Dear Friends,
It seems to me, when the system is a game, people will play it. The first, obviously, will be those without ethics. Once they normalize playing the system, others will join in until everyone does it. Then gaming the system will be normalized and general poverty must result. Nothing magnifies this trend more than criminalizing exposure of gaming the system. In California, they passed the “Stop Nick Shirley Act.” This law criminalizes exposing fraud against the taxpayer. The only reason a government would pass such a law is because they side with the fraudsters. Those same people who would put you in prison for not paying a hundred bucks in some arcane tax, protect billions in fraud. We have to ask ourselves… why the asymmetric concern?
Once the means to wealth is gaming the system and everyone does it, no one has ethics anymore. If no one has ethics, business can’t be done, so it isn’t. When business isn’t done then things don’t get built or made and there are shortages. That is one path to societal poverty via a system-gaming mindset but there is another. Gaming a system is a zero sum game. There is a pie that doesn’t grow… it only shrinks. The fight is then… how big a piece am I getting? Concentrations of wealth cluster around concentrations of political power. The idea of growing the pie becomes absurd, because there is too much grift to make anything work. So a system that lends itself to being gamed must create general poverty and pockets of extreme wealth.
It’s one thing for a government to turn a blind eye to their cronies getting rich on the taxpayer dime, but to criminalize exposing it is taking the mask completely off. What was hidden is now a visage to make one’s blood run cold. People are essentially lazy. We don’t do work unless we have a stake in the outcome. That’s why socialism failed so miserably in Plymouth Rock. So, if that is true, why would the lawmakers in California work so hard, risk so much political capital, and even the federal government’s money… to protect fraud? Instead of acting to stop it and show they care about the money they take from us at gunpoint, they moved to protect the grifters. Ask Edward and Elaine Brown if armed men don’t show up at your door when accused of not paying taxes.
The Browns were surrounded by federal agents for months over unpaid taxes. Meanwhile, in an act of true wrath, everyone who helped them was arrested and prosecuted. That’s how the government treats people who don’t pay a few hundred dollars to them. Even as that same government couldn’t care less about billions in fraud going out. When you file your taxes, how many hours did you have to work to pay them? Now think of this, every penny you send in is wasted on fraud. The money that runs the government and pays the debt is borrowed, adding to inflation, which steals from us in a hidden way. How does that make you feel? You’re slaving away so some fraudster can take your money and use it to harm your interests. Could there be a better definition of gaming a system than that?
If the federal government doesn’t immediately stop all payments to California, then it’s in on the grift. If the grift is that far along, gaming the system has become normalized and its time for everyone to join in. A system designed to be gamed is one into which only a fool would pay taxes. You take you never give. Why wouldn’t everyone demand a free cell phone, free heat/cooling, free healthcare, free everything? Let the losers who pay taxes pony up. If they run out, just borrow the money and stick the loser taxpayers with the tab. That is the system that California is building one crime at a time. If the federal government does nothing then it’s no only abetting it… it is complicit. We’ll have to wait and see. If the feds cut California off the teat then we aren’t the dupe. If they don’t…
Sincerely,
John Pepin
