The First Congregational United Church of Christ has invited other churches to speak out against state legislation injurious to the poor and non-white. The event will be held at noon next Monday on the steps of the Buncombe County Courthouse. I realize encouraging people to think for themselves and take risks is considered white supremacism. Here we go nonetheless. Speakers will cover:
- Taxes – Poor people don’t pay income taxes or tourism taxes. Government gets the poor people’s money through the lottery, which should be abolished, and taxes on vice, which makes people poor. I am not aware of any pigmentation taxes.
- Public Education – I hear the General Assembly is trying to increase school choice, so if people live near a run-down, crime-ridden school, they may send their kids somewhere better and put the den of iniquity out of business.
- The Racial Justice Act – I haven’t heard that any bills on the topic are active in the General Assembly now, but I understand last year’s revisions by Paul Stam were intended to help get dangerous people off the streets by refining definitions of what constitutes profiling. Maybe poor people are supposed to like having minority killers at-large.
- Hindering Access to the Voting Booth – The laws are designed to prevent people from voting more than once, and I support this level of hindrance. They also support the votes of people semi-active and semi-engaged enough to make some sacrifice and effort to get to the polls, rather than those of people hanging out in the middle of the day interested in taking a free ride on a bus whereon volunteers pass out pre-marked ballots. Are poor and minority voters supposed to like the choices of puppet voters?
- Healthcare – Obamacare will nationalize another fifth of the economy. Socialism makes everybody equally poor. Those initially footing the bills for free healthcare for everybody will have less to donate to poor people for other causes, or might continue to add to the number of poor people scrambling for limited resources with layoffs.
- And More – As they say on the commercial, “Come on, sheeple!” Don’t take the advice of people who want to hold you down to make you their little booboo. Find friends that encourage creativity and encourage you.
Two things I do not expect are (1) upholding of IRS tax code prohibitions on candidate endorsements by 501(c)(3) organizations, and (2) dupe-makers who read this refraining from alleging I am the paid robot of some rich white guy.