In an election campaign, no matter what level of government it’s for, the numb dicks are all promising to lower taxes, lower taxes, lower the fucking taxes (yet still spend more on education, health and perks for politicians).

The whole system of campaign promises is like a spark plug up the clacker.

When normal people stand up and make a promise to someone else, they call it a contract and there are repercussions when they fail to do what they said.

Not so with politicians. Basically anything a politician says is worth about as much as the toilet paper I wiped my arse with this morning.

Newspapers, when quoting a politician, should include a little image of a turd next to the quote to remind us what it is worth.

This is what I will pay for view

On the news they could show the turd superimposed over the speaker’s head, and on radio the sound effects of a turd splashing into the bowl would be appropriate.

I would love to see a survey of how many political campaign promises are actually fulfilled.

The only way to make politicians accountable is to make promises legally binding. I can already hear the politicians whining that their promises can’t be binding because the situation might change unexpectedly, disasters happen, yada yada yada.

But at the moment the system is a farce.

If politicians had contractual obligations to deliver promises (as every other person in society is obliged to do, even though we can’t predict the future either), they would have to be a lot more careful, they would have to implement better contingency plans, and we wouldn’t have all these glamorous vote-gaining “promises” that they have no intention of fulfilling.

Anyway, back to taxes. Do we really want to lower taxes?

The answer is no. The only way to provoke people into changing the Way Things Are is to tax the arse out of the populace.

In our day and age, people are too lazy, too slovenly and too fat-up-to-the-eyeballs to get off their arses unless they’re provoked to the point where they’ve got no money to keep the TV running.

In days gone by, our current levels of taxation would have been easily enough to incite rebellion.

Alas, no longer. Now we need to up the taxation rate to around 80 or 90% before the populace will rise up and cast down their brazen over-whores.

And that’s just income tax. With all the hidden taxes that people pay (called rates, duties, surcharges, excise, or any other number of words that mean the same thing), we should be able to get the effective level of taxation to above 100%.

Only then will the bees be stirred enough to do something about it. Only then will they storm the bastions of filth and corruption that have infiltrated the highest levels of our society.

This world needs a rebellion like Vanilla Ice needs to destroy every copy of all his songs. And like Vanilla Ice needs to learn how to punch. Vanilla Ice is a pussy.