New Cities/New Soviets

April 07, 2004

Tax time

so I'm standing in line
waiting to send in my sales taxes
and I realize
just what a fucking
pessemistic mire
gen x has dumped us in.

we have no sense
at all
that taxes actually
pay for something


adding feul to the fire: business people lining up to pay sales tax at the main branch

It's just supposed to be another
"like, oh, we're getting screwed, I guess
or something, but we would be,
like, anyway"

me: "what the fuck are you talking about?"

gen xer: "like, whatever society there is
will fuck us over somehow"

me: "but look at the chart,
it didn't used to be like this"

gen xer: "yeah, but they were probably
getting fucked over in some other way"


....you see what I mean? Total pessimism
if it's not one thing, it's another, so why fight.


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Still,
it's all a little abstract,
and hard to see what conseqences
these tax dodges have

Like for me, it's pretty fucked up to think that the McDonalds down the block is most likely claiming ZERO tax liability. McDonalds, with their millions invested in developing the optimal technologies, carefully constructed supply chains, real estate clout, etc. -- is getting, like, totally funded by the goverment. I mean, cities pay to have chain restaurants move in, citing "job creation."

gen xer: "but it's only, like, a reduction in their taxes, right?
it's not like the government is giving them money."

me: "this shows me you don't get it.
taxes buy real things: roads, police, fire service, etc.
the megacorporations are using these things, and they are
not paying for them. This is giving them something,
not just not taxing them. It's like we're
buying them lunch. That's a gift.

that is majorly fucked up
And that's how cities are treating
these corps.

Posted by Sam at April 7, 2004 09:55 AM

Yikes man, I know the feeling. Youth apathy blows my mind. Even when youth makes attempts to inform themselves they don't usually dig too deep. They don't vote. But they sure as hell complain. Now, this is all coming from a young guy, a fairly recent college graduate who used to get frustrated with my fellow students througout high school and college. Subvert youth culture.

Posted by: zachariah at April 13, 2004 02:21 PM

apathy is not owned by the young.

Posted by: dj at April 14, 2004 03:38 AM

apathy iz noooot the problem
nor is
the amazing fact famine
or the tower boyz leverage
off Uncles dollars and credit

problem really iz
prole type white xers
ain't seen enough shit yet
and maybe won't

try say bengal
maybe there...

Posted by: meat me at April 15, 2004 01:19 PM

tax expenditures
thatz what econcons call em

the " state"
as parasite
taxables as hosts

no symbiosis
pure one way suction
interestingly
the programs piped out of payroll
retirement income part of ssi
the hospitalization
part of medicare
unemployment etc
these are valued
by the boobiats
these uniklass
collective "self" help

here's the
klass bargain mister mister
has offered
the flat heads of america

" ok first we take our chunk
out of yer wages ( profitz)
and then we
take another chunk
of yer pay
to cover the shit
our system throws off
like
unjobbery disability etc etc
and another chunk cause
ya lack the character strength
ta save forlater in life
when yer scrape
and fer yer sickness patches
you'll go thru along
the road to yer final pine cabinet
and and and
so
howz that zound to ya ?"
----------------------
talk radio think
uber alles
state = vampires
not
corporations= vampires

Posted by: meat me at April 17, 2004 10:20 AM

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