Taxing

WE LIVE IN A SMALL TOWN, we work hard, and we want our children to be educated, but don't have the time to home school them. And besides, we ourselves are not educated enough to be teaching much of anything to anybody, let alone teach calculus and chemistry to teenagers. So, we decided to build a local school, and hire a teacher or two. That costs money. To raise it, we take a penny from every dollar spent at local retail stores, restaurants, and bars. Next thing you know, more folks arrive and settle into our little town, with kids of their own. That's good; more tax revenue. The town grows enough that we want to pave and maintain a few streets; more pennies, more tax money. The county wants us to chip in for county highways and bridges, and to help pay a sheriff. The sheriff isn't always nearby, so we the townies decide to start our own police department, and the first time a house or business burns down, we realize the need for fire protection. More tax money from the good citizens of anyone lived in a pretty how town, to borrow a passage from a well known twentieth century American poem. The taxation keeps coming, because the desire and need for public services keeps coming. Everyone agrees that everything we are paying for is necessary; the school, the roads, the fire and police protection, and this is merely the beginning. Our pretty how town is located within the borders of one of these united states, a state which provides its necessary services,state highways, state police and such, which must be paid for by taxing everyone, in an increasing number of inventive ways; sales taxes, property taxes, income taxes, wealth taxes. You name it, they, we, tax it. We and they, by the way, are one and the same. And we haven't even gotten to the national government yet, and the necessity of protecting our country by maintaining a full time military, complete with men, women, equipment, and weapons. A national highway system comes into existence which facilitates the movement of goods, people, and services from sea to shining sea, from border to walled off border, which raises yet more tax money, and which wondrously provides the capitalistic economic activity by which tax money is raised. All these taxing schemes, and all these publicly owned, operated, and maintained services, so very necessary, all agree, to our very survival, is called, well.."socialism". Government is socialism. Privately owned business activity is called capitalism. That's a lot of socialism, and its just the beginning, just the beginning of the actual socialism which infests the United States of America. We haven't even mentioned government health insurance, of which in America we have at least three kinds, and government owned and operated pensions, particularly social security. And many, many more. So much more. Socialism is America, and America is socialism. Minimum wage and work week laws are, yes, socialistic regulations of capitalism, just to make sure workers are not exploited by business owners, which in fact they very much were before socialism came to the workplace. Without socialism, capitalism fails, America fails. This is why it is hilarious, pathetic, and dishonest almost beyond belief when some, or when millions of free market fanatics, anti government fanatics, also known as "conservative republicans", do their screeching and whining about not wanting socialism to ever come to America, about how socialism is evil and harmful, and about how socialism never works no matter where it is tried. The funniest one is about how socialism is being taught in schools by evil, sneaky socialistic teachers. Its funny because the public schools are operated socialistically, and the teachers are paid socialistically, by the government at tax payer expense, not by private businesses. Does Donald Trump Junior even realize that? Does he, or his father, realize anything? What are these people thinking? Or, are they even thinking?