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He is some famous French guy who decided that he didn’t want to pay his extra taxes for being rich enough to wipe his lily white bohunkus with cashmere lotus flowers imported from Baghdad. So, he picked up, moved to Russia, and bought a Ukranian T-shirt to prove his loyalty to his new homeland.
“Look at me, uh huh huh,” he says in his snooty french accent “I am so smart,” he says. I guess someone else very important thought he was smart to because he got his picture on the cover of the Wall Street Journal yesterday.
I used to have a shirt just like that. i bought it for two bucks at the Goodwills and all I got was laughed at. In fact, I was scorned and put to shame, but that’s beside the point. This French jigalow bought his culturally aware garment to spit in the face of a country that wanted to take his money away because big governments don’t think that common people are capable and intelligent enough to spend their own money wisely. So they take money away from people to build their rocket ships that go to the moon. Then they give a handful of change to the poor and call themselves devout and holy.
Don’t get me wrong, I am not an anarchist and I absolutely love paying taxes. Heck, I wish I could pay taxes all the day long. Especially when I wash out Ziploc bags and scrape the lichens off the sidewalk just so that I can have enough money to invest in something that will give me a little extra income every month and the government wants to tax me on that too. I get to pay a fee every single year on the houses that I bought years ago. Some people call it property tax, I call it responsibility tax. The government charges you extra for trying to become independent from them.
I personally feel that if I have to give someone all my hard earned wages from January, February, March, and April, then I should get a chance to speak out and make decisions on what that money should be spent on. With all that money that gets sent in to the tax man, we should be able to build a modern day utopia of harmony. This should be the proverbial land of milk and freaking honey.
But nobody wants to hear what I’ve got to say, they all seem to think that the authorities and the powers that be know exactly what they are doing. Everyone just goes along, because they must know what they’re doing if they’re smart enough to muttle their way into public office.
They say that this money that’s paid in taxes is just going for the greater good of mankind, for roads and protection and all that jazz, but I beg to differ. That money just goes to feed the beast that is devouring humanity. And nobody sees this but me.
Great post! You should send it to the freshly pressed russian passport holder ;o)
I definitely have mixed feelings about government…definitely a necessary evil. Being as it’s run by human beings…well, you get the good and bad of human beings. Notice how people always talk about changing it and “throwing the bums out”…and even when that happens, the new bums go in and are exactly the same as the old bums? There are still humans running the show, that’s why. lol.
Oh, of us see it, we’re just at a loss as to how to get rid of it! A lot of people worship at the feet of the beast and depend upon it’s benevolence for everything, their very livelihoods. They’ll protect it at any cost. And then there are another whole group of people who are just clueless.
implicit in this is the idea is the idea that educated people are required to care for the less enlightened. I agree with this so much, I would almost let you ride my good bicycle.
I hope the line “I absolutely love paying taxes. Heck, I wish I could pay taxes all the day long.” makes the beast forget you just pulled on its tail….
I wonder if any americans are thinking of moving to russia to do the same thing. I can think of a few that i would not mind moving..haha great post.
the affore mentioned slob is also “famous” for urinating on airplanes when he does not get his own way. France is much better of without Mr. pig
Well said, chickadee!
MUST. OBTAIN. THAT. SWEATER.
Well, he certainly looks like he’s living high on the proverbial hog. Yes, I’d like to see what the US exodus will look like.
This is great work… I’m intrigued by all of it…
Looking forward to more post
Then the government, after we pay taxes, tells us how to live. Like they know more about what we need than we know ourselves. Heaven forbid, if we thought for ourselves. Nope, can’t have independent thinkers. …Too conspiratorial.
Yes, there’s something almost magical about being allowed to pay taxes.
There must be revolution in the air today. This is the third blog post I have read today about the idiocracy of our country. Idiocracy, by the way, is a good movie to watch if you want to know how our society’s story turns out. It’s happening as we speak.
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What a rebel!
Amen#
Great post. As someone who grew up on government assistance I know how much tax money means to people who need support. My family had no choice to go on it, and I grew up vowing to never rely on it ever again. Sadly not everyone has the drive or intelligence to escape the cycle.
He must be going through a confused period, especially as he starred in Life of Pi which was a bit of a #snore.
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I love your blogs and can soooo relate. If we were neighborscwe’d be friends. Birds of a feather flock together! =)
Great Post. I too would like to pay more taxes. Hech I would like to move out of the back seat of my car. Maybe even to the front.
You can even dress it up with humor and they still don’t get what’s happening. I get it. Won’t say much more because the rest have their heads in the sand. Guess what’s exposed. It’s like talking to the air between the ears. You are so very brave.
You’re not the only one who sees! I also see and agree! (I feel like I’m writing a sentence for Dr. Seuss…) Anyway. Something needs to be done, and if everyone who sees would just be willing to do something about what they see…
You’re not alone! That’s why I dedicate my blog to making government idiocy accessible to anyone who has never paid attention before.
Trust me, there is a lot of it. I’ll have fodder for posts for decades to come, and barely scratch the surface.
I’ve dedicated the last 5 years of my life to an intense study of the founders, the framers, the real history of this nation, the real consequences of monetary policy and economic meddling from the government, and the reality of our current socio-economic situation in this country. It’s not pretty.
But, if people actually want to know what’s going on, they can! And, then the voters heart will be changed (knowledge is power!), and the government will fear the people. Hard to fear those that believe all your garbage…but critical thinkers?? Yep, they scare the bejeebies out of them!
I keep saying that being poor in the US is like being the neglected, forgotten child of wealthy parents who give all of their love and attention to children in Africa. We take care of the problems of other nations and forget our own people? How sad is that? Who is driving the energy hogging machine? And who tries to conserve? It’s just gotten completely ridiculous.
Damn! We pave the roads of a city 5000 miles away while pot holes litter the roads down my streets.
Exactly…
I. LOVE. THIS. You are not alone.
And I’m not even rich enough to wipe my own “lily white bohunkus with cashmere lotus flowers.” What a visual. Ouch.
Heh, Here we have Obama, our ‘elected’leader trotting off to Hawaii to stay in a grand mansion blowing millions a day…while the rest of us, Like myself…and you pick up pennies to pay the bills.
I REFUSE to pay taxes to our authoritarian militarized government.
I have nothing, there for they have nothing to take.
I fight the system with my farm.
http://www.docsurbanorganics.wordpress.com
I decided to bring the weapon of food justice to my neighbor hood.
You are NEVER alone in the fight against Tyranny!
Rock on Girl!
Great post. Sadly, Depardieu isn’t the only French celebrity preferring a second nationality.
How many rockets is France sending into space?
I think a lot of us, even here in the US, understand that our taxes are wasted quite a bit on things that are not “for the good of humanity”. No matter what they think, we are not stupid. I am not a big time person who will try and change all of that. I prefer to do my changing down here, one at a time, with people and things I love and want to see bettered. That doesn’t mean you shouldn’t do what you are doing; someone needs to!
Scott