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Originally Posted by bauble
You have to admire the ingenuity of those highly paid people who devise even more fiendish ways of extracting taxes from the hoi polloi.
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All of the "money" is theirs. They lend it to you by various means but feel a need to obscure how to take it back so that they can lend it to you again.
The apparently clever bit is all about how much they can present to as "justifiable" recovery for spending on things that apparently help us - the openly visible means of taxation that people generally accept grudgingly - versus the stuff they recover without people really noticing.
The visible stuff is then allegedly budgeted for Health, Education, Security, Infrastructure, Overseas aid and so on.
The obscured stuff is quietly stuffed away on projects like the absurd refurbishment of the Houses of Parliament, various large virtue signally projects, pet projects that the politicians hope will see their name go forward in future history and many, many more run-of-the-mill vanity projects that are tucked away from the public gaze.
The one things that gives a few of the world leader food for thought is that if they were to eliminate all the peasants at the bottom of the pyramid ... there would be nothing to keep the construction standing.
Which is why, in the western world, they keep doling out the "money" and then trawling it back in taxes. It creates a dependency - albeit it is a two way dependency.
The really clever bit is how you hide the extras and even get people to unwittingly pay again for things that you tell them are covered by the first snatch back whilst making them feel good about themselves for doing it.
Genius.