PERFECT STORM

Perfect Storm

Good morning, good afternoon, good evening Mr. and Mrs. America and all the ships at sea. The tireless and intrepid researchers, investigators, deep thinkers, loafers and slackers of Bangingthedrum, uh, that would be me, hasten to sound the alarm of impending misfortune that is about to befall the hard working citizens of the US of A. If you are one of the few, the brave, that have read the previous offerings of Bangingthedrum, you will recall that I warned that an ill wind was gathering strength and would soon blow in from the insatiable Federal Government bent on socializing the land of the free and the home of the brave. The ominous wind this old sailor was sensing could well threaten the safety of the ship of state because as the wind gains strength, the result will be a angry sea of disenfranchised citizens that could well founder our good ship. The ill wind of which I speak, heralds the impending call for a National Sales tax either in the form of a VAT or a consumption tax taken at the cash register, or both. I believe that a perfect storm is about to coalesce around the issue of unsustainable federal debt brought about by the deliberate actions of the Federal Government itself. Yes that’s correct, all of the misfortune that is befalling the hapless citizens of this great Country today was planned in advance and is continuing in a disingenuous program of socialization that will finally be realized when the Federal Government completely centralizes all power in Washington. The perfect storm that will allow this to happen will be the unsustainable federal debt, illegal immigration, heath-care for all, saving the planet from global warming, and the failing economy. This Government contrived perfect storm will enable the final Washington power grab because only the Federal Government can quell the storm by giving all of the power necessary to do so to the federal government. Recall that I have tried on many occasions to say that Taxes Are Power, and you can’t make happen what you want to happen without the power of taxes, and because 70% of our economy is now consumption, a national consumption tax is the last remaining tax of any meaningful size that can be levied to fix the perfect storm. Here is what I predict will be used as justification for this new tax. Recently it was announced that 47% of the citizens were paying no Federal Income tax at all. This situation will be denounced as unfair to the hard-working citizens of this country because all citizens must share the burden to be fair and so a National Sales tax, that will tax all, will correct this abominable situation and fairly spread the burden. Never mind that it was the Federal Government that, by design, caused 47% to pay no taxes in the first place. Brothers and Sisters, are you beginning to see the light? But wait, there’s more! The national sales tax will also equally tax illegal aliens along with legal citizens, and so it naturally follows that if illegal aliens are working, paying taxes, raising families, then there should be a path to legal citizenship because it the fair and humane thing to do. Do you see how wonderful a contrived perfect storm can be? I leave it to your imagination to connect the remaining perfect storm issues to the national sales tax solution. However, I will say that I support a National Sales tax because it is much fairer than the special interest monstrosity the current individual income withholding tax has become. I must hasten to add, that I support the National Sales Tax only on the condition that the Federal Income Withholding Tax law must be repealed and if a VAT is instituted that corporate tax be abolished. Of course, that will never happen. What will happen is that they will decrease the withholding tax rates and corporate rates to make it seem fair when they propose the National Sales Tax and VAT, but they will keep all taxes for eventual increases as they see fit. I fear that this National Sales Tax might well be the final injustice served up by the Intelligentsia supporting a usurping Federal Government and the result could well be that the citizens will finally rise up as one to right the ship by descending on Washington and finally throwing the rascals out.
There is a far easier way to correct the situation, that is, if the states were not spineless vassals of the Federal Government. The states could call a convention of the states and declare that they (the states) were no longer going to obey the Federal Government because the Federal Government has completely usurped the freedom of the people and ignored the requirements of the Constitution. This can be done because it was the states that granted limited power, under the Constitution, to the Federal Government and not a Federal Government that granted power to the states. In other words, the Federal Government exists at the pleasure and convenience of the several States, and because the Federal Government has broken the Constitutional contract, the states reserve the right to revoke the Federal Government privilege.