Ice on the Moon

Religion damns humanism as the great evil when it is money, the demon Mammon, that is the god of this world. While religion can make tolerate humanism it cannot do the same with idolatry.

Tax Justice in my view is the idea that the tax rate is an inverse percentage applied to a progressive taxation. That is, there is no 100 percent tax rate on the highest earner because that would leave that person with no income. The example of this is the 34.3 billion a year Elon Musk has earned per year on average over the last decade. Taxed at 99 percent that would give Elon a yearly income of 343 million dollars. That is a two-week paycheck of over 14 million dollars, over those ten work days of 1.4 million dollars a day that would be 87,500 dollars an hour. That is a very good “living wage” of over 80 dollars an hour for over a thousand people if my arithmetic is correct. The idea of a 99 percent tax rate on the highest earner is that progressively scheduled, if a person makes what 50 percent of the entire population averages, they pay 50 percent income tax. Even the lowest earners at 1 percent pay their taxes. As simple as it gets.

The Magic Number

By going with this “100 percent thing”, this orders of magnitude applied to everything, which Elon, by the way, likes to use to express his grandiose plans, let us say that nobody is worth a hundred times more than anybody else. Cap that as the maximum individual hourly earnings and everything else gets taxed and redistributed to infrastructure and safety nets. No business owner should pay themself over 100 times what is paid to their lowest paid employee. Or We the People can vote to adjust that number based on the standard of living of the lowest earners. You get the idea. This is the “magic number” a democracy would use to prevent wealth from inevitably concentrating in a capitalist system to fewer and fewer till only a very few own everything and everyone.

Regarding property and asset personal wealth taxes…this might be set at 10 percent for the highest earners and be progressively lowered to zero at a certain amount of basic property and savings considered reasonable for retirement. Progressive tax rates on earnings and assets are the key to safeguarding democracy. The question of individual freedom, of the right of the individual to choose how to spend their wealth then comes up. This is essentially what gives the individual ownership of their own money and property. Again, using Elon Musk as an example, as the rocket genius entrepreneur who could never have made space launch so economical with limits placed on him, this question of “freedom” becomes key. The answer is that allowing entrepreneurs to invest their earnings or other’s earnings in what projects they choose to pursue can be regulated and enabled to a high degree. In fact, this has been successfully done since the beginning of the industrial age. It has also been unsuccessful in that when such “freedom” translates to absolute greed in the marketplace it leads to attacks on democracy that have finally succeeded in ending America. A “New America” is coming…whether it will be fascist kleptocracy or a better day remains to be seen.

Intentionally cutting off food for 42 million people so democrats will abandon the 51,000 people who will die without health insurance every year. So that billionaires can pay even less taxes and become even more fantastically rich.

I think the citizenry need to rise up and demand certain basic truths be codified into law and better yet into the constitution itself. The first big lie is that somehow “liberty” equates to letting centi-billionaires takeover the universe. The MUST be a wealth cap put on these super wealthy creatures that have ended America. A “New America” MUST recognize one of the functions of democracy is to limit personal wealth to something at least approaching reason. The second big lie is that somehow for-profit private companies are cheaper and better than non-profit governmental entities. Health, education, infrastructure, environmental regulation….all of these MUST be governmental functions providing for all citizens. And finally, the role of democracy must be understood as one of limiting individual power while maximizing collective wellbeing. If we cannot enlighten our citizens so that they take charge then we are doomed to be a fascist kleptocracy and our children and their children have no future.

We would like to think our military will not go along with a dictator and death camps but…

Trumpism has ended America. We will never be seen by the rest of the world as what we were. Unforgivable. And unless we end this fascist destruction of democracy in the next couple months we never will. We will have death camps in a few years. Guaranteed. Free speech in the media is almost over and YouTube, Blue Sky, anywhere people speak out will be gone soon.

Without the media this guy never would have been released the next day.

Little known fact: the Russian Revolution started with a woman’s march for food for their hungry children. This supposedly so shamed men that they finally rose up. Or those women were just the signal that enough was enough. That was the end of the Russian aristocracy who were mostly executed. The New Deal came about because FDR told his rich friends they were going to go the way of the Russians if they did not pay a 90 percent income tax to pay for safety nets.

If you taxed Elon Musk at a 99 percent income tax rate he would have put around 2 billion dollars in the bank this year and paid close to 200 billion. Think about that. If you taxed his net worth at 1 percent that would be 5 billion dollars he would have to pay so his combined tax would be around 200 billion dollars. He will pay between 2 and 7 billion. Billionaires ended America on election night.

Income tax, state tax, sales tax, other taxes, medical insurance, mortgage, car insurance, school loan debt, inflation……we are being farmed by the rich like animals. This is no longer a democracy…if it ever really was.

I worked a 52 hour week of four 13 hour shifts but I was called in at least once a month on my days off, often twice a month, and several times a year I was called in three times in one month. That made for many 65 hour weeks. No meal, two 15 minute breaks, no holidays. I finally had enough after it destroyed my feet and the workers comp claim was such a nightmare I finally gave up. That is life in America now.

The president is not even in the country with the government shut down and the nation about to melt down into chaos. Trumpism must end within the next couple months or people are going suffer what they know happens in other places but never imagined could happen here.

Less than 30 percent of the U.S. population are white males and about half of them voted for Trump. Factoring in those who have lost their jobs or had their eyes opened in some way that indicates about one out of ten people are supporting authoritarian rule.

They are outnumbered. But one person with a gun against nine without one is an active shooter scenario. One person with a military weapon can kill and wound hundreds. In the 2017 Las Vegas mass shooting 60 people were killed and over 400 wounded.

Claiming white supremacy is collapsing dangerously underestimates the danger they represent.

Congress has no power. Donald is King. American democracy has ended. What we thought was democracy.

Trump will live to build death camps and likely kill millions and maybe billions globally. Once the economy crashes America will become a fascist police state kleptocracy. The storm is coming, the day of the rope is coming, all our nightmares are going to come true. Our only hope is some miraculous event that somehow makes the public take to the streets in the tens of millions. Only a mob of thirty or forty million will terrorize the billionares and their politicians into formulating some Byzantine process to end Trumpism.