Selective Socialism & Dickle-Down Consumption Taxes

Made a joke about this concept -- assuming it is one -- this AM, pre-coffee. Not always a good idea. I believe this one might just fly though, given some of the other nonsense that has been floating around the Twit-filled virtual-verse, mostly by Conservatarians, about inventing a new consumption instead of income tax.

They are running from the idea of equality and desperately need something to anchor their philosophical babies on. Only thing is we know all too readily that this is just another ill-informed Reaganesque slice of deception intended to refill the dickle-down septic system.

Still, if digitalized in the name of blended values, I'm game to give empowered technology a shot.

Who says consumption (i.e., sales-type) assessments have to be blindly equal? Instantaneous monetary systems are more than capable of making generally agreed upon classification assignments of the size of the tax we each pay as we conclude any transaction. Them little nano monsters the rich embed in the financial sector can play both sides of opportunity if they are programmed too!

Why shouldn’t the uber wealth-gluttons pay, say, 20% tax on basic necessities while mere humans pay … say … 2%? If we are burdened with tax assignments, we might as well use them to make the buying field balanced.

I wasn’t around when it was done but setting up Social Security assessments such that everyone paid the same for a limited period of time likely made some semblance of actuarial sense -- I’m willing to concede that (though I’m really skeptical about what history has recorded). But even so, the game has changed and the exploitatively well “algorithmed” profit-takers are advantaging universal access and prosperity at the expense of the rest of us. Blending the values of profit and purpose can easily compensate for this, if we might be willing to label that approach a form of … perhaps … selective socialism?*

Democratic socialism sounds good to some but seems naive in the face of massively manipulative online resource games.

And given this, I’m willing to bet someone else’s money to at least give it a try.

* In fairness, others previously came up with this term. I’m twisting it to a particular snarkism. And "dickle-down" as a term ... not sure that worked at all, but I do like the feel as it rolls off my brain.