Who's still a slave?

Keith, Patrick N. AMH2010 Monday-Friday 10:30 am

It was amusing to me that in our “History of Minorities I” it is noted that for “[blacks] slowly returned to the farms and resumed work under circumstances scarcely more favorable than before the war.” Further it is pointed out that “Black farm workers… since the cost of maintenance was so great₁…that workers were indebted to their employer for most of what they had made and sometimes more”
I find it amusing for the comparison that I make in regards to the past being scarcely better than slavery and the current situation of being indebted to society. The mechanism and constraints are all still there. The Power of the elite, as class, strives towards enslavement, in one form or another, over those that it can enslave, regardless of class. Thus here I elude that no man is every free so long as one man is not equal in society.
“The aggregate stock of US debt rose from a mere 163 per cent of gross domestic product in 1980 to 346 per cent in 20072.”
We are slave to our standard of living. Our slavery is enforced, because if we do not work we cannot live. The government demands that taxes be paid, if you do not pay taxes, you will be penalized. I empathize with a sales taxes and an income tax. However a property tax is unjust. To force someone to pay for their land every year is extortion.
I may not want to sell my food that I grow on my land to support my chosen standard of living for me and mine for a price that I do not want to sell it for. However, if I do not provide a monetary sum to the government for the payment of my land then the government will forcibly remove me from my land. I have two choices, fight against the tyranny of the government or sell any commodity, resource, or service that I have to provide money to the government. Like math, I reduce the equation to; the government intimidating violence if I do not work for them, or concede to a given price established by a government, or established by ruling class that establishes the protocols of “our” government.
So really, the line between freedom and slavery was never crossed; it just got blurred and disguised so that all of us, even the “Most Equal Citizen” is still in a reality a slave.

1. For the standard of living?
2. By Martin Wolf Financial Times
Published: September 23 2008 19:38http://2164th.blogspot.com/2008/09/total-us-debt-rose-from-163-of-gdp-in.html
3. Highlighted is taken from our notes “History of Minorities 1”