FI2: How to reduce taxes, eliminate welfare, and reduce organ donor shortages
Freedom Issue 2, February 28, 1993
File 3/7
How to reduce taxes, eliminate welfare, and reduce organ donor shortages at no cost to honest hardworking individuals
by Vox Populii
Has it ever bugged you that as a tax paying citizen in this fine nation of ours that *YOU* have to pay for non productive fucking leeches who sit at home all day, swilling beer, playing nintendo and generally whacking off? I know I'm pissed off! 1/3 of my income goes to pay for social programs, and it makes me as mad as hell that I'm forced to subsidize loozers( yeah that's right, and if you find this antagonistic, I guess you know what I think of you so piss off, format your hard drive, do the world a favor and go crawl in a corner and fucking die already ).
To the extent that the following issues represent serious problems, I offer solutions. These *are* workable, if our society had the balls to implement em. Typically however, thoughts like these are known to cause severe angst in yuppies. We can only wish that this paradise would come about!
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- Jails are overcrowded( why should we pay for luxury accommodations for these freaks? ).
- We have a shortage of organ donors
- Our society is not strong enough( think of imperial Rome, where it was not unusual for the average citizen to see bloodshed each and every day ). Eventually, our way of life will degenerate or rot.
- We don't have enough entertainment( or the entertainment is not intense enough...take your pick ).
- People who aren't productive can get by just by sucking on the public tit.
- We pay way too much FUCKING TAXES!
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Did any of that get you mad? Did it make your blood boil? If it did, then I've got respect for you. If it didn't, well...fuck off and die. I've got more respect for someone working at McDonalds then for someone collecting welfare. At least the person working at McDick's is contributing something to society by virtue of participating in the social order.
The first plan will virtually eliminate welfare overnight AND provide fresh supplies of organs and bodies for medical experimentation. It operates under the principle that while people are lazy( and none more so than the people on welfare )there is only so high a price that people will pay for 'free' stuff. To this end, I have segregated people on welfare into three categories;
- i) People who can work, but don't want to.
- ii) People who can work, but have been unable to find jobs.
- iii) People who are unable to work for whatever reason ( physical or mental disability )
Class i)
Fuck em. Let them rot, or kick them out of Canada. You might even want to send em up to Baffin Island. We *all* know someone like this. It's your typical person who goes and buys booze with his/her welfare cheque, goes on a week long drunk, and then ends up robbing someone to buy more booze. I'd be tempted to say let the law of the jingle take care of em if it weren't for the fact that these type of people would probably wait outside your door to mug you. Shooting's too good for them, but lest I be accused of inhumaity, I say ship the bums off to er Somolia? Yeah, and then see how long they survive ( note: banishment was used in Ancient Greece ). If someone can't work, that's neither my concern nor yours. So what if these people start hanging around on the streets; we can ship them away. In the event they *don't* want to go away, they go into the arena's( see below please ).
Class ii)
Unfortunately, the government has fucked us all over to the point where the economy is a shambles, and there are those of us who *would* work, but are unable to find jobs. Still, pathetic forms of mercy are no reason to shell out *YOUR* hard earned dollars. Class ii individuals could easily slip to class one individuals. Therefore, I propose that in exchange for a subsistence level of food and shelter, these people be forced to work on public projects( e.g. highway repairs, street repairs, cleanup, snow removal, etc ). For as long as work is available in the public sector, and as long as these people are willing to accept a demeaning level of existence, I see no reason why we should not exploit them as a cheap source of labor. However, lest these individuals come to see 'Big brother' as a provider, they should be made to attempt job location at least once a month. In any event, when there is no public work available, I'd kick these people off. Still, these people are more respectable than class i people.
Class iii)
This is the most problematic group of people to be dealt with; it includes physically handicapped people, and individuals who are mentally retarded. They may or may not wish to work( not that anyone would necessarily wish to hire them ), nor may they even have an idea of what is constituted by the concept of work. How do you deal with someone who is labelled as a perpetual loser in society? How do you do this without appearing to be inhumane? I'm not a nazi, nor would I wish to see people suffer unnecessarily ( those who deserve to suffer...well... ) If you accept that the jobs are neither available for this group of people, nor could they fill such jobs if they were in fact available, what is the incentive for society to sustain their lives. I.e. what is the motivation for *YOU* Mr. taxpayer to shell out some of his/her hard earned dollars to keep a non productive person alive?
There is none.....UNLESS they participate in my schemata of voluntary organ donations. In my extreme generosity, I am willing to allow these individuals to receive subsistence assistance from the state( fuck is that an annoying term )in exchange for being placed on an organ donor bank.
What I propose is that each month, 8.25% of welfare recipients have their names chosen at random. Those who are chosen are killed, and their blood, tissue, skin, etc( i.e. all biologically useful substances )are placed in storage or immediately given for transplant. The 8.25% represents a theoretical breakpoint such that any recipient of welfare( if he or she is truly so lazy or desperate )has only a 50% chance of still 'being in the program' after a six month period. Work out what 91.75% raised to the sixth power is...
Quite obviously we would not expect people to meekly march to their deaths after having 'their number' come up, so what I propose is that hospitals become welfare distribution centers. On any given day of the month, approximately 3.33% of total welfare recipients would go to the hospital, be strapped in a chair, and play the lottery of life (grin), at which point they would have a 91.75% chance of receiving social assistance, and an 8.25% chance of being taken for science. If they have the misfortune to draw a ticket, they would be mercifully put unconscious and then cut up for immediate use or storage.
The interesting thing about this plan is that it assures us of a constant supply of fresh organs each and every day. No more blood bank shortages. And my fellow taxpayer, LESS sucking at the public tit. YOUR taxes go down. It's purely voluntary, with no one forced to participate. The only point of no return is after someone has drawn a random number. Additionally, this would tend to strengthen our society, for our weakest members tend to be the ones receiving social assistance.
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The second problem that I wish to deal with is overcrowding in our jail systems. They're overflowing with people, the courts are backlogged with the most trivial of offenses, the parole system lets hardened criminals out far too early, and some mass murderer who has raped and killed a dozen kids gets luxury accommodations for years( while we have to spend OUR money to buy a turkey for Christmas, these low life scum get to eat for free ).
This plan operates under the principal that humans are greedy( and particularly the unintelligent amongst us are greedy; not quite understanding that you have to work for what you get in life ).
I propose that for each individual who has committed a felony offense, they have the offense of working off a portion of their sentence in the following fashion; if a person has a 10 year sentence, he( or she ) may elect to enter into the arena for a fight to the death with another convict( who has also voluntarily elected to enter into the arena ). On each Friday of the week, a set of such fights is held at the biggest public arena in each state capital. Contestants are allowed to choose from a variety of weapons with which to attempt to kill their opponents; ranging from knives to flails, etc. The victor of said match would receive a one year reduction from his jail term, while the loser is snuffed out. The person who( for example )had a ten year sentence would now only have a nine year sentence. To have the jail term reduced to zero, this person would have to win ten such matches. At any stage in the process, he/she may drop out( an interesting modification might be to have one criminal fight two; if the single man won, he would receive a 2 year reduction, if the pair won, they would receive a 1/2 year reduction ).
Some curious points to be noted about this proposal are;
- the shorter a period of time a person is to be incarcerated, the less likely they would risk the 'games'.
- It doesn't really matter if a mass murderer has been let free ( e.g. Jeffery Dahmer has a 125 year sentence ), because in order to become free, he must kill 125 other scum. I would say this person has done a great service to society then.
The only stipulation I would like to add is that the Gladiator fights will have a no tie rule imposed upon them. The contestants are to understand in advance that ties are not acceptable. A contestant may however opt to pull out of a fight with the following penalty; one year will be added to his sentence for cowardice. The opposing contestant is not penalized, but is neither rewarded. In the event of such an act of cowardice though, the remaining contestant has first right of rematch with this person. Should the 'withdrawing' gladiator refuse to refight within a one year period, 10 years shall be added to his sentence.
Upon being victorious for the 20th time( e.g. if the criminal had a 20 year sentence ), a criminal shall be judged to have paid fully and completely for his crimes against society. On that instant , he shall be declared a free man with a complete pardon( as opposed to parole ). In order to expedite his return to society, he shall be awarded a one time sum of 10,000$ paid by admission tickets to the fights.
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Public executions:
All executions of criminals shall take place in public, with the right of execution decided upon by voluntary participation in a lottery. The person whose name/number is drawn gets to decide the method of execution of the convicted criminal. Methods are to include hanging, shooting , electrocution and beheading. Public executions are to be televised by all stations that wish to do so. Imperial Rome had it's 'bread and circuses', and it was considered to be quite civilized. At one time, it was the zenith of civilization on this planet.
Of course, we could expect all sorts of civil libertarians to snivel and whine at these proposals( they're probably recipients of welfare handouts themselves ), but so what? We're not concerned with people like this.
Sparta( an ancient Greek culture in rough proximity to Athens )was a warrior society with a quite rigid code of ethics. What would be wrong with 'thinking' with our blood a little bit? Our culture has become too soft.
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Vox Populii
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- These opinions are not necessarily held, nor supported by the editor of this magazine.
- Feel free to quote from this article, with no compensation nor form of reference given.
- if any of these ideas strike you as interesting, try reading "The Republic' by Plato.
