does the middle class pay enough in taxes to pay for itself - it's own services, it's own government, it's own roads, etc?

the middle class has been brainwashed by the capitalist class for decades (centuries) to think it pays too much in taxes, as that makes it easier for the capitalists to cut their own taxes when they gain power. however, the reality is that the answer is no and it's not even close. 

in modern capitalist societies, the middle class is by far the largest recipient of welfare, a larger recipient of welfare than the working class is, and that is not sustainable. that will lead to collapse.

the middle class needs to stop getting welfare checks from the capitalists (and from the workers) and start being forced to pay for itself.

how much should each class pay in taxes?

1. the lumpenproletariat does not pay taxes and must be a recipient of taxation, by definition.

2. the working class (the proletariat) should not pay taxes, they should be a recipient of taxation.

3. the middle class (the bourgeoisie) should pay for itself and provide a subsidy to the proletariat.

4. the upper class (the capitalist class) should surrender virtually all surplus value to the state.

i took a very long shower this morning and scraped off a large amount of filth, including in my hair, but i'm not done yet, i'm just getting started. there is again some kind of film in my hair that is clearly intended to be volumizing but is just killing it because i don't have that hair type. i then fell asleep around 13:00 and woke up looking very dirty when the shopper's delivery guy came to drop off my estrogen, as a result of the humidity in here and the return to escalating weight loss now that the androgens have worn off again allowing my face to start to decompose, which is what i want, even if the short term outcome is disgusting. there seems to be some kind of mild infection on my cheek as a result of the unwanted androgen injections.

so, i'm going to eat a little early and get back in the shower for the night.

i'm confident that the place is locked down to the extent that getting in here would require going through a floor. i wouldn't put it past them and think they have already done that but it will help me understand where to put the cameras moving forward if i find that. i have no alternative tactic but trial and error. i will probably spend most of the weekend in the shower and hope to be done scraping the filth off by monday.

i am going to resist the rebranding around the gst rebate and continue to call it a rebate rather than a benefit. i'm concerned that the rebranding may be a step towards cancelling it, and i need to warn the state that it will get a lot of push back if it tries to do that. canadians ripped down one conservative government over this and we'll rip down another.

the language of a rebate reflects the reality - that the gst is a regressive consumption tax and that low income people end up over taxed as a result of the gst (while the "middle class" is extraordinarily under taxed today in canada). a progressive and over due tax shift in canada would be to increase the gst rebate, because the poor continue to be over taxed, and to increase taxes on the middle class (who are under taxed) in order to pay for it.

changing the language from rebate to benefit obscures the fact that the purpose of the rebate is to balance out inequities in the tax system. it instead makes it look like a welfare check that could be cancelled by a future right-wing government, when it's meant to address the inequities caused by the fact that across the board consumption taxes are not progressive in nature.

frankly, it's the kind of harebrained bullshit that donald trump would come up with.

so, i will be continuing to use the language of gst rebate and will not be using the language of groceries benefit.

i've had to restart a 10 gb upload to youtube three times tonight.

running the shower and the stove together for four or five hours will clear the smoke out. the upstairs tenants don't like that because they don't like the heat. so, they shouldn't smoke in or around the house, then. it's really not complicated.

how am i actually feeling, in actual objective reality?

i was clearly drugged in early to mid september, around the 10th, a little before. they had to have snuck in when i was outside. my weight has for that reason been stubborn this month. but my weight has now been coming down more predictably over the last few days and i am feeling better than i was a few weeks ago, when i was struggling to metabolize the drugs and overwhelmingly exhausted as a result of it.

i am in need of a couple of days of long showers to clean off some of the side effects of the drugs, which have worn off. i'll be fine once i get through that week or so of long, hot showers.

right now, i objectively look disgusting and dirty and filthy and gross and in need of cleaning myself and anybody excited about that kind of dirt and filth is mentally ill and/or mentally retarded. i am aware that some third world societies have developed a disgusting fetish for the kind of filth and poor hygienic practices that white people eliminated from our society around 100 years ago with the invention of mass sanitation, which led to improved human health and medical outcomes. i find this fetishization of poor hygiene (in some cases it's even tied to ecclesiastical law, which i have no interest in or patience for) to be contemptible and deplorable. it should not be approached with relativism. it should be looked down upon as objectively backwards and as something in need of correction.

i'm dirty and need to clean up. i have not been living up to my own standards because i had a lot of work to do in dirty spaces. but i'm done cleaning in the work area. it's time to clean up.

they're just filthy, disgusting, despicable people and their attitude is reflective of their poor hygiene and poor levels of sanitation.

if these pieces of shit don't leave me alone, if i catch them in or near my space, i will not show leniency in my retributive actions.

i'm not a christian. i don't believe in turning cheeks. i believe in revenge.

the smell doesn't seem to be localized in the house. it's coming in from outside. but i think it's the stalkers and they're upstairs.

ugh.

i think they're logging me out of my accounts because they think my gender identity has something to do with my online persona, which is so speciously stupid that my head hurts. but i just woke up after a short nap (i'm in front of the chromebook because i'm uploading a video for my landlord and it's taken all night) due to the overwhelming stench of something burning, and 'm trying to figure out if it's a bad cook or a stupid, worthless, useless eating crack head.

the americans are disgusting and stupid.

europe and canada should have a joint policy of intentionally maintaining high diesel prices to discourage use. diesel should be expensive and farmers and truckers should stop using it because the cost is prohibitive and using it makes them less competitive.