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I Responded to the Census Today
The answer was “2″. That is all. The public announcement commercials I hear on the radio say that they use the census data to determine our “fair share” of funding. One commercial says something like, If a town had 100 students, they’d need about 5 school teachers. If next year they had a lot more students, but nobody filled out the census, they’d still have only 5 teachers. Don’t you think that the townsfolk (i.e., the people impacted most by changing demography) would realize their town’s population was booming, and plan accordingly? Why should the people living in the neighboring town (or State, for that matter) pay to subsidize their growth? You know what’s fair? Not having to give all that money away to the bureaucrats in the first place. If we didn’t give … Read entire article »
Filed under: American Politics, Taxation is Theft
Government Employees Are Overpaid
A lot of people make a big fuss when the federal employee salary and benefit figures come out. There’s an article in USAToday that highlights the ever-widening gap between public and private compensation. For occupations that “exist both in government and the private sector,” government employees took home an average of about $68,000 in salary, compared to only $60,000 for their privately-employed counterparts. That’s a pretty sizeable gap. What’s more alarming is the value of fringe benefits: pensions, health insurance, vacation allowances, etc. Government employees took home an average of about $41K, compared to only $10K for comparable private workers. Do the math: that’s about a 50% premium. Many of them also get such unheard-of-in-the-private-sector benefits as: all federal holidays off work, four or more weeks paid vacation, 20-and-done for … Read entire article »
Filed under: American Politics, Employment & Labor, Taxation is Theft
Taxation is Theft: Elaine Brown Sentenced to Life in Prison
In slave states like America, production is a crime which must be remedied by onerous taxation. Defiance is met with extortion and violence. Case-in-point: for the “crime” of not paying taxes Elaine Brown has been handed a sentence that amounts to “life in prison,” according to this post on Infowars.com. No matter how you slice it, in point of fact, Ed and Elaine Brown are guilty of either earning income (i.e., selling goods and.or services to people who voluntarily buy said goods and/or services) or owning/operating a corporation which does same. In reality, there are many millions of people who “don’t pay taxes” or don’t pay “their fair share”. These free-riders are variously: government employees, state-sponsored corporations (i.e., most if not all corporations), welfare victims, etc., all of whom … Read entire article »
Filed under: American Politics, Government is Slavery, Legalese, Taxation is Theft