Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

August 23, 2010

As we?ve noted previously, Philadelphia is presided over by a mayor ? appropriately named Michael Nutter ? who is engaged in a vulgar shakedown.

Referring to people who supposedly owe various municipal taxes, Nutter has declared: ?We want our damn money. You owe it, we want it, and I plan to collect it.?

Nutter?s administration couples a porcine appetite for revenue with a certain depraved creativity in making so-called tax scofflaws out of innocent people. . It recently devised a way to impose a $300 tax ? disguised as a ?business privilege license? -- on residents who maintain internet blogs

For the past three years, Philadelphian Marilyn Hess has published a low-traffic blog devoted to organic cooking. It has brought in less than $50 in ad revenue. Now the unemployed blogger has received a letter from the city demanding that she pay for a business license, as well as net profits tax.

Nutter?s regime offers another useful look at the authentic face of the loathsome instrument of misery and corruption called government.

Let us take back the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free.