Should government be allowed to tax everything? Should elected officials have the power and the latitude to tax every transaction, every activity, every nonactivity, and every single little thing in our brief little lives? As it is, government already taxes income, production, consumption, ownership, death, and sin. And if they wanted to they could tax “being”; not being itself, as in Being, but particularized being. It’s called capitation, whereby one is taxed for existing, for being here. This “metaphysical tax,” capitation, is even provided for in the original Constitution, see Article 1. Section 9. Paragraph 4. The reason we don’t have a capitation is because it couldn’t raise much money. With a capitation, which is a head tax, everyone would be taxed the same amount, (except, of course, for those Americans with more than one head). Therefore, under a capitation the evil One Percenters would have the same tax bills as would hobos,...(Read Full Article)