Logic has many enemies in the realm of politics, some more obnoxious than others. But if one truly wants to experience the ultimate depths of 2+2=5 psychosis, one need look no further than the latest pile of rubbish on TruthOut guising as good advice. It puts itself forth as one of those asinine cliches pushed by parents to "be thankful for your vegetables, starving people would love to have them", but apply it to the all-too-pleasant task of filing our Marxist approved income taxes. Perhaps the most offensively dishonest/ignorant assertion is that these taxes allegedly go to road maintenance (that's what gas taxes pay for, see America: Freedom To Fascism on this as well as what your income taxes actually pay for), among other untrue bromides relating to civic duty.
But while this article functions as little more as an either intentional or unintentional propaganda piece to prop up a corrupt banking system and a failing monetary policy, it is instructive regarding the stealth religious traditionalism that remains embedded in the American leftist psyche, one that hearkens back to the so-called 1950 and early 1960s that they often decry in terms of established moral boundaries, but love based on an outlandishly high tax code that was just as replete with loop-holes for the so-called corporate powers to exploit, along with anyone savvy enough to figure out the code or wealthy enough to hire an accountant. These are the sorts of facts that are often either conveniently left out of the discussion by so-called passionate progressives, all in the interest of shaping the debate.
However, the most offensive aspect of this article is not the lies by omission or the condescending "I'm mommy and what I say goes, logic be damned" tone of the whole thing, but the words "I thank you that I have...a free country in which to pay taxes" that are repeated over and over like a twisted Buddhist mantra. I'm sorry, but there is nothing free about the notion of living in a country where you can be thrown in a cage and raped by violent criminals for opting out of paying for the Federal Reserve Bank's interest on its loans to our government, or even the theoretical yet fallacious notion of doing it on the grounds of wealth redistribution. For anyone who wants to be thankful for living in such a system, try doing so when staring down the barrel of an IRS agent's gun because you made a mistake while filing your 1099.
But while this article functions as little more as an either intentional or unintentional propaganda piece to prop up a corrupt banking system and a failing monetary policy, it is instructive regarding the stealth religious traditionalism that remains embedded in the American leftist psyche, one that hearkens back to the so-called 1950 and early 1960s that they often decry in terms of established moral boundaries, but love based on an outlandishly high tax code that was just as replete with loop-holes for the so-called corporate powers to exploit, along with anyone savvy enough to figure out the code or wealthy enough to hire an accountant. These are the sorts of facts that are often either conveniently left out of the discussion by so-called passionate progressives, all in the interest of shaping the debate.
However, the most offensive aspect of this article is not the lies by omission or the condescending "I'm mommy and what I say goes, logic be damned" tone of the whole thing, but the words "I thank you that I have...a free country in which to pay taxes" that are repeated over and over like a twisted Buddhist mantra. I'm sorry, but there is nothing free about the notion of living in a country where you can be thrown in a cage and raped by violent criminals for opting out of paying for the Federal Reserve Bank's interest on its loans to our government, or even the theoretical yet fallacious notion of doing it on the grounds of wealth redistribution. For anyone who wants to be thankful for living in such a system, try doing so when staring down the barrel of an IRS agent's gun because you made a mistake while filing your 1099.
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