“Let me devour your flesh because I know how to use it better than you do”
“This is an almost perfect metaphor for your government at work,” explains Klaven:
I’m sure many of you remember that film, “Night of the Living Dead.” Ordinary people take shelter in a house, barring the doors and boarding the windows against zombies, who reach in through any opening they can find in order to devour the people’s flesh and turn the living into zombies like themselves …
Zombies are dead creatures that don’t produce anything and must devour the lives of others, even though once everyone becomes a zombie, there’ll be nothing left for anyone to eat. Government is exactly the same. It doesn’t start businesses, it doesn’t create wealth, it doesn’t invent anything. It devours all the stuff that you make.
You bar the door against property tax, they come in through a sales tax. You board the windows against income tax, they reach in through an energy tax …