Death and Taxes

What Have You Done For Me Uncle Sam?

Taxes. Argument over unfair taxation is basically how this country was founded. How do we so soon forget what unfair taxation looks like. I believe taxes like income and land taxes are unfair to Americans. I worked for that money. The government did nothing to earn it. Most people would come back with the argument, well what about your social security and Medicare? Well by the time I’m old enough to use that it’ll all be gone. There will be nothing left. No aid for the devout tax payer who relied on the government to take good care of when he was unable to work.  And land tax? Sure we live in the united states, but did they buy the land? Well technically yes some of it, but they make more in a year of land tax than it ever cost them to buy it in the first place. Why should they be able to tax the land that I bought, where I will build or grow things that will require supplies, which are taxed and to top it offI will buy it all with my already taxed income?  Doesn’t it make perfect sense?  Now I’m not one hundred percent against taxes. I believe taxes to build infrastructure (things we actually use, roads, bridges, side, walk, etc, etc, etc) is necessary. In this day and age we need roads to keep the system running like a well-oiled machine. Every American is affected by roads no matter where they live.  I believe a flat tax would be a better less complicated way to run the tax system. Everybody pays the same percent of their income to the government If your poor, middle or upper class. Let them sort out what percent goes where and who gets what amount of taxpayer dollars for that year.  There’s only two sure things in life, death and taxes. There’s no way around it. I can sit here all day and complain, but in the end I’m going to have to pay my taxes.

 

 The articles we have recently read in history are very shocking and show the true grizzly potential of the human mind in certain situations. Events such as the holocaust and Nanking raise the question how can people hate at such a severe degree.  I believe this assignment was good because it has educated students on a subject that usually isn’t brought up in detail in history classes. It needs to be remembered.

Japan’s atrocities are some of the most fierce I have read about. Their use of humans as basically lab rats is disgusting.  The Japanese seemed to have a more brutal or savage approach to how they treated their enemies. You can see this in examples such as what happened in Nanking and other atrocities such as the baton death march.  What really struck me was the use of civilian and prisoners of war as live bayonet practice. That’s just upsetting. There was no value for human life.

I believe the atrocities carried out by the Japanese parallel the atrocities of Nazi Germany, but I believe Nazi Germany’s holocaust is still more of tragedy. The sheer numbers   of people killed by the Nazis is on a scale rarely seen before.  The Nazis indiscriminately tortured, executed, gassed, tested and burned women, children and the elderly just as the Japanese did but the Nazis did it in much greater numbers.   They tried to exterminate all inferiors for god’s sake that’s just evil.

I also condemn America for making such a shady deal with the Japanese government to forget 731 in exchange for their knowledge of biological weapons. It’s as if the lives that were lost in 731 didn’t even matter. It doesn’t make sense why we didn’t punish the Japanese. And it really makes you think why did America get into world war two in the first place? Was it all a just to gain the technological advancements of two rising super powers?  We gained so much from WW2 and others lost so much. It was

I believe the articles we read don’t shed nearly enough light on the atrocities of Nazi Germany and paint a picture of a more brutal Japan. I’m not saying what japan did was less awful than what the Nazis did I’m just saying the amount killed by the Japanese does not even compare to the amount killed in the holocaust. So my vote goes to Nazi Germany.