Starve The Beast

I was having a little disagreement with a commenter over here about taxing and regulating weed. I said:

Taxes are a license to kill. Ask Eric Garner. Well you can’t. He is dead. On suspicion of unpaid taxes.

We have done enough begging on our knees to make our point. It is now time to stand on our feet and demand what Eric Garner demanded. “It stops today.” – “Don’t touch me.” – “Just leave me alone.”

No more regulated than tomatoes. No more taxed than tomatoes.

To which the commenter replied:

So, no taxes huh?
For instance, how will infrastructure be paid for if there’s no money in the state fund??

Well I got hot under the collar and gave several replies. This is the hottest (somewhat revised):

Nice little rant here: Burn the Fucking System to the Ground

What neither side seems to realize is that the system is not reformable. There are multiple classes of people, but it boils down to the connected, and the not connected. Just as in pre-Revolutionary France, there is a very strict class hierarchy, and the very idea that we are equal before the law is a laughable nonsequitr.

Jamal the $5 weed slinger, Shaneekwa the hair braider, and Loudmouth Bob in the 7-11 parking lot are at the bottom of the hierarchy. They can, literally, be killed with impunity … as long as the dash cam isn’t running. And, hell, half the time they can be killed even if the dash cam is running. This isn’t hyperbole, mother-fucker. This is literal. Question me and I’ll throw 400 cites and 20 youtube clips at you.

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And you want more? Ya know… I have been a Democrat. I have been a Republican. I have been a Libertarian. I have been a fuckn Communist. And one thing I have known for sure no matter what party I was attracted to at the time. The system is rotten from top to bottom. Either we starve the beast or we are going to have to kill it with our bare hands.


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    Ironbear

    Choice response, I like it. You’re being conservative with the 20 youtube clips. I’ll bet you could find 200 with only a few hours of searching.

    “I have been a Democrat. I have been a Republican. I have been a Libertarian. I have been a fuckn Communist.”

    Snerk. I started out as a libertarian, and now I’m an anarchist. The transition was a lot simpler. 🙂