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The thing that chapped my hide the middle of last month as a postmarked addressed envelope to the internal revenue service slid from my hand and into an oncoming blue mailbox was this: out of all the voting we do each
year, the one vote we should all have is the right to vote where our taxes go. That on each 1040, there ought to be some kind of checkmark for what gov-
ernmental department each taxpayer would like income, or earned income sent to the treasury at a rate of at least 5% every paycheck, to fund. Whether it be truly defense — as the military industrial complex is wont to call it while spending two-thirds of the annual national budget each year — or for society (caring for the elderly, schooling the child, and healing the veteran). I’d put hard money on Americans wanting an improved America, from the ground up.
Now there are those who’d say, “well, that’s what you’re doing already by vot- ing for representatives to the capitol who then decide ‘mindfully’ what budget our nation may require” ... but is it not these same military industrial companies who time and again bend the minds of the “purported people’s representative” with now-limitless campaign funds? Are they not then representatives of the company and its budget, a far cry from the nation & the people whose income they horde only to grandstand with come election year? Do they not answer with votes of allegiance to “military might?”
A ghost from the history books calls out: “no taxation without representation,” and knowing we indeed live in a revolutionary country, a fist is shaken at the blue box and the summer rolls on ...
essen, trinken und fröhlich sein!
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