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As government expands its view of people descends. The condescension of government is correlated with its rise in power and taxation and the creation of the all loving and caring mommy state [aw!]. Government propaganda about how stupid and helpless the average person is, is of course endless. The crying mommy-state desires to minimize and debase the individual, so it can increase the regulatory and tax burden. After all, since all 'citizens' are stupid, the nanny state must make all the decisions meaning that the state must be everywhere. Coming soon – a personal government agent to help you make it through your day.
This intrusion by the state into all matters public and private is grotesque and dangerous. Governmental power through direct taxation accounts for 40% of GDP in Europe and 32 % in America. Indirect taxation, regulation and regulated industries account for another 8-12% of GDP. In Europe and Canada you have government expensing and controlling 50% of total GDP. The trend in the US with marxists like Obama [aka Nobama] and 'compassionate' conservatives is to turn the US into a giant Germany. And every year, new programs, new phobias and new fears are invented to ensure that the state keeps growing.
In the average modern state, taxes account for 44-50% of what the average family spends each year. Taxes cost more than food, clothing, shelter and consumer items – combined. In all OECD states, with the exception of the US, taxes have gone up by over 1300% in the past 40 years while rent, food and clothing went up by half that level on average.
States are very clever at hiding much of the tax burden through indirect taxation. They also regularly increase these hidden taxes to avoid riots by villagers with pitchforks. Indirect or hidden taxes include sales taxes, excise taxes on tobacco and alcohol, amusement taxes, 'debt relief fees', health care 'premiums', real estate taxes and fees, local municipal 'service fees' and gas taxes. They are an almost limitless revenue opportunity for the state. Who will object to a new 10 cent 'eco-sales tax' on peanut butter if it will save the cuddly polar bear ?!
This rise in government power is always connected to some simpleton themes. These include; love, equality, justice, the children's future, 'values' [which change yearly]; the environment; and of course safety. The state sees great profit in trying to convince its citizen-slaves that a risk free life – one in which nothing can go wrong and in which self-esteem is more important than reality – is the communal objective. It goes beyond the welfare state, into the mommy-state.
The resulting loss in freedom makes a mockery of the 3 world wars fought in the past century to preserve freedom and opportunity.
Some clear examples of government fear mongering to increase its power which is consistent across most developed states would include:
-massive taxation to manage the climate – something that is both unnecessary and ignorant.
-fear of trading with the evil foreigner [especially those satanic Chinese], mandating protectionism, union job guarantees and big business subsidies
-hatred of open and free markets [too messy and what if some voters lose their jobs?]
-socialised health care as the only answer to providing medical access and treatment
-limitations on free speech, media reporting and a socialist-marxist orientation in schools towards communalism and an intolerance of individualism.
-hate commissions trotting around frying those who disagree with official state thought-policing.
Government is in the business of creating good state-serving slaves, managed by coercive yet somehow 'caring' officials. Or at least that is what most politicians and their life-time bureaucratic friends believe. They truly feel that the average person is too dumb to make decisions, too afraid to take risks, and too undeveloped to manage their own affairs. Ergo we need more state 'help' and support, sanctioned by simpleton rhetoric around love, justice or in the case of NObama – hope and change [to what who knows but it will be by government, for the benefit of government].
Pierre Lemieux a libertarian writer in Montreal sums up the state's disdain for the individual quite well, when discussing 'hate' speech which targets those who criticise Muslims, Gays or who deny the holocaust [as long as they are not gay or Muslim of course, heaven forbid]:
“Libraries and bookstores are full of aesthetic statements by famous authors that run afoul of hate laws, from Kipling's contempt for the natives, to Baudelaire's poems describing the Belgians as "animals”...Would Nietzche, Marx, or the Surrealists pass the test of hate literature? What about Franz Fanon, a Marxist prophet of decolonization, who preached violence against the "race" of the colonizers in North Africa? What about the black radicals who now argue for reverse apartheid against the Whites, or the feminists who teach hatred of the male?”
[http://www.pierrelemieux.org/artspe.html]
Hating whites, men, Christians or Jews is de rigeuer of course – it is 'chic' and 'progressive'. Hate speech laws, hate commissions [aka human 'rights' commissions]; and other such governmental nonsense is just another example of how the state views the average person as a mentally retarded slavering-moron, unable to differentiate good from bad, right from wrong, or unable or disinclined to argue, debate, learn and improve. Citizens are presumed stupid and not given a chance to prove otherwise. Therefore the caring mommy-state must intervene to tell its children what to believe, what to say, and how to say it [be tender and always carry a kleenex].
Eco-fascism and the eco-cult is another example. It has been proven that private conservation is the most effective means to protect resources. Just look at the 'commons' tragedy with oceanic overfishing and pollution – no private control and no property rights means a disaster. It is also a scientific fact that humans have very little impact on climate. But the state desiring to control industry and energy, tells you otherwise.
Governments and the state are obsessed with raising money and increasing power. But it will never stop until people rise up and say that enough is enough. Globaloney warming, the latest world wide health scare of the week, hating trade and market competition, complete and total security for everyone at all times; a government worker for every household – this is not how society develops and this is not how civilisation is built.
People need to wise up before the state completely crushes whatever humanity and individuality [and self-respect] is left. Government is not our friend.
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