This really bugs me. It's bugged me for a long time and has nothing to do with the Tea Party movement.


By what right does anyone tax another man's labor?

To make matters even worse, how can you justify having a higher tax rate on labor than you do on capital?

We're a country of slaves on big corporate plantations. As long as you're willing to pick the cotton, you have excellent access to healthcare, you get a few pennies on the loot (stock options, 401K matches) but the minute you're of no value to the plantation, you're done. Tossed out with no access to shelter, food, water...

We are slaves... And I want to know by what right they dare tax a man's labor, especially slave labor?

Taxation is the absolute least of what is happening. The capitalists EXPROPRIATE labor -- labor is reduced to a commodity as men are stripped of all means of sustaining themselves other than selling their labor power on the open market.

That's why I'm asking... I want to know on what grounds they started taxing labor, when and where.

The fact that they expropriate labor is abundantly clear. The tax is an insult to injury.

The history we should never forget that the ass-troturf tea party idiots don't generally even know...worth a laugh on this, their second celebration of the black day that is April 15.

http://cache.gawker.com/assets/stills/dailyshow_santelli_gawker.flv.jpg

http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-march-4-2009/cnbc-financial-advice

Jack was an ex-Episcopal priest, and a good guy - an active partisan of the struggle, going way beyond taking "moral positions".

One day he came over to my house and he was agitated, waving around a yellow legal pad. On the pad, he had worked out in detail how much of the total Federal budget went to the infrastructural costs of capitalism and how much went to the workers. It was a pretty sophisticated allocation and Jack was outraged. Once people saw how unfair the division was between the capitalists and the workers, compared to what each paid in, the entire population would be outraged. He wanted to call a general strike.

I said, "Jack, if you could organize a general strike to force a renegotiation of the tax codes, why wouldn't you just take power and be done with it?"

He looked at me really funny... and never brought up the subject again.