Governments and the taxes they inflict should be like a symbiote A foreign invader to the body which one tolerates because the benefits outweigh the costs to the individual.
That’s what we had. Oh sure, our tax bite was big but grandma had a place to live and food on the table. We complained about every penny but we did nothing because the poor kids had food on the table and single mothers could stay home and raise their babies. The guys in office from the mayor to the president seemed as crooked as a sidewinder on hot sand but, dude, the roads were paved and the water ran clean out of our taps and the shit went somewhere when we flushed the toilets. And we were safe because that expensive army was keeping the marauders at bay.
When does a symbiote become a parasite?
Was it when grandma’s house became a bug infested tenement apartment and the only food on her table was the bags of Ramen and an occasional can of discount cat food? Was it when the single mom had to make a choice between feeding her children or finding them daycare or going to the doctor? Perhaps it was when the working poor chose not to have children because they truly could not afford them, leaving child bearing to the rich and the teenage children too ignorant and too poor to afford birth control thus creating a chasm between the classes which will never be crossed, no matter how boot strappy one gets. Perhaps it was when you looked back with envy to the days of Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson when we actually had a functioning library, post office and public education system.
But things are far worse than that now. We might have dealt with the parasite. At least we understood it. Unfortunately the parasite is long gone. Now we need to deal with the vile predator chewing our foot off. We do nothing because it seems so illogical. Why kill the thing that feeds you? Once it is dead, the predator will starve as well.
Really. Do you see how nonsensical we are being? Why are we trying to negotiate with the thing with teeth and an infinite appetite?
Listen. These are the words of an insane person: “OK. You can have my toes and all the fingers on my left hand but then after that you must stop eating me.”
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