I’ve been meaning to dig this up, for everyone’s enjoyment:
A very short, clumsy precis of how things are supposed to work. We pay taxes. The government takes part in market activity. The taxes and emolument are paid into a common treasury, called the Treasury. The Treasury is used to pay for what people need. I imagine most people are still with me, because roads don’t just appear in the night and fire departments aren’t operated by slot-machine. Most of the people I just lost are the American libertarians who believe taxes are the only thing between them and owning rocketships, the heavy anarchists who presumably think the future is breatharian, and the serious tribalists who intend to trade food for wicker baskets what they made themselves. People who like electricity are, by and large, still on the same page.
The reader is invited to guess who one of the “intellectually diseased animals” referred to in the first ‘graph of the sad rant behind the link above might be. Unless the reader remembers me telling him or her last week, in which case never mind.
I didn’t go to university. I’m not especially smart.
Well, at least he admits it.
It’s been downhill since Lazarus Churchyard and City of Silence, frankly. A dress stained with the president’s secretions?? Now that’s original.
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the heavy anarchists
I resemble that remark!