Akira The Don, Paul Harvey - Our Problems Are Not New (FREEDOM TO CHAINS) lyrics

Now then, what makes a nation strong? Taxes?
(Heh)
There’s nothing new about those either
The first income tax was paid by Abraham
It was written on a rock by the
Hand of Divinity and handed to Moses
At the top of Mount Sinai and
You might want to remember this
It was at the flat rate of 10%
It promised the wrath of God on anybody
Who tampered with or violated that law
Christ was born in Bethlehem
Because Joseph was
On his way to pay his taxes
Joseph was a relatively well-to do landowner
Yet the taxes exacted by Caesar
Augustus were so exorbitant
That he didn’t have enough money left over
To employ a trusted messenger
For the mission so
Though his wife was great with child
He made the journey himself
(Journey himself, Bucko)
And Christ was born in
Bethlehem because Joseph was
On his way to pay his taxes
And Christ was born in a manger because there
Was a housing shortage when he got there
Our problems are not new

Christ was born in a manger
Because there was a housing shortage
Our problems are not new
Christ was born in a manger
Because there was a housing shortage
Our problems are not new

At Runnymede the Magna Carta was handed
To King John on the end
Of a sword denying to royalty
The right of unlimited taxation
Yet, you know it was for
Us, the American People, to become the
First in recorded history ever voluntarily to
Surrender our rights to private property?
Oh, yes we did
With an innocent sounding Constitutional
Amendment, the Sixteenth
Which says that "Congress shall have
The power to lay
And collect taxes on incomes
From whatever source
Derived" and we forgot to put any limit to
The extent to which we could tax ourselves
Conceivably we could be taxed
Out of all private
Property we could be taxed not 70%, 80%
90% but at 100%
We could be awakened one morning and
Find the government owns the farm, and
The house, and the car, and has
A mortgage on the church, legally
Historically, whenever any nation has
Taxed it's people
More than 25% of their national income
Initiative was destroyed and that nation
Was headed for economic eclipse
Presently the American People are being taxed
33% of their total income
History says we’ll roll forward on
Momentum for a little while
But we’d better get some more gas
In the tank pretty quick
History says we’ll roll forward on
Momentum for a little while
But we’d better get some more gas
In the tank pretty quick
History says we’ll roll forward on
Momentum for a little while
But we’d better get some more gas
In the tank pretty quick
History says we’ll roll forward on
Momentum for a little while
But we’d better get some more gas
In the tank pretty quick

Christ was born in a manger
Because there was a housing shortage
Our problems are not new
Christ was born in a manger
Because there was a housing shortage
Our problems are not new
Christ was born in a manger
Because there was a housing shortage
Our problems are not new
Christ was born in a manger
Because there was a housing shortage
Our problems are not new