What if you set out to tax stupidity? How would you go about it? It would make sense to have the more stupid pay more. We have the perfect systems in place. The perfect tax on stupidity is gambling. The poorer and more stupid you are the more lottery tickets you buy. If you have a little more money you can go to Las Vegas and get your pockets cleaned in style.
Remember when the Indians scared buffalo and ran them over a cliff? That works with people. You scare people and sell them guns. You scare people and take their money and give it to the military. Remember all the big scares that never happened? Remember Y2K? Remember Ebola? On it goes, get people scared and take their money.
It is a simple fact, the dumber you are the more you pay for everything. Who pays the highest credit rates? Who pays 8 dollars for a pack of cigarettes? Who watches QVC on television?
Sadly our country runs on abusing the ignorant. A good supply of stupid people is essential to so many industries. Watch people buy and use fireworks. When you buy and use fireworks you are literally burning money. Who buys the biggest quantities? Yup, it is the guy who is broke and drunk.
How about tattoos? Isn't it usually the guy with the least brain cells that has the most ink on his skin?
The highest tax on stupidity is some silly war. Some poor kid thinks he is going to be a hero. He goes to the wrong country and gets killed. That is Iraq. That is the highest possible tax on stupidity. The stupidity tax has a way of imposing itself. My daughter will talk on the phone while she drives in traffic. She may pay a very high tax for her stupidity.
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