The Monthly Rag

Holy Crap! We have gone Digital!

Hello all! I have returned from a short stint to Realityville riding on the Wage Slave Express. Yes, I have a steady job. Been the same job for the past 9 years, but who’s counting? So, as you noticed, the Rag has gone digital. We finally caved to all those many requests that were pouring in from all of you, our legions of followers. Did we do this to save the trees? Nope. How about the pollution that transporting this zine would cause? Don’t care about that either. We did this because we are all out of the millions that we started with and had to find another avenue to push our opinions on you. This way is cheaper and that is all there is to it.

I usually have a point to this mayhem so I guess I need to get started. Did you know that the California State Board of Equalization has mandated that all private sales ventures require a state produced permit to allow any sort of transactions in monies? No? Well it is true. What does this mean to you? I’m going to tell you. That means that you can now be fined for having a garage sale because you do not have the permit to do so. Not to mention that you can be jailed for tax evasion if you do not give the state their portion of any income that you create from such a venture. Even little kids with a lemonade stand. Jail time and a fine for little Bobby and Susie for selling tart yellow water to the neighbors. Tax evaders at the age of 8.

I hear the BS cry loud and clear, but I am not lying. This State has decided that all the stuff you no longer have a use for and decide to sell has to be taxed. Items that you have already paid taxes on. Items that you are selling well below their purchase price need to be taxed. Taxes are normally levied on profits, not losses.

This is the Benevolent Dictator type of elected government that we now have. A bunch of over paid, under smart toadies ruining this place. Pretty soon we will have thought crime. Taxed every time you orgasm. Fined for the total amount of electrons are used on each blog that you write. That is the future my friends. Call me crazy (don’t knock the foil hat) but that is where this will all lead. Our basic rights as citizens of this state and country are disappearing every day. My rights are already gone.

The guy behind me grows pot. How do I know? The stuff stares at me from over my 6 foot privacy fence. The same fence I might add that his neglected dogs like to destroy. This guy is a complete piece of work. So he may or may not have a permit to grow this stuff, I really do not care. What I care about is the fact that I have to deal with the smell of skunk and the allergies that come with the crap that he is growing. Where do I file a complaint that I cannot use my own yard due to his crops infringing on my rights? The ACLU protects his rights to downgrade my neighborhood and draw in unsavory characters as “his prerogative”, but what about the average law abiding citizen? Methinks this will be an on going battle.

More to come later…