没有宪法赋予的权力来投票决定拨款，那是众议院的职责。

你我不会编写税法，那是国会的职责。
你我不会设定财政政策，那是国会的职责。
你我不会控制货币政策，那是联邦储备银行的职责。
100名参议员、435名众议员、一名总统和九名最高法院法官，总共545人，在3亿人口中直接、合法、道德和个人地对困扰这个国家的国内问题负责。

我把联邦储备委员会的成员排除在外，因为这个问题是国会造成的。1913年，国会将其宪法职责——提供健全的货币——委托给了一个联邦特许但私有的中央银行。

我把所有特殊利益集团和游说者排除在外是有充分理由的。他们没有法定权力。他们无法强迫参议员、众议员或总统做任何事情。我不在乎他们是否给政客提供了100万美元现金，政客有权接受或拒绝。不管游说者承诺什么，决定如何投票是立法者的责任。

这545人花费大量精力试图让你相信他们所做之事不是他们的错。他们不分党派地合作进行这场共同的骗局。
政客与普通人区别在于他们有超乎寻常的胆量。没有哪个正常人会有众议院议长那样的胆量，站出来批评总统制造赤字。（总统只能提出预算，他无法强迫国会接受。）

宪法是国家的最高法律，赋予众议院独有的责任来发起和批准拨款和税收。众议院议长是谁？（约翰·博纳。他是多数党的领袖。他和众议院同僚，而不是总统，可以批准他们想要的任何预算。）如果总统否决，他们只要同意就可以推翻否决。[众议院已经通过了一项预算，但参议院三年多来未批准预算。在这期间，总统提出的预算几乎在参议院全票被否。]

对我来说，一个拥有3亿人口的国家无法替换这545个被当前事实证明无能和不负责任的人，这似乎不可思议。我想不出一个国内问题不是直接追溯到这545个人的。当你完全理解这545人行使联邦政府权力的简单真相时，就必须得出结论：现存的一切都是他们想要的。

如果税法不公平，那是因为他们想要它不公平。
如果预算赤字，那是因为他们想要赤字。
如果陆军和海军陆战队在伊拉克和阿富汗，那是因为他们想要他们在那里。
如果他们没有领取社会保障金，而是享受人民无法获得的精英退休计划，那是因为他们想要这样。
没有无法解决的政府问题。

不要让这545人把责任推给官僚——他们雇佣并可以废除这些官僚的职位；不要推给游说者——他们可以拒绝其礼物和建议；不要推给监管者——他们赋予其监管权力，也可以收回这种权力。最重要的是，不要让他们骗你相信存在什么“经济”、“通货膨胀”或“政治”之类神秘的力量，阻止他们履行他们宣誓要做的事。

这545人，唯有他们，负有责任。他们，唯有他们，拥有权力。

他们，唯有他们，应该由作为他们老板的人民来问责——前提是选民有勇气管理自己的雇员……我们应该把他们全部投票赶下台，清理他们的烂摊子！

查理·里斯是《奥兰多哨兵报》的前专栏作家。

你读完这篇文章后如何处理……取决于你。 如果这不是那么真实，可能会觉得好笑。 一定要读到最后：

税他的土地， 税他的床， 税他吃饭的桌子。
税他的拖拉机， 税他的骡子， 教他税收是规矩。
税他的工作， 税他的工资， 反正他工作赚的是花生！
税他的牛， 税他的羊， 税他的裤子， 税他的外套。
税他的领带， 税他的衬衫， 税他的工作， 税他的泥土。
税他的烟草， 税他的酒， 如果他思考， 也税他。
税他的雪茄， 税他的啤酒， 如果他哭泣， 税他的眼泪。
税他的车， 税他的汽油， 想其他办法， 税他的屁股。
税他拥有的一切， 然后让他知道， 在把他榨干之前， 你不会停手。
当他尖叫抗议时， 再多税他一些， 税到他痛彻心扉。
然后税他的棺材， 税他的坟墓， 税他被埋葬的草皮……
在墓碑上刻下这些话： “税收把我逼入绝境……”

他走了以后， 别松懈， 是时候征收遗产税了。 应收账款税 建筑许可税 商业驾驶执照税 香烟税 企业所得税 狗证税 消费税 联邦所得税 联邦失业税（FUTA） 钓鱼执照税 食品执照税 燃料许可税 汽油税（当前每加仑44.75美分） 总收入税 狩猎执照税 遗产税 库存税 国税局利息费用 国税局罚款（税上加税） 酒税 奢侈品税 结婚证税 医疗保险税 个人财产税 财产税 房地产税 服务费税 社会保障税 道路使用税 休闲车税 销售税 学校税 州所得税 州失业税（SUTA） 电话联邦消费税 电话联邦通用服务费税 电话联邦、州和地方附加税 电话最低使用附加税 电话定期和非定期收费税 电话州和地方税 电话使用费税 公用事业税 车辆登记税 车辆销售税 水上交通工具登记税 井许可税 工人补偿税

还觉得这好笑吗？ 100年前，这些税一个都不存在，我们的国家是世界上最繁荣的。我们完全没有国债，拥有世界上最大的中产阶级，妈妈们在家带孩子。

到底发生了什么？你会拼写“政客”吗？ 我希望这篇文章能在美国传遍至少545次！！！你能帮它传出去！！！

去吧……做个美国人吧！！！

把这发给你认识的每个人！！！

英文原文：

翻译：READ, WEEP, PRINT AND KEEP!

This should be on the front page of every newspaper.

Charley Reese's Final column!

A very interesting column. COMPLETELY NEUTRAL.
Be sure to Read the Poem at the end..

Charley Reese's final column for the Orlando Sentinel... He has been a journalist for 49 years. He is retiring and this is HIS LAST COLUMN.

Be sure to read the Tax List at the end.

This is about as clear and easy to understand as it can be. The article below is completely neutral, neither anti-republican or democrat. Charlie Reese, a retired reporter for the Orlando Sentinel, has hit the nail directly on the head, defining clearly who it is that in the final analysis must assume responsibility for the judgments made that impact each one of us every day. It's a short but good read. Worth the time. Worth remembering!

545 vs. 300,000,000 People
-By Charlie Reese

Politicians are the only people in the world who create problems and then campaign against them.

Have you ever wondered, if both the Democrats and the Republicans are against deficits, WHY do we have deficits?

Have you ever wondered, if all the politicians are against inflation and high taxes, WHY do we have inflation and high taxes?

You and I don't propose a federal budget. The President does.

You and I don't have the Constitutional authority to vote on appropriations. The House of Representatives does.

You and I don't write the tax code, Congress does.

You and I don't set fiscal policy, Congress does.

You and I don't control monetary policy, the Federal Reserve Bank does.

One hundred senators, 435 congressmen, one President, and nine Supreme Court justices equates to 545 human beings out of the 300 million are directly, legally, morally, and individually responsible for the domestic problems that plague this country.

I excluded the members of the Federal Reserve Board because that problem was created by the Congress. In 1913, Congress delegated its Constitutional duty to provide a sound currency to a federally chartered, but private, central bank.

I excluded all the special interests and lobbyists for a sound reason. They have no legal authority. They have no ability to coerce a senator, a congressman, or a President to do one cotton-picking thing. I don't care if they offer a politician $1 million dollars in cash. The politician has the power to accept or reject it. No matter what the lobbyist promises, it is the legislator's responsibility to determine how he votes.

Those 545 human beings spend much of their energy convincing you that what they did is not their fault. They cooperate in this common con regardless of party.

What separates a politician from a normal human being is an excessive amount of gall. No normal human being would have the gall of a Speaker, who stood up and criticized the President for creating deficits.. ( The President can only propose a budget. He cannot force the Congress to accept it.)

The Constitution, which is the supreme law of the land, gives sole responsibility to the House of Representatives for originating and approving appropriations and taxes. Who is the speaker of the House?( John Boehner. He is the leader of the majority party. He and fellow House members, not the President, can approve any budget they want. ) If the President vetoes it, they can pass it over his veto if they agree to. [The House has passed a budget but the Senate has not approved a budget in over three years. The President's proposed budgets have gotten almost unanimous rejections in the Senate in that time. ]

It seems inconceivable to me that a nation of 300 million cannot replace 545 people who stand convicted -- by present facts -- of incompetence and irresponsibility. I can't think of a single domestic problem that is not traceable directly to those 545 people. When you fully grasp the plain truth that 545 people exercise the power of the federal government, then it must follow that what exists is what they want to exist.

If the tax code is unfair, it's because they want it unfair.

If the budget is in the red, it's because they want it in the red.

If the Army & Marines are in Iraq and Afghanistan it's because they want them in Iraq and Afghanistan ..

If they do not receive social security but are on an elite retirement plan not available to the people, it's because they want it that way.

There are no insoluble government problems.

Do not let these 545 people shift the blame to bureaucrats, whom they hire and whose jobs they can abolish; to lobbyists, whose gifts and advice they can reject; to regulators, to whom they give the power to regulate and from whom they can take this power.
Above all, do not let them con you into the belief that there exists disembodied mystical forces like "the economy," "inflation," or "politics" that prevent them from doing what they take an oath to do.

Those 545 people, and they alone, are responsible. They, and they alone, have the power.

They, and they alone, should be held accountable by the people who are their bosses. Provided the voters have the gumption to manage their own employees... We should vote all of them out of office and clean up their mess!

Charlie Reese is a former columnist of the Orlando Sentinel Newspaper.

What you do with this article now that you have read it... is up to you.
This might be funny if it weren't so true.
Be sure to read all the way to the end:

Tax his land,
Tax his bed,
Tax the table,
At which he's fed.

Tax his tractor,
Tax his mule,
Teach him taxes
Are the rule.

Tax his work,
Tax his pay,
He works for
peanuts anyway!

Tax his cow,
Tax his goat,
Tax his pants,
Tax his coat.

Tax his ties,
Tax his shirt,
Tax his work,
Tax his dirt.

Tax his tobacco,
Tax his drink,
Tax him if he
Tries to think.

Tax his cigars,
Tax his beers,
If he cries
Tax his tears.

Tax his car,
Tax his gas,
Find other ways
To tax his ass.

Tax all he has
Then let him know
That you won't be done
Till he has no dough.

When he screams and hollers;
Then tax him some more,
Tax him till
He's good and sore.

Then tax his coffin,
Tax his grave,
Tax the sod in
Which he's laid...

Put these words
Upon his tomb,
'Taxes drove me
to my doom...'

When he's gone,
Do not relax,
Its time to apply
The inheritance tax.
Accounts Receivable Tax
Building Permit Tax
CDL license Tax
Cigarette Tax
Corporate Income Tax
Dog License Tax
Excise Taxes
Federal Income Tax
Federal Unemployment Tax (FUTA)
Fishing License Tax
Food License Tax
Fuel Permit Tax
Gasoline Tax (currently 44.75 cents per gallon)
Gross Receipts Tax
Hunting License Tax
Inheritance Tax
Inventory Tax
IRS Interest Charges IRS Penalties (tax on top of tax)
Liquor Tax
Luxury Taxes
Marriage License Tax
Medicare Tax
Personal Property Tax
Property Tax
Real Estate Tax
Service Charge Tax
Social Security Tax
Road Usage Tax
Recreational Vehicle Tax
Sales 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 Taxes
Telephone Minimum Usage Surcharge Tax
Telephone Recurring and Nonrecurring Charges Tax
Telephone State and Local Tax
Telephone Usage Charge Tax
Utility Taxes
Vehicle License Registration Tax
Vehicle Sales Tax
Watercraft Registration Tax
Well Permit Tax
Workers Compensation Tax

STILL THINK THIS IS FUNNY?
Not one of these taxes existed 100 years ago, & our nation was the most prosperous in the world. We had absolutely no national debt, had the largest middle class in the world, and Mom stayed home to raise the kids.

What in the heck happened? Can you spell 'politicians?'
I hope this goes around THE USA at least 545 times!!! YOU can help it get there!!!

GO AHEAD. . . BE AN AMERICAN!!!

SEND THIS TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW

编译：林胥