Tax Time Paranoia

 

From here

Once again, just like the swallows returning to Capistrano, time to pay my tribute to Uncle Sam. While this never makes me happy, this year after seeing all the tax money that was given away for things totally unrelated to Covid relief during the middle of a government decreed pandemic, I now just shake my head in disbelief. The one thing that has come about now is they have finally pulled back the curtain. They no longer are trying to hide what's going on. 

National Guard troops and razor wire around the Capitol building, movement towards banning guns, the FBI asking for help identifying people who were involved in the "armed insurrection" (where there were no arms), which I take to mean ratting out your neighbors, raising the minimum wage to a "living wage" - you know, like the old commie thing where "we pretend to work and they pretend to pay us." Since they've been running the printing presses overtime, inflation will take care of the minimum wage. It'll take a handful of the devalued currency to just to buy a hamburger when you place your order at the kiosk rather than dealing with some high school kid trying to save up a few bucks. Actually, there won't be any folding money before too many more years. It won't be long and the government will be converting to some form of digital money. They'll just call in the green backs and issue you a digital account. They'll then be able to track everything you bring in and what you spend it on. Couple that up with the GPS in your phone and vehicle, and Big Brother will have completed the takeover. Don't think it could happen? Remember what FDR did with gold. And how are you going to stop them? By voting for a "new" president every four years? Brother Johnny said it best: "We're boned."

And this just in from the you've got to be kidding me department:

"Michigan State Economics Professor Mark Skidmore revealed three years ago there was $21 trillion in what he called “Missing Money” from the Department of Defense (DOD) and Housing and Urban Development (HUD). To hide what was going on with the federal books, Congress made all government accounting a national security issue, making it impossible to get real accounting of money “We the People” pay in taxes. Now, even more unofficial and unaccounted for cash has been revealed from the DOD. It’s an eye popping $94 trillion from the years 2017 to 2019. So, add in the $30 trillion in official debt, and that means there is at least $145 trillion in overt and covert money floating around in the federal government, not counting Social Security and Medicare commitments. This story sounds like a fantasy or a cartoon, but it’s totally backed up with facts you will never hear on the legacy media. Dr. Skidmore, who is an expert in public budgets, explains, “In my mind, it does not follow the principles laid out in our Constitution in accounting for revenues coming in and expenditures going out. It’s fraudulent in my mind.”

So Professor Skidmore is saying there's $145 trillion dollars that's been lost, stolen, mis-spent off the books or is somehow unaccounted for. When you realize that a trillion dollar stack of $100 dollar bills is 631 miles high, $145 trillion would be a stack of Benjamins 91,495 miles high. If you can afford to "lose" or spend off the books $145 trillion, rather than passing the $2 trillion "relief bill" and giving us $1,400, they could easily have given every 331,000,000 of us a cool million and saved money by the billions and only contributed slightly more to the escalating inflation heading our way. No way we're voting our way out of this mess.

 

The tax lady is not having anyone in for sit-down meetings this year so I can't just dump the shoe box of receipts on her desk. I need to dig out last year's return and see exactly what all I'll need and then drop it off. She told me to call her when I get close to the bottom of the box.