TAXES ARE NOT INHERENTLY BAD-THE WORD TAX MUST BE REMOVED AS A POLITICIANS FEAR SCARE TOOL!!
(WRITTEN 2011)
(UNEDITED, UNABRIDGED).
Lean forward and listen or read this carefully! Taxes are not inherently a bad thing. To start with the definition of Taxes is “a sum of money paid/collected/demanded by a government for its support or for specific facilities or services, levied upon incomes, property, sales, etc.”
Corporations and some politicians have gone to great lengths to instill into the beliefs of the voter that all taxes and those who declare are very bad. The phase, “Those old Tax and spend Liberals,” or some right wing campaigning presidential candidates saying, “Watch my mouth, no more taxes!” is regularly used to drive intelligent/progressives into a corner and deny them the ability to openly talk about taxes in any solution to financial problems.
It is time to ask the question, “ If the peoples government did not collect taxes how would some services be paid for?” Yes, the word “Taxes” has been made a dirty word and being used by politicians to defeat any potential intelligent Statesman that proposes their collection as a way to support/pay for the necessary services for a healthy society. Further, the demonizing of the word “Taxes” has made it impossible to use the collection or raiseing of taxes to balance the National Debt. In fact, if corporations would pay their fair share of taxes it would easily be enough cover the existing National Debt!! The critical question should be, “Who pays taxes and what tax rate(s) are fair!?”
In the opinion of many economists the most equitable tax is a flat tax on income. In others words if you make a dollar you pay say a $.10 or ten percent tax-if you make $1 million dollars you pay about $100,000.00 in taxes.” But as Americans know the present tax codes, taxes are levied on the poor and Middle Classes and the wealthy pay little to none. Taxing is not that complicated. However, the explanation of taxes is made complicated in order to deliberately “Bamboozle” the public and drive public servant into hiding!! No public servant can admit that they do not understand the subject of “Taxes” nor “American Economics Capitalist Style.” That is why all economic explanations are provided “Casey Stingle Style!” America deliberately has one of the most “Regressive” tax system in the civilized world!
It is true that taxes are at times misused and wasted by incompetent, unscrupulous, and misleads Statesmen. But when this occurs the citizens can solve this problem but voting this misplaced leader out of government. Consider this against the situation where a CEO of a private for profit corporation gain excess profits and proceed to exercise that power by further exploiting the citizens/voters. How then can this CEO be removed form their positions. The citizens did not vote these CEOs into their office nor can they vote them out!
In addition, some services in a society do not lend themselves to a “Private for profit” investment. Consider such services as road building and maintenance, water management, Law Enforcement, military for national defense/protection, interstate and “inter and intra public services” management and etc. Further, there is no guarantee that any corporation would be loyal and patriotic enough to provide employment to Americans when they can move their operations out of the country in order to get a cheaper labor leaving American unemployed, poor, hopeless and hungry!
The word “Tax” must be taken out of the context where it can be used as a rule of thumb “bad word” that frightens the voter to vote for those, who wish to weaken government in order to be able to take advantage of public resources. Taxes are not bad (per se), “wicked, incompetent, and criminal” Tax spenders are very bad!!
American today is struggling with a debt that has been made mainly by the problem of the wealthy avoiding paying any taxes at all, gaining immense wealth, sitting on their ill gotten spoils, with all the Americans and world be dammed!! It is reported that the amount of money presently held in off shore banks by private companies is more than equal to the total national debt of America! This is the challenge for our president, “Can any President in the face of the present power of privately concentrated immense wealth, make and keep the “Institution of Government” as the primary leader of our civilized society.”
Would you rather pay a private for profit corporation $2.00 for all drinking water, or so much per mile for the use of privately owned roads and bridges, or $$ for bottles of breathable air?? Would Americans rather have CEOs, that are not holding/in offices as choices of the people (e.g. voting) running the nation with the primary objective of exploiting the citizens and nation resources??
Dr. J. Alva Scruggs, BS, MS, MA, EdD
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