This is going to be a bit of a challenging point for many, so if you are one of those feeble minded types that gets offended not only on your own, about all the things in the world you have been trained to be offended by, but also project your offense on others ... this is not a discussion you will be prepared for and I ask you to kindly not read on, since it will upset feeble sensibilities.

In America, people have an inalienable, God given right to free speech. I understand that is not the case anywhere else on the planet, but consider stopping the abuse cycle by not perpetuating the interests of those who deny you the freedom of speech.

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Even beyond the fact that the involuntary income tax that is used to fund the lives and lifestyle of others is slavery, people don't realize just how few people also actually pay net income taxes of any significant portion in the USA.

Even most of those who pay any income taxes whatsoever, which makes up about 112 million, don't realize that what they pay doesn't even cover what they consume, like if you contributed $10 to a garden party that cost $100 per head in costs, because you forced those high expenditures. Unfortunately, those types ... you know them ... feel justified and rationalize their entitlement because they "paid their taxes".

Unfortunately for all of us, things simply don't add up and unless you are willing to freely engage in this type of thing to support others at your expense, you are being enslaved on a bell curve on an income scale. Peak tax slavery is probably somewhere around the $60-70k level where you are most heavily burdened by the crush of taxes and get the least benefits. By estimate, at that level you are probably roughly 20% slave as an American.

It's a bit difficult to peg down exactly without thorough investigation, but if you remove all the government employees, who are not only not net contributors, but negative "contributors", aka, cost centers, to income tax receipts; and you then control for those who contribute some significant number higher than the cost of what they consume, you are left with very similar numbers as in China ... if those numbers can even be believed, which they far more likely than not can not.

Only around 3% of all income tax payers in the USA, or less than 1% of all residents of the USA actually make net positive contributions to the tax burden. I know this is not going to be well received because it's contradictory to the indoctrination and I say it as someone that is no fan of the elite and wealthy in general, but it's fact that somewhere around 99% of American society is living off or freeloading on 1% of the population.

People don't really know that, and are not told that, and it's also clearly obviously hidden from them, but it is more or less reality. Even if the rate were as high as 2% of the population, which is simply in no way possible, that still would not change the ramifications. Would 2 people supporting 98 freeloaders make any significant difference?

It's quite stunning actually and some people simply cannot and do not want to accept it for varying reasons.

It's really really not a good situation regardless of how you look at it; whether by the number of people who are not contributing members of society, or the fact that the government has enslaved the middle and lower upper class people to support both the unproductive members of society and use them to further enrich and empower the elite by taking their slaves' money from them against their will and giving in to the non-contributing masses in order to essentially buy their authoritarian power through democracy. It' essentially what is going on right now with the immigration debate, millions of low wage foreign people are going to enrich and empower the elite against the middle class that is being gutted and democracy fracked through immigration.

Ironically, it's not really all that different of a model than the slavery the British and Spanish aristocrats and elite introduced to the Americas, import slaves to undermine providing a fair wage and increase their profits and power. Same model, just a bit of a pivot to outsourcing the slave management and from taking large profits on a few slaves to taking lower profits from many more less, outsourced slaves.

Because in the end, income tax is slavery, whether it was 100% income/labor tax in 19th Century Brazil, Hispaniola, etc, or whether it was the indentured servitude and company stores, or whether it was sharecropping, ... a Progressive shift from high margin, high management cost, low volume; to low margin, low management cost, high volume.

But we are largely the beneficiaries of this slavery here, so most of us cannot see it or simply do not want to see it. What you don't accept can't hurt you, of course.