The “rich” of this world are often lumped together with the elites of this world as the 1%. But there are differences within this 1% and it is a difference that is very important.
Now if you are a socialist then everyone that produces an income is, or will eventually be, a target. Of course being a socialist also means you are utterly ignorant of economics (Keynesians excluded as that is not economics). So we will leave socialists alone to their “philanthropic” destruction of the world by plunder.
Thus, moving on, this 1% is composed of the elite rich who want to rule the world and those who are not members of the elite. First lets identify the elite. They are governors of central banks, politicians that make up governments and owners of corporations that provide services to banks and governments. They also control armies of bureaucrats which fill agency after federal agency. These obedient lemmings implement and expand the wishes of their masters. The drones run various government agencies that regulate, fine, and steal private property in all its forms. In addition to having their own police arms within the bureaucracies, they also use or control local, state, and federal police forces that provide force to terrorize the general population.
These “armies” use the same reasoning for doing their duty (impoverishing and destroying the lives of the citizens) as found with the Nazi bureaucracies. They use “it was legal” and “I was just following orders”. The enforcement powers do not protect the citizen, they enforce the laws made up by rouges who used deceit to get elected. This is how tyranny always starts. Corruption needs to legalize itself. Then once legal, the enforcement powers are filled with drones who will do the bidding of the tyrant. Public education has many purposes especially in its omissions. They omit clear reasoning and critical thinking but make good citizens. So we end up where Tacitus said we would. Like Rome…
The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.”
The problem for the elite is twofold. The first problem is control of the populous. In order to control the population they have to control the resources. The average citizen needs to be put into a position so they cannot do anything more then protest. They do not want the average Joe to have access to force.
Hence they desperately need gun control. They need to redefining those opposing government as “domestic terrorists”. The need to pass executive actions that allow confiscation of all assets. They need a dependent population so they oppose any self reliance. That’s why raiding groceries selling “raw milk” and teaching police how to escalate situations so force can be “justified” by the courts are part of the same game plan. They need income so they push for carbon taxes because of “climate change”, want to tax the rich, they manipulate markets and the stocks of the DJIA. Virtually anything government does that does not protect life, liberty and property is for control and enslavement of its “inventory”.
In the US, almost every action of government is overreach and is prohibited by the tenth amendment. So the constitution becomes a “living” document, malleable to the whims of the power hungry sociopaths and the over-educated army of obedient implementers they must pay for. If our all-wise overlords, elite central planners and sociopathic political class didn’t want to control you and I, they would need almost to money. But because they do, they need great mountains of it, which is why they use paper currency.
The second is bankrupt governments. Governments are the enforcement arm of the central planners and central banks. What started out as a good scam, i.e., using debt to finance government and taxing the people to pay for it, has gone from manageable to nightmare for them, and everybody else unfortunately. While they may be personally wealthy, their institutions, financial instruments and apparatuses they control are unsustainable because debt needs to grow to be sustainable. The very dollar itself is debt, it is not money. Or better, the money we use is debt with interest due it and somewhere down the line that interest has to be paid. As their need to expand control grows so does the debt needed to pay for it. They don’t want to pay for it, they want the citizens of their fiefdom to both pay for that control and to take a little off the top for their personal holdings. This has created a debt based system that is now on the verge of collapse because of debt and leverage on that debt. To understand this go here.
So governments need to find ways to extract more money from the system. Sometimes class warfare is used. Like the Jews of Nazi Germany, the rich are used as the scapegoat for the liberals so called “middle class economics”. Middle class economics like Marxist bourgeoisie physics does not exist. It is a made up term to create class warfare. It should be no surprise that liberals borrow from Marx. But the problem is not the wealth of the rich. It is politicians who have promised far to much to people and now can’t keep their promises. It is central banks and governments that have intervened and meddled in the real economy, causing prices to rise, stealing your purchasing power, and manipulating every perception. It is the huge pensions promised to the vast bureaucracies that are no longer affordable. The apparatuses of government have grown so large in an effort to control the masses it is having convulsions ahead of the coming collapse of the petrodollar. So now they must look for additional ways to plunder and impoverish their citizens.
Taxing the rich, many of which are not the elite, will not help the middle class in the slightest. Government would consume anything they got from the rich in a matter of weeks if not days. And it would be wasted on further expansion of the control apparatus because more needs to be squeezed from your wallet. In any case, the rich who are in the elite will not be target of the governments they control. No, the only rich that will be taxed are those opposed to the oppression and stupidity of the current socialist system. The rich who support this system of debt enslavement by taxing citizens to pay for the elites debt will not be touched.
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