The Law of Unintended Consequences

What is it about the law of unintended consequences can our politicians not understand? They just cannot grasp this concept. Politicians will not think ten minutes into the future to see what harm will be caused by their actions and their ridiculous laws.

Our genius politicians are about to push legislation to charge drivers by the mile in some states. What is the end result of this? Drivers will drive less, which means less tax revenue to the government due to less fuel taxes. More money due to the mileage charge, less due to the lost fuel tax revenue, and you end up with a net reduction of revenue at the end of the day.

This is not a new concept. This has happened repeatedly in our past. As they say, those that cannot remember history are doomed to repeat it. Well, why do they keep doing the same things over and over, expecting a different result? I thought that was the definition of insanity.

For the past several years, due to droughts and mismanagement of our water resources, we have many parts of America having water shortages. The politicians and water authorities threatened fines and punishment for the overuse of water. What was the end result? That's right. People used less water; therefore, the water and sewer charge revenues to the water companies and the taxes charged went DOWN. What did they do? That's right. They had to increase the per gallon charges for water.

In many states in America, the genius politicians thought it would be a good idea to add a $1.00 per pack tax increase on cigarettes while the federal government, at the same time, is going to levy a $.62 per pack federal tax increase on cigarettes. Our politicians pushed these taxes under the guise that it would benefit their SCHIP program to help children get insurance and that fewer people would smoke; therefore, health problems from smoking would cost the government less money. Not only does this double punitive taxation on cigarettes unfairly hurt the lower income and middle classes, its whole premise is wrong. This is the most regressive tax ever invented in regards to punishing the poor and the middle class. The two promises cannot stand up in a vacuum. There cannot be an increase in revenue and a reduction of smokers at the same time. As usual, the law of unintended consequences comes into play.

Let's give the politicians the benefit of the doubt here and let's say this plan works as in their fantasies. Several things could happen.

Scenario 1: These lower and middle income people will continue to smoke their normal amounts, suffering the financial burden, while moving money from other portions of their budgets to compensate for this massively regressive tax. Hopefully, they will not have to take the money out of their food budget. In this scenario, everything is fine and dandy. The government rips off the poor and the politicians have more money to spend wastefully on things other than originally intended.

Scenario 2: As with every time in history, people will give you less of a behavior they are being punished for. Smokers will stop smoking altogether or reduce their consumption. Fewer children will start smoking. Supposedly, health costs to the government will go down. Sounds great, doesn't it? NOPE! This situation will reduce taxes to the politicians and will cause numerous other unintended consequences for our future, because politicians are going to get their money from somewhere. Cigarette companies will lose revenues, which will in turn, reduce further the amount going to the politicians. Reduced revenues at the cigarette companies means employees start getting laid off in massive amounts. Growers start filing bankruptcy. Fertilizer manufacturers suffer and start laying people off. Farm equipment manufacturers suffer and start laying people off. Farm equipment sales dealers close down. Wholesalers start laying people off. Truck drivers, who deliver the cigarettes, start getting laid off. The mechanics, who work on the tractor-trailers and farm equipment, start getting laid off. Companies that make the filters start closing or laying people off. Companies that make the paper for the cigarettes and packaging start laying people off. Convenience stores, who sell massive amounts of cigarettes, start laying people off. Liquor stores start to suffer. I could go on and on, but I feel you understand how massive the unintended consequences actually reach.

Scenario 3: This scenario will happen to some extent no matter what happens. The citizens, who are completely overwhelmed with this backdoor attempt at prohibition, start searching for illegal ways to get cigarettes to avoid the severe taxation. This scenario gives rise to the black market, where people start smuggling cigarettes into the country and have young children selling them on street corners. Imagine our jails filling up with people who sold cigarettes illegally. This scenario did not play out well with alcohol prohibition and does not work on our so-called war on drugs in this country. Needless to say, this would be a great disaster.

This concept has been proven hundreds of times throughout history. You REDUCE taxes and revenue to the government goes UP. You INCREASE taxes and revenue to the government goes DOWN. It is the opposite of what the average person would believe due to the fact that you have to take into consideration the human factor. If all factors stayed the same with spending, sales volume, and costs, increased taxes would cause income to the government to go up. Here lies the problem. By nature, humans will always give you less of what they are punished for and more of what you reward them for. As they say, you can shave a sheep hundreds of times, but you can only skin it once. The sheep, of course, is the taxpayer.

Politicians cannot, for some reason, grasp this concept. If they keep raising taxes on everything we do, from driving, using water, smoking cigarettes, and a thousand other things, they will only keep losing revenue and then have to start searching for somewhere else to overtax us. You have to remember, as they search for more avenues to tax us to death, businesses and entities do not pay taxes, they only pass the burden onto us, the taxpayer. The problem is, we taxpayers are always the ones who will have to foot the bill while these politicians are running rampant with blank checks.

Punitive taxation (especially without representation) should be illegal and the lawmakers, who put such taxation in place, should have to stand trial to answer as to why they do this to the American citizens. All I can say is this; our politicians are going to keep taxing average Americans to death until the citizens actually start resorting to violence. This may be the only way to get through to the spend-thrifts in Congress. Tea Party, anyone?

You are getting screwed!!!

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03-24-2009
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Ignorant asses everywhere!

02-08-2009
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12-24-2008

M E R R Y C H R I S T M A S
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1-05-2008
Never underestimate the power of ignorant fools in great numbers. DO NOT BLAME ME! You voted for the socialist...

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10-02-2008
Here is some religion information for you in chart form. If you wanted to know. CLICK

I am sorry, but this is terrible. Clinton and Biden seem to have a Hell of a time when flying in the Middle East. CLICK

Here is the Citizens Against Government Wastes PIG BOOK. Shocking. CLICK

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09-29-2008
Welcome to a new blogger, who is battling ignorance (at her peril) on a daily basis with me. NYCNative. She has supported my book and website for a long time. Please show her some love. She has been a supporter of BearBrooks.com for a long time.

I am sorry, to all of you ignorant asses out there, but Sarah Palin has more experience than the other 3 people running in the Presidential election. Obama has NONE, Biden has NONE, and McCain has NONE. Whether Alaska is small or not is not the point. She has experience with running something related to America. Being pissed off in America is not experience. The only person in this election with experience with American politics is Palin. She has more experience than many Presidents in our past. Give her a break, assholes. She could not be any worse than the idiots of the past. Keep fighting for ignorance if you want, but I think she deserves a pass on experience on this. The greatest thing is she has fought pork spending and McCain has said he will VETO pork spending and hopefully he will fulfill his promise to VETO ALL PORK SPENDING. This is enough for me to vote for him and her.

Nancy Pelosi proves why Congress has an approval rating of 17 percent. They are trying to get a "bi-partisan" bill through Congress, but first, she has to slap the Republicans in the face with this video. This is why Americans hate politicians. I have not read the bill yet to determine whether it is a pork-ladened mess or not so I cannot say if it should have been passed or not. We will soon see.

I do not DO political correctness...

09-26-2008
Easy day! Tell me if this is not the best song ever recorded. Do not think of your dead relatives or loved ones or you will cry like a baby. CLICK

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09-23-2008
Here is a link for some common sense political coverage: DirtyElection.com

Signs that you are not qualified to vote: 1) You believe raising corporate taxes is a good thing. If you are too damn ignorant to know that corporations do not pay taxes you should not be voting. All taxes paid by corporations are paid by the purchasers of their goods and services. This means you and me, STUPID! 2) You think a "windfall profits tax" is a good thing. See question 1. FoxNews and other outlets have guests on their shows talking about how intelligent the American voters are. Obviously, the majority of voters are ignorant fools. By the number of Obama supporters, this is true. How else could you explain people agreeing to raise taxes on corporations and small businesses, which is basically going to raise the prices of all goods and services that poor bastards like me have to purchase on a daily basis. Sure, I love paying more money for everything...Don't you? 3) You think raising cigarette taxes a dollar a pack is a good thing. The greatest percentage of smokers are poor. Taxing poor people to enrich politicians is just wrong. 4)You think partial birth abortion is OK. Everyone is either ignorant about this or just have their eyes closed. Obama did not vote to make this illegal, but I will explain it to you so that you will understand it. A partial birth abortion is where the doctors, up until the pregnant woman's due date, will turn a baby breech and take it out legs first, leaving the head inside the mother. The doctor will then cut a hole in the back of the neck of the baby and suck the baby's brains out. I do not have a problem with abortion when done in the first 12 weeks, but this is murder and if you believe it is OK to do this then you are just FUCKED UP!!! (Sorry, there is no better way of saying it)

Fraud in the carbon offset market??? NO WAY! You mean the complete fraud, which is global warming, is corrupting people. I just cannot believe it. Talk about a day late and a dollar short. I am just pissed that I did not get in on this scam and did not purchase some of Al Gore's stock before the naive masses started to think the sky is falling. CLICK

Can someone please explain to Obama and the users of "weapons of mass ignorance" out there that we are not in a recession. STOP LYING to get votes. I wrote about this in my book and repeatedly have to discuss it. THE MEDIA CAUSES RECESSIONS. The average ignorant American would never know anything about a recession if the media did not scare them into it. Mass hysteria is happening where I live as I write this BS. The media mentioned some BS about a gasoline shortage and now every asshole in Georgia is in a panic and filling up every car, lawnmower, and gas can they own. Well, guess what? Gas stations are running out of fuel everywhere. If everyone were acting normally and filling up only when needed there would not be any problems. Thank you to the wonderful sensationalist media out there.

Sugardaddie.com Old farts looking for young women. Now that's funny.

Lindsay Lohan has a problem with Sarah Palin. WOW! I may have to rethink my political positions if Mrs. Lohan does not approve. Someone please give her a nice big cup of STFU for me. I do not think it matters though. I do not think Mrs. Lohan could stay sober enough to find the voting booth anyway. CLICK

David Duchovny is addicted to sex??? So what! ME TOO!!! CLICK

Best show on the air: Red Eye w/Greg Gutfeld

To all of you single masturbators out there. NO WORRIES. You can now get the "Talk to Me" pin. WTF CLICK

Now here is some good news. Compressed Natural Gas vehicles could be the thing of the future if people would get their crap together and implement this. Gas connectors hooked to the house to fill up your car with CNG. This has been the roadblock to getting these cars on the road...nowhere to fill them up. If the government or car makers would make it affordable to hook the car up to the house gas lines to fill up the car we could get this moving quite quickly. I LIKE IT! I am sure the government will screw it up though, as they always do. People will be trying to sell CNG to their neighbors, who do not have natural gas, and some regulation will prohibit it. Otherwise, this is a great idea.

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09-09-2008
I must be doing something right. I was banned from Facebook for being a "fake" person. I still think I crossed paths with a whining liberal and then received a bullshit excuse as to why they banned me. I consider myself a success now.

The United Nations thinks Obama would be a better pick for president. Now there is a surprise! CLICK

People are saying they are going to boycott Oprah because she will not let Sarah Palin on her show. Who cares! Oprah likes keeping her audience "STUCK ON STUPID" and "HOOKED ON FEELINGS." An ignorant audience only helps her causes.

I love how we have begged the OPEC countries to increase their oil production while we will not increase ours in America.

Atlanta's ex-corrupt-mayor Bill Campbell lied about alcoholism to try to get out of jail early. Who would have thought? CLICK

Japan is battling obesity. They are measuring waists over there. Men who have a waist over 33.5 inches and women who have a waist over 35.4 inches will get a bare-assed spanking. No really, they will get fined. CLICK

Can someone please put some damn port-a-potties out for the farm workers out there? Shitting and urinating on our produce has got to have bad results. After the government destroyed the tomato farmers this year with a big OOPS about salmonella, they then turned on jalapenos. This is one case where the government needs to bail out farmers...because they caused the whole scare that destroyed over 75% of the farmers profits where I live. CLICK

Fun fact: Where is the largest population of Japanese outside of Japan? ding,ding,ding, times up...BRAZIL. CLICK

I will join the global warming wackos on this one. This summer, someone came up with the brilliant observation that humans contributed to the flooding in Iowa. NO SHIT! I still cannot grasp why humans keep trying to redirect and conquer nature. We redirect water, keep building houses back where they flooded before, and are rebuilding New Orleans the same way it was before. No real redesigns. No major changes. Hell, I think every state bordering the ocean needs a city built below sea level. Even my sixth grade education tells me you do not build something below water level and you definitely do not rebuild a house the same way it was destroyed previously like they do in the midwest. IT WILL HAPPEN AGAIN! Duh! CLICK

OK, one more. I will answer the panic question of, why do our coasts keep washing away? WAVES, dumbasses. Again, nature is showing that it is more powerful than us narcissistic humans. The coasts have been changing forever. The only problem is, now, we keep doing idiotic things like building houses right on the edge of the ocean. Stop blaming global warming for human stupidity!

I did not get to discuss this earlier, but what happened about Jesse Jackson saying he wanted to cut Barack Obama's nuts off? CLICK For some reason the story disappeared rather quickly.

No, Barack Obama. Americans cannot speak several languages. And NO...we should not be embarrassed that we do not. I know enough Spanish to find the bathroom and get food and I do not want to go to France; therefore, why the Hell would I want to learn French. We just bail out every other broke-ass corrupt multi-lingual country out there when they need it. We are just ignorant, hardworking fools, clinging to our guns and religion. CLICK

Atlanta must have the most ignorant voters in the country. GENDER NEUTRAL ROAD SIGNS??? What the Hell? Someone said it would only cost $100 per sign to make road signs such as "men working" gender neutral. BULLSHIT! The government cannot buy a roll of toilet paper for $100. They must know their voters are ignorant fools for them to make idiotic statements about their idiotic decisions. I guess the new signs will say "Humans ahead" or "someone breathing ahead." CLICK

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