Backwards as usual
Wash state Repooflicans continue sending me emails. Today's output:

Democrats are at it again!

They're going to try their hardest to raise your taxes, and it's possible for them to do it now with their majorities in the House and Senate.

Sign our petition right now demanding Senate Democrats don't raise your taxes!

Democrats want to raise your taxes to pay for their liberal pet projects like funneling more money to Sound Transit and giving kickbacks to their special interest funders.

If fiscal conservatism has any chance of surviving during the Democrats' reign, it's going to be because Washingtonians like you took a stand. Join us and stand for a government that lives within its means by signing the petition today.

Wrong from start to finish, as fucking always.

1. More money for public transit is good, not bad.

2. Your special interests are the same as the Dem special interests. Bankers, Amazon, Microsoft, tribal casinos.

3. Most important: Low tax is the EXACT OPPOSITE of "fiscal conservatism" and "living within its means."

Lower tax means more debt.

More debt means more interest paid to bankers, and more control by bankers.

If you want to see more control by the people, you want to raise taxes to the point where government is making a PROFIT, and you want the taxes to hit just about everyone. Even better, you should split up the taxes so they're more like paying for a product. Drivers pay for roads, parents pay for schools, delusional lunatics and psychotic arsonists pay for "endangered" "species" laws and "environmental" "protection".

When government depends on the SPECIFIC CUSTOMERS for each SPECIFIC SERVICE, the customers will have more power to decide HOW** the service is performed.

With zero tax, just as with "free internet", the users are the product.


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Specific example: I've been spending about $1000 a year (basically tithing) through DonorsChoose.org, to support SPECIFIC projects that give hands-on experience in math and science. Some of those projects wouldn't get funded without my contribution. In other words, the money is not fungible. Donors have real control over which projects get funded. This makes me HAPPY, because hands-on education is part of my MISSION. By contrast, I also pay about $600 a year in county property tax. This is LOWER than the DonorsChoose amount, but it doesn't make me happy. This $600 is fungible and non-controllable. I know that a lot of the county tax is going for nonsense like Die-Versity Counselors, but there's no way for me to defund the shit and overfund the good stuff.

Labels: Experiential education, infinite evil

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