The Eyes of Taxes are upon you


By Fast Eddie,

By now you are probably aware that the Tomato Heads in Sacramento are actively looking for new and better ways to generate revenue. For to keep going - big punch line, here - the rather LARGE and ever-expanding central state government.


Naturally a number of allegedly very serious considerations are taking their toll on to-date tangible progress.
For instance, what to do about the totally vexing problem of just who exactly owns any given piece of commercial property is considered a huge topic in the Tomato Heads’ debate. And, only slightly more money-wise, whether the tax shelters the wealthy and plutocratic invariably use to dodge their opportunity to generously contribute to the upkeep of their fellow humanoids is another truly vexing Tomato Heads style tax quandary.

Looks obvious and business as usual stuff, does it not. Here’s my question. Does any of this stuff really go to the heart of the matter? As in, only two more dollars per hundred in taxes and, oh, one hundred thousand more poor go to homeless. And/or living in a vehicle.

And, same numerics, three hundred thousand blue collar workers get the high and exalted privilege of never escaping the landlord. At least not in this lifetime.

And, forty-seven quadrillion bureaucrats with guns and badges will have to be put on the paycheck steady side of the tax roles to forestall Overthrow Of The Government.

Ain’t Taxation great?

Here’s my point. Politicians and bureaucrats don’t think down to the heart of the matter.
In fact, it is their distinct and irreversible habit to do anything at all but think down to the heart if the matter.
Because, the whole tax system needs to be changed. And thoroughly. And fast.

Not the best sort of NEWS for the Tomato Heads type, eh?

And, here’s more good news for We The Suckers. It’s actually dramatically easy to get rid of bureaucratic sloth, waste, and taxation in and of itself. These points:

First, some sort of State Constitutional Amendment which recognizes and demands daily practice of an ancient venerable adage:

That Government is best which governs least.

And, in fail-safe back-up mode, another Constitutional Amendment which declaims as Law, a right-to-work law but directed most adamantly at the civil service.

Next, a new categorization regarding income. Which, I think, should be called Funding.

Because, it is not taxation. And it can not be taxation. And it never can become taxation. But, it’s money.
Here relevant. 1) Funding should never be paid to anyone except a county. This is done so that the thieves and the robbers and the idiots can be easily found. And tortured, slowly, until they are dead.

Next, “Nationalize” all potable water sources here in California. And continue to sell the water at exactly the same price as it is sold for now. And likewise as well all of the currently out-of-style energy sources. Which is everything but oil. Solar, wind, geothermal, natural gas, wave. Et cetera.

Voila! We now have two revenue streams which are, in effect, 100% reliable. And, perhaps just as important, are inherently guaranteed to keep pace with the debasing of the national currency- more commonly called Inflation.

Similarly, we also have two methods to disallow sloth. And just plain incompetence and delusions of grandeur driven Tomato Head style purest self-interest.

Is there more?

There is one more. We’re still a little short. So funding for Government may, when absolutely necessary, be derived from a bill sent for services rendered source. And the bill must prove, in meaningful detail, that the money requested is already spent and it has provided thus and such.. To that individual or household..

Reasonable. Yet, in constraint, there is more. This money can’t come from anywhere ultimately except from work. But the question here is, or needs to be, what is work?

Are investments, of whatever type, what is normally considered work? No. Tax them higher. Is making porn or operating a boiler room normal; average work? No. Tax that money higher. Gambling revenue? No. Tax it higher.

And, you get the picture.

Because, even though banks and hookers don’t care where your money comes from, it is time, and it is time past, that our Government do just that.

Because, that is the way the normal and average person looks at these sorts of things, you see.
In closing, no more taxation means a huge step toward no more We, The Suckers.

And, of course, there are all sorts of refinements here still due and payable. But, we are going to leave that up to you to pass those along to us.

Posted: Tue - April 1, 2003 at 06:32 PM          

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