George Rebane
Friend and Nevada County cartoonist extraordinaire RL ‘Bob’ Crabb nailed it in yesterday’s (3may14) Union with this offering (pilfered below) on the plan for the government to next confiscate our ground water, and either prohibit its consumption or charge us for it.
I hope that all RR readers have been aware of these sub-rosa ‘takings’ that have been going on for some time now. And I hope that all will understand where this will end up when the socialists finally achieve their Agenda21 objectives and declare their true colors – i.e. when the state will constructively own EVERYTHING. (We all remember that you own something only to the extent that you can dispose of it as you will.)
The governments of America have been constructively appropriating private property for at least two generations now. They still let us keep pieces of paper that state our ‘ownership’ of things, but that is a ruse. All those pieces of paper let you do is to transfer possession and maintenance to another nebbish, and in the interval you are responsible for paying all government fees and legal liabilities that the property entails and may become involved in.
These myriad fees and judgments are drained from us with the argument that they pay for marginal services that the government provides or allows someone else to provide in our behalf. Upon examination, the overwhelming number of these marginal payments are nothing but payola and protection money. Protection from what? you may ask – protection from not being jailed or worse if you don’t pay or resist confiscation.
The next question then is, Well, for what do we pay the ever increasing amount of taxes on April 15th? The answer to that is becoming more clear with every passing year – on the federal level, we are overwhelmingly taxed for wealth redistribution and debt service; on the state and local levels for reimbursing unfunded liabilities (e.g. public service pensions) incurred in our name, without our knowledge, and against our wishes. Everything else on the margins will become a fee or extra charge added on to this or that purchase. Ultimately, I predict we will marginally pay for every mile of public road we travel on, and for the air we breathe since the government will argue that it costs them to monitor air quality and chase down the ‘polluters’. Also, look for a global warming tax to be levied based on some indescribably hokey metric that is guaranteed to keep on increasing regardless of air quality.
Finally, the accounting for the amounts of these marginal charges will be unfathomable and beyond corruption (the successor word has yet to be invented). In the end the concept of money will be withdrawn and we will all be consuming with government issued credits that will be allocated on the basis of an extremely elaborate rationing scheme – and no fair saving up credits, they will just disappear from your account in order to maintain a mandated level of material equality among the citizenry.
And I do understand that some of you will argue that we are already on the threshold of this brave new socially just and sustainable world.
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