Posted by
William Robert Barber on Monday, October 15, 2007 12:45:38 PM
Accommodate and Distribute
Authored by: William Robert Barber
intheinterestofsensibility.com
Contributing writer for etalkinghead.com
Under the subjective hullabaloo of fairness Congress conspires to fix the price of taxation immediately followed by methods transparent and not so transparent the congressional voting majority agrees to an accommodation of unequal distribution of these tax dollars. The most powerful elected representatives and their states and pet projects get more consideration on the split and the least powerful get the least of the available tax monies.
The point is that tax provided funds grease the wheels of all governing components; excessive taxation results in a benign gentle sense of friendly corruption; the archenemy of a prosperous economy is not inflation but the malignant disregard of ethical principles in favor of power for its own sake.
When tax derived monies are spent on off budget funding via earmarks or other monies by other means other than a transparent vote provide multi-millions of dollars to recipients who just as easily could be named them, those, they, or often project never enough.
Fixing the price of taxation is founded on three elements of an accepted, economically appealing, time-tested, political hypothesis propagated with sober decorum by politicians representing every ideological persuasion:
Promise anything; exaggerate everything; debase the need to fix the obvious, remembering that . . . Style always trumps substance.
Money is corruptive; more money encumbers moral judgment; lots of money enables arrogance, disables sensibility, and vacates humility; tons of money blatantly rejects virtue in the interest of power; cash lubricants the mechanics of an unbridled government and facilitates the election of accommodating representatives.
Taxation should be treated as a means of last resort not a bottomless cash barrel that preys on its citizens for more.
The amount of freedom retained by an individual is gauged realistically on the percentage of discretionary free cash, net, after all tax obligations paid. Freedom is dependant on the less of taxation never the more.