The Rich Versus the Poor Fact or Fiction?

By J. D. Weiss

Recently, there has been a great deal of talk about the inequality between what the richest people in America pay in taxes compared to the lower classes of America. The great divide of wealth has created a strange, often ludicrous system of taxation which by all measures is grossly unfair to everybody. I mean lets not cut any corners here because, when the government demands more money out of your pocket to pay for money that was created from nothing and then put into the system for a charge, which you also pay on many levels, the end result is a significant loss of personal income. The arrangement between the wholly privately owned federal reserve bank and the U. S. treasury is without question the slickest scam ever perpetuated on an entire civilization. The federal reserve cranks out billions of dollars (in face value) that cost only pennies to print (as a material value) and then charges a hefty interest rate on trillions of such dollars. Good lord almighty that is a sweet deal. Without legal debt-notes as a wage-slave you are screwed, flat broke--- out of luck. No cash no nothing. Goodbye you flat-foot loser...and so it has gone for untold millions of people who are now worthless dregs whom we politely call homeless. If you do not earn a buck you sure in the hell cannot obtain a tax credit of 10 cents for that dollar earned. But hey I wasn't going to sucker punch my reader with a "hard luck story".

My mission is to clear up the confusion concerning this business about the poor, under-worked, under-paid people not paying their fair share of taxes. After all slave-wages are quite profitable right? Beats the hell out of having nothing right? Sure it does.

My favorite example of the difference between the owners and renter's is what I call the penny problem. Imagine there are one-hundred pennies around a large, expensive table. At one end of this table sits the man who represents the one percent of Americans who are the wealth owners. Remember the facts. One percent of the U. S. population owns outright no question about it, 86 percent of the hard, quantified, real assets of America. This is of course, after taxes and "other" debts have been paid in full. On the far end of the big table are the fourteen other men who in turn represent the rest of the richest people in America. The man, who represents the "other" 86 percent of the population who have absolutely nothing, is standing outside by the front door (cause he has no seat or invitation for that matter) hoping to hear some good news that he can pass along to all those wage-slaves. Naturally, when the big guys decide how much wealth wage-slaves will be allowed to earn and keep over their entire life-times, they shout out the window, "good news pennies from heaven" and toss a few for all those scrappy homeless people to pick up at their leisure cause we all know penny pinching is a fantastic method to increasing ones disposable income. Zinc is a highly desirable metal. Right.

So lets take a quick review so we don't miss the "gaming" part of the system. Every dollar you earn is actually owned by a private bank which charges the Treasury for its use and then charges you for the privilege for its ownership. What a system. And to think all of it is governed by men so tight-fisted they go practically ballistic at the mere idea of anyone actually questioning the how and why they can charge interest on nothing in the first place. Oh the diabolical simplicity of it all. Money for nothing. That is the great dream of all tyrants. Small minded men hell bent on power and dominance never stop searching for yet new ways to demonstrate their powers of monetary control over everybody else. After all, why put a big eyeball at the top of the pyramid unless it had a significant immoral meaning? Well, I am digressing so lets get back to the action.

My next favorite example of greed made good is the damn poor people are not paying their fair share of taxes. After rubbing our noses in the facts that one percent of Americans own 86 percent of the after-tax wealth, these same people say we pay nearly all the damn taxes anyway. Seen from another angle imagine a table a mile long, stacked four-feet tall with apples. Really good ones...sweet red apples. Now imagine your share is a four by four foot table with one basket. The basket has ten apples, a bit bruised but, quite edible. Now here are these people shouting out 'hey put some more of them damn apples in the tax cart or you will have no basket at all'. The funny thing is as you and millions of other people in the same basket owning category comply with this order you notice all those apples being dumped at yet another table way down the road. Say now you ask innocently why are all those apples going back to the same people who own the banks that print out all this money for nothing in the first place? Suddenly, a really big guy whacks you in the back of the head while another snarls in your bleeding ear, stop asking questions you good for nothing wage-slave, this is the necessity of business, so mind your own. After a short stay in the hospital which wipes out every last penny you and the rest of your family will ever earn, you feel lucky just to be alive.

The funny thing about the argument that rich people pay all the taxes is not that it is true but, that it is an absurd truth. Of course they pay the greatest amount of taxes but, the corresponding comparisons used to show how unfair this arrangement is are complete and total lies. Lets see why.

If I make one million dollars and pay 30 percent in taxes it sounds terrible. If I make thirty-thousand and pay 30 percent in taxes it sounds terrible. However, the guy making one million dollars a year still has seven-hundred thousand dollars compared to twenty-one thousand for the other guy. The question is who is the richer man. If you said the seven-hundred thousand man you are a winner. This is a fair corresponding comparison. But in the wacky world of economics where a dollar is worth only 43 cents the rules look like boiling noodles in a zebra pot labeled kettle. The reason for this wacky distortion of comparable worth is that slave-wages are a totally different animal than profits. When the two of them are put in the same corral the end result has to be pure chaos, not to mention even stranger animals which have no shame.

An odd thing occurred in America on the path to wealth. When an ever smaller group of people became millionaires and then billionaires they deflated the value of everyone else's money. Impossible you say flabbergasted at such a wage-slaver inspired conclusion. In order to expand their ownership of real wealth your ownership has to decrease. When you can pay the ever rising prices this seems hardly worth noting until you reach the point that you cannot keep up. So you bridge the gap with credit. Your credit expands, for a hefty price, compounding by the second and so all seems swell. That is until you wonder why it is that wages for the wage-slaves are stagnant and have been for some time. The difference in what you needed to earn to keep up and what you borrowed to keep up are intrinsically related. The credit you had to borrow was the wage you never earned. When a CEO earns 144 times what the wage-slave earns its about time. Their time is measured by thousands of dollars every second compared with minimum hourly wages. At such a faster pace of monetary acquisition they can keep well ahead of the cost curve and with little effort cash in big on the difference. Having been left in the financial dust you have little choice but to accept the fractional wage based on your abilities. Or so they claim. The owners of the wage-slaves do not enjoy being put on the spot for such things as where they keep their money or how they actually accounted for their profits in the first place. That's why your slave-wages are reported to the government in such an easily accountable system. If you reported a deficit of thousands of dollars the government is not so amused and jail time may soon await you. Confiscation of wage-slaves paltry assets is so easy it is darn near profitable. The quirky truth of the matter is--- it is the dysfunctional aspect of our acquisition of wealth which allows for the gross distortions between the haves and the haves not a dime to their name. In essence you pay more for money then those who own the money have to pay to create it out of nothing.

Now some will say I am just another dirt-poor writer bad mouthing Mammon in all her prosperous glory. You did know Mammon was a female Demi-god didn't you? Sure you did how else to explain why women all around the world only want men with money. Lots of money. Big huge trucks full of hard cash ready to spend on a whim. In America a man with huge rolls of cash can be a king. Does not matter what kind of king or by what profession he lords over, it is just enough to have the green. Hence the reason why the black-market is by all accounts the greatest cash cow ever concocted in history. The brilliance of it is amazing. Every transaction is without taxation. Beautiful capitalistic synergy in every illegal deal. The criminal side of the ledger board is lean and mean and without any governmental oversight. Sure there is that pesky problem of being caught but, that is where the money flows back into the legal system. Well not taking into account luxury cars, houses, appliances, furs, jewelry and the big one--- weapons but, we never hear any of those guys complaining now do we? Can you imagine some poor business guy weeping on t.v. about having to accept millions of dollars of profit from bad-assed, drug tycoons buying up all of his most expensive models? The horror of it all.

The reason drugs cannot be legalized has nothing to do with mind expanding consciousness but, rather with the loss of pure un-regulated profit. Don't think for a minute all those bankers out there are unaware of where all of that juicy profit comes from or by whom. Off-shore banks are about making clean money out of dirty narco-money. Dirty only in the sense the I.R.S. cannot make heads or tails out of how the drug business can be so damn profitable and be illegal at the same time. Hypocrites unite under the banner of save America from its own black-market success. The legal system would probably go out of business if were not for the revolving door of crack smokers, dope smokers, coke sniffers, tweakers in general and other assorted franchise owners looking for a quick buck. The real scam artists are the ones who can run an entire floor of fake energy-trading, thereby stealing billions from millions all at the same time. Everyone in that entire building ought to be in prison but, that of course would put a real crimp in the highly profitable fake energy business itself. Profit before freedom, liberty and anything else standing in the way, is the Corporation of America motto.

So you say, how does all of this explain why a mere one percent of the total American population has to pay nearly all of the taxes? Because when you corner the market of wealth its the price you pay for being money monopolists. Hey all of you big Plutocratic Tycoons, all of you Kings of Commerce, if you want to trade places with a wage-slave and then pay the corresponding balance of tax, I do believe you have a pretty good chance of having your dream come true. Other-wise quit your bitch'in. (You can't have your cake and eat it too!)And for all of you wage-slavers out there just remember those that created the system profit from the system. For a good laugh at a party crack a joke about taxing the federal reserve board. Make it twice what they tax us so they have to print up money in a nice two for one deal.

If they will not go for that deal what can be done? The answer is quite terrifying. Change the entire system. America has to change the system from top to bottom before it destroys us. The evidence of its corruption is no longer hidden behind millions of pages of tax code. We need a radical overhaul of the very basic meaning of value and how we lawfully represent that value as currency. The very method from which money is created from "nothing" then lent to the government at an interest rate to be repaid, in addition to the sum borrowed, needs to come to an end. The reason is simple: The people of this nation cannot afford such an expensive arrangement. The federal reserve system is not a creation of God but of man and it is a privately owned bank. The mere fact that it behaves as if it is a "Federal" entity does not mean that it cannot be shut down.

When are Human Beings going to learn we do not have to serve cotton-paper Kings or the tyrannical institutions which print our debt-notes with fancy pictures. We are not a nation of wage-slaves despite the cynical, perverse arrogance which epitomizes the attitudes of "corporations" and those that own them. We are not a nation of useless eaters or down-sized nobodies looking for a hand-out. People have an intrinsic value which money cannot touch. Life has an intrinsic value which cannot be replaced once it is gone. We live on a planet which has managed its affairs without a single coin for billions of years. We place a "value" on nature not the other way around. And despite all the hollering to the contrary we set the price for everything that comes from nature as well. Or at least some of us do. Wage-slaves do not create tax policies, write tax laws, enforce tax codes, collect tax bills or attend those fancy, thousand-dollar a plate dinners where politicians listen to the needs of those that pay for their elections. Wage-slavers need to unite and form a new political party. By sheer numbers alone wage-slaves can afford at least one politician. In the mean-times ahead one voice is better then none.