When people who are forced to pay taxes object to being forced to pay taxes, they are often told they are selfish. This is both vicious (something like tsk tsk’ing the man who just got mugged who complained he just got mugged) as well as ironic – because it is the taxes that foster necessary selfishness. Because when your own situation is precarious, you must necessarily prioritize your own situation over that of others.
How much less “selfish” would you be if you had the money to be more generous?
If you weren’t forced to hand over several thousand dollars every year to the county/city in order to avoid being evicted from the home you don’t really own (and never will, because of property taxes you will always have to pay in order to avoid eviction) giving that sad-looking homeless old guy $100 would be as nothing and you’d probably want to help, because you could afford to. Imagine how unselfish you could be if you were not forced to hand over about a fourth of every dollar you earn to the federal/state/local government. You could probably comfortably live on a modest income and provide not just for yourself, but also for family – with plenty left to make it possible for you to help people you knew of who you wanted to help.
Aye, there’s the rub. Well, one of them.
One of the points of all this taxing and “helping” being to make people helpless over who gets helped. A permanent class of wealth redistributors is one of the people most helped by taxes, in terms of both money and power. In my county, there is an office of full-time fraus who collect a steady paycheck collecting checks. These checks – the property taxes people are forced to pay – are then used to “help” a permanent class of parasites, who are permanent because it is effectively impossible to ever cut them off. Some of these parasites – the teachers at government schools, for instance – are quite well off.
Contrast this with helping your neighbor, who can’t work right now because he had an accident and hurt himself. You know he’s not a bad man; he’s your neighbor and he fell on hard times – so you choose to help him out. He would probably do the same for you, too. Both of you (and most everyone else) would be in a financial position to do that, too, were it not for having been bled worse than George Washington was just before he died.
I italicize choice for an important reason. You would decide – choose – who to help; more finely stated, you would choose who deserves your help and could choose to stop helping when your help was being taken advantage of. Your neighbor decides he prefers your help to going back to work. So you stop helping and he has to go back to work. Oh, the humanity!
The meanness and cruelty!
When the government – its fraus (both females and males) is doing the “helping” with your money, you no longer have a say over this “help.” Exactly. It is not just the “helped” that is reduced to a state of helplessness. Resentment ensues – all around. The person who is forced to “help” naturally resents this. It destroys the natural human instinct to help when you are forced to help, in part because of the forcing but also because the “helping” may be and often is objectionable as such. Thomas Jefferson articulated this nicely when he said it is tyrannical to compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disagrees with or abhors. More than just ideas. How about “the schools”? Those government warehouses that exist to stunt the reasoning ability of children and transform them into what George Carlin insightfully referred to as obedient workers. Who do not question being forced to “help” – and get angry when anyone who can reason dares to question being forced to “help.”
Home-schooling kids cost much less than having to pay for “the schools” – and the government workers who populate these institutions. A normally intelligent child can be taught to read, write and reason by the age of eight if not before. This business of keeping them in “school” for 12 years is just an excuse to keep them under control – and everyone paying for it.
Social Security is not a program that assures people too old to work have a subsistence income. It is a means by which to render them dependent upon a subsistence income. The average full-time worker is forced to “contribute” thousands annually to this so-called program (a banal term that makes it sound like something people are free to sign up for, if they want to) over the course of the entirety of his working life. The money he is forced to “contribute” is promptly spent by the government on others things. Imagine if instead people had that money – decades before they grew too old to work – and could have saved it and invested it. Most people would then not need a subsistence income – a dole – from the government (that is, extracted from other people) in their old age.
Generosity is to a great extent a function of being in a position to be generous. When you are forced to “help” – at every turn, even to the extent of buying a can of soda (which includes a tax) it becomes more difficult to be generous; more necessary to be selfish for the sake of self-preservation. This is the moral horror of being forced to “help.” It creates smallness and meanness where it would otherwise not exist. It makes neighbors who would probably be friends – if they were simpatico – into wary adversaries. It makes you not want to “help” since after all, you’ve already been forced to.
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I’ve been living in a town for 52 years (2,900-3,100 pop pretty much steady all 50 years). When I moved here they had a public works dept for collecting trash/snow plowing of 3 men (1 was handicapped). There was a big debate when they hired a town manager in the 1980s. Then they hired a police officer. Now they have 25-30 employees (Town Mgr, Ast. Town Mgr and Town Clerk; Code Director and 2 code officers w/ 3 admin asst; 9 Policemen and admin asst ; 5-7 trash and yet since they no longer pick up on Fridays, trash pickup is so close together (1 day in between) might as well be once a week; they also share a social worker with a neighboring town. Most of these people have been hired since 2000 and no-one in the town seems to care. Property taxes have gone up 500% since 2000, a lot due to inflation, and I guess they are just rolling in the dough so they spend it (?). People who run for town council that talk about cutting taxes don’t get elected and usually no-one even campaigns on that issue.
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In his program on Platner @ 43:07 Greg Stoker in talking about how campaigning in TX he tailors his message to local audience and since have a lot of veterans who are being shot and killed during “wellness” visits by cops (instant euthanasia–happening across the U.S.) he then shares with them how police forces got started. UK Metropolitan Police Force which is model for all northern police forces grew out of the British occupation of Ireland. He also says that police forces grew out of “slavicles” (not sure if I am hearing this word correctly); I assume he means states that have slavery have to have some system to keep slaves from running away. He theorizes all police forces grew out of property protection and counter insurgency and that states try to create fear in their population of a counter insurgency (immigrants/other races/religions) to have a police force which is actually to control the population. He says republicans keep proving him right and shows a clip of Karoline Leavitt (you can google and find also) saying how crazy people oppose the three things U.S. is founded upon: police, prisons, and private property.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FThx6am__VA
If you didn’t have private property, you wouldn’t need a state, would you? The state is the umbrella landowner that grants/records your title and protects your claim. You say you don’t need money–and again it is the state coining/printing money. If you didn’t have a state, you would not have taxes but not sure how would have land ownership. Not paying taxes doesn’t mean you wouldn’t have to pay protection/tribute to somebody (or even be owned/killed by them if couldn’t defend yourself).
Jefferson was the one that wanted land set aside for public schools because well educated citizenry was considered essential to a democracy and shouldn’t just be the privilege of the rich. Sure you can teach your child to read–if you know how. If you’re first generation German/Vietnamese you will not be able to teach your child to read/write/speak in English.
WIKI: “Land Ordinance of 1785. The Land Ordinance of 1785 was adopted by the United States Congress of the Confederation on May 20, 1785. It set up a standardized system whereby settlers could purchase title to farmland in the undeveloped west. Congress at the time did not have the power to raise revenue by direct taxation, so land sales provided an important revenue stream. The Ordinance set up a survey system that eventually covered over three-quarters of the area of the continental United States….The ordinance was also significant for establishing a mechanism for funding public education. Section 16 in each township was reserved for the maintenance of public schools. Many schools today are still located in section sixteen of their respective townships,[citation needed] although a great many of the school sections were sold to raise money for public education. In later States, section 36 of each township was also designated as a “school section”.[4][5][6]
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In “Statesmen of the Lost Cause” it discusses the Confederate Constitution. It adopted the US Constitution, but changed “we the people” to “we the sovereign states.” While several attempts were made to include a secession clause, it failed. Same with S. Carolina trying to have right of nullification acknowledged. Their congress was prohibited from passing protective tariffs and appropriating funds for “public improvements.” Some wanted the cabinet to be selected from the Congress same as British Parliamentarian system, but all they got was that cabinet members could sit in house/senate and participate in debates but never really worked out. They utilized the British budget system. “Making the budget is an exec function, not a leg one. The depts should inform Congress the amounts they need for the conduct of the nation’s business; it is the prerogative of the Congress to vote these requests or refuse to do so. This rational procedure is completely destroyed when individual members, helter-skelter, can bring in money bills. The Confederate Constitution most wisely prohibited the practice. “Congress shall appropriate no money from the Treasury, unless it be asked and estimated for by the President or some one of the heads of depts, except for the purpose of paying its own expenses and contingencies.” How the legislative process at Washington would be simplified if such a rule prevailed today (1939)!
“Another innovation introduced by the CC is one which reformers have advocated for years, so far unsuccessfully. That is a clause permitting the Pres to veto single items in appropriation bills. Thus was cured one of the biggest abuses of Congress, that of putting in general appropriation bills all kinds of undesirable expenditures–items that the President must accept if the gov’t is to continue…Whether the provision making the Presidential term six years, with no re-election, marked an improvement may be fairly argued but at least it removed forever that nightmare of a “third term” which has so frequently demoralized national politics (?I wasn’t aware 3rd term was that much of an issue, except for FDR; AI doesn’t list any president b4 the civil war trying for 3 terms but maybe it was an issue; now you have the lame duck and also 1st term wasted worrying about re-election?).”
AI: “The Confederate Constitution introduced several significant changes to appropriations and spending bills, primarily aimed at curbing “log-rolling” (combining unrelated projects) and preventing the federal government from funding internal improvements across specific states.The key improvements and restrictions included:
Supermajority for Non-Executive Projects: It required a two-thirds vote in both houses of Congress for any appropriations bills that were not formally requested or recommended by the head of an executive department.
The Line-Item Veto: It granted the President the unprecedented power to veto specific appropriations within a bill without having to reject the entire piece of legislation.
Ban on Internal Improvements: It explicitly prohibited Congress from appropriating money for internal commercial improvements. It barred funding to build up one region’s infrastructure at the expense of others, forcing states to cover these costs themselves. [But Jeff Davis was for Fed Gov building the Transcontinental RR. It wasn’t approved til South seceded because JD wanted it in the Southern half of US and others wanted it N. so Cong couldn’t get a majority to approve it.]
Single-Issue Bills: Every law was restricted to a single subject, which had to be clearly expressed in the title, preventing legislators from burying “pork barrel” spending in larger, essential bills.
Eric wants to know why his taxes are so high he can barely afford a blueberry muffin. There is a reason, and it is this graphic:
https://mapliberation.org/images/us_military_bases.png
Imagine for a second, that you had to pay to send one troop to Iraq, fully trained, fully suited up, fully armed. How much would that cost you? Everything you own.
True story how Yukon gained weight. As a wee lad I was skinny, by the time I left high school I was only 105 lbs. I went to Ohio State, I had no free money to blow on pizza and beer like everyone else, so I got a job at the cafeteria and stole food everyday, eventually I got a better job, I would buy lunch and stuff my backpack for my later meals.
I ran out of money for a dorm room, so I pitched a tent down at the Olentangy creek, locked my shit up in the basement of the engineering building, road my bike to get around.
Joined the USAF, from that point on I could eat all I wanted, breakfast bar ten yards long, every kind of biscuit, sausage, gravy – which I heaped on my plate and gorged, gained weight and muscle.
So looking back, now I know why I was hungry all the time, even though I grew up in the Ohio farm belt – and even worked on farms, milked cows. The US military has all the food. We eat crumbs.
Hi Jack,
Yup. The “defense” budget milita scene. Legitimate defense of this country would cost perhaps an eighth of what is spent (and taxed) but as you note, there’s no money in that. It is why the government eggs on worship of the military. They did the same in National Socialist Germany, too – and America resembles that state more so than the old Soviet Union if you take away the racial purity stuff.
The ‘welfare state’ budget for 2026 is $1.7 trillion. Seems both are out of control.
Eric,
Iran put up an admirable fight with a $10 billion dollar defense budget. They fought off OUR military. *Actually* defense in their case. That is 1/100th of our “defense” budget. Russia’s military budget was around $66 billion before the war in Ukraine. I think we could “make do” with $100 billion or less. Especially since most of citizenry is armed. An invasion of the US would be incredibly difficult.
Worship of war is correct. Just saw a very perverted Dept Of War commercial during UFC broadcast. Narrated by Trump urging viewers to join “the fight”. Sick.
Indeed, Rob –
It’s particularly galling emanating from Trump – a serial draft-dodging coward who pretends he’s a Real Man.
Support “our boys” in the desert sands.
Bring them home.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4-w2FYIJbw
Last year, I had my highest earning year ever. I had one such year, and I will not have another, due to some stock options wins.
I paid 58% of my income to taxes, between income tax for state and federal, FICA, CA surcharges, etc. My marginal rate, all-in, is higher than that. It’s all W2 income, so I couldn’t dodge it with creative accounting.
Of the money left, if I help out my family or neighbor in excess of $18,000, I have to pay gift tax on this money (because they don’t want you giving away money before death tax grabs it)
I pay property tax on my house, and on my car. When I buy stuff at the store, I pay 10.25% sales tax (soon to be 11.5%). If I buy gasoline, there’s additional gas tax (that gets included for sales tax amount), if I buy tires, there’s an extra tire tax, if I go stay in a hotel or rent a car for vacation, there are short term rental taxes. What they can’t call taxes, they call “fees”, and I pay mandatory fees on my house to pay for parks, and government employee pensions, which add nearly $6,000 on top of my property tax. I thought I’d fix up my tiny old home, but it turns out, permits would be about $80,000 before a single sheetrock panel is cut. Oh, and that sheetrock and plywood have environmental impact fees. Redoing crusty old walls in a 1400 sqft house is over $200k. Screw that.
So, no. I am not so generous anymore. Given an astounding income year, shockingly little is left. You see the pre-tax amount and think you can retire, then reality hits. I probably personally paid for a couple of bombs dropped on Iran.
Yeah, and if you try to leave, CA taxes long term capital gains as ordinary income, at ~13.xx%. The feds take their 15% off the top, so Fed Gov + CA is nearly 30%.
Looks like I will have to hunker down and “enjoy” my Prop. 13.
As the song has it,
“You can check out any time you want, but you can never leave.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLl4PZtxia8
Looks like CA is taking Abe Lincolns approach..
“If you try to leave, I’ll kill you…”
(((financially)))….
That’s not quite true, Adi. They will tax and real estate, and things like stock options granted to you as a CA resident if you exercise/sell while being a resident of another state, but they can’t touch things like stocks or investments. They’ll tax anything they consider “CA based income”. So yeah, if you sell your house, you’ll owe CA income tax on the capital gain, but most likely, nothing else. My tiny little house went up from $1M when I bought it to $3M today (and I owe $1/2M on it). If I sell it, CA wants 13.3% of the first $million and 14.3% of the next million (since the 1% surcharge for million dollar incomes kicks in).
Hi, OL,
>So yeah, if you sell your house, you’ll owe CA income tax on the capital gain
And for most people (probably including you) the house they live in is their single most valuable asset.
Either one of us could probably buy 200 acres in Tenn., w/a stable of race horses, but Greasy Gavin will get his cut, off the top. Sux.
(my numbers are lower than yours, because I live in western Riv Co (92882), but same principle applies. Same house in Pasadena or Costa Mesa would fetch twice the price. Ridiculous numbers, in any case.
Like so many others, I doubt I could buy my own house, in today’s market. And I moved to Corona in 1981 because it was “affordable ” compared to OC.
Hi OL,
I hope I live to see the day when these parasites are strung up for miles along the road.
I left right after graduating college, without even the communist taxes they passed Roberti Roos and I wasn’t going to stay where I had to hide my weapons. I feel sorry for you and really wonder why any non parasite stays
If the exorbitant taxes do not make you wanna cry or get pissed off, just go to the grocery store, and see what a hundred bucks will get you: Not much.
I don’t know if you’ve ever read L. Neil Smith, but he posited that 7/8s of everything is tax. I’m convinced he was right.
“School-days, I believe, are the unhappiest in the whole span of human existence. They are full of dull, unintelligible tasks, new and unpleasant ordinances.” — H.L. Mencken
[ I know they were for me. A fair percentage of my nightmares involve being back in school.]
I’n any case, the notion that students in school are happy was of a piece with the notion that the “lobster in the pot is happy.” ‘
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H.L. Mencken
“The most erroneous assumption is to the effect that the aim of public education is to fill the young of the species with knowledge and awaken their intelligence, and so make them fit to discharge the duties of citizenship in an enlightened and independent manner. Nothing could be further from the truth.
The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed and train a standardized citizenry, to put down dissent and originality.
That is its aim in the United States, whatever the pretensions of politicians, pedagogues and other such mountebanks, and that is its aim everywhere else.”
― H.L. Mencken
‘Public schools have “done more harm than good.” How could they not, Mencken asked. Having taken the “care and upbringing of children out of the hands of parents, where it belongs,” the politicians of his day had “thrown” the entire matter into the hands of “irresponsible and unintelligent quacks.” What, pray tell, might he add to that today?’
‘The “true aim of the pedagogue” was to force their “victim into a mold,” rather than awaken in their charges anything approaching “independent and logical thought.”
Besides, every fall there arrives a “craze for some new solution to the teaching enigma.” Why? Because there is “no sure cure so idiotic that some superintendent of schools will not swallow it.” And the result? Teaching becomes a “thing in itself, a thing separable from and superior” what was to be taught.
‘As far as Mr. Mencken was concerned, “cats and dogs do better by their young. So do savages.”
Besides, everything taught in a grammar school could be imparted to an “intelligent child in two years”—and all without any “cruelty” worse than that involved in (guess what) “pulling a tooth.”
All of this “waste” had to be justified; hence the determination of those in charge to convert teaching into an “elaborate hocus-pocus.” This, in turn, led the “pedagogues” into thinking of themselves as “high-toned professionals, comparable to gynecologists and astrologers.”
And the student, here defined as the “victim” or the “prisoner”? There was a time when he received the “humane treatment accorded other prisoners.” But no more. Now they are treated as “guinea pigs in a low comedy laboratory.”
Did Mencken have a remedy in mind at a time when it had already become an “axiom” that public schools were “beyond challenge, beyond suspicion, and beyond reach of all fact and reason.” Actually, he did.
His solution, such as it was, was direct and draconian: simply declare that there was no money left in the treasury. This, he conceded, was a “desperate remedy,” but he could summon no other.’
Hi David,
I have admired Mencken’s writing and insights since I was a kid; he’s a kind of snarky Albert Jay Nock. If the youth read both of these mens’ works, America would be a much better place.
Yes.
Mr. Mencken’s most succinct observation, IMO:
“The American people know what they want, and they deserve to get it.
Good and hard.”
Yes.
Oregon in the news – the same people who are for abortion are pressing hard to ban hunting and fishing on the basis of cruelty.
“Oregon is proposing a ban on hunting and fishing through the Oregon Remove Animal Cruelty Exceptions Initiative, which aims to criminalize these activities”
The same people who want to ban hunting and fishing insist you pay your taxes – you the suffering worker slave is of no concern to them.
I predict this bill, if passed, will immediately lead to the eastern counties of Oregon leaving for Idaho.
It will be the last straw.
The bill would also ban ranching and trapping mice. These liberals would protect vermin over the millions of people the Trump regime is slaughtering right now. Yes Virginia, every Palestinian killed so far was done with your taxes, with your bombs, with USA made F-16s that we gave to the criminal regime in Tel Aviv.
What Israel is doing is breaking USA laws with our equipment, so under our own laws we should be repossessing our airplanes and bombs and monies and ban all aid and exports to Israel.
Furthermore, since Israel has nukes and has not signed the NNPT, it is illegal to give Israel even one penny under are own laws – so even before Israel killed innocent peoples we should of not been arming them in the first place.
Perhaps I can live-trap all the mice around here and let ’em loose in the houses of those who support this bill. That should give them just the sort of shit-storm they desire.
Public schools are the longest running and most effective psy op in the history of the species. But your selfish if you prefer not to pay for them?
They take half and call me selfish for wanting to keep the other half.
Collectivism is the greatest expression of greed. Every collectivist complaint seems to be a confession.
Excellent encapsulation of a bothersome and pernicious phenomenon, Eric! Taxation is theft, but the double-whammy of being told you’re selfish and immoral for not wanting to “participate” is particularly vexing.
Public schools were created to keep children out of the workforce until a later age. School was meant to teach obedience to authority and to follow orders.
“Public schools were originally designed to prepare children for the workforce, particularly during the Industrial Revolution, by instilling obedience and standardization rather than fostering independent thinking. This system aimed to create a reliable workforce for factories rather than focusing solely on children’s education and personal development.”
One thing industry didn’t want was tens of thousands of workers organizing against their interest like in Europe. Seeing the violent uprisings over there which led to Communism got captains of industry to support mass public brainwashing in schools. Pledge of allegiance to the flag and our way of life – capitalism – rich owners lording over a heavily taxed worker force.
(Always remember Virginia, the General Electric Corporation has not paid one cent in tax in the past decade.)
““The expansion of primary education in the West was driven not by democratic ideals, but by the state’s desire to control citizens,” Paglayan argues. “And to control them by targeting children at an age when they are very young and susceptible to external influence and to teach them at that young age that it’s good to respect rules, that it’s good to respect authority.””
Schools soon became their own industry, farming tax monies and paying an army of bureaucrats called teachers a permanent wage, even during summer recess. In Amerika, kids were let out of the school during the farming months.
High schools became institutions promoting socializing sports like football, as preparation for the armed forces. The football coach as general making the strategy. The quarterback as lieutenant calling the plays in the field.
It all worked out swimmingly well for the military industrial complex, add to this control grid the invention of the television, Hollywood could entertain the family after work. I Love Lucy and romancing the age of cowboys (independence) with Gunsmoke, rugged men who metered out justice one bullet at a time.
This led directly to our current predicament of being owned as war whores by Zion. All that control led to a completely controlled maximum taxed populace which follows orders, waves the flag, makes endless wars soon became unlimited corruption – mass mechanized death by the war machine – such great evil combined with Bible brainwashing – made Amerika an easy mark rolled by Zionist Jews who bribed their way into influence.
Now we are at the end, the most evil corrupt Zionist whore Trumpenstein has sold our nation into total Jewish censorship, control, and permanent war for Talmudic Jewish supremacism. Trump keeps doubling down on his failed war in Iran. Trump is owned and controlled and is unable and unwilling to make correct decisions to improve our lives and nation.
None of you can deny our real whored situation, seeing how Trump loves Netanyahu and hates Massie and MTG. Trump hates real nationalism and promotes fake patriotism – loyalty to the evil Jews and Israel.
It’s only going to get worse unless the entire upper political class is put to death for treason. Taking bribes from AIPAC is treason and deserves the penalty of death. Trump and company – Congress/Mark Levin/Glenn Beck/FOX/MSM/Larry Loomer/Ben Shapiro – all deserve the firing squad. If you think that is extreme you are damn fool and a traitor yourself, not to mention part of the problem.
If we had any morals and could come to our senses (from Bible stupor) we would immediately hunt down and kill the entire Rotschilds clan, we would be bombing Israel out of existence, and seizing all Jewish monies to pay for the massive damage and carnage they have caused. We would make peace in the world, encourage free trade, act to stop all wars, etc.
What we should be doing is exactly the opposite of what we are doing. We have a president who is acting as antichrist. Not good for us.
Duck Ai – “when was the last time general electric paid federal taxes”
“General Electric last paid federal taxes in 2010, when it reported a small tax liability, but it has been scrutinized for paying little to no federal income taxes in subsequent years despite earning significant profits”
If you want a metric of how evil Amerika really is, multiple Trump’s approval rating by the population.
341,784,857 people x 37% = 126 million Amerikans who still approve of a man who is pure evil and the biggest traitor of all time. That tells you Amerika is a bad nation which supports bad leaders who do bad things.
The most vocal supports of Trump is the God Lobby like The 700 Club. These people claim to be part of the “moral majority”. LOL
Fat bastard John Hagee, founder of CUFi Christians United for Israel, is the most evil pastor in the nation – yet cavorts with Trump and Netanyahu. Real Bible evil being carried out in real time on a hell planet.
Public schools were also meant to Protestantize legions of children of Catholic, Orthodox, and Jewish immigrants. One reason Catholic schools were founded was because Catholics didn’t want their kids being taught from the Protestant bible. Same for the yeshiva schools in places like New York City.
Yes and thanks. Note how each side wants to brainwash kids for their agenda.
Talk about being unhinged. TDS and anti-Semitism is your foundation built upon hatred. Pure unadulterated evil that has no place in a civil society. It’s astounding the depths individuals such as yourself will stoop to lay blame when blinded by hate. You’re doing Satan’s bidding. Trump’s administration is by far the most talented group to likely ever lead the nation. May God continually bless him, his administration our nation and Israel.
One of the reasons so many people voted for the Bad Orange Man (many more than once) is that in America, working for the government beats working for the private sector such that government employees constitute a new aristocracy, and he promised to rein that in.
Historically, working in government, whether at the Federal, State, or local levels, was never a really great deal. The pay was usually lower than in the private sector, but the benefits were usually comparable if not somewhat better. If you stayed there long enough (20-30 years or so) you could retire with a nice pension—not a lavish lifestyle, but a comfortable one.
That changed in the last few decades for reasons too numerous to mention here, but government employees have a much better deal. Florida and Arizona are full of retired government employees from places like New York and California who draw guaranteed six figure pensions and Cadillac benefits.
What really bothers me is that a country where working for the government is the best job you can get is not a country that will be very productive or very stable. What bothers me even more is when more and more people become government employees, and government employment is seen as the most desirable option, then you end up with actual socialism.
Not to mention that one is more likely to die than have their government position terminated.
TDS is terminal to those stricken like yourself who can’t see the forest for the trees due to misguided hatred.
Trump has REDUCED the government workforce as he seeks a more robust private sector which is the intent of bringing back manufacturing, the investing into the U.S. of some $19 Trillion, reduce taxation on the public which helps to rise all boats so to speak; unlike the Democrats who only see people as pawns and want to create public dependency under their totalitarian ‘leadership’. America and its efforts for the American dream be damned.
The U.S. federal workforce shrank by approximately 10% to 13.7% in 2025, representing a net loss of 238,000 to 317,000 employees during the first year of President Trump’s second term. This reduction marks the largest one-year decrease in federal staffing in over 75 years, bringing the total workforce to its lowest level since 1966.
Whatever you are smoking, I want to try!
Ahh the public schools, where haywire kids get “mainstreamed” into normal classrooms causing total disruption. Friends daughters, one a high school principal the other a grade school teacher.
The HS principal is two years in and about to hand the reins over to someone else, she’s had it. Rural high schools in Eastern WA agricultural areas are full of gangs now thanks to the open border/sanctuary state status. Our small town Jr. High has dealt with 8th grade gangers.
The 5th grade school teacher, this year, has a severely autistic/mental kid in her class. Her day is consumed with this kid, he’s a mess. Screams “teacher’s a c**t” every day. Well, that’s ’the law’, not ‘fair’ they get put in an institution or special school.
In many jurisdictions, the local school district is one of the largest employers.
It’s Friday morning, comrades — do you know where Senator McClownell is?
The Lügenpresse is hyping the shit out of a new video showing a stretcher being leisurely wheeled out to an ambulance on a sunny June 14 morning in the District of Corruption. But it doesn’t show much — no scenes of a beached turtle on its back, fecklessly flapping its thick, stubby legs.
Stenographers’ breathless excitement relates to an August 3 deadline for a special election to fill his seat. Rep. Thomas Massie could run in that election, for instance. But if Dirty Old Turtle can hold out that long — or if his corpse can remain stashed in the morgue fridge that long — then democracy can be defeated.
After all, the Senate has been called the world’s most exclusive private club. And we’re not in it. 🙁
Fritz Hollings, after spending 40 years in the US Senate, said “The United States Senate is a whorehouse.” That’s pretty succinct for a prostititian, no?
“Representative William Giles of Virginia, who argued on the floor of the House of Representatives in 1796 against granting federal relief to fire victims. He stated that Congress’s role was dictated by constitutional duty rather than generosity and humanity. Thomas Jefferson firmly held this view, opposing federal intervention in matters of local charity or individual need, believing it was the sole responsibility of states or private enterprise.”
Well…there goes another one of our founding principles down the sewer drain.
‘Schools transform children into what George Carlin referred to as obedient workers.’
Or what the late Gore Vidal called consumer-depositors — mere accounting entries in Big Gov’s tax farm. Indeed, such social molding was the express purpose of the New England progressives who introduced public schools in the mid 19th century, modeling them on Prussia’s system of public education.
In an early America that would seem a foreign country to us today, people lived frugally. The tax burden imposed by modest schools with volunteer board members was … modest. The previous owner of a farm I had in northwest N.J. shared a quarterly tax bill from 1947: it was $17.46. By the time I owned it, twenty years ago, the quarterly tax on it had exploded to $1,375.00 — two-thirds of it for palatial schools, in what was once a modest farming community with modest people and modest buildings.
Despite it being a bucolic place, with the ridgeline that carries the Appalachian Trail visible two miles to the west, I bailed the hell out. It was clear that retiring there would be an act of folly, as the property tax grab continued its relentless escalation. One clue: the state first imposed an income tax in 1976, with a modest top marginal rate of 2.5%. By 2026, it had metastasized to 10.75%. Does anyone see a pattern here?
Tax grabbers literally will keep escalating until residents flee. And flee they have. But the self-defeating escalation continues: militant teachers unions have no qualms about killing the goose that laid the golden egg, to extract its last dollar. Along the way, in 1991 they killed a referendum and initiative proposal — rare in the East — because they knew the very first voter initiative would be to cut property taxes.
Teachers’ life lesson to consumer-depositors: when democracy interferes with public looting, it must be curtailed — for the greater good. /sarc
And that’s Sussex County, supposedly one of the more conservative parts of the state though it’s been completely infiltrated. You should see what the other counties are like.
Yup. I lived in two of the other counties along the I-80 corridor. That’s what I was trying to escape … unsuccessfully.
I grew up in Union County (Westfield) along the Garden State Parkway; my sister was recently in the area for a wedding so took a ride by our old house. Still there as it was when we lived there so we looked it up on Zillow. The house my parents paid $26k for in 1957 is currently valued at $1.3 million, and the property taxes are $16k/year! I thought I had it bad at $13k/year here for a somewhat larger house; at some point we will all be taxed into homelessness, but that’s probably the plan.
One of the many problems with Social Security (like all GovCo run “pension” plans worldwide) is that if you die with no dependents one second before you can collect they keep all the money you paid in.
If memory serves me correctly, Brazil ended their state run pension program and transferred the money back to the population. However there was a stipulation that it be invested in the equivalent of a 401(k).
Social Security is “general welfare” as in “promote the general welfare”.
Note. *Promote*. Not *provide* as in “provide for the common defense”, which is not only a higher priority but a different level of obligation.
Congress isn’t obligated to pay you a dime, as established by Fleming v. Nestor.
The only guaranteed cash flow in the SS system is the one from your paycheck to their coffers.
And what about the MIC and the VA in particular?
My entire adult I’ve heard how the VA is the biggest shit hole in medicine. This was documented on 60 Minutes in the late 60s or early 70s. It’s never gotten any better. And they keep sending military grunts on fools errands to make more physical and mental basket cases. This creates decades of needed medical care…and for what?
Don’t get me started on that despicable Wounded Warrior Project. Deplete the estates of Cheney, Bush, Wolfowitz, Perle, Rumsfeld and every other NeoCon, then get back to me.
The VA bureaucracy in Austin and Dallas is dominated by Islamic women providing “care” and making management decisions.
Kill, convert, or extract tribute from the infidels.
Mark in BC,
Actually I use VA for all my Healthcare needs right now and it’s great.
Don’t believe the BS from the (((media))) about how bad it is…
I’ve gotten better care from them then i did on active duty at times, the great qualifier is you have to be prepared to wait, or just show up at the nearest VA facilities during regular business hours, and you’ll get seen by someone
But my days as Imperial Stormtrooper are long over, although my regrets for having done so is not…
YMMV…
I got a postcard this week from the county tax assessor stating that my old house has gone up in value by $75,000. A single thing has changed on the house or property since the last time I’ve got a postcard from them.
Guess that means they expect more money out of my pocket on a house that’s been paid for for years.
Not a single thing. Damn iPhone.
You know what the scary thing is? If they actually taxed us at the rate they spend, taxes would have to go up by $39 trillion dollars…
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Yeah, I knew that the longest while. IF we did not pay taxes we take care of our own but when GODvernment STEALS your EARNED wealth you don’t feel like giving and it empowers them and not you. It’s double jeopardy.
Taxes is a socialist/communist thing and NOT American.