The message From Congress Is Clear: Quit Work, Go on welfare!

(Guest Article by Dave Webb)

The following is from an article in the Dayton Daily News in Ohio. Anyone who is not alarmed by this quote needs to be. It effects everyone. “A typical middle-income family making $40,000 to $64,000 a year could see its taxes go up by $2,000 in 2013 if lawmakers fail to renew a lengthy roster of tax cuts set to expire at the end of 2012, according to a new report Monday, Oct. 1, 2012. Taxpayers across the income spectrum would be hit with large tax hikes, the Tax Policy Center said in its study, with households in the top 1 percent income range seeing an average tax increase of more than $120,000, while a family making between $110,000 to $140,000 could see a tax hike in the $6,000 range.” Normally I would not quote anyone from the wire services. If there is ever a Pravda(Moscow newspaper) in the United States, surely this is it. This one got through the editors. I don’t know why but it did. The FED is busy printing money. They do not have time to comfort us. The new idea which is very old is to make our money worthless. This encourages unions and everyone else to re-negotiate wages every year. Obviously if everything is inflating at say 10% per year(Off the wall number) then everything will go back to “normal” and everyone will go back to work. Right? I have come to a revolutionary conclusion. The government does not want us to work! Here is my logic on this statement: One of the purposes of the tax code is to discourage things.

1. You are not supposed to smoke cigarettes. So we put huge taxes on a carton of cigarettes to discourage their use.
2. You are not supposed to drink alcohol. So we put huge taxes on a carton of cigarettes to discourage their use.
3. Telephone services. You are not encouraged to use a telephone, so we put federal taxes on its use.
4. Cable. Mixed bag here. They want your intelligence put down so they actually have legislated the air waves so an antenna is less useful. But the government wants to tax it so I guess they want to discourage its use. (translated: everyone has to use cable, it is easier to control what comes over cable than the airwaves and dumb you down.)
5. Buying Retail Goods locally. It is taxed at 7%. Even cat food is taxed even though it is considered food. You are not supposed to own a pet. Any apartment landlord will tell you that. He adds onto the bill for rent because animals are all like pigs and leave their debris for the landlord to clear out after the tenant leaves.
6. Even water is taxed indirectly. You are charged for your sewer. You are charged for how much fresh water you use through the water companies.
7. Marriage tax. If you do the right thing and marry your mistress the government thinks they need to tax you for it. If you live in sin, the taxes are a lot less. Thus the penalty for doing the right thing and getting married. Also the liability for health care is less if you are single rather than married.
8. Tax people’s industrial pensions through their companies. Unlike Social Security this is being done by a number of states to the tune of several thousand a year per individual.
9. Inflate the economy as a tax. The Fed keeps savings interest at so low a number that no one should even think about savings accounts. By the time you save the money, it is worth half what you earned. So by all means go out there and spend every thing you earn from week to week. Then when your job falls through, you qualify for welfare.

Things I think they haven’t thought of taxing yet (maybe they have we just don’t know about it):

1. They haven’t thought of a way to directly tax you for going to the bathroom. (Don’t worry. I am sure there is legislation pending somewhere on this oversight!) ( your toilet might someday have a coin meter attached to it.)
2. Tax the pensions people get from Social Security. (I think this was tried once and the people that tried it got unelected in a hurry!) Don’t think they will try it again, but I may be wrong. I do think Romney will try it if he gets elected. But that is personal opinion. The man is a genius at salvaging bankrupt organizations.
3. Tax the prostitutes. (Prostitutes are part of the great underground economy. It is impossible to determine income on these people! Mainly, because so many of them spend the money as fast as the earn it on drugs! Even the IRS has the attitude of ignoring prostitutions. It is impossible to get money from them, but they sure would like to try. I see prostitution becoming legal. Then they can control and tax it.)
4. Tax all gasoline engines used in lawnmowers. Tax you for mowing your lawn. I think this idea is popular in Congress. Why not discourage people from using small engines on their gardening chores? It is against the environment with all those exhaust fumes.
5. Tax the benefits people are getting on welfare. (Like Social Security, this is a no-no. But I expect legislation doing just that any day now.)
6. Tax unemployment benefits directly so the government gets its money first. Even taxing benefits from unemployment is dirty. These people payed into the unemployment insurance system with after tax dollars. That money came from their net, not their gross. So taxing it is double taxing. Government seems to be good at that.

If Romney’s numbers are correct and 47% of the population is on some form of support instead of working, then we have a huge group of people that are not being taxed. True they have no money. But that can be remedied. Put them back to work! I am sure all the old people that have worked all their lives can go back to work. Besides if you employ all the old people on Social Security a lot of them may be ineligible for further benefits. Then the system pays for itself with the remaining ones in nursing homes or dying. The message from Congress is clear. Tax, Tax, Tax! So if you push all those people into being taxed at 20% more next January, then the problem of a budget is really solved. (Not really!) Uncle Sam will not stand for us being solvent. They will spend it all. I suggest instead of blaming one party or the other for this outrage we should blame anyone that is in office right now. Vote them all out of office. Oh, that is right, they get their salaries anyway even if they are voted out of office and have two elected terms. I want them negotiating wages for me! Oh, that is right, they do represent me. Someone isn’t doing their job! I just want the benefits they negotiated for themselves! I want all the benefits. Such as not having to obey the laws that they put the rest of us on. The message is clear. Quit work and join the welfare group. That is what all these extra taxes due to come in next year is all about. The government wishes us well. They want us ALL on welfare.