Tax Policy: The Missing Argument

I'm going to let you in on a dirty little secret our government doesn't want you to know. Most of you don't live in DC, but if you did, the closer you got to the US Capitol Building, the more you'd be able to hear a strange cackling sound coming from within.

That's the sound of your Congresspersons and Senators howling with laughter. See they think it's absolutely hilarious that we're screaming at each other over who among us should bear the burden of an increasingly oppressive tax burden. They think that's just as hilarious as can be.

Because the more we argue about who should bear that burden, the more we concede the argument that someone should.

I'm not going to argue that no one should pay income tax... that's just silly. But in all the screaming about taxes and middle class burdens, and the rich not paying their fair share... you know the one question no one is asking?

No one is asking if maybe it's time that governments, federal state, and local, should be forced to make do with less. We've conceded that government is entitled to whatever amount of our hard-earned money they see fit, because none of us have stepped back from fighting with each other long enough to ask "what exactly is all the money paying for?" and "isn't it possible that some of the things that it's paying for are cockamamie bullcorn?"

And our elected representatives just LOVE that. Because nothing scares them more, nothing threatens a spreading stain across the front of an immaculately tailored pair of dress pants, more than a taxpayer revolt... and as long as we're fighting with each other, we're not coming after them.

So Instead of screaming about how much this or that person is paying, what we need to do is join together and demand that Governments stop spending so much so that they can stop sticking their fat entitled fingers into our wallets looking to siphon out more and more of the money we're supposed to be earning for ourselves and our familes.

And we could do it too... there's a little more than 500 of them. We can take 'em.