Why do we tolerate it?

Question

once upon a time some people got mad at a tax imposed on tea. refused to pay the tax and dumped an entire shipment of the merchandise in to the sea they called it the boston tea party these men are celebrated in american history and are known as patriots. Today they have taxed everything and anything that they possibly can (im honestly waiting for an oxygen tax.) how come they tax you on stuff that you already own? ie: property tax and will take away your home if you dont pay? in my eyes they are simpling holding your home randsom. how come i have to pay an income tax out of every single paycheck that i receive and then have to trun around and pay a tax evertytime i want to feed my family buy clothes for my children, buy diapers and medication for my child? how about the unreasonable gas prices that prevent me from going anywhere but from home to work and back again is anybody else as fed up with this as me? i honestly cant feed my children without having to pay the government a fee.

hey haylo i didnt think there was anything funny about me having a hard time feeding my children go $%^&yourself

I didnt vote for bush i knew better i work 60 to 70 hours a week and pay my taxes i have every right to complain.

Answer 1

HOW LONG have you been sucked?

HOW MUCH have you given away that you didnt get back in social services?

HOW MUCH have you been robbed of?

WHO has the money/earnings/work you have been robbed of?

HOW MANY are the ways you are robbed?

HOW MUCH do you actually earn?

HOW MUCH would you have if you had never been robbed?

HOW MUCH would you get if you got all your robbed earnings back tomorrow?

HOW MUCH has been stolen from you?

HOW LONG have you been being robbed?

HOW MANY WAYS are you being robbed?

might you have another $2 million if you hadnt been robbed?

the govt prints more money, or just writes it into existence, which deflates all the money in the land, making everyone poorer - the value is spread evenly through all the money - so value gets spread over the new money the govt makes, so the old money now has only, say, 90% of the value - and then the govt lends this money to the banks, to lend to you - you pay interest - maybe three times the loan over the term of the loan - so the govt takes money off you [a sneaky tax] by writing money into existence, and then lends it back [people are poorer now and need more loans, because the old money doesnt buy as much] so that you have to pay them for the money they stole

you work, and build up infrastructure in a city, making the land more valuable - the owners of the land walk away with that added value without having to have done any work - rich people can buy land where it is cheap, wait while people make the land valuable by adding infrastructure [cities] and reap the reward of others' labour - the lowly workers who work in that city and make the value by their work, dont get that value

people invest in the stockmarket - but the bigmoney has more inside information - [the film 'trading places'] - it can afford to buy more info, to spend time getting more - so the little investors tend to lose more often - so the net effect of the stockmarket is to pump money from the little guys to the big guys

plus: again, the steady stockmarket overall gain over time in the longterm is due to the infrastructure gains in the nation - and only the 10% who invest in the stockmarket get the reward for this work - everyone does the work, 10% get paid for it

the little investor loses more often, so drops out more often, limiting the fraction of people who invest, keeping all the gains for a fraction of the people

new technology comes along - demand for the new product [say, electricity, pc's] is high, and supply is low because the industry is setting up - so prices are way above costs - so profits are high - and the heads of the companies take the biggest bites - the nation pays for nothing, for no work, pays just for the scarcity of the product - not for anyone's work, just for the scarcity

a merchant buys cheap and sells dear - business is just selling for more than you paid - and striving to give less and get paid more - it is the easiest thing for a company to charge $11 for something that costs $10 - the customer cannot know the exact costs - the customer can be fooled: a designer label may cost x [fees to the name who makes it 'designer'] and the customer is happy [only from ignorance] to pay x plus $100

emboss toilet paper so 200 sheets looks as fat as 300 sheets - so a 6-pack [200 sheets] has only the same number of sheets as a 4-pack [300 sheets] - who notices?

the private banks who control the money supply know when they themselves are going to increase or decrease moneysupply, so they know when to buy and sell money to make free money for themselves - they buy it cheap and sell it dear over and over again - they can then buy real goods made by real labour with that money - which means that that labour doesnt get paid for that labour - if someone gets paid labour [goods] for nothing, others have to give labour for nothing - wageslavery

these are a few of the many many legal thefts, by which the rich get richer, money rakes money, money gets easier and easier to rake as you get richer

stockbrokers keep the big plums for the big investors - and charge them lower percentage brokerage fees

people create labour oversupply [eg, steal the countryland from the people so the people are forced into cities] so they get cheap labour - create undersupply [prohibit imports of grain in a famine] so they get free scarcity money

small farms are 16 times more productive than big farms, so food corporations make big farms, reducing supply, increasing prices - and also forcing more farmers into the city, to make cheap labour - and also using local govts to force farmers to sell at cheap prices

and then the land in the cities is expensive, so the owner charges high rents, so prices of goods are high, so the customer pays high rent for his accommodation, and pays the high rent of the shops he shops at

patents are monopolies, so customers is forced to pay the patent-holder far more than the patent-holder's work-input - the inventors of the tetrapack [those fruitjuice bricks] are richer than the queen of england - [in japan, patents last only two years, in america 70]

everyone born has a birthright to an nth of the world natural resources, where n is the world population - one nth of the oil, diamonds, gold, minerals, land, trees, soil, water - and we give it to individuals - paul getty: the meek shall inherit the earth - but not the mineral rights - why not? - because of ownership of land, every new person has to labour to buy his birthright share, which he would have automatically if land was not owned - ownership of land is good, but stealing birthright share is still theft



and so it goes on and on

legal theft

how can you stop all such legal thefts [and illegal thefts] [past present and future] and the undemocratic share of power that theft gives? -

work out and set the maximum fortune a person can truly earn, by labour, [maximum lifetime working hours times world average hourly pay - US$2 million, in 2006 dollars] and spread the overfortunes that have built up, equally among everyone on earth - [an extra US$70,000 a year per family] - destroying legal theft, tyranny, unfreedom, undemocracy, fascism, corruption, socialism, and slavery - and destroying the violence generated by the theft, which violence is racing to extinction soon, thanks to e=mc2

[50 years ago, we could only destroy a city - now suddenly we find the atomic smoke will block out the sun everywhere forever]

1% get 90% of world income [US$70 trillion a year] - [while doing less than 1% of the work] - 90% get 10th to 1000th of world average hourly pay [while doing over 90% of the work] - and the 1% are still sucking! - now they are sucking the middle class, having sucked the most underpaid down to starvation

it's a great time to wake up!

and return to the american dream of a land of the free [the unrobbed, of money and power] by limiting fortunes and power to a just share -

individual contribution is limited, so fortunes should be limited

a thief is a person with a lot more money than he could possibly have earned

Answer 2

I agree with you. I cannot see the government changing anything, which is a real shame. Do you know how many people have lost their homes because of property taxes? Thinking they could pay it when it was due every six months because they could not afford it included in the house payment. It is so sad. Medical bills are enormous along with food, heat and water. Yet so much money goes over seas to help others there when here Americans are hurting. We have cried out for help but has anyone really heard us? Probably...they still just go on their way. Taxes are everywhere like you said and it's even worse when you pay a tax on your dog or cat. Even cars are taxed on a yearly basis. Who thinks up these things I'd like to know. Were we as tax payers given the right to vote on any of these things that are covered through taxes, our taxes. There are lots of taxes I never got to vote on, how about you. Do we tolerate because we have to? I don't see any signs of help from the government, do you? So what is our option.

Answer 3

When local government officials want to advance their careers, they come up with some wild project, like a technology corridor. They impose taxes to pay for it. So, the problem is with the local governments and their ambitions. But, keep in mind, that they always pay themselves first. They tax us for roads, but when a new road needs to be built, they tax us for the new one, and the existing one is left to crumble under our wheels. some places think that tourists should pay for new projects. Now the tourists are tired of the high expense of a vacation and go to other places that are cheaper. We pay taxes on everything, we pay to keep pur money in banks, we pay a pirates ransom to borrow money from banks. Fourty years ago, the banks paid us money to keep our money in their banks. We pay tons of taxes for everything, and get very little in return. sewage, water, trash pickup. Thats about it. It never stops, and never will. Never, unless, we the people put our foot down and reign in the politicians and their spending habits. We the people are suffering because they have a dream to build a new parking garage, a new library, a new city hall. These things don't benifit us. They cost us money. We are in trouble. We are all enslaved, and the master is the dollar bill.
Most of us aged fifty and younger are all going to be in a bind soon. There are no retirements like our parents had, social security is going to disappear, the average guy working at a average blue collar job is screwed. We will have to work until we drop dead on the job. There really is no relaxing future to look forward to. Unless, we get out there, start our own business and deal with the struggles. That is what being an american is all about. We have the freedom and resources to to overcome the hardships. Find something you are good at, then do it for yourself, instead of making the other guy rich. Good Luck.

Answer 4

We pay the taxes because it keeps our government going. Your property is in your country, so why shouldn't they ask for tax? I agree it is annoying that there are so many different ones everywhere, but its just trying to make it fairer because if they spread the money they needed evenly over everyone in terms of tax, we would all have a **** load more to pay.
Basically i look at the country i am in, see all the things our government does, disability payments, good roads, health care etc, then i think of how i could be living in a country that doesn't offer as much and doesn't allow me to live the lifestyle i do. It all balances out in the end.

So i guess in answer to your question, we tolerate it because we are lucky to live in the place we do and think its worth it. If you lived in a shitty country, you'd be less likely to pay taxes.

Answer 5

Your hero, george bush, is spending money like a drunken sailor. When President Clinton was in office, we had a budget SURPLUS. georgie b managed to run that surplus in to a multi trillion dollar deficit in no time. So tell me something, how are we going to pay off bush's debt with out raising taxes????? As for the unreasonable gas prices, what did you expect with two oilmen in the Whitehouse? Aint it great, the oil companies are posting record prices while you have to scrimp on your kids medicine? If you voted for bush, you have only yourself to blame, so quit your whining.

Answer 6

Yeah, I don't like paying taxes. Everyone says it is for the better but I don't see how. I pay taxes so people in goverment can buy private jets, 3 houses, 6 cars, and go on expensive trips? I don't think so.

Answer 7

I sometimes feel George Harrison' "Taxman" was closer to the point than we realize

If you drive a car, I'll tax the street
If you try to sit, I'll tax your seat
If you get too cold, I'll tax the heat
If you take a walk, I'll tax your feet

Answer 8

Because taxes go somewhere, and they usually go to people who have a lot more influence than people like you. At least you get things like streets and schools from your taxes though.

Answer 9

I couldn't agree more. Problem is, people actually think we have a free country. Stop paying taxes and see how free you are!

Answer 10

You took the words out of my mouth. I agree 100% Stand proud on that high horse.