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Accentuating the Liberal in Classical Liberal: Advocating Ascendency of the Individual & a Politick & Literature to Fight the Rise & Rise of the Tax Surveillance State. 'Illigitum non carborundum'.

Liberty and freedom are two proud words that have been executed from the political lexicon: they were frog marched and stood before a wall of blank minds, then forcibly blindfolded, and shot, with the whimpering staccato of ‘equality’ and ‘fairness’ resounding over and over. And not only did this atrocity go unreported by journalists in the mainstream media, they were in the firing squad.

The premise of this blog is simple: the Soviets thought they had equality, and welfare from cradle to grave, until the illusory free lunch of redistribution took its inevitable course, and cost them everything they had. First to go was their privacy, after that their freedom, then on being ground down to an equality of poverty only, for many of them their lives as they tried to escape a life behind the Iron Curtain. In the state-enforced common good, was found only slavery to the prison of each other's mind; instead of the caring state, they had imposed the surveillance state to keep them in line. So why are we accumulating a national debt to build the slave state again in the West? Where is the contrarian, uncomfortable literature to put the state experiment finally to rest?

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Monday, July 20, 2015

Bloody Companies Office Bureaucratic Bullshit. Is this the Monstrous Money Laundering Act Again?



RIP the economy (and any privacy you ever had). This National government is generating far more red tape than the previous Labour one ever did. To capture a minor subset of transactions, every single commercial (and private) transaction, financial (where your bank is looking to report you to police if irregularities are found), property, et al, are being delayed, and weighed done by cost on cost on cost on penalty of the snitch society. God I want out.



I’m trying to get out of all independent trusteeships at the moment, because with wanting to live in the (gloriously isolated) Mahau Sound for six months, the physical requirements of witnessing, et al,  involved on, for example, property transactions, with our Kafka-esqe money laundering legislation are too convoluted and physically onerous. (Due to these same dopey laws, a friend has spent three hours recently trying to open a child’s bank account. And I remember reading someone on Twitter trying to do that and giving up.)

How much money is Judith Collins’ monstrous Money Laundering and Financing of Terrorism Act costing our economy? I’m starting to think it’ll be catching up to tax compliance.

Anyway, so today I go to file the first of this month’s annual company (client) returns to be told on filing all returns from this point I have to have directors birth dates (okay) and place of birth (what the fuck!). Does any office reading this blog hold client place of birth? Because the caution screens have said I won't be able to file returns without this information I've not been through to see if place of birth is simply country, or province and country; but the point remains unchanged. Plus the error screen says place of birth, not country of birth.

[Update: after completing my annual return, it's province/town and country. There's a lot of purple language in this office this afternoon.

Ultimately, here was my problem: changes to the Companies Act ... and so it goes, on and on.]

So:







Seriously, RIP the economy (and any privacy you ever had). This National government is generating far more red tape than the previous Labour one ever did. To capture a minor subset of transactions, every single commercial (and private) transaction, financial (where your bank is looking to report you to police if irregularities are found), property, et al, are being delayed, and weighed done by cost on cost on cost on penalty of the snitch society. God I want out.


2 comments:

  1. Do not question the state, Mark. It does not make mistakes.

    I was listening to a podcast about King James the first; there was an idea, still in force it seems, that the King can do no wrong; if there was a error it was his advisers who took the blame.

    This was an elegant fiction that suited all parties (except for the Monarch's advisers who had to take the fall). Over time of course this idea made more sense when the Monarch became a figurehead but I think some bureaucrats have the mistaken idea that the state is infallible;

    Of course, this is what James's son Charles the first thought and Cromwell cut his head off.

    Now, those were the days!

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    1. Hah. The money laundering legislation is a massive inconvenience to everyone to catch a tiny subset of transactions. It's nuts.

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