Amerika

When we were learning about the American War for Independence back in grade school, many people voice the concern: all of this, about taxes? Mere money? It was like fighting over a bill at a restaurant, some opined.

They missed the obvious facet of our reality, as expressed by Karl Marx and many others, namely that time is money. Your money represents your time, the only resource of unknown duration and a resource which cannot be replaced.

People who take your money are stealing parts of your life.

Whether they do it with a shotgun, a bad decision that floods your home or trashes your community, or with the pen that mandates new regulations, taxes, and civil rights which further deplete your stash, they have taken away some of your life.

Imagine a parasite, maybe a crablike thing with bone-tipped tentacles, sucking the blood out of you. Sure, you can endure a little, but as it grows healthier, so grows its need, and soon you are tired all the time, not feeling very well, and wasting away.

Sounds about like what has happened to Western Civilization under the postwar Leftist mixed economy liberal democracy (MELD) regime. This outlook used pluralism to justify taking from the successful to build a giant bureaucracy to subsidize every failure.

But when you subsidize failure, you make the failure grow, and soon it demands more blood than you can spare.

Taxes destroy those who would naturally be successful and replace them with those who have no such potential. Any taxes beyond things that go to everyone — again: roads, military, courts, emergency — quickly grow to take up the wealth of a nation.

Our founding fathers were not rebelling because they were cheap, but because they realized that even small amounts of taxation destroys an economy and with it, steals the time of the population and makes it demoralized.

Taxes raise the cost of everything. If ten people are required to produce an item, each one raises his price to cover the taxes. The item gets much more expensive.

Taxes decrease the value of your currency. Inflation occurs as prices rise to cover the taxation; devaluation occurs because when you hand out money for free, it is easier to acquire therefore less in demand.

Taxes multiply social problems. Any long-term crisis has a cause which is not in the problem itself, so until you fix that cause, the problem remains. Bureaucrats simply hand out money and pretend this has fixed the cause because it stopped the visible symptom that is the problem.

In the end, the taxes eat up the society in the name of taking care of everyone, and those who could have saved it die out long before that point.

Tags: collapse, taxes