It's that day that everyone looks forward to like a trip to the proctologist, Tax Day. Have YOU paid YOUR fair share?
Doesn't that make you gag? "Paid your fair share" -- my butt!
Take a look at how "fair" that "share" really is. See the chart? See the percentage of tax revenues paid? See how half the county's wage earners paid nothing or next to nothing in federal income tax? Now see the Vulture in the category known among his neighbors as "the middle class" and among politicians as "the rich". Can you understand why the Vulture might be just a tad ill disposed toward that disparity?
But Vulture! You can afford it, Mr. Big Bucks. Like hell! I support a wife and two kids, both of whom are in college! Besides, there are only two reasons for high taxes, and neither of them have anything to do with financing the activities of the government.
- To keep graspers in the middle class from achieving wealth and becoming peers of the elite
- To redistribute income
We, the middle class, have become the mules that pull society along. But as you can see from the chart, there are as many people on the wagon as there are mules pulling. At what point do the mules rebel, and cause society to implode? Don't hold your breath.
The problem with mules is that they're trained from the time they're young to work, and work hard. It's innate. It's as much a part of them as their very DNA. Too many of the mules buy into the notion that they live in a free and just society, and so they cheerfully go about their labors, unaware of how they're being used by the elite.
So onward we toil, until the People's World Socialist Utopia has been fulfilled. Das vedanyeh, tovarische!
