How many
more taxes on poor people will we have? Like I say dumb and dumber.
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I think that it is good to remember that taxes serve a far more important role than raising revenue.
Taxes are a means of social control: they put people "in their place."
The wealthy have off-shore tax havens, loopholes, and lawyers and accountants galore to manipulate the system on their behalf.
The poor get sent to prison, or to war. Or both.
The poor are segregated into neighborhoods which are prison-like and war-like.
The following pretty well sets Minneapolis politics in context:
(from "All Our Dark Tomorrows" on "You Never Seen Everything" by Bruce Cockburn)
"The Village Idiot takes the throne His the wind in which all must sway all sane people, die now Be lifted up and carried away You've got no home in this world of sorrows
......
I can see in the dark - it's where I used to live I see excess and the gaping need Follow the money - see where it leads... It's to shrunken men stuffed up with greed They meet and make plans in strange half-lit tableaux
Under the rain of all our dark tomorrows..."
(from "Trickle Down" from the same)
Trickle down give 'em the business Trickle down supposed to give us the goods Cups held out to catch a bit of the bounty Trickle down everywhere trickle down blood"
The violence of the shrunken men stuffed up with greed is trickling down in Minneapolis. We are shaping our city into complete dependence on the War Economy.
Our political leadership and the media think the same way, and so present the same image: Minneapolis will continue just as it has for the past fifty years, only "better." We will build a "better" stadium, destroy more of our habitat, consume a greater share of earth's resources, and kill and imprison more poor people in the "Homeland" and abroad. There are many good voices and good people working for change, but they are drowned out by those who benefit from the status quo and so are completely resistant to change.
-- pedaling for peace and ecojustice from Lynnhurst for now -- Gary Hoover
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