Grumble Goat

Humankind does not have fur. Somewhere along the Darwinian path, it became advantageous to free ourselves of this coat and […]

The post Summer Shorts appeared first on Mat Labotka.

The Earth sources all of its energy from the Sun. The Sun heats the Earth, allowing for liquid water, which […]

The post Sunshine appeared first on Mat Labotka.

Humankind may be the top of the food chain, but that chain still binds us. As mortals, we still must […]

The post Food Delivery Apps appeared first on Mat Labotka.

The modern household is a wonder of technological efficiency. We have machines that perform mundane tasks to alleviate those stresses […]

The post Fancy Refrigerators appeared first on Mat Labotka.

It is a fast paced-world we live in. Every great leap in technology is designed to make life easier: the […]

The post Group Scheduling appeared first on Mat Labotka.

Safety first. Nothing is more important than your health and safety. Especially when traveling. So when we drive, we wear […]

The post The TSA appeared first on Mat Labotka.

In the near future, the robots are winning the war against humans. Any human action taken outside of acceptable drone-performance […]

The post Drug Store Cages appeared first on Mat Labotka.

We don’t have a fresh Grumble this week, but it may be time to revisit the topic of ‘Hating Taxes.’ It seems that our government has been taken over by a shadowy, robed cabal of unelected, out-of-touch oligarchs who Hate Taxes.

There are few things as universally reviled in this world as the repugnant idea of taxes. The image of the tax-collector is that of a brutish thug, a member of the League of Evil, sitting right between the mobster hit-man and the concert-ticket scalper. But where did this sinister visage come from? For-profit corporations take far more of our pay for ‘health insurance;’ banks charge a lifetime of interest through student and mortgage loans. Taxes, on the other hand, don’t go to private corporate, offshore Panamanian bank vaults. Taxes become roads and sewers, National Parks, Hubble Space Telescopes. Taxes clean the water and the air, taxes put out our fires and disinfect our food and drugs. There’s so much in this world to Grumble about… Is it really taxes we hate? Join Mat and Veronique as we audit these last minute deductions on Hating Taxes.

*Grumbles are specifically off-the-cuff, no research went into this grumble.

________________________________________

Support the show and become a Grumble Kid! Patreon.com/GrumbleGoat
Join the adventure in Mat’s novel!!! Amazon | Audible

________________________________________

For more information or to share: GrumbleGoatPodcast.com
Grumble Goat on Instagram | Facebook | TikTok
Follow your hosts: Mat | Veronique

The post Reruns: Hating Taxes appeared first on Mat Labotka.

Descartes argues that the only thing I can be sure of with certainty is that my consciousness exists. Everything else is […]

The post April FoOls appeared first on Mat Labotka.

In Humankind’s humbler beginnings, news and rumor were slow to travel. A merchant ship might dock and bring word from […]

The post Twitter News appeared first on Mat Labotka.