Tax payers are idiots

Nov 25, 2008 16:29

They have to be.  A simple example from real life proves it ( Read more... )

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yesferatu November 25 2008, 15:40:05 UTC
What's the alternative?
If you don't pay taxes, you go to jail.

How is the average tax payer going to stop these bailout?
You want bailout riots in the streets?

I can't see how else they'd stop anything the government does.

Don't pretend that tax payers don't know this whole thing is bullshit.
What else can they do?

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voland November 25 2008, 16:50:06 UTC
Rebel. And stop voting for major party candidates.

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the_discourses November 25 2008, 17:59:22 UTC
I'm not paying U.S. taxes at the moment. Though Germany isn't doing anything significantly better. No country is.

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the_discourses November 25 2008, 18:00:48 UTC
I don't want anything, really. I'm just stating a simple, true fact. It's interesting to see how representative the representative democracy really is.

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voland November 25 2008, 18:54:23 UTC
The answer is in mass psychology. People are naturally interested in reward, they want to have a sense of accomplishment. However in the modern world the vast majority of folks are total fucking losers. So they associate with a political party, sports team, fashion etc... to give their lives a sense of meaning. As such it is irrelevant how badly they get raped by the .gov, what matter to them is that the party they belong to wins. That is how .gov commits just about all its crimes. Exploit the herd mentality of the masses. After all the biggest murderer and criminal in all of human history is the nation state.

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the_discourses November 26 2008, 15:47:28 UTC
I don't think it's the full story, Gene. It's more likely that people simply still trust the government in the West. I think that's one advantage us East Europeans have over the Westerners. We already know our governments are a corrupt bunch of thieves out to take our money. They're about to learn that lesson here in the west in the next few years as all their savings, pensions, and properties disappear. It will be like East Europe after the collapse of Communism. You remember those years? When grandmas would go striking to get their pension checks again, and people worked for months without seeing a paycheck?

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