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Penis Tax !!!!

Post by Daanyeer »

Source: jogin.com
October 8, 2004
Recent political debates in Sweden have probably gone unnoticed to most of the rest of the world. For that, I envy you. But it's not really fair, so I'll share the headache.

American politics is ridiculous, we all know that; political campaigns in the US of A is a free-for-all slugfest where the contestants have been hitting below-the-belt for so long they don't even know there is such a thing as a fair fight, or "truth".

Worldwide, politics and asininity are so closely related terms they've almost become synonyms, the words are often interchangeable. The most recent political debate in Sweden though, has broken all previous records of asininity in politics, and has forever floored the bar of what constitutes serious political
debate.

Penis tax.

Basically, the idea is that if you have a penis then you should pay tax because some men beat their wifes. If you are a man then you are "collectively responsible" for how some men treat their wives. Funny, you think, but surely this is some fringe "discussion" that nobody really takes seriously, right? Wrong.

The party behind this "idea" is (of course) the Left Party, formerly (in name) the Communist Party. They don't really call themselves communists anymore, well, actually many of them do, the party chairman called himself a Leninist just four years ago. I digress.

The Left Party isn't so much a fringe party which nobody pays attention to (unlike other extremist parties), I'm ashamed to say; they are actually very involved in every political debate in Sweden, are well represented in the Parliament, and people even listen to them. Not so much because of their far-left ideals, but rather because of their aggressive position on gender "equality". I put "equality" in quotes because their proposed remedies to gender inequality and difference between the sexes all involve some form of inequality in themselves; laws that are applicable to only one sex, aggressive differentiating of men and women, so on and so forth. For a party hellbent on the mission of ridding the country of gender differences, they sure like to talk, act and legislate in concepts of "men" versus "women", instead of a more humanist, gender neutral approach.

It is my opinion that if you constantly insist on creating and referring to groups, you create conflict and separatism between people who otherwise would think of themselves as belonging to the same group, instead of standing on opposite sides of a brand new fence.

Case in point; the tension, differences, conflicts and intensity between "men" and "women" has -- from my perspective -- escalated in scale and scope as the Left Party has created these separate groups of society. The awful truth is that before this misandrist campaign of theirs I didn't really differentiate between male and female politicians -- a politician's party affiliation, and their ability to argue for their cause, was much more significant. It's now become a severe case of "them" versus "us", where previously I saw no such conflict. I've begun to differentiate between men and women in politics.

But, back to their suggestion; men (humans with penises) should pay tax because some men (a relatively scarce few humans who also have penises) are violent to their wives.

As members of society, I think we all, to an equal degree, have a responsibility for what is going on in society, including the bad stuff, the crime. But I don't see any reason why I, simply because I too was born with a penis, should be held more responsible for how some men treat their wives, than, say, my girlfriend or my mother is.

The Left Party comes to this conclusion because they think of men as a "group" who are violent against another "group": women. If you are a member of the first "group" then you are collectively responsible for what some of the people in the same "group" do.

It has been argued by myself and others that if men are responsible for what some men do simply because of "group" affiliation; does that mean, too, that law-abiding immigrants are responsible for the unproportional amount of crime that their "group" are responsible for?

Apparently not, in an interview, one of the most active and vocal members of the Left Party, former chairman (eh, chairwoman) Gudrun Schyman, said "quite the opposite, immigrants is a group of people who contribute something to society".

Coming from a person woman who belong to the "group" Communists, one might think she has some "collective responsibility" of her own. Not to mention the fact that she is notorious for "forgetting" to pay her taxes.

All my life, I've voted for the Social Democrats, who share some values and collaborate to some degree with the Left Party. I will never again vote for any party which collaborates with the Left Party, to any degree what-so-ever.
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