Happy Taxation Day

So taxes are coming around the corner and you and I both want to know what in the (profanity) are they doing with the money? Is it so they can take a vacation when they shut the government down? Maybe it is to pay off the debt? Wow, I just made a joke. I got it the FED wants to give financially secure people self imposed bonuses. The honest truth is I do not know where our income tax goes and I'm not sure those collecting it do either. Yes I have looked at the graphs and the numbers and I tell you what we voted devious people into office for way too many years for any of it to start making sense now. The sad part is I doubt we are going to start making any corrections to the government scam any time soon. So instead of complaining about it and/or the government let's do something constructive, let's talk about dogs.

Dogs welcome us home no matter what we have done. They lick our faces right after licking... Let's not talk about dogs. How about cats. Cats will jump up in our lap, purr, and then rip the hell out... no, no... no good. Let's find another topic. Babies are great... nothing wrong here. They are cute, loud, need changing and keep you awake... Darn, I thought I had a winner.

Well that proves it. It's the national IRS holiday and it causes even the best of things to stink. Until it is over I will struggle to think good thoughts. Let's open the window, get some fresh air... is that a skunk? Oh, nothing that good. Just a political ad on the radio.... Happy taxation day.

(C) Jonathan S. Brooks 04/06/11
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The Mobilization of Taxation

I read the most wonderful suggestion the other day. Some bobble heads have purposed a tax for our deteriorating transportation system that would meter one’s vehicle mileage. Really! What are these people smoking? Hell, I would pay a toll on every highway before I agree to have my mileage metered. If I’m going to be metered I get a cab. Don’t get me wrong I recognize the need for financing the improvement to our transportation system, but when the advice comes from those whose financial purity has put us in a situation where there is talk of tolling our own vehicles I have to have reservations. The troll would no longer stands at the bridge asking for payment to pass for now he is sitting in your car asking payment to allow you to drive. Everyone would be punished for using the intended purpose of our roads and that is to widening one’s sphere of opportunity through the ease of mass travel. In today’s world many people drive hours to get back and forth from work. So these modern trolls would punish workers for the need to travel to hold down a job. They really are trying to create a debtor’s society where we will have to rely on them for everything, and if we do rely on them we will eventually end up with nothing.

There was further explanation given for such a tax. I guessing they thought it would be a surprise to know that we do not have the money to maintain the transportation infrastructure. Apparently we are unaware of the economics called Governmental Financing that for every dollar given only a small amount becomes potentially useable. The rest is compounded and adjusted into a negative figure called debt. Maintenance has not been and may never be a priority for the government or most corporations. It is always better to create versus caring for what one has. The reasoning for this is simple, self acknowledgement. This is a resource of gratification that politicians crave more than a good affair. See no one is acknowledged for maintain an aging system, but the new improved kid on the block will earn promotions and bonuses. The real clever project manager has even a more effective and lethal bomb. The weapon in this arsenal is simple. Appear to have a great project in the works to gain well deserved acknowledgement while widening the pool of debt. This method insures the largest bonuses for minimal resources. When the acknowledgement benefits are faltering it is time to pass it on to the next sap and start a new project based on the fanfare of the prior. This insures the continuation of beneficial attention and the growth of Governmental Financing while eliminating your competition in the disguise of a gift.

Further reasoning for the proposed tax is hybrid and electric cars. These alternative fuel options are withholding their duty to pay speculative gas taxes based on thruster vehicles. Now I know my eyes might be dimming but I’m not blind yet. The alternative fuel market has not taken over the majority of transportation. So they must be speculating on future traffic. Again do not get me wrong we need to care for our aging infrastructure but not with absurdity. Look at where the real problems lie. Do not let the politicians tell us the solution. Face it, that has been done and it has gotten us… well here. These scare tactics to bully proposals through would never pass except in political atmospheres that appeal to desperation. Before accepting such solution, look at the legitimacy of the solution versus the problem. If we do not we will have snake oil sales men fixing our budget with the same poison they have always used- our ignorance.