Those brilliant Japanese.... how could they be so dumb

.........as to try a consumption tax and a sales tax increase?

http://freedom4um.com/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=164398
The Japanese Sales Tax Hike Verdict Is In: It's A Disaster As Sales Plunge 25%
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-04-09/japanese-sales-tax-hike-verdict-its-disaster-sales-plunge-25

Both follies are well familiar to us here in SC -- they've been tried, tinkered with, and endured by numerous states and jurisdictions. In my humble opinion, any call by politicians to raise taxes are an admission that they're total failures at the specific job they're hired to do -- keep us free and solvent in real terms, and make us ever more so.

Similarly, my personal view is that any government that claims it has to launch an offensive war (including the "war on terror" is telling us that the real, peaceable and orderly American way of life has died under their tenure, another massive admission of guilt and incompetence (or corruption) by these pols. Considering ameriKa supports its military to the tune of twelve figures but still couldn't save us from a handful of jets being hijacked by Ayrab terr'ists.... Well, they're really telling us that their element should be in some other line of work and all the money we've put into "defense" all these years has been a waste.

Let's be honest! Politicians aren't deific beings that waft omnisciently hither from the sky full of grace and truth. They're only human -- and some of them are actually dishonest, even corrupt.

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