If it takes the formation of a taxpayer's union to put a stop to the highway robbery, so be it. It's time to stand up and be counted. Time to take matters into our own hands. Time to throw it back in the face of corruption. Time to let our "representatives" find out who's really the boss. Not voting is not enough.

We can't sit around waiting for the Lone Ranger to show up. He's not coming, Silver bullets aren't made any more. What's more, Tonto is off fighting his own battle and winning. Before going back to their casinos, the Original Americans sued the federal government over the misuse of Indian trust funds, won a $600,000 settlement in a court battle still going on, and caused the retirement of then Secretary of the U.S. Treasury Robert Rubin. A man who told us he was retiring to "be with family" while his son and daughter-in-law continued to work for Washington. His son as spokesman for the State Department and his daughter the Far Eastern correspondent for the Clinton News Network (CNN). A cozy insider relationship.

We can't afford to sit around waiting for the Beltway Bandits to do something about it. They've got their own agenda—paying down the national debt with our retirement, health care, and other entitlement money. A crafty plan that every year gains them six cents in accruing interest with every dollar they steal from Social Security, Medicare, gas taxes, and other entitlements. Good for them, not for America's working stiffs.

I used to be against unions. I thought their usefulness had passed when coal miners and garment workers were brought out of dark age sufferance. That unions no longer protected American workers and were doing a lot to drive industry out of this country. When unions turned to recruiting civil servants, people like teachers and government employees who were supposed to be working for the public, just to maintain their own profitable salaries and organizational size, I got even more upset.

Today, I think it might be the more peaceful alternative to solving the problem we've all got. A problem that is spread across every employee in this country. Everyone who works for a company and pays payroll taxes, including the self employed.

A few companies are letting their employees handle their own taxes. Letting the people who work for them decide how much or whether they send money to a corrupt federal government. But these companies are far too few, and the problem is now.

We will never again see the more than $300 million a day being sent to the pirates in Washington. Once sent, it's gone forever.

The thieves tell us that they're just 'borrowing" the money. Putting Treasury securities in trust funds to account for it. Nonmarketable bonds that they've invented just for this purpose. But these bonds are nothing but demands on future income taxes. Promissory notes that we, the people who paid entitlement taxes in the first place, must someday redeem—plus annual interest added to the total.

This is double taxation, plain and simple. It's been going on for ages. In the last twenty years or so, since the Beltway Bandits learned to exploit it, this "Pay-It-Again, Sam" plan has reached phenomenal proportions. Enough to pay off a good part of the $5.7 trillion national debt in ten years. Enough to reduce "available" debt without requiring the government to tighten its belt at all.

Pork barrel spending, world government plans, paybacks, favors, and so forth can continue unabated while your Social Security retirement and other entitlement money goes down the drain at the rate of $300 million a day. Last year, it was $95.4 billion stolen from Social Security alone. And don't forget the other entitlements.

Like the Indians, we could sue the government. Also like the Indians, we would be in litigation for ages—until the government accomplishes its end and the debt is paid down with our retirement and health care money. More properly, until the debt is all transferred to the entitlement side. President Bush's income tax break is already part of the settlement, but only part. It doesn't do anything for payroll taxes. Nothing for the working man's tax.

We need a united front. We need the power to strike. The power to stop paying. The power to handle the money ourselves or put it in the hands of someone we can trust. There is no other way these crooks are going to listen. We need the power to do what, in the end, the Beltway Bandits will probably do themselves—eliminate nonmarketable UOU bonds. Bankrupt them. Strike them from the books. Get rid of these instruments of extortion. We can still do it before it's too late.