Who said life was fair?

Whomever said life was fair was selling a bill of goods. Life isn’t fair. Nothing is fair, except when everyone plays by the same set of rules, and then varying abilities make it unfair.

It appalls me to see certain political types calling for this group or that group to play fair or pay their “fair” share. Give me a flipping break.

Take taxes: Unless everybody pays the same rate, then the tax is not being fair. Somebody is paying more than someone else. Given all the tinkering that is done with the US, state, county, municipal and other tax codes. no one is being treated “fairly” in my estimation.

See that is the problem: No longer are we equal before the law. As Napoleon the Pig decreed in Animal Farm, “some animals are more equal than others.”

We as a nation have discovered we can manipulate the tax code and other government policies to pay ourselves money and that is why democratic forms of government fail. Once the people learn they can vote themselves money out of the common treasury then it eventually will collapse. As I have said, someone done let that cat out of the bag already even.

I shudder to think what my grandchildren are going to face, because it ain’t gonna be pretty. I wish I could leave them better, but I don’t have the power.

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http://money.cnn.com/2011/09/19/news/economy/obama_debt_plan/index.htm?hpt=hp_t1

“A driving principle behind the proposal is that high-income individuals and corporations should pay more in taxes than they do currently so that they will bear some of the burden of debt reduction going forward. “

I have a serious problem with part of that statement and that is that “corporations” should pay more in taxes. Corporations don’t pay taxes because it is the people who purchase the goods or services from the corporation who pay the tax. That is right, the consumer (meaning us ordinary smucks).

Somebody needs to send somebody back to ECON 101. Corporations may appear to “pay” taxes, but any corporate manager/business owner worth his or her salt has calculated the cost of those taxes and included in the price of whatever good or service they provide. If they don’t, then they are incredibly stupid and need to take a course in business planning.

In other words, taxes on corporations really are just hidden taxes paid by us ordinary folks.

I am increasingly disappointed with the current administration’s seeming attacks on business and the wealthy. This is not a “from each according to their ability and to each according to their need” society, but it seems that the current administration is playing like it is.

Electoral College

News report has it that Pennsylvania is considering revamping the way it allocates its electoral votes. Rather than give all the state electoral votes to whomever wins the popular vote, the electoral votes would be apportioned out to the winners of each congressional district and two statewide.

This is about the best way for a change and retain the founders vision of preventing the big populous cities being able to dictate the results.

The Electoral College is there for a very good reason, in that in compels candidates to consider more than one state.

War is not an Option

Saw a bumper sticker on a recent travel: WAR IS NOT AN OPTION and the thought immediately jumped into my mind: Yes, but sadly sometimes it is the only alternative available.

Would that it were true, but unfortunately, human nature being such as it is, war,violence, death, destruction, all are sometimes the only alternative we have if we wish to remain at liberty and live our lives as we have chosen. Of course, we could chose to surrender our liberties …. we could choose to die quietly or be slaves, but that would not be my choice.

If there are those who have sworn to see my death as well as those who I care for or to those who believe as I do in the dignity of the individual above all, then I will fight them … on any and all levels of conflict.