Tax Life

Business has come under heavy critcism in the last few years (taken up a notch under President Obama) and for good reason - sometimes.

Corporate bums and idiotic market theorists who survive by the protection of the state are no more "business" than Karl Marx. Yet, their CEO's pay themselves fat bonuses (their salaries are already drastically inflated) for being fat headed morons. On that front, I'm with the criticism.

Corporations "lie" we're told by activists on the left. And so they do in some cases. At least though, if we leave the damn market alone, the bad eggs DO get squeezed out. They die.

Alas, this is not the case as we talk as if business as a whole is a negative - and this is where I jump off the "capitalism is evil" wagon.

We believe in our hearts we could judge and predict human activity. That's where we tripped up.

Equally corrosive, if not more, is when government lie. At this point, to anyone who really is truly examining with a critical eye, government incessantly lie so long as it meets their needs. At this point, I believe nothing the government says when it wants to ram through unpopular legislation designed to "protect us." We've really arrived at the point where they believe they "know what's good for us."

The cold, hard, reality is they're likely to lie about stats and information as the next guy. They say if a business lies, the market eliminates the share price, and if the state lies we vote them out.

I'm not so sure with the latter anymore. It seems no matter who is voted in it's taken as an ok to introduce laws they didn't campaign for hiding behind the "we have a majority" cop out.

The tax on soda fullfills to things: A cash grab and the need to make ourselves feel good.

It won't do squat. That's not exactly true. We'll invent models to fool ourselves it helped.

Once again from the top:

STOP WITH THE TOP-BOTTOM APPROACH.

Let the individual govern themselves once and for all free of stupid, ignorant and cynical laws pretending to take care of us.

Or take my comment on SE:

"...the idea that the government "will take care of it" lulls people into a false sense of progress."

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At this point, just tax life. Here in Quebec we pay a tax on a tax on a tax in some cases. What more proof do you need there's a cash grab mentality in place? It's the only lousy answer we have to a problem: Tax.

Never mind that taxes are by their nature inefficient.