There is a good reason that taxes should be viewed as evil.  We’re not talking about the maintenance of a government to do the work of its people that it represents. Instead, modern taxation has more in common with religious practices and pagan rituals than it does the practicality of a healthy society which should concern everyone.  When a government demands that you pay your fair share, they are demanding sacrifice to them in the ways that people sacrificed to the gods, hoping to win them over in some primitive way.  Because the government wants to be your god, they are jealous of the other gods you may worship because they desire to be all-powerful as a collective entity.  In that way, a government is not unlike the cells of a body that serve a single entity, working together without concern for individual input so that the collection is then worshiped as its god.  And the taxes you pay to it are like the goats and humans that societies would kill with blood offerings to appease the insatiable hunger of that god and its evil intentions.   The concept of taxation came from the same minds that used to sacrifice their first-born son to the alters of Moloch and Baal.  Or the farmer who would hire a prostitute in front of his wife to appease the sexual perversions of Ishtar, hoping that it might rain and that he could bring in his crops.  Taxation in the modern sense is no different, and it’s just as effective.  The progressive tax act of 1913 was a compulsory evil that forced all people to sacrifice their income to the gods of government or be punished, and it set America off in a disastrous direction.  It took several years for that disaster to be fully known, but the modern result has been nothing short of a destructive society that is no different from the superstitious stupidity of the Aztecs, or the Maya, cutting out the hearts of their victims to appease the god, Huitzilopochtli, the hummingbird god of Aztec culture.

We tend to think of the people of the world who built exotic temples for their gods only to kill their people in dedication to the gods’ hunger for blood and death as primitive.  And we might snicker at their ignorance just as we pay extraordinary amounts of our income to the taxation of our governments.  And the result is just as stupid.  In our modern sense, we have transferred the concept of god to government, and tax replaces human sacrifice for appeasement.  And just as Aztec culture in the reasonably recent past would sacrifice thousands of people to Huitzilopochtli in a single night to the point where the temple steps were slippery with blood, and the people being killed would mindlessly follow the obedience of the god’s desires, we pay taxes to the god of government with the same mind numb ambition.  And it wasn’t just pagan gods, but Yahweh himself who demanded quite sophisticated sacrifices, whether it was the firstborn son of a real wife in Isaac by Abraham, or the design of King Soloman’s temple to be oriented to the east, and the high priest would kill a well-prepared goat then carry it into the Holy of Holies to sprinkle it upon the Ark of the Covenant where the laws of Israel were placed to appease God in ways we might find barbaric today.  Yet when we receive communion, we receive at church the body and blood of Christ as offered at the Last Supper and before the son of God was killed in a crucifixion.  The idea of sacrifice to the gods is hard-wired into us, and the government has grown to exploit it and become a new evil. 

China certainly sees itself as a god; its government wants to be worshipped as the collective incarnation of a deity where all the people are to serve it.  It’s to the point where they don’t even want to acknowledge the gods of any previous civilization.  There is quite an effort by the Chinese government to deny its history and prevent people from reporting on it because it wants to be the exclusive god of modern people.  And like most gods, it’s a hungry one that demands the sacrifice of the things they value to appease its insatiable appetite.  And in many ways, the World Economic Forum has adopted this position as a modern manifestation of the ancient gods of Mesopotamia.  The gods of the cosmos and the worship of planets, such as Venus, have changed names and removed the face of identity to make the worship seem less barbaric.  But instead of the blood cults of Kali in India, or the perversions dedicated to Baal in the Middle East, or the ripping out of hearts at Chichen Itza in the Yucatan peninsula, the human mind has never overcome this desire to appease some deity that it considers superior.  And the World Economic Forum wants to be worshipped in its way as a government of governments.  A god that unites them all, the world’s nations, to the same spiritual sacrifices that gave power to the gods in the past.  Taxation is just another form of human sacrifice, a recognition of supremacy for the sake of devastating power.  If a person wants to continue breathing, they will do what must be done to appease that power for the sake of sheer evil. 

I recently provided a definition of evil appropriate to the modern mind.  Evil is the destruction of something that is created.  So, of course, any form of human sacrifice to a deity is evil because it destroys what is designed to appease a god’s desire to abuse and consume.  And as mindless as most people in government are as to their role, they act by this ancient desire for appeasement with the same moral conviction.  God is hungry and wants to consume, making us all part of a vast evil.  By confiscating the wealth of culture toward the sacrifice of its value to some mindless concept of god is to play in the same destructive elements that drive the Vico Cycle worldwide, the eventual collapse of all civilization into that endless wheel of time that causes the rise and fall of all societies, of known history, theocracy, aristocracy, democracy, and anarchy.  The cause of social failure always points to the consumption of its value in the form of sacrifice to a deity that never appreciates it because the belief of its appeasement is considered the act beneficial in some way that has never been defined.  The ultimate seduction of power is that government be treated with such reverence that its people would sacrifice to it everything they value.  And in such a way, people would recognize the power of government and those who make it be.  Progressive taxation was one of the evillest concepts ever to be introduced to a society of any kind and is just as sophisticated as having a policy of killing humans and ripping their hearts out to appease a deity who otherwise could care less and can never be made happy.  So it is also of taxation and the things that can be done with that confiscated wealth that solidifies the government’s ego toward global domination. 

Rich Hoffman