The State: The Enemy Not Only of All Mankind But of Kindness, Too

Becky Akers
Jul. 21, 2015

The Gasparilla Island Bridge Authority in Florida has fired one of its collectors of tolls because he sometimes paid these double-dipping taxes for his "customers" out of his own pocket:

...he charged a trailer driver $5 too little, and after realizing his mistake, he paid the difference himself. He would do this from time to time if a driver was short on cash. As punishment, the authority offered him two days of work per week instead of his usual five. When he declined, he was fired on the spot.

Paying serfs' tolls wasn't his only transgression: Vladislav Samsonov, 77 and a military vet, also dispensed lollipops to kids and bones to dogs riding in the cars passing his booth.

Why would any person as kind and good-hearted as Vlad seems to be rob his fellows on the State's behalf? And certainly he--and all the traitors "working" for the State to tax, cage, eavesdrop on, kidnap, or murder us--should realize that Leviathan's favorite meal is one of its own; none should be surprised when the beast turns him. But that aside, isn't it intriguing how viciously government hates an employee who shows the least bit of decency towards or empathy with his victims?