The first Broad Uniform Sales Tax in the United States didn’t start until about 1921 in West Virginia.

Yep, Sales Tax, Federal Income Tax, Capital Gains tax, all started after the early 1900’s.

Yet we had roads and cars all about;

And buggies were around late 1800’s, and photography was invented in early 1800’s, -so perhaps this image checks out. Perhaps this is an accurate meme.

Perhaps we had a high society and functioning buildings of a great empire and world fairs before the existence of any of these taxes. But, that’s like, mud-flood talk and I’m just here to jazz about taxes.

As a side note,

In modern etiquette, after every state is founded, it issues it’s initial state tax code which typically includes a property tax. This happened for Alaska, Hawaii, and Oklahoma, and probably many more.

The first thing that the government does, is start it’s protection racket to justify it’s existence. For better or worse.

Do I think the state should have a monopoly on violence? Not really. Should people in general be less violent? Ideally.

Maybe we can get an Italian system, you know, no property tax on the first home, only on the second and above.

Maybe we can make housing separate from commercial housing, you know, instead of having too many people buy single family homes and rent-lord them out for 30 Airbnb’s. I’m just shooting from the hip. Ideally, people wouldn’t be shit human beings, that goes for both land lords and tenants.

A lot of things, like Social Security, should be optional. Why be forced to pay into a literal Ponzi scheme?

As a reminder

The initial income tax was to target the top 1 or 2 % wealthy population.

But nowadays, it targets virtually everyone, and take anywhere from 20 to 60% of your income depending on state and other taxes and fees included. Did you know that your employer has to match your taxes and file it to the government? So you’re actually getting taxed double, and could be making more than twice the money that you’re being taxed every pay check (in theory).

So, with the rate of how things are going, with inflation running amok, and people not wanting kids while everyone else lives life in opposition to their predecessors. We’re looking at about 110% tax rate by the year 2050, and we’ll probably be receiving tax credits that get taxed, while also filing tax losses from virtual forced investments that we made because of -reasons-.

Point is, when is enough enough? When will the people realize that this slow boiling pot is not cooling down anytime soon? Do you really want to be taxed into negative income? Some people are already there. And that number of people is growing.

When are people going to wakeup and start enacting change? Are we to really let the last 100 years of US history in kleptocracy lead to our downfall? Seems hyper accelerationist to Roman Collapse speed run.

In Closing,

Shortly after 1900’s, all sorts of taxes came out the wazoo.

Makes you think, why did the government get a sudden urge and need to tax the fuck out of the population?

Was it because of the war? The Dust Bowl? The Great Depression?

And were the taxes supposed to be a permanent long time fix? Seeing as those issues above weren’t permanent or forever wars. -Or was there something else (foul maybe) at play here? It seems like we had a lot of cool and functioning shit before taxes. So where’s the cooler shit after taxes? Or is that being swindled too?

Did the Government just turn into a Kleptocracy at the turn of the 20th century?

Like, literally, wtf?

And why is there an amendment for income tax, but not one for sales tax or sin tax or any other obscure specific tax that might not be construed as a impost or excise tax under commercial clause of the constitution? Should there be one for property taxes in protection of the concept of a right to “property” as well as due process for what could be deemed as an unlawful seizure of property?

Am I really asking too much?

*Not Valid Financial, Legal, Life, or Any Advice