Ogre’s Politics and Views

Now while the election results went as the ruling classes (government officials) dictated last week in North Carolina, the elites must be rather confused by other votes. You see, attempts to raise taxes (For The Children (TM) ) have been failing at an incredible rate. You see, member of the royal class (legislators) though they had this game figured out. The state would refuse to give money to the counties. Then the counties would ask to raise taxes. The state would give them “permission” to raise taxes if the people approved a vote. This way both the state and the county legislators would both claim they didn’t raise taxes, while in fact both of them did. Their only problem: the people aren’t voting for tax increases.

It’s rather odd. After all, tax money has been used to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollar to run campaigns supporting these tax increases. Yes, millions of your dollars, money you earned, has been used to try and convince you to vote to have government take even MORE money from you. And sure, those who don’t work (and therefore shouldn’t be allowed to vote) are voting for those increases. But the majority are not. This has got to have the legislators rather confused. Don’t worry, they’ll raise taxes anyway. But they might actually have to go on record as supporting a tax increase. Again, don’t worry — they’ll just say it’s to “fight crime” for now, since For The Children (TM) isn’t working.

I also find it rather interesting that the tax on moving (land transfer tax) has failed 20/20 times it’s been tried. Now that’s funny, right there. Perhaps there are just a couple people left who actually want to be allowed by the ruling class to keep the money they earn. Know what would be even better? If there were some document that put a limit on government. Perhaps something that outlined that the subjects have rights. Something like this would be great, if it actually applied to the government of North Carolina:

We hold it to be self-evident that all persons are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, the enjoyment of the fruits of their own labor, and the pursuit of happiness.

– North Carolina State Constitution, Article I, Section 1

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