A Titty Tax????

So it is a tax, some are acting as if the Government taxing our asses to death is something new – IT IS NOT, and when you die, you broke ass will pay some more taxes!  That is how the Government works folks, they collect revenue from the citizenry and then spend it on things they think are important.  This is not a new concept, seems I remember something about a tea party (not the recent one) having some issues about taxation without representation.  Since all (every F’ing one of them) of our elected officials are not representing us anymore it makes any tax unrepresented – in my opinion.   The fact we have a new one should not surprise anyone.

Most probably don’t even realize that every state in the union except Alaska pays a gas tax that ranges from about 18 cents to over 50 cents PER GALLON, PER GALLON!!  For those will mobile phones, you are paying a 911 tax, for those in Kansas, you are taxed on your Bingo winnings and if you live in Illinois, you pay a higher tax for candy than other food products.  In Tennessee they have the “Crack Tax” which is a tax on illegal drugs.  Yep, under a law passed by the Tennessee General Assembly, in January, 2005, drug dealers are required to pay anonymously at the state revenue office, where they receive a stamp to prove their payment.  This tax applies to illegal substances, including cocaine, marijuana and moonshine.  In Arkansas there is an extra tax when you get a tattoo, California, extra tax if you buy fruit from a vending machine.  Maine produces about 99% of the countries wild blueberries and guess what – those who grow, purchase, sell, handle, or processes blueberries are hit with additional taxes.  Hell a person can’t even eat a bagel in New York without paying an additional tax.  And in Utah there is the Sex Tax, freaking Mormons have decided that if you run an establishment where naked woman work, there is a 10% tax on all things paid for in that establishment – I wonder if those uptight Mormons call that the Titty tax?

We like to sit around and pontificate on the other political parties inability to get anything done.  Well, let me tell ya, both parties are incompetent and worthless.  Each election cycle the party not in power talks about all the things they are going to do and change.  And we lap it up as if we are dunderheaded and don’t remember a damn thing from high school civics class.  It is like we have forgotten that the President is not the one who gets to make the rules, it is the 535 dipshits down the street that pass bills into law.  It is them who pass the budget onto to the president to sign, it is them who exempt themselves from the laws they impose upon the rest of us and it is them who have the real power in Washington.  He (or she) who holds the checkbook and the rule book win, it is just that simple!!

There has been a lot of talk about the national debt lately, well I pulled some numbers and under Jimmy Carter our debt increased a little over 211 billion, about 10.6% annually.  Under Reagan it was a 23.6% annual increase and 1.6 trillion added to the tally.  Under Bush #1 1.2 trillion or about 13.9% annually and Clinton was at 4.4% annually or 1.1 trillion.  Bush #2 blew it up at 4.7 trillion added, an increase of 11.1% annually and under the current president it jumped another 2.8 Trillion or 13.8% annually.  Now as a percent of GDP (gross domestic product) through all of these presidents  it has ranged from 2.7% under President Bush#2 and President Obama  to 4.8% under President Bush #1.  So what does that mean, damn if I know and ya know what - I wish more people would admit they don’t know because ya know what – they freaking don’t! 

Looking strictly at the numbers, Jimmy Carter was a God, but for those who lived through those times, you know he was not.   Looking back on the Clinton years, which had the smallest debt growth by percent, I seem to think that his approach was not so bad.  Ya know the expression, there are two things for sure  - death and taxes.  I wish some would un-wad their panties and just move on.  The only way it will change is if ALL the incumbents are voted out, all of them from all the parties.  With new elected officials we may be able to remove some of the insanity they have created – level the rule book for citizen and elected official alike.  We have to change them out, like diapers, and then they have to change the rules back – not likely to happen folks although I remain optimistic that someday that will happen.  Until then, the Washington power brokers will have control of what happens in and to our country – and it does not make a damn bit of difference which dipshit happens to be sitting in his (or her) little oval office located on some prime real-estate.  It is true damn it!!