Breathing Tax: America's Next Monster to be Unleashed

By Craig: So I have been quite neglectful in updating this Blog. I noticed that it has been over a month since I have posted so I figure that It would be a good time to write about a topic that has been swirling along in my mind for quite some time. A number of years ago I wrote a short story called Breathing Tax. Basically it was about a guy who lived in a futuristic society that managed to control the amount of Nitrogen/Oxygen that was in the air. A certain company with the help of the government was able to tax the citizenry on the amount of air that they consumed. The homes that people lived in were equipped with a system that delivered the correct Nitrogen/Oxygen ratio through a ventilation system. Going outside required a mask unless one was fortunate to live in one of the huge resorts that were set up to accommodate the wealthy inhabitants. The average citizen went to work in a warehouse type facility that created the tools and products that kept themselves in servitude to the oligarchs that ran the world.

The story that I wrote back in 1991 has never made it to the computer or back then a word processor. It is scratched in longhand on lined yellow paper where it has been neglected in a box or drawer for the past quarter of a century. Recently I have decided to update this story in the hopes of perhaps getting it published. Who knows! Maybe somebody reading this blog is a publisher interested in the idea. Anyway, after careful reflection I cannot help but ponder on the changes that our society has undergone in the last 25 years. The internet has made it possible for people to find out just about anything they want on their neighbors. There is little privacy in this techno-world where everything is recorded and identities become linked to keypads and hard drives. The post 9-11 world has been a witness to countless excuses to insidiously and furtively whisk away peoples liberties and freedoms. It is a slow process that people hardly notice but when it is all said and done they become nothing more than automated cogs subservient to the capitalist-oligarch machine that has created laws that make it virtually impossible for anyone to start up a personal business without a huge amount of capital to get started. Young people are forced into going into debt after taking out gargantuan sized high interest student loans and entering a job market that (pardon my French) sucks! Often times these loans are never paid off. Our government (The United States) is a travesty that thrives on taxing the citizen to death. It is how they keep middle America under control. Private agencies like the IRS and the Federal Reserve which are run by greedy corporate scumbags are given a carte blanche when it comes to controlling the unwary masses who are blinded by their own partisan politics which are nothing more than fronts created by the oligarch run media outlets. If one is to survive being caught in the web of this Hegelian dialectic one must be careful to sift through the nonsense for truth!

And then there is the Tax...the breathing tax...when will it come to pass? Perhaps even now there is some unscrupulous American dirt bag with a light bulb going off in his head and a malicious grin that is getting ready...