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Showing posts with label taxation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label taxation. Show all posts

Friday, September 21, 2012

Taxation, Redistribution, Random Luck and Free Will

I think the Democrat tax and redistribution argument takes for granted some facts of nature.

I hear Democrats talk as if there was some deliberate handing out of jobs, salaries and bank accounts at the beginning, leaving some of us more favored by this distribution process and others unfairly, arbitrarily, dealt worse hands. If this were the case, of course it would only be fair to evenly redistribute the handouts and give everyone an equal portion. *But, obviously, this premiss is not reality.

Nobody is controlling nor can control random luck or spontaneous bad fortune. No government and no policy is going to equalize the random luck factor. So, taking luck out of the debate - as it cannot be changed, what's left?

What's left is a man's evidence, his container for the precipitate sum of his free will exercised throughout his life. There are other ways account for free will, like creating art, collecting friends or popularity.... perhaps gaining some titles or reaching certain office... yet income and wealth is our society's primary means of gauging the effectiveness of our decisions and verifying that freedom and free will mean anything... affect anything.

By redistributing peoples wealth, a symbol that is individual to their actions and good fortune, you remove the power, specialness, and transcendent nature of the individual spirit. And, ironically, you end up removing the one element of equality that every man can own.

It's not that redistributing everybody's money to everyone equally just threatens our freedom to live, it renders freedom irrelevant.

Thursday, April 21, 2011

It seems that the Federal Government is taxing us American citizens much more than we know

It seems that the Federal Government is taxing US citizens much more than it seems, especially the last few years. How? very simple: when the Fed wants to collect more from us - tax us more - - they just print however much they want to tax. It is well established that printing money makes the value of the dollar go down. So, this accomplishes the same thing as if the government had demanded another 20 or 30 percent tax from everybody.

But that's not all. there's another hidden tax with this method. By printing more money instead of raising the tax rate, the government get's to re-tax your entire worth, not just the years income. So, our money is being taxed over and over again - all income from all time, every time. It's very possible we could be actually paying 80%-90% in tax.

Isn't this theft?