Whilst listening to Sir Terry Wogan this morning, I almost lost the will to live. No, not because of Sir Terry, who helps keep me sane each day, but by a story reported on the 8 o'clock news. Apparently, the Tories think we need less carrot and more stick to raise the quality of our lives (i.e. more taxes, regulations, mercantilism, planning, controls, and generally more banal and wealth-destructive socialism).
Here's their plan. They want to charge me more stamp duty each time I move home, ban me from owning a Plasma TV screen, ban me from having standby facilities on electronic devices, tax me more for using air travel, tax me more for using roads (thereby allowing me, how generous of them, to be allowed to cycle to Edinburgh), tax me for out-of-town shopping car parks so they can use the money to prop up useless local bus services nobody uses, and generally remove me from "the hedonistic treadmill where individuals can never be satisfied".
Or as Professor Mises might have put it, destroy all of my human impulses which drive me to help improve the world through either initial wealth creation or voluntary trade. In a sop to Karl Marx, all of the above plus much more, is to help "improve my quality of life" and "equalize opportunities for all". How my life can be improved by banning me from voluntary activities and taxing me into the ground for daring to go more than five miles from my home is "improving the quality of my life" I have no idea. Though I'm sure it will improve the quality of life of all the extra bureaucrats and other parasites who will be brought in to monitor these regulations and live off these taxes.
Which led me to a rather startling conclusion which almost sent me into an unassuming roadside ditch. I don't vote in elections, as it legitimises these socialist (Tory and Labour) idiots, but if you put a gun to my head and made me vote, I'd only be able to go one way.
Hoots Mon, McBroon, I'm yer man. You can stick the Tory Party up a dog's bum.
My God, that it should come to this. If Her Madgesty Margaret Thatcher was dead, she'd be turning in her grave.
2 comments:
Whereas Labour just want you to 'present your papers' in the form of ID cards. What better enabling act for the totalitarian state! To be honest both of them want to increase tax, whether they dress it up in 'green' clothes is neither here nor there.
All that said I do realise your tongue is firmly in cheek. Keep up the good work sir!
Yes, cuthhyra; it's statism to the left of me, statism to the right of me, and very few of us here in the middle with you. However, there is one subtle difference between these two major UK socialist parties however, which gets one of them a bonus point for honesty (with 2 million off each, for all their other faults); at least the Labour Party admit to being socialists! :-)
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