Sunday, July 9, 2017

Black Tax... Comments

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Bill Vaughan once wrote 'the tax collector must love poor people because he is creating so many of them. 'And s/he never stops collecting. We paid and we pay and you will pay until you have nothing left. You pay as you earn personal income tax, you pay value added tax, you pay for company income tax, you pay for fuel levy, you pay property tax, you pay direct and indirect taxes, and you pay and pay and you will keep paying and Mr tax man will keep on taking and receiving and like the grave he never gets satisfied.

But there is this one other tax that kicks a lot of blacks in the face though they are already on the ground, we call it black tax, Mr tax man doesn't seem to know about it, but it's Mr tax mans former and present bosses that created it. It is responsible for many young people growing old without having any tangible assets to their name because they had to pay and many are still paying black tax, it pays for funerals of the elderly that were underdeveloped, exploited, miseducated and left to die without anything for themselves or those they leave behind. Black tax support many families than state grands which is money that was taken by the tax man anyways. Black tax pays for medication for the poor sick families without medical aid and stuff like that, and the sad truth is many dies if this tax is not available. Black tax builds houses for families that have lived for generations in shacks which are concentrations camps and scrap yards in our neighborhoods.
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