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A Plain Man's Guide to Tax and Taxation and Other Fictions
In olden days
Over the millennia, when kings, emperors and gods had been successfully invented, their needs were promoted by Those Discreet who sought to profit thereby. So their invented fiction of finance, subsequent 'debts' and 'taxes' and their necessary censuses and regulations were applied via said monarchies and their hierarchies' administrations. Then the duly consequent wars or revolutions disrupted the process and brought such harmonious things to an end. So then the whole rigmarole had to be started again. But, patience . . . and 'softly softly catchee monkey.' New 'leaders', same finance, same debt, same . . .
Thus empires came and went, with The Discreet living hand to mouth, making do as opportunity and cleverly-applied expertise and interest provided.
Tween times
However, in these tween times, royally-prescribed edicts could limit such 'interest' to fifty percent per year, otherwise it was called 'usury'. Such cruel vicissitudes in the fortunes and even in the presence of the inflictors of such 'interest' logically also sporadically limited the application of such taxes all the 'civilised' world over. But, mind, only sporadically. In principle the modus operandi held good. Good as gold.
Then, in our more recent times, just two centuries ago, one family in particular in itially not particularly discreet realised that it was better to lend to and, so, tax, countries which could not answer back, and to bribe whatever leaders were necessary to enable this. "Permit me to issue and control the money of a nation and I care not who makes its laws," they propounded. And it worked; after all, did you ever see a country of itself even try to play hopscotch? As a country it can't even eat chips, let alone complain and protest.
More recently
However, only a hundred and thirty or so years ago, still few people paid taxes. Perhaps the learned Reader did not know that. Only the wealthy paid them, and they mostly paid sixpence in the pound two and a half percent. Only a little previously, there had been such things as a 'window-tax', by which you paid on the number of windows you had any old excuse will do but that was arbitrary and is hard to reduce to percentage. Some folks avoided having to pay excessively by blocking-in excessive windows, as you can still see in older elegant mansions.
Then some with the right characteristics immigrated to help out, and opened their pawn-shops to reap even from 'the pawns' for the cause. The interest rate could be fifty percent per week, by consent as prescribed by necessity. In Spanish the chess 'pawn' is called the 'peon' or 'unskilled labourer' - Innocent, too.
Almost here
'Feminism' and 'womens's lib' was then introduced to put the women to work and to tax (1), and their infants therefore into the control of the kindergarten and the carefully-stunting effects of so-called 'education' from the cradle onwards, and then, via the similar effects of 'entertainment', so on to the grave.
Introduction of Central Banks was made mandatory throughout the world by bribe or by gunboat, by political sleight-of-hand or by imported revolution. But going to have them, we sure were! We might ask, why? If we had had any sense, we might even have said, Oh yeah? Still could.
When the artfully-named 'Federal Reserve' was inaugurated in 1913, a London banker (its instigator and owner, whose name begins with a 'R' and doesn't end with a 'd' nearly soon enough to do us any good at all), a cancer in his 'City' at the very heart of his unsuspecting host nation, acknowledged its intention in remarking, "The few who understand the system will either be so interested in its profits, or so dependent on its favours, that there will be no opposition from that class... The great body of the people, mentally incapable of comprehending, will bear its burden without complaint, and perhaps without even suspecting that the system is inimical to their interests." ("favours . . . no opposition . . . mentally incapable . . . derivative instruments . . ." He was right about that, wasn't he? Mostly still is.)
The Bank of International Settlements was then instituted 'offshore' to control and play with the daily proceeds of all 'Central Banks' complete, supposedly, with immunity from oversight and any possibility of inspection (Surely, here we all have to say, Oh yeah? Like hell it is!).
Even sixty years ago 'the rates,' to collect local taxes supposedly for local expenditure, used to be 'assessed' on the size and quality of your property by an inspector, who visited to count the number of electric sockets and other such amenities, and then re-assessed as necessary for increased Council spending. And spending indeed it was in those days, since dishonesty in public servants was virtually unheard of Yes, really, even so recently.
'Road tax' was allegedly to maintain the condition of the roads. Perhaps some of it did, but later only 'via channels.'
Only thirty years ago a 'poll tax' was suggested, by which if you breathed you paid. If you didn't breathe, you did not have to except for 'death duties,' of course. Your duty to pay followed you even beyond the grave? Well, of course!
However, in these enlightened times, things have changed. Let's see how it works now, shall we?
Now
Now, a nominal sum of, say, one hundred billion is invented and 'lent' to a country at, say, five percent interest and say ninety percent emission so that only ninety billion is received. The banks thus have to raise the interest rate to compensate for the extraction of the ten billion. That, rather than the fiction of 'too much money in the public purse', is the real prime act of inflation. By fractional reserve lending the banks then invent and lend nine times the amount to employers who pay their employees to produce saleable goods or services. The companies pay company tax and everyone pays income tax, plus VAT on everything they buy, and estate tax and 'death duties' when they die. All the total amount of all these taxes goes to the inland revenue service, which pays it to the Central Bank, and we know who this is. The Central Bank then LENDS this back to the country at interest presumably minus another retention for its infrastructure. Thus the lender has extracted many times what it originally lent. The excess goes into the tax-exempt Trusts, and some is used to buy up vast tracts of land all over the planet, land which has real value in that it can grow food, without which, perhaps I have to remind you, we cannot live.
So, rather than just the rich, now we all pay, via taxes of all kinds. Everything we buy has its tax for 'them', and so we all pay through the nose. But as the basic swindle is not understood still we have not reacted, and thus The Cause is now nearing its fruition.
Never before . . .
As Winston Churchill said, and E.J.Leitner paraphrased so aptly, and the quote here is in the context of the latter, "Never before in human history has so much been owed by so many to so Few."
Recently, via a decade of strategic minimal interest and policies of deliberately-relaxed and fraudulent banking practices, money was virtually forced on people who could never repay it. By various stages of leveraging, this fabricated 'debt' was increased enormously on the same trivial unsafe security, by bribery authenticated as sound 'instruments', supposedly insured against loss and, as such 'sound investment', sold back to the banks that fraudulently lent the original money, and sold in sufficient quantity to destabilise the entire banking system.
With the present reaping of the Treasuries to then support the collapsing banks to enable them to continue lending us OUR money at interest for our and our descendants future 'debt' all taken without our consent or consultation our future generations are being committed willy-nilly to repaying this 'debt' forever as a form of financial 'original sin'. Surely, the only 'sin' is of omission in that we have not justly hanged these villains and their criminal conspirators long ago for their evils against the rest of us.
If you understood how 'those who reap' the private owners of 'The Fed', the 'Central Banks' and the BIS have been doubling and doubling and doubling what they take, year after year, then you would understand the ever-tightening grip they supposedly have on us all. But now the fruition of their master-plan has to be hastened before too many of us find out what they are doing and form a critical mass and upset their applecart.
At present
They are still milking the systems, by encouraging blind optimists to invest in the stock-markets, chasing illusory dollars. They themselves trumpet false good news via 'their' media and jadedly reap on the rising markets, then depress those markets and reap by 'shorting' the falls. It is mere child's play, and is simply taking more of their candy from the babes, but it also keeps said babes distracted from seeing their real intention.
Looming, is the 58 trillion of the persuaded U.S. credit-card debt, to collapse many more banks and further shake the financial systems, before the final dιnouement of the carefully-structured derivatives debt of up to one quadrillion.
Here at least, though, we have been given an alternative. Either the 'Central Banks' can frantically print paper money to stave off the crash by supporting the banks, thus causing truly massive inflation worldwide inflation is just another somewhat severe kind of taxation so that most of us can't eat, - OR they can let the banks collapse now, so that all industry and commercial activity will collapse, causing starvation and resultant disorder around the world as money and essential supplies cease to circulate. Either way, we will lose. But of course! What else? That is how these villains have designed it.
This, to rescue our predicament, will then require a one-world bank and one-world currency and one-world government which, together with our ruined societies and those genetically modified foods, will decide who will eat and who will not. In case it has already slipped your memory, the availability of food or its lack will decide who lives and who dies and, as declared, survival is intended for only a minority of us. Any remonstration on our part perhaps will provide an opportunity to call in the troops and fill the camps that uncanny foresight has provided, together with those waiting comfy plastic coffins.
The intention is that most of us cattle will go into the stockyards and slaughterhouses and oblivion of engineered war and/or starvation, in which matter the difficulties implicit in the cultivation of genetically-modified foods can adequately assist. The remainder will be the slaves of 'the elect', duly corralled and controlled for use, as are the other domesticated animals and, to a lesser extent, the human animals in the standard financially-commercialised society of now and heretofore.
However
We do not have to go down their shutes. There are various alternative avenues open to us. For instance, we can abolish 'The Fed', the Central Banks and the BIS, and don't ever believe that we can't. Their claimed immunity from inspection or intervention depends only on us credulous idiots believing them yet again; in reality they can all be shut NOW if we say so and do it, and their occupants and instigators jailed NOW.
All that is necessary is to arrest the arch-villains and their co-conspirators, and we know who they are, don't we? You say that is too difficult, as they have bribed all our leaders, and the very courts themselves are corrupt? Then arrest them, too. Just do it!
As another remedial instance, remember that banks 'invent' money when they 'lend' it to you. In reality it does not exist until you actually pay it back. So in reality your debt does not exist. So are you going to continue paying a non-existent debt, just because some thieving banker tells you to and therefore expects you to do so? Are you really? Then you have to admit, there's one born every minute, isn't there just? So suppose we all, and our countries all, just refuse to pay, and therefore starve the ravening beasts.
And 'the money' that is being used to inflict this servitude on us? We watch the politicians humming-and-hawing over what they can or rather can't say, and we are amazed that they cannot admit that it is simply a delusion, just another fiction. Perhaps they do know, but cannot deal with it, because they cannot physically grapple with an abstract delusion, or cannot admit it because they have all been paid and will lose their rich way of life. Who knows?
Finance is fiction, and has never been anything else. It is mere paper and metal, without any real value other than that strategically decided and 'said' and even written by those who wish at best to swindle us and at worst to eliminate us. Their 'tax' of all kinds merely controls us while they enable our intended fate.
It is when you realise that those who run the farm are tax-exempt, that 'taxes' apply only to the herd, that you realise that for the sake of mere sanity, it is obviously best to abolish their fiction of money and thereby deprive these malefactors of the tool with which they control our leaders and, so, us. But if in the future you have to use some form of exchange, rather than simply providing your expertise freely and taking what you need freely without the intervention of any lying paper fiction, then our individual societies can print their own interest-free 'scrip' to approximate the 'values' of working-time or effort. In this way we would not have these criminals taking and taking at every possible turn and, after five thousand years of their purgatory, we should be rid forever of the infliction of financiers and bankers and interest and duties and taxation and all its deadening regulation and paperwork.
But if you ever do have to print such paper 'value', just remember the swindlers for whom simplicity is too simple and enough is never enough. It has happened before. Be warned; they will be there to seize any opportunity to make a commodity of it again to re-start the whole cycle of their greedy 'Cause'.
I hesitate to tell you on what authority I give you this information as, frankly, I doubt that you would even understand what I am talking about. But I trust you will accept the obvious, as there is no iota of profit of any kind for me in thus warning you, apart from the satisfaction of knowing that some of you will benefit in a real sense.
Best wishes, and good luck, as I rather think we will all need that.
To emphasise the need of this luck, I will end with a quote. It is from the Transcriber's Notes to "Kissinger", The Book by Gary Allen 1976: (2)
Never again -
Of course, when we abolish finance, then - Never again.
(1) vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&VideoID=39307962
(2) "While the Rockefellers figure heavily in the politics of the U. S. Government, as recorded in this book, it should be remembered that the Rockefellers are agents of the gargantuan Rothschild global empire, all of whose agents work in tandem, each doing their fair share in setting the stage for the final planned takeover of all national governments intended to culminate in a World Government. . . fulfilling their dream (our nightmare) of World Dominion." - and its consequences . . .
Remember 'R'. They need remembering, and then some.