Sleight of Invisible Hand
Having 66,000 pages of tax code is a powerful smoke-screen for the Federal Reserve/IRS’s sleight-of-Invisible-Hand, enabling the power-knowledge of “what does the law mean?” to be reserved to a shadowy priesthood of tax lawyers and high-level economics gurus. Who knows these people? When do they get questioned by journalists on our national news media? When does their work ever get scrutinized? Why doesn’t their all-important job description ever become common knowledge? When does their job performance ever make it into the popular news media, academic curricula, or congressional oversight?
If and when a President or U.S. Senator ever gets to hold them accountable or evaluate their performance, how does he or she know the right questions to ask, without one of these same economic gurus or priests advising them?
How might an interested tax-payer ever gain access to the knowledge base needed to formulate a critical line of inquiry, nevermind legally gain physical access to them in order to even ask the questions?
Our U.S. Government has taken these most powerful elements of its governing structure and elevated them high up into a realm of sophistry and obscurity, and this is by design. This way, all those uncomfortable questions disappear, never getting asked.
When you have the power to disappear from the radar screen of public accountability, you have too much power. The Federal Reserve Board, the Internal Revenue Service, and the 66,000 pages of tax code enables the competition element of our free market system to be overcome, the advantage permanently given to the biggest corporations and banks.
Evidently Adam Smith’s so-called Invisible Hand of supply and demand is another concept that operates as sleight of hand, being taught nationwide as economic dogma, while routinely cast aside by the most powerful citizens in order to preserve their position of wealth and power.