by Joe Siano
“The power to tax is the power to destroy.”
Chief Justice John Marshall said so two centuries ago.
His logic is unimpeachable. To
tax is to take something belonging to another by means of compulsion. To successfully compel another human to
comply with one's dictates requires the ability and will to defeat the other in
a test of determination and might.
Even unto death.
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen recently proposed a
global minimum income tax rate. The
hubris is staggering.
Not so long ago, Francis Fukuyama pronounced that the world arrived at
the end “the end of history”. His point
was that with the collapse of the Soviet Union, the world’s major conflicts
were resolved. The Western Classical Liberal order reigned triumphant. Earth was now a uni-polar world with a single
superpower, the USA, leading the way. He
was wrong on many counts including the facts that another Marxist superpower
and the Islamic bloc emerged to challenge Western supremacy.
However, the internal threats to American freedom and prosperity should
concern liberty-minded more than those posed by rival nations. In 1956 Soviet First Secretary taunted the
West that “we will bury you”.
Although his country collapsed under the burden of faulty Communist
economics, oppression, and corruption; his prophecy is proving prescient. The Soviet Union was crushed in the arms race
with the United States. However, the
toxic Marxist seed has sprouted twin vines to strangle America’s tradition of
free enterprise, innovative thought and uncensored expression.
America chafes under the dual yoke of Neo-Conservatism and on the Right
and the persistent and, now resurgent, Socialism of the
Progressive Left.
The Neo-Cons, the spawn of Leon Trotsky, followed his blueprint of
exporting revolution. The revolution
that they export is American-style democracy by means of global military
interventions, endless wars and a provocative expansion of NATO. Their efforts invited blowback terrorism. This licensed the Feds to unleash the invasive
surveillance state where nothing is private.
The reinvigorated Left, led by Bernie, AOC, Antifa and BLM is openly
Marxist. It is committed to destroying
the Western culture and that has enriched and liberated millions
worldwide. Despite the vast strides that
America has made economically and socially, these grievance
mongers have convinced many rank and file Americans that we are guilty of
some collective sins. We are unworthy of the simple fruits of our investment and
labor.
Both the Neo-Cons and the Progressives use Big Government to further
their agendas. Thus, we have the comical
sequence of:
1.
George
W. Bush amassing record deficits. (His
VP Dick Cheney sails that, deficits don’t’ matter anymore.)
2.
Candidate
Obama slamming Bush for his financial profligacy and then flooring the deficit
accelerator once in office
3.
The
supposed “Swamp Drainer” Donald Trump kept piling taxpayer debt higher and
deeper
4.
And Joe
Biden? What does he care? At 78, he’s doubling down on everything to go
out with a bang.
The Fed printing
presses have been running non-stop during this epoch. Inflation threatens to spin
out of control. Desperately
seeking increased
plunder, D.C. looks to jack up corporate tax rates.
The Administration is well-aware that when this happens, jobs and capital flee the U.S. Thus they are asking other nations to cease competing with America by making their corporate rates unattractive.
Are we really so
arrogant to think we can dictate tax policy to other nations? Do we
really think we have the power to strong arm?
To destroy?
Let’s see what the
EU has say. How about China? Or Putin?
The global tax is
unworkable because cunning foreign politicos may make nominal concessions the
to the “powerful” U.S. But competition is
as natural among nations as it is among individuals. Therefore, they will enact Swiss cheese laws, full of holes, to attract U.S. capital.
Our leaders are unable and unwilling to destroy other nations to enforce a global tax regime. (Thank God!) But they have no problem visiting violence on us.
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