LESSGO! What could be better than FReedom loving people working together in their own communities to control their own destiny?
Oh great! Porcupine #1984, with a screenname of *Taxman.* Between visions of George Orwell's predictive novel and an unfortunately too-memorable Beatles tune of the same name, the syncronicity of the combination of the two offers goosebumps.
No matter, though. The thought offered in your second paragraf shines right through any cloud of doom offered by that unfortunate one-two combination. Let's make it happen, together. And I'll find some other Beatles oldie to hum as we do it....
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Let me tell you how it will be
There's one for you, nineteen for me
'Cause I'm the taxman, yeah, I'm the taxman
Should five per cent appear too small
Be thankful I don't take it all
'Cause I'm the taxman, yeah I'm the taxman
If you drive a car, I'll tax the street,
If you try to sit, I'll tax your seat.
If you get too cold I'll tax the heat,
If you take a walk, I'll tax your feet.
Don't ask me what I want it for
If you don't want to pay some more
'Cause I'm the taxman, yeah, I'm the taxman
Now my advice for those who die
Declare the pennies on your eyes
'Cause I'm the taxman, yeah, I'm the taxman
And you're working for no one but me....
My handle, "Taxman" is an ironical and black humor derivative of my avocation and passion: For 12 years I have been working to replace the income tax with a National Retail Sales Tax and abolish the IRS.
If FSP comes to FRuition before my life's wok is done, I'll relocate and continue my work at the National level FRom wherever we are!
BTW, you can take it to the bank that I will work to ensure that the FSP has a consumption tax only!
And, since I do not do popular culture, and in any event never thought much of the Beetles (if I thought of them at all) when they were popular, I was unaware until several years after I became a FReeper (in Nov, 1998) that they had written a song for me!
Now, I kind of like the Beetles songs, and am proud to be the Taxman!
“I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.” [Thomas Jefferson, letter to Benjamin Rush, 1800.]
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We will never be a truly FRee people so long as we have the income tax and the IRS.