This is the greatest example of self-contradiction I may have ever heard. Sleazy Senator Schumer wants to waive taxes on Olympic Medals, because he says he doesn't want to tax hard work. If it wasn't for the determination of liberals, like Schumer, to tax to death hardworking Americans, liberals would have no tax-payer dollars to dole out to non-working Americans. Everyone knows that liberals' success at the polls is dependent upon those on government dependency punching ballots for Democrats who purchase their votes with money picked from the pockets of hardworking Americans. 

Not only are Democrats, like Chuck Schumer, determined to tax to death hardworking Americans, but they are also dead set against any tax cuts for hardworking Americans. However, at the same time, they are in favor of giving “tax refunds” to people who don’t pay taxes. How can you call a handout to a non-taxpayer a tax refund? Why don’t Democrats call it what it really is, welfare, or, better yet, why don’t they call it what George McGovern did, a “Demogrant”?

Unbeknown to most Americans, the United States Supreme Court once ruled that income taxes were unconstitutional? In 1895, the Supreme Court ruled that the income tax was “class legislation” and therefore in violation of our Constitution. Writing for the majority, Justice Field penned these prophetic words, “Whenever a distinction is made in the burdens a law imposes or in the benefits it confers on any citizen by reasons of birth, or wealth or religion, it is class legislation and leads inevitably to oppression and abuses…the present assault upon capital is but the beginning. It will be but a stepping stone to others, larger and more sweeping, till our political contests will become a war of the poor against the rich; a war constantly growing in intensity and bitterness.”  

In his 1984 “Communist Manifesto,” Karl Marx taught that the implementation of communism necessitated “a heavy progressive or gradual income tax.” It was the wise King Solomon who once penned these insightful words, “By justice a king builds up the land, but he who exacts gifts [heavily taxes his people] tears it down” (Proverbs 29:4 ESV). Today’s America is being torn down by ruinous taxation. Benjamin Franklin may have been right to have said, “In this world, nothing is certain but death and taxes.” However, good ole’ Ben failed to see that taxes could ultimately prove to be the death of us.