Because Gubbmint IS Teh Answer!
the question: How best can we shoot ourselves in the foot?
Then, nail the other foot to the floor?
If you drive a car I’ll tax the street
If you try to sit I’ll tax your seat
...the [Finnish] government decided in its general session that a tax is to be levied on candies and similar sweets, chocolate, cocoa products, ice cream, and popsicles or ice lollies. ...75 cents a kilo ...Biscuits and sweet buns and pastries ... nutrient fluids used in hospitals, infant formulas, certain weight loss products, and withdrawal products will all be exempt from taxation…
estimated to bring additional revenues of about EUR 135 million into the state coffers every year. ...
If you get too cold I’ll tax the heat
If you take a walk I’ll tax your feet
The UK’s tax collection agency is putting forth a proposal that all employers send employee paychecks to the government, after which the government would deduct what it deems as the appropriate tax and pay the employees by bank transfer.
...so that it can monitor all payments and make a better assessment of whether the correct tax is being paid. ... There is no option for those employees to refuse withholding and individually file a tax return at the end of the year.
But taxes go for Good Stuff™, right?
“If I come as an immigrant, you have the obligation to make me a citizen."
..."I knew I had overstayed” ... “I didn’t take any advantage of the system. The system took advantage of me.”
“I didn’t ask for it; they gave it to me. Ask your system. I didn’t create it or vote for it. Go and ask your system,” ... “To me America’s dream became America’s worst nightmare,” she said adamantly. “I have been treated like public enemy number one.” ...
...still living in South Boston public housing, unemployed, and collecting about $700 a month in disability…
The system provided her assistance despite her status as an illegal immigrant.
Oh yeah—that was Aunt Zeituni Onyango.
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