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So.
After having spent a significant part of this spring doing research on TABOR - The Taxpayer's Bill of Rights, and the Ratchet effect unique to Colorado politics I have come to the following conclusion:
I want to start a state of my own. My own society if you will.
If you want to live there you have to know one thing about me:
I LOVE taxes. A lot. They should be proportional to income and the government should be accountable for every penny of it, but if you live in this state you HAVE to love your taxes, because they are a beautiful thing of solidarity & intelligence & in my utopian society they pay for the weak, the old the sick and the poor.
And for litter-management and green parks and libraries and archives (so people can keep the government even more accountable).
Only people who love taxes and keep the government accountable would want to live in my state.
That would mean no conservative republicans and no libertarians I guess.
Anyone who wanted to and was 18 (could vote) would be welcome to move into my state, and their children and children's children would be given the same benefits as long as they stayed.
But any right wing, tax-negative bastard who suddenly went blind or crippled or just poor or old would be refused entrance at the door. If you ever turned your back on taxes...say grew up in my utopian society and got greedy, moved away to become a billionaire, didn't make it and turned into a loser, and then came knocking on my door because your child needed an operation or your grandma was in need of a nursing home, I WOULD STILL KICK YOU OUT.
You can't make an omelet without breaking a few eggs - or so I've heard.
now..if the right wing loser's child made it until 18 (vote eligible) and came to my state and voted PRO-taxes, he would be welcome to stay, and his child and so forth.
In my utopia you could have any religion and start any party, but if you are anti-taxes you are ANTICHRIST and must move.
You cannot sleep in our green parks.
The end.
Now I'll just write that book.
(for those remotely interested: if amendments to TABOR, like referendum C hadn't come through last fall in CO elections, they might have had to cut benefits for blind people and make the fucking COLLEGE privatized)
After having spent a significant part of this spring doing research on TABOR - The Taxpayer's Bill of Rights, and the Ratchet effect unique to Colorado politics I have come to the following conclusion:
I want to start a state of my own. My own society if you will.
If you want to live there you have to know one thing about me:
I LOVE taxes. A lot. They should be proportional to income and the government should be accountable for every penny of it, but if you live in this state you HAVE to love your taxes, because they are a beautiful thing of solidarity & intelligence & in my utopian society they pay for the weak, the old the sick and the poor.
And for litter-management and green parks and libraries and archives (so people can keep the government even more accountable).
Only people who love taxes and keep the government accountable would want to live in my state.
That would mean no conservative republicans and no libertarians I guess.
Anyone who wanted to and was 18 (could vote) would be welcome to move into my state, and their children and children's children would be given the same benefits as long as they stayed.
But any right wing, tax-negative bastard who suddenly went blind or crippled or just poor or old would be refused entrance at the door. If you ever turned your back on taxes...say grew up in my utopian society and got greedy, moved away to become a billionaire, didn't make it and turned into a loser, and then came knocking on my door because your child needed an operation or your grandma was in need of a nursing home, I WOULD STILL KICK YOU OUT.
You can't make an omelet without breaking a few eggs - or so I've heard.
now..if the right wing loser's child made it until 18 (vote eligible) and came to my state and voted PRO-taxes, he would be welcome to stay, and his child and so forth.
In my utopia you could have any religion and start any party, but if you are anti-taxes you are ANTICHRIST and must move.
You cannot sleep in our green parks.
The end.
Now I'll just write that book.
(for those remotely interested: if amendments to TABOR, like referendum C hadn't come through last fall in CO elections, they might have had to cut benefits for blind people and make the fucking COLLEGE privatized)
