"Then when Judas...saw that He had been condemned, he felt remorse and returned the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders, saying, `I have sinned by betraying innocent blood.' But they said, `What is that to us? See to that yourself!' And he [Judas] threw the pieces of silver into the temple sanctuary and departed; and he went away and hanged himself." - Matthew 27:3-5
"And they [the chief priests and elders] conferred together and with the money bought the Potter's Field as a burial place for strangers." - Matthew 27:7
Next year, I will be receiving BLOOD MONEY in the form of a tax cut on Social Security. I do not want to spend this money; and even giving it to charity has the effect desired by the thieves who passed this abortion. What to do?
I had this idea, but
THIS IDEA ONLY FOR PEOPLE WHO AREN'T DESPERATE ENOUGH TO NEED THIS EXTRA MONEY.
Believe me, I have sympathy for anyone who is living hand to mouth or waiting for unemployment to run out or in foreclosure. But, if you are in that increasingly vanishing demographic of true middle class, with disposable income, and you want to
put your money where your Progressive mouth is
then,
Take your Social Security refund and sign it over to a local government entity.
Give it to your town or to your county or to your state government. Perhaps its even possible to stipulate how it shall be spent, like for schools. (I mean the rich give money with conditions ALL THE TIME.)
Second, perhaps a charitable donation to a local government is considered tax deductable at the federal or state level. If someone knows, please comment.
This idea is very simple. You do it all by yourself. No party, no middleman. Just people taking a bribe of blood money from the Village and using it in the way we begged the Village to use it - to bail out our local and state governments.
When you make out your check, you can say your contribution comes from The Judas Fund.
Hell, if enough people do this, Progressives might actually become popular at the local level. Also, this is an opportunity to show all those sanctimonious, tithing fundamentalists that we think the best way to contribute to "charity" is to support public services.
I haven't done the math, so this is all guesswork, but...
If the total giveback in SS taxes is $120 B a year, and perhaps, 20% of people at the top end give the blood money back, that might account for 30 or 40% of the total giveback - somewhere between $36 and $48B per year.
Last I heard the state and local shortfalls are in the range of $75B - $100B. (Does anyone have an accurate number?)
So, bottom line, we could cover 30-50% of the state shortfall while telling the Village to go fuck themselves.
We don't have to pass any laws. We don't have to call any passive-aggressive political sellouts.
We just write a check once a month to our local governments.
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This is so simple that its either moronic or genius. I need some feedback here.