Government
is not, as some might posit, a cancer, it’s not an infection, it’s not a chemical imbalance in the body politic.
It’s a parasite.
It will always be a parasite, and nothing will stop this. Ever. A parasite dies usually only when the host dies.
One of the ways to get rid of a parasite is to starve it. What if we all stopped our withholding? “We’ll pay you at the end of the year” and at the end of the year, nobody write the checks. Would it crash? would we all crash? Would the person die of starvation?
Americans are pretty fat. Myself included. If you wait until a person with a tapeworm is rail-thin, starving them to kill the tapeworm will kill them. If a fat person develops a tapeworm, starving them to kill the tapeworm is only a minor inconvenience. Nothing illegal is required, nothing violent. Paying taxes is voluntary, right?
The reason roosevelt and his socialist friends set up withholding was because they realized that the first time people had to write a large one-time check for their taxes would be the last time anyone ever voted for a democrap.
So, government is sort of like a tick. Sounds about right to me.
Starving them will be tough as most of use are wage slaves and the IRS comes after business hard that do not pay the withholding. Most business are all about go along to get along.
I think fire will remove a tick and we might have to apply a similar remedy here.
I just hopes the next crop in office remembers how they got there. It might take a few election cycles to fully implement the setting of they don’t get to rob the place blind.
But I have lost my patience. If they don’t get the messagbe soon, I’m thinking we need to remind them.
YMMV
I think fire will remove a tick and we might have to apply a similar remedy here.
So do large amounts of alcohol …
/walked right into that one
The only group in America for whom taxes are voluntary is the Black Congressional Caucus. And of course, Tim Geithner.
I stopped witholding years ago.
To remove an intestinal worm, a bunch of antibiotics can do the trick. Killed an 18-incher from India once. Alcohol didn’t seem to do the trick no matter how hard I tried.
In an abortive novel I wrote about a revolution on a colony world, the motto of the nascent revolution was, “They can’t put ALL of us in jail!”
But it has to be a huge group of people refusing to pay taxes, because if it’s not, those who participate in this idea will find out how “voluntary” paying taxes is….
> …voluntary, right?
Um, so do you prefer the hacksaw in the cake or the Tommy-gun in the bible?
If you can fit a Tommy gun inside a bible I’d like to see it because that bible would be freakin’ HUGE.
Maybe a copy of “Commentary on New Testament Use of the Old Testament” would work better. (Get the large print edition.)