Don’t Show This Proposal To Obama

Posted: September 22nd, 2010 | Author: Dr. Bill Stillwell | No Comments »

The other day, I said that there was always an answer for the
saying, “Things just can’t get any worse.” In the case of our
present political state, the answer certainly is: Oh yes they can.
(That is the direct opposite of: “Yes we can!”, and we all know what
that has cost us.)

But now the Brits have a proposal that I’m sure Obama will embrace
as deeply as he holds his cheeseburgers, fries, cokes and
cigarettes. The UK tax collection agency has put forth a scheme
whereby all employers would send all paychecks to the government,
after which the government would deduct what it deems as the
appropriate tax and pay the employees what’s left, by bank transfer.

The proposal by Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC) stresses
the need for employers to provide real time information to the
government, so that it can monitor all payments and make a better
assessment of whether the corect tax is being paid.

If the real time information plan works, it further proposes that
employers hand over employee salaries to the government first.

But there are some serious flaws in the proposal.

No one knows how the government would handle mistakes and the chance
of a high percentage of mistakes is very good, indeed. The British
tax collecters do not have a good record of handling large scale
computer systems and have suffered high profile data losses.

There is also the small factor of cost in implementing such a
system, which would cost in the very high billions of dollars. (Does
any of this sound eerily familiar?) Oh…and then there’s the issue
of “Transparency.”

Old Dead George (Orwell, not King) is probably having a laugh at the
moment, because he predicted these kinds of debacles, long ago. It
won’t be long before Democrats propose this as a radical new idea
that will save billions of taxpayer dollars. (Wait a minute now…
isn’t that what Health Care Reform was supposed to do?)

I suppose that if you refuse to go along with this kind of nonsense,
you’ll need to be “re-educated,” just like HHS Secretary Kathleen
Sebellius wants. I don’t know about you, but I’m sure I’ll get sent
straight to the Hardcore Vegan Warrior Camp. (There really is such
as thing as Hardcore Vegan Warriors.) If you don’t want to adapt to
the “Kind Diet,” they will surround you, until their breath and body
odor overwhelm you.

I’m going to wind up, before I get really carried away, but as you
can see, Orwell had it all down, pretty well.

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I’ll be back tomorrow with more.

With my best wishes for your optimum health,

Dr. Bill

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