22 June 2012
in this thousands of years old tale, we see the same archetypal narrative emerge on the stage. the doors and darkened passageways by which the characters appear are all different. the languages used, are different. yes, by all accounts, it would seem that this play is different every time. excepting, of course, that the blocking never changes. the directors are never known, and yes, even the producers seemingly escape being credited for their work. As apropos as all of that is, one asks the following:
Should people use all means necessary to avoid taxation?
first we must understand the nature of taxation (within the present fiat currency model) and where the tax dollars are spent.
our social safety nets would be in no danger if the hedge funds paying out for them were not underfunded (by design or consequence? more of "passing the buck" bureaucracy) and consistently raided to fund (and have funds funneled out of them to who knows where) wars and secret government projects.
those funds are further shortchanged by our government to pad all kinds of preferred projects.
now we can address the flip-side of the coin that is under-taxation and taxation avoidance. given the two sides of this problem, laying the blame on people manipulating the system for advantage is, in my opinion, a designed scapegoating tactic. that is to say, "hey look over here at what they are doing! this is so wrong, look look!", all the while the real problem lies within the system itself and the controllers of the purse. with the controllers comes their bill writers, the bill passers, and the fiat money protector organizations. they structure the house of paper money to fall (which it certainly does) on someone else, usually the least wealthy. they then leave the poor to squabble over who to blame. the poor then fight amongst themselves as they are fed their daily doses of controlled narratives through the "free press" more commonly know as "mainstream news MEDIA".
the masses do not know whom is actually responsible. their MSNM tells them that there is no clear fault to be placed anywhere. their government tells them they are working to fix it so that it never happens again.
the ones that caused the problems in the first place sit back and buy up property, commodities, banks, and all sorts of other assets for much cheaper than could have been afforded were there no economic calamity.
when it does fall, the central banks and the treasury department convince the purse controllers that the social safety nets are the causation of the problems, along with people with bad debt, and that cranking out TONS of new paper currency to bail out the banks, that cant be allowed to fail, will solve the problem.
the wealthy scream that they can not afford to be taxed further to cover these new debts created. they are the job creators, though no new jobs are created.
their corporatized industries reel in record profit margins.
labor forces continue to shrink, profits for the corporate construct grow, and the middle class evaporates.
the banks losses and risks are socialized by way of government bailouts, footing the taxpayer with the cost of the risks taken that failed. their profits are privatized. though, the corporate construct with the central banks will argue that, since the things that are successful because of their investments benefit society (in their opinion) it is only fair that society pay for the failures.
the thinking is that society has to bare the cost of their bad policies, while their directors take home massive bonuses during times of massive failed ventures.
so in answer to the first question, i suppose one should do what they can to guard their income from taxation.
what should be done is plain to see. it is no mystery that the century of central banking has been a century of war. resources and commodities are sought by banks to grow capital.
i think you understand how that cycle feeds itself. certainly the wealthy and the fiat currency generators are not to blame, as they provide the means by which industry and commerce can exist in the first place. the problem then could not be their fault. then it must be the users of the currency then. when a spouse is struck across the face, is it not the hand that is injured unjustly?
you, by now, grow weary of this tale. in the end, the wealthy are rewarded and the poor are blamed for the flaws of commerce and centralized banking. when blame is to be placed for mistakes made, those with least are made to give up everything to save the few above.
it is not ineffable, but instead, quite effable. in the sense that if you are not wealthy you will be effed.
-Will Wright
Reward the Wealthy and Punish the Poor • Opuss № I