Rant
ome on you've probably seen or heard it:
"I helped murder families in Columbia."
"I helped kidnap peoples’ dads."
“I helped blow up a building.”
An analysis of American foreign policy? No.
Insights into the effects of US support for authoritarian regimes? Nope.
A critique on US-funding for gorilla forces? Wrong again.
But, could it be children excusing themselves for proving the funds for
such actions? Of course! What else could it be?
So, why not take the American government to task. I mean, it’s always
excusing itself. But if the moral vanguards of our society really don't
want us to sponsor drug kingpins, terrorists, warlords, rogue states, well,
let's just stop paying our taxes till "our" government puts its money where
its mouth is.
Oh, but then that is, in fact, exactly what they do.
The truth is, however, I don't have anything against paying taxes. Hell, I
would even support more taxation. Provided, of course, the funds are used
for just needs: health care, housing, food subsidies, child support, etc.
and not “their” just needs: war, expansion of the military industrial
complex, subsidies to the wealthy, funding anti-democratic regimes, ad
nauseam.
The wealthy, accompanied by their newspapers anguish over how much taxes
their families and businesses have to pay and just how much it's hurting
them. If only we'd come to reason and see that less taxation for them will
mean more money for us all..... Good grief!
I got a better solution! Let's agree to a less burdensome taxation for the
wealthy and increased taxation for the less-than-wealthy, but on a more
equal basis. The capitalists will have to share some of their wealth by
raising wages for workers dramatically (how about equal to that CEOs
received since 1980: a 1,884% increase?). In exchange for their return to
a more noble position in society, we too will burden ourselves with a fair
portion of taxes.
Reality check!
Figures issued by the Labor Department for January through March of this
year show that labor productivity rose by 5.5% and output rose by 6.5% as
compared to the previous quarter. NPR was quite succinct in spelling this
out: workers were fired, paid less, and made to work longer: i.e., we were
more heavily exploited. Or, as reported in the paper of record, The New
York Times: "Companies managed to squeeze every last ounce of production
out of their workers....''
I love it when the press doesn't lie.
"I helped murder families in Columbia."
"I helped kidnap peoples’ dads."
“I helped blow up a building.”
An analysis of American foreign policy? No.
Insights into the effects of US support for authoritarian regimes? Nope.
A critique on US-funding for gorilla forces? Wrong again.
But, could it be children excusing themselves for proving the funds for
such actions? Of course! What else could it be?
So, why not take the American government to task. I mean, it’s always
excusing itself. But if the moral vanguards of our society really don't
want us to sponsor drug kingpins, terrorists, warlords, rogue states, well,
let's just stop paying our taxes till "our" government puts its money where
its mouth is.
Oh, but then that is, in fact, exactly what they do.
The truth is, however, I don't have anything against paying taxes. Hell, I
would even support more taxation. Provided, of course, the funds are used
for just needs: health care, housing, food subsidies, child support, etc.
and not “their” just needs: war, expansion of the military industrial
complex, subsidies to the wealthy, funding anti-democratic regimes, ad
nauseam.
The wealthy, accompanied by their newspapers anguish over how much taxes
their families and businesses have to pay and just how much it's hurting
them. If only we'd come to reason and see that less taxation for them will
mean more money for us all..... Good grief!
I got a better solution! Let's agree to a less burdensome taxation for the
wealthy and increased taxation for the less-than-wealthy, but on a more
equal basis. The capitalists will have to share some of their wealth by
raising wages for workers dramatically (how about equal to that CEOs
received since 1980: a 1,884% increase?). In exchange for their return to
a more noble position in society, we too will burden ourselves with a fair
portion of taxes.
Reality check!
Figures issued by the Labor Department for January through March of this
year show that labor productivity rose by 5.5% and output rose by 6.5% as
compared to the previous quarter. NPR was quite succinct in spelling this
out: workers were fired, paid less, and made to work longer: i.e., we were
more heavily exploited. Or, as reported in the paper of record, The New
York Times: "Companies managed to squeeze every last ounce of production
out of their workers....''
I love it when the press doesn't lie.
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