My Note of Discontent (NOD)

My Note of Discontent (NOD)

Sri -Lankan are very creative people but that creativity comes only after retirement when one sees that the grave stone or tomb is the final place of conquest!

This ultimate reality is also taxed; the Masters of this creation are British Tax Inspectors of Yesteryear.

British only had Police and Inspectors now we have Private Security in the Universities too.

We have lost everything including freedom but they cannot take our simple humour rather the satire (I thought satire is bit psychopathic) out of context.

Very soon humour will be taxed.

The academic Freedom in the University is also Taxed and Malabe is the Beginning.

Mr. O.M. Weerasooiya is a Retired Commissioner General of Inland Revenue and a Corporate Member of Sri Lanka Institute of taxation and former Treasurer of Netherlands Alumni Association of Lanka.
A personal note of somebody who is nobody in this Tax World:
Mr. O M Weerasooriya has done a wonderful job by writing this poem but there is something that we would like you to know.
A Developed country will collect 20 to 35% as taxes in this world.
A Developing country will collect 35 to 42.5% as taxes.
Today Sri Lanka collects 63% as taxes.
Every 100 rupees you earn 63 rupees will go back to the government as taxes.
This means Sri Lanka is heading for disaster like Zimbabwe (this is true- my own comment-We are heading that garden pathway rapidly in the name of development Who cares?) who collects a whopping 88% as taxes.
Support somebody who could change this at least to a developing level.

Read My Comment below and please add your comment, too.
Few lines would do.

The Tax Poem
At first I thought this was funny…then I realized the awful truth of it.
Be sure to read all the way to the end as that’s the punch line!
Tax his land, tax his bed,
Tax the table at which he’s fed.
Tax his tractor, tax his mule,
Tax his cow, tax his goat,
Teach him taxes are the rule.
Tax his work, Tax his pay,
He works for peanuts Anyway!
Tax his pants, Tax his coat.
Tax his ties, tax his shirt,
Tax his work, tax his dirt.
Tax his tobacco, tax his drink,
Tax him if he tries to think.
Tax his cigars, Tax his beers,
If he cries tax his tears.
Tax his car, Tax his gas,
Find other ways to tax his aRss (after the daily purge).
Tax all he has, then let him know
That you won’t be done, till he has no dough
When he screams and hollers;
Then tax him some more,
Tax him till he’s good and sore.
Then tax his coffin,
Tax his grave,
Tax the sod in which he’s laid.
Put these words upon his tomb,
‘Taxes drove me to my doom…’
When he’s gone, do not relax,
Its time to ap ply the inheritance tax.
Accounts Receivable Tax,
Airline surcharge tax
Airline Fuel Tax,
Airport Maintenance Tax
Building Permit Tax,
Cigarette Tax
Corporate Income Tax,
Death Tax
Dog License Tax,
Driving Permit Tax
Excise Taxes,
Federal Income Tax
Federal Unemployment (UI),
Fishing License Tax
Food License Tax,
Petrol Tax (too much per liter)
Gross Receipts Tax,
Health Tax
Hunting License Tax,
Hydro Tax,
Inheritance Tax
Interest Tax,
Liquor Tax
Luxury Taxes,
Marriage License Tax
Medicare Tax,
Mortgage Tax
Personal Income Tax,
Property Tax
Poverty Tax,
Prescription Drug Tax
Provincial Income Tax,
Real Estate Tax
Recreational Vehicle Tax,
Retail Sales Tax
Service Charge Tax,
School Tax
Telephone Tax,
Provincial and Local Surcharge Taxes
Telephone Minimum Usage Surcharge Tax,
Vehicle License Registration Tax
Vehicle Sales Tax,
Water Tax,
Watercraft Registration Tax
Well Permit Tax,
Workers Compensation Tax
Entertainment Tax,
Tourism Promotion Tax
Value Added Tax……..
G.S.T. (Gona Saha Thanakola TAX-Bull and the Grass TAX)
STILL THINK THIS IS FUNNY?
Not one of these taxes existed 100 years ago, and our Nation was one of the most prosperous in the world.
We had absolutely no national debt, had a large middle-class and Mom stayed home to raise the kids.
 
What in the hell happened?
 
Can you spell ‘Politicians’?
It is all PoliTricks Scientists (my creation for Oxford Dictionary-Coined for American Scientists who make mockery / distort facts and make them friction / out of real facts).
I hope this goes around SRI LANKA at least 100 times!!!!!
YOU can help it get there!!!!
GO AHEAD – - – be a SRI LANKAN !!!!!!!!!!
SEND IT AROUND EVERYWHERE for a change
Help make a difference.

Ayubowan, is Long Life.
If you live long you pay more TAX.

May he attain the Final Goal, the Nibbana in this life and not next life.
Then the next life we believe is spared.

Even then the TAX Inspector will follow him.

I will send a Note / Email to Maha Brahma to TAX the TAX man and send him to HELL.

I gather from reliable sources very soon SEX will be taxed through the purchase of condoms.

The sale person is required to ask the question why do by more than one.

Then if you say for safe sex, he / she will produce the TAX Form and if you do not pay or fill the form would be asked to pay an additional fine.

Please do not use condoms.

If you use them please cut the TIP off.

I mean the tip of the condom.

Why I do not use a Mobile

Why I do not use a Mobile.
Mind you I have a land phone.

Read this in tandem with attention deficit (new syndrome defined by me) below.
This is something I posted elsewhere.

I have 100 or more reasons why I do not have or use a cell phone.

I will list them as they come to my mind but not in any order of priority,

As an intern I hated all calls mobile included since it meant, a batch of new arrival of small kids who have arrived in absolutely appalling condition.

Some of them fitting due to low blood sugar nearing zero.

In fact I had 8 to 10 kids whose blood sugar and CSF sugar down to zero.

The government at that time told the public it was encephalitis and I proved them wrong without even my medical registration completed.

Then in 6 months later when I went to collect my own data they had disappeared mysteriously from, medical records.

Then what I did subsequently, I have to pen down on a latter date of my life nearing my death!

One thing was sure leave this messy health service and I decided to leave the Public Sector Health Service and I was glad I did that and if you read Dengue Dilemma elsewhere in my writings, one can easily guess it.

It has deteriorated in quality even though it has expanded in number.

1. As a doctor I hated bad news on telephone.
   We rarely hear good news when on duty.
    
2. Later in life when cell phone came, I believed in CPP (Calling Party Pays) and flatly refused a cell phone.
    
3. It is a public nuisance.
    
4. It is a nuisance when the cell phone owner has switched it off when you really needed him /her.
   
   
5. When you travel on a public transport one cannot have a snooze to drown the inconvenience with frequent interruptions. 
    
6. I love silence in public places. 
    
7. Even though, I don’t use it I have to foot the bill (kids telephone bills).
    
8. No work get done in public officers.
   They are busy answering their private calls of nature and it is more frequent than the real call of nature.
    
9. It is cheaper to redirect a message by email that should end up as junk or gossip.
    
10. We use it for gossip not for creative work
     
11. It is private enemy number one when you own the bank or telephone company a small sum in arrears and the reminders by them cost you more than you actually own them.
    I think you got the picture correct.
    I think it is enough for today but I will add more on future date when I run short of a topic to write. 
    
    Memory and Gadgets

(Attention Deficit Related to (Mundane gadgets like tablets)Technology Addiction.

Many years ago, I posted an article on the web regarding memory specially in reference to Buddhist Monks of yesteryear (not today´s TV acting MahaMewna Type) and all the points except my assertion on Mediation Practice (Focused attention on the presence) was copied by an Author of the Scientific American Publication and recently by another author.

This is one reason I thought of writing few books before my memory fails by default and old age.

It is rather loss of short term memory and now I have coined a fancy Medical Term.

Few years ago (I still do not take a note or reminder but devised a 24 hour simple protocol to enhance day to day activity) I noticed lapses in my memory and got activated.

1. Won´t use a telephone, but buy a cellphone when I go abroad and drop it into a bin in the airport (this is the biggest handicap and in the middle of your work one may give a call with a low priority-gossip related call).

Who Cares.

Thank god one can switch off the cell, then what is the use of a telephone if it is not doing it job, transfer a message.

I use my land phone at my discretion since I pay the bill.
Not even the Telecom (delay in payment) or the a bank officer can break that law and break into my freedom.

2. Won´t sit in front of the TV and watch web videos unless it is related to animals, especially elephants.

Baby elephant dead was trapped in a tree in this country.
There is a video of a elephant mum protecting its young baby from hyenas (we have to protect the young one's from political hyenas and some rabid monks in saffron cloth).

3. Live with Living things, the dog, fish, and plants (including water plants).

All three will die if I do not have some simple protocol, not so rigid but to remind me that there are other lives on this planet (that others things also do exist) in relation to me.

Fortunately fish can go on for 10 days without food.

If neglected any longer toxic algae will kill them.

A dog will die within three days, if there is no other care giver.

Believe it or not Dogs never use telephone even in an emergency, they only BARK.

My dog in particular will start barking for no reason when I am on the phone.

 He wants me to stop talking quickly and he has not got a degree in economics but knows how to cut my telephone bill.

The garden will go to wilderness in no time.

All these little things one has to be mindful, however busy one is in day to day lives, even one has servants to look after these jobs.

They will never do them right in my experience.

4. Use the computer and the email productively.

5. Keep in touch with family and family friends in person.

When one sees a friend, just stop for a few minutes and greet them and have some empathy.
You may not see them again would be run over by a vehicle driven by a fast track lumpen with a cell phone in hand.

I am predicting now with Facebook and low priority web videos, the present young generation will hit a very low point, in their middle age with attention deficit and I am going to coin the Medical Term now, Attention Deficit Related to (Mundane gadgets like tablets) Technology Addiction (AD-R-TA- RTA stands for Road Traffic Accidents and some of these gadgets may trigger an accident on the road too).