{"id":37992,"date":"2018-09-20T05:17:35","date_gmt":"2018-09-20T10:17:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=37992"},"modified":"2018-09-20T05:17:35","modified_gmt":"2018-09-20T10:17:35","slug":"taxing-and-tracking-the-independent-media-censorship-and-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=37992","title":{"rendered":"Taxing and Tracking the Independent Media: Censorship and Control"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shtfplan.com\/headline-news\/taxing-and-tracking-the-independent-media-censorship-and-control_09182018\">Taxing and Tracking the Independent Media: Censorship and Control<\/a><\/h3>\n<div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-45882\" src=\"http:\/\/shtfplan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/chess-smart-money1.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" srcset=\"http:\/\/shtfplan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/chess-smart-money1.jpg 560w, http:\/\/shtfplan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/chess-smart-money1-300x180.jpg 300w\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"336\" \/><\/p>\n<p>One of the most heinous things about taxes is that they support the very \u201corgans\u201d (to quote a Soviet-era term) of government that crush the people\u2026even further. The taxes are weapons used by the authorities\u2026and all authority comes from the barrel of a gun (to paraphrase Mao). The taxes are used to corral in the masses and keep them upon a continuous treadmill that sustains the system\u2026the very system that exploits and enslaves the citizens.<\/p>\n<p>The most heinous of all is the \u201cdeath tax\u201d of 50% to the government after you die. If you made a million in money and property at the end of your existence\u2026paying taxes on it all the way\u2026the original income taxes on the money you made, and then the interest income tax on what you made from your investments. You have property taxes on your house. You are (depending on your state) levied taxes on <em>ad valorem<\/em>, or state income taxes, or community (city, town) taxes. You are taxed on gifts you give to your children. You are taxed when you begin a business.<\/p>\n<p>Many states have \u201cingenious\u201d (mostly insidious) means of exploiting the populace and terming it a \u201ctax,\u201d per se.\u00a0 Maryland has a great one they instituted a few years ago: the rainwater tax\u2026to actually estimate the amount of rainfall off of a person\u2019s roof\/property, and place it under \u201cmanagement\u201d of the state\u2026.yes, taxed on the amount of rain falling on you. Cigarette taxes, liquor taxes\u2026the list is endless.<\/p>\n<p>Taxes never decrease: they may present the illusion of decreasing in one category, but they always rise, and rise with the prices of things. Go to this site. They\u2019re not hiding anything, and they\u2019ll come out and tell you what they\u2019re going to take from you.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taxing and Tracking the Independent Media: Censorship and Control One of the most heinous things about taxes is that they support the very \u201corgans\u201d (to quote a Soviet-era term) of government that crush the people\u2026even further. The taxes are weapons used by the authorities\u2026and all authority comes from the barrel of a gun (to paraphrase [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[120,2299,9745,11133,6490,783,1197],"class_list":["post-37992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-censorship","tag-control","tag-independent-media","tag-jerimiah-johnson","tag-shtfplan-com","tag-taxes","tag-tracking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37992"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37993,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37992\/revisions\/37993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}