How to be a Real Conservative - Rule No. 110 TAXATION AND STUPIDITY MAKE A BAD TEAM On top of the fees and taxes we pay to local, state, and federal governments, there is an every-growing burden of hidden tolls that evade meaningful scrutiny. With the power of governmental sanction, these levees stroll through the backdoor and nibble away at our resources. Some are so insidious as to fall into a category called “stupidity taxes”. At the top of the list stand state sponsored lotteries. Though armored with deceptive names like “The Education Lottery,” these revenue bonanzas are ripe for manipulation. In that lotteries are funded predominantly by those who cannot afford the gamble, these programs are a means for robbing Peter to pay a Paul of government’s choosing – minus the skim taken by lottery bureaucrats and power brokers who use proceeds as a political slush fund. Most stupidity taxes arise out of stupidity spending. Earmarks, pork, and graft consume significant revenue in wasteful support of special interests and nice-over-necessary activities. The lack of quality control, transparency, and productive return illuminate our stupidity for tolerating the nonsense. The built in inefficiencies and self-justifying policies of bureaucracies represent a hidden cost in most everything we do. Anything that is expensive, concealed and self-serving merits review as a possible stupidity tax. America’s growing, redundant, inconsistently enforced, and excessive regulatory umbrella meets this criteria. A kissing cousin to the expense and burden of bureaucracy society would be the cost of protecting ourselves from a predatory legal system. Much akin to the protection rackets found in organized crime, almost every productive activity in America pays a stupidity tax to the law profession. Defensive medicine, as an example, serves no other meaningful function than to help physicians stay out of a lawyer’s gun sight. People are social beings with instinctive desires. As a result, cronyism arises as another stupidity tax. The tendency to place friendship and herd instincts ahead of principles, responsibilities, and the law is a persisting problem. “You scratch my back and I will scratch yours” thinking prevails at all levels of our culture. Though we understand the itch, we should not tolerate the scratch. It is just another stupidity tax on top of all the others. Conservatives resist stupidity and taxes – especially when they come as a package… “Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess.” – Matthew 23:25 The Candid Conservative Says- Stupidity taxes are a legalized means of extortion, theft, and money laundering…
Posted on: Sat, 10 Aug 2013 13:48:22 +0000
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