Scott

This is what kids don't understand. An American Child's ONLY RESPONSIBILITY in life is to do ONE of two things, learn to perform a profitable skill or simply just learn everything they can about a mass of subjects or a specific subject. They are considered kids for 18 years, put in perspective terms let us say the child was a dog, they would be 85 years old and we all know they don't leave when they are 18 So we release our perspectively 100+ year old children into the wild a little late. Even with that being the case, a huge percentage of American children never learn either of the two things. Speaking from a natural selection standpoint, many of our children "would never have made it." I know it's shocked me to even type that but it's the truth. That is the problem with America and one of the many ways we have failed our children AND been failed ourselves.

So what happens when youth is wasted on the young, but all the adults are ignorant. The adult/children become angry, but they are too stupid to figure out why they are so mad.

I had to go to the Department of Motor Vehicles the other day to renew my License/ID. It took 6 employee's, who I'm assuming are paid by state tax dollars, half an hour to figure out how to get the machine to print my I.D. In the end they had to call someone to figure it out. I paid 25 Dollars U.S. and I'm thinking, why am I having to "renew" this anyway, I mean it's not as if my identity has changed since I got the thing initially, so what's wrong with the one I had, why am I paying these clowns 25 dollars for something I've already paid for in the past. That just seems totally redundant to me. While I'm there looking at this ineptitude, at the county assessor and other employee's in there, I started thinking. Bear with me here... I get paid from my employer, that money gets taxed initially before I ever even see it, state, federal, social security, all sorts of taxes, the whole nine yards. Then say I go buy a vehicle and a house and the land it sits on outright in cash with said salary, and then I pay taxes on the vehicle, taxes on the house, taxes on the land. So now I OWN all these things, house, land, vehicle.

Every year I have to go and pay property taxes, and "renew" more things that I've already paid for, and been taxed for TWICE now I might add, then a third time, and a fourth time and so on and so on. Every thing I buy from groceries to utility bills gets taxed, nothing extra comes with this tax it's just there. The Waste Management people pick up my trash, I pay them tax, on top of the bill itself, same with water, electric, gas, cable, cell phone. In the back of my mind I'm can't help but think, I'm paying all these bills and fees and taxes with money I earned that has ALREADY been taxed initially. I've always thought that just seems like downright theft. I mean I have to "renew" a plastic card that says who I am, when I already have one that says who I am. I mean my identity doesn't expire.

A few days ago, a state government official came into my work, where I shake martini's and pour premium whiskey's and wines for relatively wealthy people. They usually bring some friends and/or various people they work with and generally engage me in conversation. I asked this person how much money they make per year, and while they wouldn't tell me exactly, it was determined that it was moderately over 100k per year, all things considered. I then asked this person, generally speaking. Ok it's Monday morning, you wake up, S***, shower and shave or what have you, then you go to work. What is it exactly that you do...... This person, and a couple of his guests were to be quite honest, a bit stumped by my question. After a few minutes of discussion on the subject, it was widely determined within the group, that most of them, again generally speaking, they didn't really DO anything! Especially in the aspect of this is a task set before you and these are the steps taken to complete that task.

Anyhow, everyone moved on to other topics, the check was paid with a dark metallic credit card, and a generous gratuity was left for me. But in the back of my mind I couldn't help thinking.... What in the samhell is going on here. I mean where are the 5 p's (proper planning prevents peepoor performance) in all this? What is the deal with taxing taxed taxes to tax taxes of taxed tax? I'm only wondering how, in light of everything that is going on "financially" how this irresponsibility which is quite blatant and imo flat out theft simply going overlooked while people are talking about all of our problems and possible solutions. When you really start to think about it, it's really quite infuriating. Why aren't these issues being addressed, and seriously this is a wikipedia definition.

Double taxation is the imposition of two or more taxes on the same income (in the case of income taxes), asset (in the case of capital taxes), or financial transaction (in the case of sales taxes).

So if the American Revolution started over double taxation without representation, and these people are my representation. What gives here? Why do we even NEED to elect most of these people? I mean allot of these elected positions don't actually DO anything, then why do they need to be elected? Can I just make up an "Office" to run for and just start getting paid some ludicrous salary in tax dollars because no one knew about the office in the first place to run against me so I win and am elected by default? If 5 people voted for me for some government position, and I ran unopposed, voter percentage wise, should I be given that position and salary with little to no support or backing or even a clear concise layout of my duties? I'd be surprised if anyone in a government background could or would even answer any of these questions, or if I'd believe