Sorry Elvis, You May As Well Come Back Home!

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“Fight Against Stupidity And Bureaucracy”

We all know politicians and their bureaucratic lap dogs are stupid. We also know that they fanny around trying to find ways to steal more of our money and then waste it on laws and other interference we neither want nor need.

But sometimes their efforts are just staggeringly unnecessary and stupid.

Did you know, for example, that the morons in the US Congress wasted time, money, energy, not to mention paper and ink, discussing and clarifying that any income earned by U.S. residents while in space would be subject to U.S. taxes!

During the Apollo missions we already witnessed the nonsensical spectacle of national heroes like Neil Armstrong having to be processed through US Customs and Immigration when they returned from the Moon. Talk about bureaucratic jobsworth claptrap!

Now the idiots in Congress have declared that colonists on Mars, of whom there are currently, and for the foreseeable future, none, zero and nil, will be taxed on the income they earn while en route to, and living on, the Red Planet. I suppose to continue the madness, the US authorities will try to make the Martians themselves – if we find any – subject to US taxes too!

It’s enough to make you get your antennae in a tangle!

It’s all because the US government is broke and because it wants to have total control over its citizens (not the uber rich ones, of course, they can do whatever they want). Unlike most countries, the United States uses a ‘worldwide’ system of taxation, under which it taxes all income earned by U.S. citizens and residents, regardless of where it is earned.

The arrogance of a ‘worldwide’ catchment is apparently not enough, now America thinks it must have a ‘pan-galactic’ tax system.

At seven times the size of the humongous novel ‘War and Peace’, and at around four million words and counting, the US Tax Code is already monstrously over-sized, but with the whole Universe to cater for it’s only going to get bigger and more complicated. For example, I foresee vast sections trying to explain how to cater for an Earth year of 365 days being factored into a Martian year of 687 days.

Make that getting your antennae in a knot rather than just a tangle.

But no doubt the bureaucrats back on Earth are already salivating at the prospect of drafting even more crap.

As for those with Martian ambitions?

Sorry Elvis, you might as well come back home. We miss you!

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What Am I?

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“Fight Against Stupidity And Bureaucracy”

When I was a kid there used to be a game we played called “What Am I?” where someone would describe a thing or a job or a place and the rest would try to guess what it was from the description.

How about we play that game today?

What Am I?

I was born out of an idea from a politician wanting to make a name for himself.

I was then handed to an incompetent government.

I was built by an incompetent company,

That was chosen through an equally incompetent bidding process.

I have cost more than half a billion dollars of your money – so far.

Even the Government Accountability Office estimates I will cost about $2 billion to build-out and operate in 2014.

I am a computer program.

I am full of bad code like you would not believe.

I did not work right when they first launched me.

I have been subjected to major code renovations, overhauled, prodded, poked and fiddled with and even hit with a hammer and I still don’t work right.

Try to login to me and I will reject you.

If by a miracle you manage to access me I will fail to load drop-down menus and other crucial components that you need to successfully access my information.

In fact I will do my utmost to prevent uninsured Americans in the 36 states I serve from purchasing healthcare at competitive rates which is supposed to be my primary purpose.

If eventually I do get going my bureaucratic and administrative costs are going to will spiral out of control.

And I expect I will break down frequently and require much attention and money spent to keep me right.

I will continue to provide a low quality of service at an unbelievably high cost.

So what am I?

Well, if you haven’t guessed already I am “Healthcare.gov” aka the web site for Obamacare!

And the question that all Americans should be asking is, “If the masterminds behind Obamacare can’t even get a simple website up and running, what kind of a mess are they going to make implementing the rest of this act?”

Affordable healthcare is a laudable goal, but this disastrous piece of ill thought out legislation is not the way to achieve it.

Yes we can? No I’m afraid we can’t!