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The Right To Your Money: Nothing ‘Fair’ About It.

Tax Dollar Black HoleThe Granite State Fair Tax Coalition, discovering that it’s "percentage of income model" argument against property taxes really applies to all things, and that lower income people pay a higher percentage of their income on everything, (a problem resolved through hard work and perseverance to which we apparently do not have a right) has announced that it is looking for a way to make "Rich BastardsTM" pay more for everything.

One example?

How about Marriage.  Now that we’ve determined that Marriage is a civil right, (unless you are too young, too closely related, are already married, to uncivil to be or stay married, or want to remain single) why does a decent wedding (or any wedding) have to cost low income workers as much as 100% of their annual income while "Rich BastardsTM" only have to pay 25% to as little as 2% of theirs?  The answer is of course a Statewide wedding tax on higher income wage earners to subsidize the constitutionally protected right of marriage–because you can’t help who you fall in love with.

The plan could create a State Bureau of Weddings and Funerals, staffed by at least a dozen bureaucrats, (with taxpayer supported wages, benefits, pensions, office space, paid vacations, supplies, and protest signs that actually come with sick notes attached; for days when they need to go the State House and make demands of the taxpayers elected-officials on matters of workers rights etc,).  These fine individuals would be charged with handling questions and processing the paperwork and fees related to the weddings and funerals tax placed upon job creators, and the Rich Bastard population in general, (“Rich” to be defined by the collectors of the tax based on their perception of revenue needed) for the distribution of said revenues to those less fortunate seeking lavish weddings that have nothing to do with love, everything to do with impressing people whom you never see, and who are really just there for the free meal, and with any luck, an open bar.

One potential issue to the new Bureau’s mandate, however, is the rights of single people who would not benefit from the tax, or maybe this is just a rhetorical device on my part to segue into my next sarcastic rant.

Choice being the watchword of the left, the right to marriage must also create a right to not be married and not just through the right of divorce.  So the right to co-habitate, to "habitate" with a co-dependent (on or off site relationship), to simply participate in the hook up culture engaging in the equivalent of pre-marital polygamy, (poly-habitate/habituate) also known as pre or post marital anti-monogamy, media sanctioned extra-marital intercourse (former democrat president), or even the rights of 40 year old adolescents with Dorito-stained lips and thumbs the size of biceps from playing video games in their moms basements (losers), must also be protected equally.

In the interests of meeting all these diverse and interrelated ‘rights’ GSFTC suggests that we also add an income tax, a bit of eminent domain taking from your labor-landscape.  With an income tax the state can create an even larger bureau of unelected, unaccountable bureaucrats (wages, benefits, pensions, signs and sick notes included), to control, collect, and regulate you so as to provide state lawmakers with a much larger pool of revenues from which to determine whom is most deserving of whatever is it a majority of them can agree to is either a right or an injustice deserving your money at any given time.  This pool will not actually pay for any of that though; it will exist in terminal inadequacy, in perpetuity, to leverage debt-spending because they could never collect it fast enough with all those spending priorities, they also need it to cover the swelling interest payments on the debt as we decline into bankruptcy.

You need broad taxes to collect that kind of money; taxes that you won’t really feel, (like you feel a huge tax bill every six months). They are a critical component to building an expansive, unaffordable government that no one sees until it is too late.  Just look at all the states that use them, and the Federal government as well. On the brink or over it..  This failed state model is the result of the genetic defects of left wing thinking. Misusing other peoples property is a priority. But if they have to petition the populace every single time they want more money to "fix" something, following all the stupid rules in a constitution could add months or years to the process of separating you from enough of your income, and they just don’t want to wait that long. So a failed tax structure on income, which is actually more volatile than property, has to be a cure–because it is actually less transparent; you just don’t feel it the way you do a property tax bill. And if you need more you inch up the tax rate. So all the GSFTC really wants is to make your taxes less visible and easier to abuse.

One more unfortunate problem with the plan, which GSFTC will not discuss truthfully, as if anything they have to say has any truth to it now: property taxes will not go down, the new tax will go up, and there will be more  40 year old adolescents with Dorito-stained lips and thumbs the size of biceps (from playing video games in their moms basements), exercising their "right" to live off their parents.  But that’s supposed to be progress.