False Hope
I was reading a book on Taxes.
No, I actually DO have a life.
The author was discussing the history of tax in the United States of America.
We all learn in elementary school about the Boston Tea Party where a bunch of disgruntled "patriots" climbed aboard an English trading vessel and dumped the Tea (which is a necessity of life, just like Starbucks) overboard to protest the Taxes the King was imposing.
I don't recall the teacher, or text books ever mentioning the % rate that was so bad as to trash someone's store over it.
Do that today and it's called a "riot" and they bring in the National Guard... sort of what the British did with the Red Coats...
Anyway, the United States of America was founded on the principal of No New Taxes, or Old Taxes for that matter.
So... if you want to impose a tax on the populous, who are against them, how do you do it?
Well, you start with advertising...
Repeat it over time...
And tell folks that it won't be on Everyone...
Just the Rich...(or as they do today, the Tourists).
Oh, and add that the Taxes will be to help the Poor.
One you get a taste for all that "free" money you never go back.
Just like in wars, in order to turn someone against their neighbor, you have to paint the neighbor as some kind of monster.
Benjamin Franklin was Rich.
Washington was Rich.
Jefferson was Rich.
I hear the call to "Increase Taxes on the Rich!!" to pay for the poor.
It will back fire.
Those taxes over time were spread downward to the "average" workers, the blue collar steel mill guys, the ones Chevy targets in their ads.
The rich have the money.
They write the rules.
How else does Jerry Jones, Billionaire, owner of the Cowboys, talk the blue collar Chevy plant workers in Arlington to build his new stadium?
Arlington voted to increase the sales tax by a penny to build the Billionaire's asset.
On top of that, season ticket owners have to pay $100.00 just to qualify to buy season tickets.
They also raised taxes for the Ballpark in Arlington, home of the Texas Rangers. That stadium was completed years ago...
But decades later the tax is still in affect...
Don't tax the rich...
Don't tax anyone...
No, I actually DO have a life.
The author was discussing the history of tax in the United States of America.
We all learn in elementary school about the Boston Tea Party where a bunch of disgruntled "patriots" climbed aboard an English trading vessel and dumped the Tea (which is a necessity of life, just like Starbucks) overboard to protest the Taxes the King was imposing.
I don't recall the teacher, or text books ever mentioning the % rate that was so bad as to trash someone's store over it.
Do that today and it's called a "riot" and they bring in the National Guard... sort of what the British did with the Red Coats...
Anyway, the United States of America was founded on the principal of No New Taxes, or Old Taxes for that matter.
So... if you want to impose a tax on the populous, who are against them, how do you do it?
Well, you start with advertising...
Repeat it over time...
And tell folks that it won't be on Everyone...
Just the Rich...(or as they do today, the Tourists).
Oh, and add that the Taxes will be to help the Poor.
One you get a taste for all that "free" money you never go back.
Just like in wars, in order to turn someone against their neighbor, you have to paint the neighbor as some kind of monster.
Benjamin Franklin was Rich.
Washington was Rich.
Jefferson was Rich.
I hear the call to "Increase Taxes on the Rich!!" to pay for the poor.
It will back fire.
Those taxes over time were spread downward to the "average" workers, the blue collar steel mill guys, the ones Chevy targets in their ads.
The rich have the money.
They write the rules.
How else does Jerry Jones, Billionaire, owner of the Cowboys, talk the blue collar Chevy plant workers in Arlington to build his new stadium?
Arlington voted to increase the sales tax by a penny to build the Billionaire's asset.
On top of that, season ticket owners have to pay $100.00 just to qualify to buy season tickets.
They also raised taxes for the Ballpark in Arlington, home of the Texas Rangers. That stadium was completed years ago...
But decades later the tax is still in affect...
Don't tax the rich...
Don't tax anyone...
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