This year Cost of Government Day fell on August 12. American workers slaved and toiled an average of 224 days out of the year to meet all costs mandated by the government. That’s 26 days longer than last year. 

Of course, this is a national average. States with lower tax rates and slightly more fiscally responsible legislatures arrive at the day much sooner, and some like Taxachusetts much later. Alaska ranks number one, with 192 days, but that’s mid-July, so still, for over half the year, workers toil to pay the cost of government. Connecticut is dead last, with 250 days calculated to pay the high cost of government expenditures, so that day won’t arrive until September 7 for those unfortunate enough to live in that state.

It is no surprise to find New York, California, Massachusetts, New Jersey — those with high-profile politicians that love to implement programs that tax people into servitude — ranking near the bottom with 243 days, 235, 229, and 249 days respectively.

Of the national average 224 days, a further breakdown indicates that 111 days’ work went to federal spending — 30.36 percent of the total — with 49 days to state and local spending and another 65 days to pay for regulations imposed by all levels of government.

Had the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) not been foisted on the general public without their consent, Cost of Government Day would have arrived 18 days sooner. And another 10 days of relief might have been seen without the stimulus-related expenditures.

The Center for Fiscal Accountability and Americans for Tax Reform Foundation put together the information and made the calculations and have an excellent report that is broken down in myriad ways accompanied by case studies, charts, etc. It is worth a good look.

It’s a very good resource to share with other citizens on the high cost of government and why Americans should no longer be willing and eager to toil for the elitist government bureaucrats, in some cases, two thirds of a year. This is all certain to lengthen with each new leviathan program that comes down the perpetual money-spending machine we mistakenly refer to as our representatives in Washington.

The only way to stop the indentured servitude that is galloping toward us is to firmly say “no” to the present regime's tax and spend policies and each and every piece of legislation that expands the role of government in any way. Supporting sensible reforms such as a federal reserve audit, the state sovereignty movement, etc., and by adhering to constitutional principles, will go a long way toward holding off, and even reversing the present trend.

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danwhitehead1 said:

Now please explain to my satisfaction - - - - - - how the fedgov is not a vile, out-of-control rogue monster that needs to be forced back into its proper LIMITED box where our Founding Fathers originally and wisely placed it. What was that they said about the British (loosley worded on my part) eating up our resources? Tell me again that it's not time for a replay of 1776. WAKE UP AMERICA!!! STRIKE THEM DOWN!!!

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MarkGlen said:

The money supply, who should control it? Thomas Jefferson wrote: "The Central Bank is an institution of the most deadly hostility existing against the principles and form of our Constitution...if the American people allow private banks to control the issuance of their currency, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all their property until their children will wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered." The fed gov should control the money supply, but how much and what kind of control should gov have? If gov has little control the banks will have more control.

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MarkGlen said:

	Our only option danwhitehead1, The people are a bigger army than the government's army, but it has organization we don't and won't. The quickest way to bring total government upon us is to attack its army. In other words, I think the only option we have is at the ballot box and even there the chance of victory is slim and none.
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danwhitehead1 said:

	I'm very, very thankful - - - - - - that our Founding Fathers did not evince such a cowardly, gutless attitude when battling the might of the British Empire. A determined people with the force of will can achieve much. And, to use a very trite old saw, "The bigger they are, the harder they fall".
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danwhitehead1 said:

	There are always - - - - - - excuses that can be fabricated and puked up to keep from rising and crushing evil...always. In an old movied titled "Sheffy" a comment is made that fits our situation perfectly. It goes something like this: "In the end, we will find that nothing has been taken from us; rather, we gave it up willingly".
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Peter Steele said:

Today's Leviathan Government and King George III Well, my ancestors signed the Declaration of Independence and fought in the American Revolution and today we have a pig tax eating government given to us by our friendly and unprincipled politicians. Back to King George III and his oppressive taxes. We can blame Karl Marx for this mess. The JBS is always right. Disgusted, BGen Peter F. Steele, USMC who has diabetes from LBJ's War as I hated him.

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MarkGlen said:

	You talk too much danwhitehead1 You sound like one of those get-your-guns-and-head-for-the-hills-boys. LOL
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MarkGlen said:

	Bo the federal plant danwhitehead1 How do we know you are not a Col. Bo Grites?
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