One evil that has flown a long way under the radar is the very addictive and widely used poison, carbonic acid. Purveyors of this deadly toxic pollutant, now being considered by some a threat to the planets whole biosphere, hide it's evils with another poison now being linked to some of our major health epidemics, high-fructose corn syrup, or various flavors, and load it with yet another controversial bioactive chemical known to impact the control and regulation of practically every aspect of cellular function, caffeine.
While the evil corporates whose livelihood depends upon our massive use of their product have inordinate influence with every branch of our government, there is no chance anyone will ever raise a peep about regulation, truth-in-advertising, or any other consumer-friendly type of concessions. And we will never complain, either.
It all goes to show what afflicts the minds of "fools on the hill" who understand the facts of human behaviors and fully realize we are, as a society, a Ship of Fools. I truly do not understand why cows are not herding us, and shipping us to the butchers, for all our enlightenment as we imagine it.
But in any discussion of taxation, as we ply the issues of "regressive taxation" that disproportionately retards economic advances and/or is going to be paid principally by the poor and ignorant masses as opposed to being paid by elites who just have too much to begin with, I submit that a tax on carbonic acid would, like every other tax we have ever imagined, be paid entirely by the poor downtrodden masses who have no private charities registered with the nearest "Community Trust" broker, no tax lawyers, and no lobbyists.
But at least it would not directly create a marketable asset owned entirely by elites, and paid for entirely by consumers, like the proposed tax on its gas form would.
While the evil corporates whose livelihood depends upon our massive use of their product have inordinate influence with every branch of our government, there is no chance anyone will ever raise a peep about regulation, truth-in-advertising, or any other consumer-friendly type of concessions. And we will never complain, either.
It all goes to show what afflicts the minds of "fools on the hill" who understand the facts of human behaviors and fully realize we are, as a society, a Ship of Fools. I truly do not understand why cows are not herding us, and shipping us to the butchers, for all our enlightenment as we imagine it.
But in any discussion of taxation, as we ply the issues of "regressive taxation" that disproportionately retards economic advances and/or is going to be paid principally by the poor and ignorant masses as opposed to being paid by elites who just have too much to begin with, I submit that a tax on carbonic acid would, like every other tax we have ever imagined, be paid entirely by the poor downtrodden masses who have no private charities registered with the nearest "Community Trust" broker, no tax lawyers, and no lobbyists.
But at least it would not directly create a marketable asset owned entirely by elites, and paid for entirely by consumers, like the proposed tax on its gas form would.
