Tax Free Tips And Overtime Pay or "Livin' la Vida Loca"

By Mike Bibb

While I'm certainly in favor of anyone receiving "tax free tips and overtime pay," it sort of makes me wonder why President Trump should limit his no federal taxes on only those two forms of "income."

Why not reverse, or eliminate, income taxes on all types of earned compensation for everyone?

Like it used to be before the IRS and its legions of tax auditors and enforcers twisted the original purpose and intention of the 16th Amendment. To such an extent that now a person risks prosecution, fines and imprisonment for simply trying to keep his lawfully earned wages and salary without being compelled to hand over thirty percent of it to a government which has managed to drag all of us into a $37 trillion financial abyss.

Isn't that like throwing good money after bad — and doing it year after year? Government waste and fraud amount to billions of dollars a year. Yet, if we balk at the obviously intentional misspending, we're threatened with audits and investigations.

Is this how it is supposed to be, or could it be the definition of insanity?

The out-of-control national debt and added interest is actually another contrived tax scam heaped upon a pile of taxes our leaders have already dumped on us?

There has to be a purpose for all this lunacy and self-destruction, other than we've become addicted to a lifestyle dependent upon government handouts, administered by government managers, using government extracted taxes, under rules enforced by government courts to compel working people to surrender a portion of their earnings to maintain the impending economic calamity or suffer the government imposed consequences for failing to go along with the ruse.

I believe there are a few criminal legal terms that can be applied in describing such socially unacceptable behavior, but when the government does it it is frequently referred to by the innocent catch-phrase "Paying your fair share," insinuating taxes are as normal as birth and death and a politician's lies.

And, I suppose, so are the hours of gathering receipts, bank statements, expenditures and deductions required in determining the annual tax figures the IRS requires when deciding a person is obligated to pay additional taxes or might actually get some of their own money refunded.

If you are one of those contemptable scoundrels who are not paying your full fair share, then you could be brought to justice and shown the errors of your thinking and actions.

Which might have some valid points except for the fact that no matter how much money the government extracts from us, we continue to plunge deeper and deeper into a bottomless pit.

With no end in sight — for several generations.

Maybe with that in mind, President Trump has also realized regardless of how many taxes are forcibly taken from the people, the results don't seem to improve; further in the hole we go, with the accompanying interest payments growing just as quickly.

Government spending is greatly outpacing incoming revenues, and the gap continues to increase.

Never mind repaying the principal — we can't hardly keep up with the accumulating interest fees.

What should we do? Golly, here's an idea, "Let's just borrow, print, spend and tax some more" our college educated economists and government representatives tell us.

For a large part, the media has endorsed this ignorance, content with the excuse the government wouldn't intentionally deceive us as our money becomes worth less and less and it takes more of it to maintain a declining standard of living.

This incredible incompetency has led us to the edge of national bankruptcy.

A trend that's been accelerating for several decades, regardless of the political party in control or their teleprompter scripted pledges to do better if only we reelect them to "finish the important work we sent them to Washington to do."

What a load of crap, and these mentally deficient numskulls believe most people are buying their nonsense.

Undoubtedly many are, but not all of us.

So, to my way of thinking, why doesn't Trump permit everyone to keep their tax money, whether its tips, overtime, regular time, any time, all the time?

Let the folks see the difference between a paycheck that's been riddled with various taxes, and one that hasn't.

What have we got to lose — another $37 trillion in debt? $53 trillion? So what? After the first $15 or $20 trillion, who's counting?

Apparently, not most of our haughty officials on Capitol Hill.

Singer Ricky Martin's 1999 song "Livin' la Vida Loca" seems to have become our national creed. Problem is, when all the fun and music stops the deck chairs will already be under water!