The Great American Shakedown
We Should Have Never Paid Taxes in the First Place
Ahh, yes the roads. THE ROADS.
We have to fund them somehow, says the King. This has always been the argument for taxes. We need roads and the poors need fed. But look around, how are the roads holding up? How well looked after are the poors? It’s laughable. You see, taxes have never been about being righteous. They’ve always been about control.
And now? With every bit of government corruption being exposed, with every dollar they ship overseas, with every insider deal they pretend we don’t see—it’s no longer just theft. It’s an insult.
We work. We produce. We build. And what do they do? They take. That’s it. They don’t create, produce, or actually build anything. They threaten and they take. They pocket our money and funnel it into endless wars we never agreed to, foreign aid packages that vanish into the void, and bloated bureaucracies that serve no one but themselves. They lose trillions. Not millions, not billions, but trillions…and then tell us we need to “tighten our belts.” They spend like addicts with stolen credit cards and then lecture us about financial responsibility. And we’re supposed to pay for this? Fair share of what? The corruption? The incompetence? The latest congressional pay raise?
The roads aren’t getting fixed. The schools aren’t getting better. Public services are a joke. If taxes were about keeping society running, then why does the government always seem to have infinite money for everything except the things we actually need? Because it was never about that. It was never about roads. Or schools. Or safety. It was about control. It was about keeping them in power while keeping us compliant by paying. They don’t produce anything. We do. Instead of respecting that, they punish us for it. They take more and more, tell us to “do our part,” and expect us to be grateful for whatever scraps they decide to give back.
We shouldn’t be asking why the government is so corrupt. We should be asking why we’re still bankrolling it. We shouldn’t be debating tax rates. We should be questioning why we ever agreed to hand over our money in the first place. Because it turns out the best way to help someone who is struggling is by not stealing more money from them. What a genius concept, huh? It turns out the best way to help someone grow a business is to allow them to keep their capital for future investment. WOW. Who would have thought? Basically, what I’m trying to say is taxes are fucking laughable at this point. The end.
Elizabeth Duffy