The Purpose of Taxation, Civility, and Stupidity...

I did a quick research on the purpose of taxation in a society and I was able to identify three reasons why taxes have been imposed over time …. the first is resource allocation, which basically means that the tax revenue redistribution does not bring imbalance to the market, i.e. take more than needed. The second reason, income redistribution, basically means that the authorities take from the rich to give (someway) to the poor. Noble cause one will say. The third reason is economic equilibrium, which means to keep the economy of a country productive, low unemployment, low inflation etc.

I think it is obvious that our government – all political parties (executive, legislature, legal), does not achieve ANY of the above objectives. On top of that, they are imposing unrealistic, impossible, punitive taxes which do not meet or are in line with the above objectives. Basically, the government says … “we will force the citizens to pay through insane and unspeakable taxes for the fuckups, corruption, stealing by government officials and the Bank management, and the Elites and we do not care if our citizens have food for their kids, proper medical care, decent education, and utilities in their homes and we do not even care to develop the environment for job creation etc” …. And the weird of the situation is that the people DON’T react. No reaction whatsoever. And, I am not talking about violent reaction… just any reaction. There is something about civility when it is exercised to the detriment of equality, and fairness … it becomes stupidity … and I believe that we are pretty close to that.