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MY - PERSONAL BELIEFS
Zen can be used as a way of evaluating truth. We don't know what we
don't know. Worse than that, we often don't know what we think we know.
The mind has a curious way of accepting emotion as fact. In the human
experience of the mind, there is no distinction between "feeling" and
imperical fact. In the mind, they are one and the same, at least until the
disciplined mind begins to distinguish between pure observation and pure
emotional experience. This is the real value and power of zen meditation; or
any meditation successful in quieting the mind. A "Zen" mind stands outside of
emotionality and is better equipped to see and understand things the way
they really are; as opposed to how they "feel". I invite you to join me in
a place of quiet thought while I present some uncensored truths about taxes; truths
that will undoubtedly challenge every belief you have ever held about
taxes, economics, and government funding.
The Japanese heiroglyph for "tax" includes the
symbol for "food". The Japanese obviously realized that the
Samurai could not protect them without a supply of rice, etc. No rice, no
army, no protection. It follows that the rice growers had to grow more than
required for their own needs. In other words, they had to create a surplus.
That concept applies to all government everywhere. Government consumes
resources in supplying services. Sustainable government requires access to
private surpluses. Theoretically, private surplus comes in the form of
tax. However, this works only if the tax is derived from savings and
investments. In other words, only tax derived from real wealth creation can
supply a surplus to government. Unfortunately, most modern tax is levied
upon services more related to wealth destruction than wealth creation. Sales
tax is really a measurement of consumption rather than surplus. Taxes derived
from government itself are totally based upon consumption, as well. Further,
all enterprises dealing with the problems of society are also totally
consumptive in nature, such as: accountants, lawyers, social workers, security
guards, priests, undertakers, psychiatrists, etc. Government economists
have thus far failed to devise a tax system that properly measures and metes
out the surplus needed to fund government. FREE
DOWNLOAD "Why Taxes Do Not Work" (from "The Zen of No Tax")
Cause and effect features in life, and in
government. Individuals embracing Zen understand the power they have in
creating positive outcomes. Those outcomes can be of a physical nature, or
simply a result of choosing the way we respond and feel about things outside
of our control. With understanding, we can "choose" our feelings,
as well as contributing to the construction of our physical experiences. Government,
too, is subject to the laws of cause and effect. If government punishes
wealth creation, savings, and investment with income taxes, the private sector
does less of it. If individuals are encouraged to create, save, and invest,
they assuredly will respond in good measure. As the private individual
prospers, so does government. If society fails at the individual level,
government too, is doomed to fail in every sense of the word. Poverty
consciousness and disempowerment at the individual level is simply projected
by government on a macro scale. Only by empowering individuals with
freedom, choice, responsibility, and positive accountability can we expect our
government to exhibit those same qualities. Likewise, only if government
chooses to embrace those concepts can we then expect the masses to relinquish
their own sense of poverty. Ultimately, we the people must direct our
government to remove the disempowering elements of taxation and banking debt;
and take back from the banking conspiracy the right to issue interest-free
money on our behalf.
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