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Destabilization Fund
September 26th, 2006 by epoyz
quick question: would you voluntarily give your money to this monster?:
how ’bout this fucker, who would’ve made a strong case for enforcing birth control back in the 30s?:
or maybe the Dos Los Prosperos? tingnan nyo naman ang pagmumukha ng mga tukmol na ‘to..:
no?
well, i’ve got sour news for you, jack.
we’ve practically been funding a system that’s designed to plunge and mire us deeper into decades of darkness. we’ve been behind their cause all the way, and all we get from it is a stream of bitter comedy to get us through to the next punchline.
Mild satisfaction. i guess that’s what i’m trying to shoot for here.
i’ve been toying with this idea for quite a while now, but only recently was i able to gather the resolve to act on it. enough is enough, i thought.
it started when i commissioned this very, very big project back in ‘04, and i saw how much our family’s company shelled out to pay taxes to the government. puta, sabi ko.. e ipangvi-videoke lang ni congressman to, ah.. o di kaya’y plane ticket ng tsimay ni madam gina papunta sa pagsabit nila sa RP contingent papunta sa isang UN event.. di ko ba pwede ideretso na lang yung tax ko sa talagang nangangailangan? kasi kung may ibabahay na istarlet si senador eh ayaw ko naman magkaroon ako ng contribution sa "Pag-Ibig" fund nya..
well, given everything that’s happening in our country and the way the people have been relinquishing control to these fuckers, i got to finally decide on how best to pay my taxes.
simply put, from now on i’ma be trying my darndest best to be conscious of where my income taxes go. yung mga sales tax, government taxes at VAT at EVAT, wala na kong magagawa jan. kumain ka lang ng donat at uminom ng kapeng lasang pinaglabhan ng medyas, may cut na agad ang malakanyang dun. pinipiga na nga ang sahod mo na napakababa na to begin with, yung pinagkakagastusan mo pa ng kakarampot mong sweldo, tina-tax ka pa rin nang may pasobra. e ano magagawa natin e anjan na yan? my income tax, that’s another matter. baka yun pwede ko pa gawan ng paraan.
kaya, with all due respect to our country’s government officials, eh, putanginanyoinyonayan, choke on all that money, mgapunyetakayo.
tingnan nyo yang EVAT, pangako ni madame pwehsident e gagamitin sa pagrehabilitate ng Pilipinas, kaya kahit halos manganak tayo ng binatilyong baby sa hirap e sige, lumarga ang lola mo. pagkatapos makuha ang koleksyon e pinamudmod lang ang ganansya sa mga opisyales na nakapila nung SONA. paano mo di mahahalatang bayad ang mga hayup e, magbugaw lang ng nalaglag na tutsang si GMA habang nag i speech siya e sagad ang palakpak at standing ovation ng mga balahura. akala mo may namamagang almuranas at ayaw magsiupo ang mga punyetang mangungurakot, e.
now, as i’ve said, my income tax is a different story altogether. i’m pretty sure that there is a law that would eventually thwart this, but it’s a violation that i may be willing to go to court for and explain myself if necessary.
kasi naman, here i am feeling all guilty for not giving enough to the poor and underprivileged while i treat myself every once in a while to new shoes (may dahilan yan, hehe..), eh the money that i can give to them is there all along. so i sorta consulted our accountant and found out that i can exploit a loophole: as long as i can get a receipt for my charitable contributions, it’s tax deductible.
ganun naman pala, e, e di lahat ng tax ng kumpanya namin e idederetso ko na sa mga naghihirap sa Pilipinas. tutal naman, malaki na ang gap between the rich and the poor, eh irerekta ko na sa poor ang datung ko. imagine, ang setup namin ngayon is to give 3% of the total amount of any contract that we get. that’s three pesos for every one hundred bucks, 3000 for every hundred grand. e nasa construction kaya kami. sa kabibili pa lang na materials na at-cost namin, nakatanghod na ang gobyerno. so medyo malaki talaga cut ng mga hayup sa bawat kilos ng aming kumpanya. maliit pa kami nyan. aba e, mas maganda nga yatang lahat ng perang kikitain ko dapat para sa gobyerno, e, sa nagdarahop na mamamayang pilipino na mapunta.
there’s this institution that my sister’s been telling me to support. they help out orphans, send them to school and they build housing facilities and they try to help build a better nation by giving poor people a fighting chance to advance themselves in this hellhole. i got my brother to talk to their representative, he told them of my plan, and yep, we’re going to have something arranged. they issue a receipt for my contributions, i give them all our tax money, that’s the deal.
some people may have something to say about asking a receipt for contributions to charity, but hey, i’m also a firm believer that doing something good then talking about it lessens the deed. giving anonymously is the highest form of generosity, but in this case, i really want it to be known that this money is for the country, and the government is NOT the country.
e ito ngang si siraulo gonzalez (that wasn’t a typo, girl..), feeling niya e pera daw ng gobyerno ang nagpapaaral sa mga estudyante ng UP. good thing sir conrad put this delusional, senile old fart in his place, where he wrote "..As University Student Council chair Juan Paolo Alfonso pointed out, it was the people who were paying for their education, not government. Taxpayers’ money is money that belongs to the people, not to Raul Gonzalez or his boss, Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo."
and with her blood running just the perfect shade of maroon, patricia evangelista delivered this can of whoopass of a Payback to justice secretary tanders. oh my God, i’m so proud of the kid. her writing sorta metamorphosed into something dark and beautiful, and i love it. cursed with an intellect that spawned a wisdom very much beyond her years, she’s stepping up and giving it everything she’s got to make a difference. it’s almost as if she’s trying to get herself killed, doing all this brave writing and reporting, along with all the digging-for-and-exposing-the-truth thing. damn. let’s protect this kid, please. we can’t let them get to her, too.
because if you’re thinking that this whole threat to our nation ain’t real, it’s because you ain’t affected directly. yet. if you’re thinking they can’t do anything to you, you better get your head out of your ass: they already sent a clear message to jejomar binay. nobody’s untouchable, they brazenly proclaimed with this political killing. i’m not a big binay fan, either, but what i’m saying is: if they can do this to him, then dude.. if you have more juice than mayor binay so as to feel safe and untouchable by the government, then please, by all means, holla at your boy, hear?
so, left with not much to do but bitch and complain, i’m vainly exercising the power of one. at the very least, i’ll be getting a mild satisfaction, a smugness within myself that this time, in my small way, I’M stealing from the government. in a way that’s legal, of course. i’m not skirting my taxes, compadre, i’m just redirecting them.
from now on i’m refusing to help fund a government that will not protect me and my family, a government that’s even threatening to forego with my most basic of rights and have the gall to practically tell me that should they pass by and see me standing side by side with a suspected rebel, they have the right to gun me down. or point at me outright, yell "rebel!!", or "sympathizer", or "destabilizer chuvah!!!"— and proceed to riddle my ass with bullets. i ain’t tripping, yo, they can brand us as "enemies" anytime they want. hey, we once had this kid working for us as a gardener who turned out to be a member of the New People’s Army back in nueva ecija. with the government’s "cleansing" program soldiers could have just as easily broken my gate down and that kid may have been holding a trowel, seen as adopting a threatening pose, ratratin siya dun mismo tapos bahala na kung tamaan ako o kung sino mang andun na pwede maging "collateral damage". yehey.
i refuse to do accounting for a government that has ignored accountability a long time ago. i refuse to support a government that is only encouraging in its citizens a feeling of hopelessness, helplessness, cynicism and loss of pride in themselves that they accept a way of life that’s one or two degrees removed from anarchy and barbarism.
until we sort this shit out, my income taxes go directly to those who really need it. public record don’t mean shit to this country anymore, meaning the government can do anything with our money and get away with it. well at the very least with me, that shit is stopping.
at the very least when i read of some poor activist or a party list representative butchered by palparan’s men (retired my ass..), my hurt feelings won’t be aggravated by the knowledge that i pay partly for the salary of these animals, our so-called protectors.
at the very least when i plod through impossible traffic brought about by my fellow citizens’ lack of road discipline, i can think of how i’m not contributing fully in funding a government that won’t do its job of disciplining its people.
at the very least when i see the dos los prosperos doing their thing on TV, i can give them the finger through my TV screen and scream "you ain’t getting all my money, you fuckers!".
at the very least when justice secretary gonzalez utters another stupid statement i’ll be amused at how in my own way i’m telling him to crawl up inside his own ass and die.
mild satisfaction. at the very least.
And the same when autumn comes
Cold air i breathe in my lungs
Something’s new but nothing’s changed
Familiar feelings just the same
Soon too the warm air comes by
Lie back and stare at blue skies
Thinking back away and from
When i’ll be here and you’ll be gone
Further from me
I think now of summers high
And reminisce of past times gone by
Only remembered now in
Earth, trees, the stars that have been there
And there forever held
Kept safe but memories never told
But felt if you went by
In never changing sky
And we’ll be gone
Further
God’s love will save our light
And we’ll come shining bright
God’s love will save our sun
And thy will be done.
God’s light will save us..
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on September 26th, 2006 at 2:29 pm
poy! long time no hear meng. thought they got to you bro.
intense meng. rage against the machine ang dating. i feel it meng.
pano kaya kung lahat i- donate sa charity ang taxes? that should send a clear message. well… makakatipid rin sila sa social welfare programs pero malamang tataasan pa nila ang taxes to feed their apetite. argghhh… still fucked
on September 26th, 2006 at 8:39 pm
papah mark!! eto naman, bro, buhay pa at nagmamaktol pa rin. but it’s cool, it’s cool..
thank you for feeling me, dog. teka.. di yata maganda pakinggan yun, a.
actually matagal nang proposed itong civil disobedience movement na di pagbabayad ng buwis, kaso iba nga ang magiging dating pag lahat tayo di nagbayad ng umento (saka marami nang talamak na tax evaders, hehe..). ang ganang akin lang naman, at least this way may magandang pupuntahan ang pansarili kong kilos protesta, kasi ayaw na talaga mag-people power ng mga pinoy.
ok lang din kung may susunod, indeed it should send a loud message na binabalewala nila ang boto mo, di rin nila makukuha ang pera mo. pwede mo na sila obserbahan hanggang 2007 at 2010 kung kukupalin ka pa rin nila sa mga eleksyon.
pag lahat ng tao, ganito ang ginawa? hmmm, di ko pa sigurado pero tingin ko magkakaroon talaga ng malaking pressure sa administration. di naman nila pwede itaas uli ang taxes basta basta, magkakagulo na talaga. di rin nila pwede basta tsugiin ang mga tapat na public servants/officials kung di na nila mapasweldo ng maayos, di ba? kung kulang na pampasweldo nila sa pulis, sundalo at empleyado sa munisipyo, lalaban na rin ang mga tapat sa tungkulin. at sa point na yun e aakusahan akong destabilizer ni gonzalez, hehe..
donwori, meng, malakas ang proteksyon ko dito. malakas ang kapit ko kay konsehal capilit at barangay captain taboso.. mabibigat pa kesa kay binay yung mga yun..di ako kaya ng gobyerno..mabilis ako tumakbo at magaling ako umilag, mga patak nga ng ulan naiilagan ko, e.
on September 27th, 2006 at 1:46 am
huwag yung civil disobedience movement (tax evation,) illegal yun. do it the legal way, the epoy way - straight to charities.
a huge negative - peso will devalue if the government can’t pay it’s debts.
no pain, no gain.
should spread the word. how? hmmm… aha! start a chain letter text or email. tipong… if you send this to 9 other people in your address book you will receive a… a better government. hihi, suri, joke. ehem.. but seriously…
read articles on raul gonzalez. that dude is whack. he’ll move to another country after his stint there, that’s for sure.
that’s it for me… will fight the war some other time. right now am in limbo… an alien out of touch with its motherland.
on December 21st, 2008 at 3:08 pm
Hey, i save funny photos
here