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Today is the 3rd day of the 21st week, the 23rd day of the 5th month, the 143rd day of 2017, and: 
  • Declaration of the Bab Day -- the evening before the 23rd in 1844, a merchant of Shiraz announced that he was a Prophet and founded a religious movement that would later be brutally crushed by the Persian government -- he is considered to be a forerunner of the Bahá'í Faith and Bahá'ís celebrate this day as a holy day.
  • International Day to End Obstetric Fistula
  • Lucky Penny Day
  • National Taffy Day
  • World Crohn's and Colitis Day
  • World Turtle Day ((not the candy))
ON THIS DAY:  In 844 the Apostle Saint James the Greater is said to have miraculously appeared to a force of outnumbered Asturians and aided them against the forces of the Emir of Cordoba at the Battle of Clavij.  In 1829 an accordion patent was granted to Cyrill Demian in Vienna, Austrian Empire.  In 1873 the Canadian Parliament established the North-West Mounted Police, the forerunner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.  In 1911 the New York Public Library was dedicated.  In 1934 the infamous American bank robbers Bonnie and Clyde were ambushed by police and killed in Bienville Parish, Louisiana.  In 1969 the Who's rock-opera album "Tommy" was released.   In 1995 the first version of the Java programming language is released.

 

Quote of the day:

If I have the means, I have the responsibility to employ them.”

― Terry Brooks, The Scions of Shannara

 

As I was driving into work this morning, a commentator on the news stated that this was the first time a sitting President submitted a budget from the viewpoint of a taxpayer [or words to that effect].  Well now I am quite willing to quibble over what was exactly said, but that is what I heard – and it made me start to reflect about the way in which this budget proposal is being received by various segments of our society and how it could actually make sense to some people.   Now bear in mind that as I continue that

[1] I personally I think it is a horrible idea to eviscerate  social programs that have existed from the days of LBJ and the Great Society, give tax breaks to the 1%, and bloat our military armament even more [all while ignoring the needs of our veterans]

[2] I have been working and paying taxes for 52 years

You see, from the standpoint of those in power, they are the primary taxpayers because they pay more dollars in taxes than I do.  Do the math!  If someone is making  $3,650,000 annually [yeah we are talking $10K a day here], even with all the tax breaks let’s be really generous and say they pay 15% of their income in taxes – that means they have paid $547,500 in taxes and they feel that is really unfair because I only have paid around $37,824 in the same year.   Seriously – why are we penalizing them just because they have more money!   I take up just as much space as they do and expect the same services, don’t I?  And I pay less than a tithe of what they give Uncle Sam – only 6.9% of what they are expected to lay out.  They don’t want to hear that their contribution leaves them with over $3M in disposable income -- all they see is that they have paid more than I have therefore they feel that they should have more say on how the money is spent.  And as good Calvinists they don’t want their money going to people who are not working or can’t get by on their own because that shows they are inferior AND they want to know they are being protected.  There is no sense of social responsibility, no obligation to help others, just a self-justifying quibble that they are being taken advantage of and it has to stop.

 

Seriously.

 

 

 

And no I don’t know what to do about it.  I wish I did.
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