It was about keeping you in your place.
Income tax isn’t about making sure society runs smoothly. It’s about making sure you don’t get ahead. It’s about making sure the people who actually work, the people who build, the people who create, stay just desperate enough to keep grinding, to keep hoping, to keep playing the game.
Because if you get too successful? If too many people like you make it out? Then the whole system collapses. Then people start asking questions. Then people stop needing the government to keep the world running, and that’s the last thing they want. Because the moment people realize they don’t need a bloated bureaucracy leeching off their work, the game is over. The entire structure, built on endless forms, endless deductions, endless audits, crumbles into irrelevance. And those in power? They can’t have that. They don’t know how to make anything. They don’t know how to run a business, how to create wealth, how to build anything beyond a web of rules designed to keep themselves entrenched.
So they keep the machine running, making sure just enough people stay afraid. That’s the secret to income tax—it’s not about the money. If they wanted money, they’d tax every transaction the same. If they wanted money, they’d make it simple. A flat rate, no deductions, no loopholes, no armies of accountants. But simplicity doesn’t serve them. Simplicity doesn’t create dependence.
Dependence is what they want. They want you to need deductions. They want you to beg for relief. They want you to be terrified of making a mistake, of triggering an audit, of stepping out of line. They want you to think that you need them to navigate the system they built, even though that system only exists to siphon off the wealth of people like you.
And every year, they tweak the rules just a little bit more. They add a new form. They shift a bracket. They redefine what counts as income, what counts as an expense, what loophole they’ll allow the rich to keep and which one they’ll take away from the small business owner. Every year, the tax code gets thicker, denser, more indecipherable—not because it needs to be, but because confusion is power. If you don’t understand the system, if you’re always worried you’ve missed something, you’re easier to control.
Meanwhile, the people who should be building, the people who should be innovating, spend their days pouring over spreadsheets, hiring consultants, keeping up with shifting regulations instead of making something worthwhile. The government doesn’t make money. The government doesn’t create anything of value. It exists by taking from those who do.
And if you think you can escape? If you think you can find a way to outmaneuver them, to keep what you earn? They’ll call you a criminal. They’ll call you a tax cheat, a fraud, a threat to society. Not because you stole anything, but because you refused to be stolen from. Because in their eyes, what you earn isn’t yours—it belongs to them first, and you should be grateful they let you keep any of it at all.
But here’s the thing they don’t understand, the thing no bureaucrat, no politician, no tax collector has ever understood: the people who build, the people who create, the people who drive the world forward—they don’t need the government.
The government needs them.
And that’s why income tax exists. Not to fund roads. Not to build schools. Not to support the poor. It exists to keep you in check. To make sure that you don’t get too far ahead, that you don’t become independent, that you don’t start thinking you can live without them.
Because the moment enough people figure that out, the moment enough people refuse to play along, the whole rotten structure falls apart..
3/3
S. Tominaga AKA CSW
Jan 25, 2025
https://x.com/CsTominaga/status/1883100816191688837
https://t.me/S_Tominaga/2560
Income tax isn’t about making sure society runs smoothly. It’s about making sure you don’t get ahead. It’s about making sure the people who actually work, the people who build, the people who create, stay just desperate enough to keep grinding, to keep hoping, to keep playing the game.
Because if you get too successful? If too many people like you make it out? Then the whole system collapses. Then people start asking questions. Then people stop needing the government to keep the world running, and that’s the last thing they want. Because the moment people realize they don’t need a bloated bureaucracy leeching off their work, the game is over. The entire structure, built on endless forms, endless deductions, endless audits, crumbles into irrelevance. And those in power? They can’t have that. They don’t know how to make anything. They don’t know how to run a business, how to create wealth, how to build anything beyond a web of rules designed to keep themselves entrenched.
So they keep the machine running, making sure just enough people stay afraid. That’s the secret to income tax—it’s not about the money. If they wanted money, they’d tax every transaction the same. If they wanted money, they’d make it simple. A flat rate, no deductions, no loopholes, no armies of accountants. But simplicity doesn’t serve them. Simplicity doesn’t create dependence.
Dependence is what they want. They want you to need deductions. They want you to beg for relief. They want you to be terrified of making a mistake, of triggering an audit, of stepping out of line. They want you to think that you need them to navigate the system they built, even though that system only exists to siphon off the wealth of people like you.
And every year, they tweak the rules just a little bit more. They add a new form. They shift a bracket. They redefine what counts as income, what counts as an expense, what loophole they’ll allow the rich to keep and which one they’ll take away from the small business owner. Every year, the tax code gets thicker, denser, more indecipherable—not because it needs to be, but because confusion is power. If you don’t understand the system, if you’re always worried you’ve missed something, you’re easier to control.
Meanwhile, the people who should be building, the people who should be innovating, spend their days pouring over spreadsheets, hiring consultants, keeping up with shifting regulations instead of making something worthwhile. The government doesn’t make money. The government doesn’t create anything of value. It exists by taking from those who do.
And if you think you can escape? If you think you can find a way to outmaneuver them, to keep what you earn? They’ll call you a criminal. They’ll call you a tax cheat, a fraud, a threat to society. Not because you stole anything, but because you refused to be stolen from. Because in their eyes, what you earn isn’t yours—it belongs to them first, and you should be grateful they let you keep any of it at all.
But here’s the thing they don’t understand, the thing no bureaucrat, no politician, no tax collector has ever understood: the people who build, the people who create, the people who drive the world forward—they don’t need the government.
The government needs them.
And that’s why income tax exists. Not to fund roads. Not to build schools. Not to support the poor. It exists to keep you in check. To make sure that you don’t get too far ahead, that you don’t become independent, that you don’t start thinking you can live without them.
Because the moment enough people figure that out, the moment enough people refuse to play along, the whole rotten structure falls apart..
3/3
S. Tominaga AKA CSW
Jan 25, 2025
https://x.com/CsTominaga/status/1883100816191688837
https://t.me/S_Tominaga/2560
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