12th Book on Ability to Reason, Right to Consent; Proposition, Problem & Poem No. 241

Most likely to be published later this summer of 2022, my 12th book entitled appropriately; Propositions, Problems & Poems on the Peculiar Human ABILITY to REASON, Singular Human RIGHT to CONSENT & Other Neglected Matters. The following will probably be included upon further editing, and front cover a slightly modified yet appropriate version of the 10th and 11th books...

PROPOSITION, PROBLEM & POEM No. 241

~ Preferring Unfairness Even Injustice / 1st Reprise ~

Truly, both US major parties along with their respective partisans and supporters have been complicit per quite explicit demands for government favoritism. The examples are many, however one regarding taxes sufficiently, concisely expose the inconsistency.

On one hand, the Left prattled of late about certain economic classes paying their Fair Share, hence to mean imposing more taxes on some over others. On the other hand, the Right ranted decades prior (i.e. 1980s/90s) for pro-family policies oft including Lesser Share, hence to mean allowing less taxes for some over others. And if to criticize these favoritisms, the former would retort “Are you not pro-poor?” Likewise, the latter would retaliate “Are you not pro-family?”

Upon various tax reform movements, that is to say, for less taxation, the concept of flat tax per a consistent percentage manifested and explained as fair or fairer, consequently everyone levied a common 10% of earnings or profits (to exemplify). Ignored of course how qualifiers fair or fairer are naturally assessed by producers and consumers among private purchases and barters. Never are prices for a loaf of bread, new suit, pair of shoes, automobile and house valued per a percentage of the consumer’s salary. That would be unfair, thus the knee-jerk response followed by ethical decry as should rightfully be.

To properly categorize, the flat percentage’d tax merely achieved relative fairness, as oxymoronic the term may be, oppose to actual or absolute fairness.

Comparatively, would not any government service if privatized then be so valued? Would not the same assessment, determination, negotiation then mutual agreement on price, as practiced for all other goods and services, occur between producer and consumer? Yet oddly, that inherent understanding, the natural practice longstanding since the human specie first reasoned, is disturbingly tossed aside by polity and citizenry alike, regarding government services whether healthcare, roads, bridges, libraries and so on. Astonishingly, the latter conclusion is popularly unchallenged as politically foregone.

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O revere the hypocrisy, let the people rejoice, relish and revel

In the subsidized stench, knee-deep in shit well shoveled

Cesspools liken public troughs, while elites laugh then scoff

Pounding tall podiums, along mobs Falstaff’ed squaring off

O sincere the mobocracy therefore endearing the monocracy

And so devised incivility upon guised idiocy aft’ revised history

Per propaganda’s gin mills, suited cowboys thus mulling lush

Such daily fuss o’er goddamn maddening cuss and media thrush

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Come let us Reason. Peace is always a Choice.
Study, Ponder, Labor, till last Breath.

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