Arky51's Blog

The fact is, Taxes are a necessary evil. There would be no Government Services if there were no taxes. So then, the question becomes, “How much Government is needed, and what Government Services are actually required to keep it all happening?” But, more importantly, “How much Government is too much?”

I recently posted a thread entitled "FUNNY THING ABOUT POLITICIANS" with a list of forty-eight Taxes that were not on our law books one hundred years ago. How many of those taxes are actually required to operate the Government?

Economics is not really so complicated in reality. It gets complicated only when little intricacies and details of hypothetical issues are discussed.

First off, I feel obliged to offer the First Rule of Economics, since so few Americans have even a foggy notion of what it is.
¡¡ TANSTAAFL !!
There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch!! If you received any thing at no cost to you, it can only be that someone other than yourself paid the price. (The air we breathe is one of the few exceptions.)

CORPORATIONS DO NOT PAY TAXES!! Corporations are Fictitious Entities created by Lawyers for the purpose of avoidance of personal accountability by those persons who operate Business. Seldom are individuals held culpable for the errors of a Corporate Structure. Taxes levied against the earnings of a Corporation are factored into “The Cost Of Doing Business” and passed on to the Consumer.

“A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy, which is always followed by a dictatorship.”

Another thread I recently posted, entitled "NO THREAT REQUIRED" is a paradoxical description of the tactics of many politicians, most especially those who “champion” “Socially Progressive” programs. Yet, the promises of said “Socially Progressive” programs are seldom made real.

Isn't it strange that the same folk who vote so faithfully, time and again, for the broken promises of Government Programs are the same folk who play the Lottery with their children's milk and grocery money? White, Black, Latino . . . makes no difference. They continue to hope for the free lunch; they refuse to let go of that which has taken them captive . . . that which has stolen their Human Dignity and will deliver them as beggar slaves to the Dealers of Power and Control.

BOS