Out of the mouth of the elites

Every now and then we get a gift. It comes from the elites when they reveal who they are and their true natures.

This latest gift comes from the mouth of former New York nanny Mayor Michael Bloomberg, a billionaire gun grabber who let slip how the global elites feel about their “lessers” while he was speaking to his fellow globalists at the International Monetary Fund’s Spring Meeting in April.

From Bloomberg’s speech:

Some people say, well, taxes are regressive. But in this case, yes they are. That’s the good thing about them because the problem is in people that don’t have a lot of money. And so, higher taxes should have a bigger impact on their behavior and how they deal with themselves. So, I listen to people saying ‘oh we don’t want to tax the poor.’ Well, we want the poor to live longer so that they can get an education and enjoy life. And that’s why you do want to do exactly what a lot of people say you don’t want to do.

The question is do you want to pander to those people? Or do you want to get them to live longer? There’s just no question. If you raise taxes on full sugary drinks, for example, they will drink less and there’s just no question that full sugar drinks are one of the major contributors to obesity and obesity is one of the major contributors to heart disease and cancer and a variety of other things.

So, it’s like saying, ‘I don’t want to stop using coal because coal miners will go out of work, will lose their jobs.’ We have a lot of soldiers in the United States in the US Army, but we don’t want to go start a war just to give them something to do and that’s exactly what you’re saying when you say ‘well, let’s keep coal killing people because we don’t want coal miners to lose their jobs.’ The truth of the matter is that there aren’t very many coal miners left anyways and we can find other things for them to do. But the comparison is: a life or a job. Or, taxes or life? Which do you want to do? Take your poison.

To which IMF head Christine Lagarde replied:

So its regressive, it is good. There are lots of tax experts in the room. And fiscal experts, and I’m very pleased that they hear you say that. And they all say that two things in life which are absolutely certain. One is death, the other one is tax. So you use one to defer the other one.

Prompting Bloomberg to agree:

That’s correct. That is exactly right. Well said.

It’s not often that the ruling powers reveal their disdain and contempt for the hoi polloi in so open a fashion or so readily admit their goals for controlling behavior of the masses with government power. Taxes have long been used by government men in a “carrot-and-stick” policy to get people to “voluntarily” give up their freedoms and turn their lives over to the collective. But they usually couch them in terms of benevolence rather than as behavior control.

Taxes are not to fund government, as I’ve explained countless times, as in my column, “Income taxes are not for income to the federal government.” Taxes are to control and redistribute the volume of money and, as Bloomberg reminds, mold the collective into a “better” society – better as defined by the global elites.

There’s no question that sugary drinks are detrimental to health. But it’s not government’s job to control behaviors and “save people from themselves.”

Always remember: The government has nothing good or nice to give to you. The government is in the business of shrinking freedom (and wealth), not expanding it – except for the elites.

Leftists/socialist/Marxists (Republicans and Democrats alike) claim to love the poor and working class, but all of their policies of higher taxes and greater government control – whether their purposes are noble (by their own definition) or not – end up stealing from the people the last of what they have in wealth, dignity and liberty.

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