Out of proportion is an understatement. Personally, I believe wholeheartedly that if you pay a tax, you are a slave. There are plenty of free people in the US...most of them are not, however, honest. But, the largest dishonesty-- again, in my humble opinion-- is that complacent citizens of the USA have convinced themselves (of course, propaganda and conditioning play a role) that they, "own" things, that they do not live in government housing, that they are free, and most disgustingly, they are not slaves.