November 21, 2004
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So in
that last post I talked about “The Issue” now to talk about “The
Other Issue” as I see it in the world today. And I’ll tie it into
something that happened during the presidential election season that really
ticked me off.Every few
years in politics we get the people cajole or trick or force a candidate to
say, stupidely something along the lines of “I will not raise your
taxes.” Why do our candidates say such things? Why do we demand it of
them?. It is utterly absurd, totally irresponsible, and a completely stupid
thing for a person running to be *leader
of a nation* to promise. It is not your right to make or keep such a promise
when their are millions of people whose future your actions and choices will
effect.
A person with such responsibilities cannot afford to put artificial
limitations upon what they can do to meet those obligations. You should not dare promise not
to raise taxes because you might have to. It might be the right, logical, and
totally rational thing to do. It may be the only way to secure the health,
safety, and happiness of your people.
This is why, whenever I hear such a promise, even from a candidate I am
leaning toward rooting for, it makes me cringe. It makes me afraid. It
makes me to understand how much the whole
election process is nothing but a fake show for the people with no real
honesty
or truthfulness involved. You’d think it’d be the right thing to
explain to people. If you hae to raise a tax in a manner that is
justified for the betterment of the entire nation or even the world
you’d think that people would understand that. But no as it
stands we demand no taxes. We demand no government interference. And we
trust no one with our money but ourselves.
Why do I bring this up because there is
that other issue I mentioned. The first issue is one that I can’t even
imagine a partial solution short of people just suddenly abandoning
thier idiocy and accepting the truth. But the second issue. That’s a
whole ‘nother matter. There is, you see, a very good solution that has
been theorized by many intelligent persons to this problem. It isn’t a
perfect solution, far from it, but it would go a long way toward
working toward the best solution capitalism can provide. Unforunately
it would require raising taxes. It would require raising taxes a great
deal on one particular commonly used commodity. The creation of this
tax would force the nation to totally restructure its infrustructure
and would be the first step in changing the entire world economic order
and securing the future of the human race on Earth.The issue of course is energy dependence.
