The Taxman Always Rings Twice

This is part 2 of yesterday's blog The Theory of Reverse Slavery

Sometimes you stumble upon some rare and unusual books that present you with some new ideas that are so original and so imaginative that inevitably embarks your mind in a journey to explore new worlds that you’ve never knew existed.

Sometimes you are very familiar with the ideas that book explores, but your mind is stimulated nonetheless because these books have a special way to make you look at things in a way you’ve never looked at them before.

But you better be careful, because what they don’t tell you is that sometimes you stumble upon books that defy everything you’ve been taught to accept as a child.

Sometimes they hold theories that may stand in strong contrast to some of the most popular beliefs in modern civilization. And guess what? You’re never prepared for these moments.

So when that happens you must make a choice.

A choice between tossing the book away and trying to forget everything you just saw, and between deciding to keep reading while knowing that it will comes with a price.

The price is accepting that there may be more sides to the one story you thought was the simplest of all. For many, this isn’t a easy thing to do.

You decide to keep reading but you know that now more than ever. you must to keep an open mind first and make your opinion later.

And above all, remember that this is just a work of fiction... Maybe.

If you’ve told people that you want them to work 7 days a week, 52 weeks a year and you want them to give you the 100% of the fruit of their labor, do you think they would accept that?

First you have to successfully introduced the idea of paxes, then you need to convince everyone then it’s their most important duty, and then...

And then the game begins.

You must start small, maybe with a 10% of people’s salary. After all, what’s a ten percent anyways? That’s a small price to pay for a civilized society.

Oh, that sounds good. Let’s use that as our motto: “That’s a small price to pay for a civilized society”.

Now that you’ve taken one tenth of people’s income and you’ve faced little resistance, it’s time to raise the stakes a little bit more.

Let’s take a sixth part of their salary.

It’s just 18%, that’s a small price to pay for civilization. Make sure to repeat that as long as it takes. “It’s a small price to pay for a civilized society”.

There’s one small caveat though, when you’re filing the pax return if you were to make a mistake then they’ll send you to a cold and rusty metal cage like in some animal zoo where you’ll be surrounded by violent people and where you’re likely to get beaten and assaulted on a daily basis.

As you can see, it has civility all written over it.

But let’s put that on a small print for just in case.

The Taxman Always Rings Twice

OK where were we? 18%, right.

You know what? Why don’t we raise that to 20%? I find round numbers easier to remember.

Now you’ve gotten a fifth of their income.

Then from 20% you go to 45%, you add in social security, medicare, and what not.. Your goal is to at least reach 70% of people’s income.

People cannot be slaves if they can keep at least 50% of their the fruits of their own labor.

Whatever you do, you must make sure that no matter what, people can never keep more than half the amount they produce.

And to do that, you start to play dirty. You start adding hidden taxes everywhere. Like inflation, you inflate the currency and reduce their purchasing power and no one will see it coming.

But it’s not enough, it’s never enough.

What do you mean people can still keep 30% of their sweat equity?

You tax the foods they eat, you tax the house they live in, hell, you even tax them when they buy, rent or sell that house.

You tax the books they buy for their kids, and the wheelchair they get for their grandma.

You’re shocked, but hooked at the same time. Your curiosity gets the best of you and you decide to keep reading.

Just a couple more pages, you say to yourself.

You go to the university and inflate the holy scorching hell out of the tuition costs, you do the same with hospital fees.

You know these are two things that everyone pretty much needs, so you force them to get into a serious debt they’ll likely to spend decades paying off.

Before people used to spend four years in college that secure a good income for the rest of their lives. Now, people spend four years in college to secure a crippling debt that haunts them till the end of their days.

The crazy part is, everyone still thinks that you’re there to take care of their needs, no matter all the evidence to the contrary.

You make Don Corleone looks like a total amateur. And then you move on to bigger things.

You add Saturdays as a working day as well, it goes from 5 days a week to 6 days a week.

You do the same with Holidays, before it was July and August, the summer months, but you cut that from 9 weeks to 6 weeks.

You then reduce the holidays from 6 weeks to 5 weeks, from 5 to 4, and from 4 to 3.

You do the same with retirement age, you go from 55 to 60. From 60 to 67 and from 67 to 75.

Come to think about it, why not raise it till after you die?

I mean, while we’re at it.

"You know what they want? They want obedient workers. Obedient workers, people who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork. And just dumb enough to passively accept all these increasingly shittier jobs with the lower pay, the longer hours, the reduced benefits, the end of overtime and vanishing pension that disappears the minute you go to collect it.

And now they're coming for your Social Security money. They want your f#ckin' retirement money. They want it back so they can give it to their criminal friends on Wall Street. ― George Carlin

You cook them real slow, just like the frog in the melting pot. This way no one remembers how it used to be before.

And more importantly, no one catches on the game that’s being played because no one can remember.

And just like that, at the very moment you decide to stop reading because you figure that all hope is lost and all fates are sealed… The final chapter opens a new window that takes you to completely different direction.

Just out of nowhere, a great sense of comfort invades your chest as you realize that you start to remember.

You finally remember.

… To be continued.

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