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the ANGRY MINUTE is heard Tuesday Nights on WCCO-AM 830 Dark Star. .... .... Bush. the idiot. George W. Bush, appropriation, experimental, turntablism,
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Peak #544
Peak in subgenre #40
Author
Dave Anton
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y
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April 11, 2006
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MP3 2.0 MB • 128 kbps • 2:08
Story behind the song
The ANGRY MINUTE. Heard Tuesday Nights on WCCO 830 AM
Lyrics
It’s that time of year again; Tax Time. Time to pay the Country’s John.
I had a conversation recently with a staunch republican who makes no bones about the state of welfare in this country. He says we should Dump The Income Tax, because it promotes welfare; dump welfare and everybody fends for themselves. The welfare system is broke and it is, has been, and forever will be, abused. So, why don’t we DUMP Income Tax and let everyone fend for themselves?
I’ll give you A Quarter of Trillion reasons why, because A Quarter of a Trillion Dollars is what comes directly out of Taxes and straight into our beloved Military. Every year. Take away taxes and you throw the Military Baby out with the Welfare Bath Water.
So how much does a typical taxpayer pay each year, and where does it go.
Before you start thinking the Military, it’s the military. Oh sure not 100% of it, but then again 26.2% of it seems a little high next to the 3% that goes toward Education, the 1.6% to Housing and 1.5% for the environment. Silly little Environment. Just keep par broiling us like a frogs in a spaghetti pot, and we’ll get that figure up there…
But there is good news for those of us stoked by the outrageous Manhattan spending, and it came in the form of the Grace Commission, the exhaustive $76 million dollar study that warned valedictorian-cum-president Ronald Reagan of looming national debts, throwing out crazy figures like multi-trillion dollar debts by the year 2000, should they not act upon the more than 2, 478 recommendations made. Silly Commission. They couldn’t even get the year right. That debt wouldn’t come for another four.
But the commission also found that, ONE THIRD of the tax dollars collected are wasted, and another third are not even collected. So, the good news, divide that military-spending by 1/3. Of course we’ll still have to pony up the $6,000 per American, for this war.
What would you have done with the $6000 dollars anyway…
MORE INFORMATION:
Looking at it a different way, if you had $1,500 deducted from your paychecks as an “income” tax and your tax dollars were directly applied to government expenses, your contributions by category would be:
$393—military
$339—interest on national debt
$285—healthcare
$83—income security
$51—veterans’ benefits
$48—education
$38—nutrition spending
$24—housing
$24—environmental protection
$216—everything else
Why do we spend more on jets than we do on public housing?
Why is the Endowment for the Arts so small?
Whats with all this foreign military financing? If we run into such debts as that we must be taxed in our meat and in our drink, in our necessities and our comforts, in our labors and our amusements, ... our people ... must come to labor sixteen hours in the twenty-four, give the earnings of fifteen of these to government, ... and have no time to think, no means to call the mismanagers to account; but to be glad to obtain sustenance by hiring ourselves to rivet their chains on the necks of our fellow sufferers ...
And this is the tendency of all human governments; a departure from principle in one instance becomes a precedent for a second, that second for a third, and so on ‘til the bulk of society has been reduced to be mere automatons of misery ...
And the forehorse of this frightful team is public debt; Taxation follows that and, in its train, wretchedness and oppression.
~Thomas Jefferson, letter to Sam Kerchival, 1823
