Death & Taxes.... and War

Baysage - the Oklahoma Orpheus - mentioned that the Tea Party, or at least a large portion of it, seems to want to do away with taxes while favoring wars and our global military presence. That is going to be one interesting political agenda.

It is truly anomalous. It is beyond logic. Only people with intense faith in their own delusions could possibly believe that War is free. I mean, just because we derive so much pleasure from it, that doesn't mean we don't have to pay the piper.

War is the time, place, and the system when Habeas Corpus is in real danger of being suspended; War is the time when Martial Law law supplants the constitutional Rule of Law; War is the time when freedom may be suspended or infringed - when citizens may find their communities physically transported to gulags and camps, like the Nisei in WW II.
War is the time when free markets may disappear, when prices may be frozen, when resources may be rationed. The citizens accept all this because is is only for the duration, and it is for the good cause.

War is the center of its Universe. It is Central Planning to the max. It is a Manhattan Project magnified a million times. If it goes on too long, it is the death of freedom. War destroys assets and value. It destroys those of the other side as well as our side. And War requires taxes. There is no more illusionary and delusionary economics such as was permitted to exist from 2000 to 2009, when the USA could have all the War it wanted and not have to budget for it: the cost of War was a cost that did not seem to have to be accounted for.

We have been at war since 1941. We do not know how to live without war. We do not know how to view the world without the blinders of us versus them.
Furthermore, we do not know how to live without the insufferable burden of a Leviathan size Government which provides fundamental services we want and require, boondoggles for the favored few, and War.

“The United States faces a fundamental disconnect between the services that people expect the government to provide, particularly in the form of benefits for older Americans, and the tax revenues that people are willing to send to the government to finance those services. Changes of the magnitude required to make fiscal policy sustainable could have important economic and social effects — but they also provide an opportunity to address existing concerns about tax and spending policies. Given the time required to implement significant policy changes, determining those changes is an urgent task for policymakers.”

 http://fabiusmaximus.wordpress.com/2010/08/31/20878/#more-20878


And then there is the Tea Party....