(Cross-posted from The Free Speech Zone)
February 16th:
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — Worried about a tax audit? Maybe you should be. More Americans than ever may be subject to unwanted attention from the Internal Revenue Service this season as the government pumps billions of dollars into tax collection.
More than 1.4 million Americans were audited last year, the most in a decade. Even more audits are expected as the Obama administration plans to spend $8.2 billion in tax enforcement initiatives in 2011, a nearly 10% increase over last year.
Hmm, why they doing that?
February 18th:
Republicans have complained that Mr. Obama is trying to make it appear in an election year that he is doing something about high annual deficits, which have become a big issue for independent voters especially. Yet whether or not the commission succeeds in sending proposals to Congress after Dec. 1, its deliberations will force both parties to address whether to raise more revenues and make long-range reductions in Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security – the tough steps many economists say are essential to controlling a debt growing larger than the economy.
Translation?: Obama wants both parties to take the blame for having to fuck us out of money for revenue with tax hikes because, well, what do you want them to do? Tax the rich?!
ROTFLMFAO!!!!
That same day….
“In my lifetime I can say with a great degree of certainty that there has never been a politician cast a vote on any matter with the likes of me or my interests in mind. Nor, for that matter, are they the least bit interested in me or anything I have to say.”-Joe Stack
Investigators are looking into whether the pilot, 53-year-old Andrew Joseph Stack, also set his house on fire before taking off in his single-engine Piper Dakota around 9:40 a.m. local time.
Officials said they were evaluating an antigovernment manifesto posted on the Internet earlier Thursday, signed “Joe Stack,” which suggested he planned the crash. “Violence not only is the answer, it is the only answer,” the author wrote toward the end of a tirade against the IRS posted at 9:12 a.m. on a Web site registered to Mr. Stack.
http://online.wsj.com/article/…
So, what are my thoughts? Well, before I had them to put down in a diary, I came across something written that was exactly what I wished to convey to everyone:
Clearly, Stack is neither a hero nor a martyr. Nor is he technically a terrorist. Rather, he is the end product of a system that pays little heed to the disaffected, discontent and voiceless. And while Stack may have been alone in the cockpit of that Piper Cherokee plane, he is not alone in his discontent and frustration.
Stack is representative of a burgeoning class of disaffected Americans who are waking up to the reality that the American governmental system no longer works as it was intended–that is, it no longer works for them. In its place, a government of elites comprised of politicians and unelected bureaucrats has emerged that views the average American as little more than a source of tax funds and labor to keep the massive machinery of government operating. We have shifted from having a government that is “of the people, by the people, for the people” to one that is largely seen as predatory, a “government of wolves.”
Bill Watterson, the author of the comic strip “Calvin and Hobbes”, once wrote a strip that got him in a lot of trouble with concerned parents.
Here it is:
They were concerned with the fact that Calvin was day dreaming of bombing his school and that this would encourage kids to want to do such things or that the author might send a “violent” message to those kids disaffected with their experience at school….as if no kid in the history of childhood has ever had such thoughts before.
Bill Watterson replied to these concerns saying, “I guess they were never kids when they were younger.”
What he was saying was that everybody thinks about things like wanting to bomb the place they work/go to school, they’re the source of much hatred, and so are toll booths, banks, and…the IRS.
Joseph Stacks thought about it, and did it, at a time in which many Americans are scared to say what they’re secretly thinking. Which might be “Nice.”
It’s not correct to say, it’s not alright to say, but how many Americans (especially during tax season) are really “against” this act underneath the front they give that “violence is wrong no matter what”?
How many Americans give a shit that an IRS building got slammed with a plane? Anybody really angry about this happening to an institution like the IRS? Be honest.
Your “proper” senses may make you automatically go “there’s no reason for it and I am opposed to this form of so called ‘resistance'”, but ask yourself this question, what legal channel do we have at our disposal that we haven’t exhausted to change our horrible condition?
We voted in “Change” and purged the government of a Republican majority responsible for the shitastic state we’re in now only to get ourselves the “only party left” into office and they’re doing nothing for us and excelling at rewarding/serving those who fucked this place up. Now they’re gonna bi-partisan fuck us for more money to re-fill the corporate trust-fund.
Even those of rational thought don’t have an answer for me when I genuinely ask “ok, so what can we do now to get change in our government?” Before they told me to vote for Obama (and I did) and I, not expecting much, didn’t hold my breath. Now the answer is just “I don’t know” to such an inquiry.
That’s true, nobody does, and in conjunction with people hurting severely all around, “fuck all” options seem like a way to at least get ahead or back at those that caused you suffering, even if only once.
In the Rutherford Institute piece I quoted, “Clearly, Stack is neither a hero nor a martyr.” is a statement that, well, i’m still torn on. If because of this act the “political upheaval” many political analysts have talked about happening start in a domino effect over time, it might be a part of our history where a turning point reformed our political history. Even if such a “grand scale” scenario like that doesn’t occur, what if there’s a large amount of people that feel he actually is a hero or martyr?
Is it far fetched in these times for some people to feel a little like “hell yeah” when they hear a story about an average struggling citizen slamming a plane into the IRS building for revenge?
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totally went there.