The US is about to go full Louis XVI
BY PGF
2 years, 4 months ago
Via WRSA, Ukraine may be America’s Lious XVI moment. It’s cautionary to learn history, but governments never realize what they are doing. Maybe this one does and is satisfied with destroying us. The article is about the new swarm of IRS agents being hired. But, interesting and worth understanding is the parallel to France at the close of the US Revolution.
The cost/benefit just doesn’t compute. And that’s why healthy, prosperous nations don’t engage in such absurd activities. They don’t need to.
Taxes ultimately represent the government’s ‘slice’ of an economic pie. So when a country is prosperous and an economy is strong, the government’s slice continues to grow because the overall economic pie is constantly getting bigger.
But nations in decline don’t see it this way. For them, the pie is shrinking. So they think the only way to increase their slice is to go after other people’s crumbs.
History shows this is absolutely the wrong move. Raising tax rates, inventing new taxes, and recruiting armies of tax collectors only makes the pie shrink even more.
Their efforts, instead, should be focused on making the pie bigger. But they don’t think that way.
Bear in mind this is all brought to you by the same people who are shoveling your tax dollars out the door to Ukraine $50 billion at a time. It’s very ‘Louis XVI’ of them.
All of these trends—the cannibalistic surge in tax authorities, the anti-productive regulations, the economic scarcity mentality—are all hallmarks of an empire in decline.
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On August 10, 2022 at 9:14 am, George 1 said:
All of this brought about because we have no opposition party to speak of. That includes Trump. About a week ago he was making a speech about how wasteful it was to send billions to Ukraine. He forgets that he could have set things up to avoid the entire conflict.
The rest of the GOP seems good at making speeches and talking tough to government officials at congressional hearings but nothing ever comes of it. All of the Senators and Representatives who are justly speaking out about government overreach voted for the extension of the Patriot Act.
Now the Republicans are talking tough again. Just vote us into the majority they say and will will show the commies how things are. So if they are elected to majority status in the House and Senate are there any bets that they will defund the added IRS agents? How about the FBI? How about the ATF?
No. I didn’t think so.
On August 10, 2022 at 10:28 pm, Cherokee Man [the Watcher] said:
Sometimes I wish my Cherokee Woman did not see what is coming . You have now entered into ” The Winter of Discontent ” . Not many of us will make it to the Spring .
On August 11, 2022 at 9:34 am, PGF said:
@George 1, the Rs are the Washington Generals. Want to know who the real useful idiots are that will be executed first; Republican politicians. Pity, they probably don’t even know it yet.