Shrinking Consumerism and Taxes and Drowning Fascism In A Bathtub

The sick values of capitalism must be rejected for humanity to survive — and thrive.

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“I don’t want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub.”

— tax opponent Grover Norquist

It would be hard to find anyone I disagree with more sharply than Grover Norquist. He believed that corporations are wonderful and government is evil. He was a committed opponent of taxes. He wanted to shrink government so that corporations would be untaxed and unregulated.

He believed that the market — free of any government interference — would create a golden age of prosperity.

I believe — and can clearly see — that left to do as they please, corporations abuse both people and the planet mercilessly in pursuit of ever bigger profits. And they will do this even knowingly ruining the climate and dooming everyone’s children.

Corporatism is literally insane.

That said, I do — now — favor the American population evading taxes every chance they get— because the current regime is a fascist dictatorship. I also favor every American minimizing purchases and ending consumerism which has proved to be an experiment that failed…