Futurology 101

So I got a little worried about the rest of my life, based on recent cycling-related Nanny State issues that just keep popping up like weeds.

One minute it’s the cops, the next a drunk former shearer that inexplicably was handed the role of NSW state minister for roads, and then its the Sydney Harbour Foreshore Authority.

This prompted me to do what I’ve been meaning to do for a while, and that is extrapolate to 100% the plot of the percentage of Australian GDP that is taken as tax  receipts.

My thinking is this; the Nanny State only exists because governments need to create extra laws in order to spend all that extra money they take off us. Or, looking at in reverse, all those extra laws are there means by which they take all that extra money off us.

It’s a sort of chicken and egg scenario, but with frogs and fruit loops.

In any case, it’s all good news.

We will be in the Nanny State era up until the turn of century (the rest of my life that is, lucky me) when tax receipts will top 50% of GDP.

Then we will have another hundred-odd years of old-school totalitarianism, culminating in an event in the year 2225 when tax reaches 100% of GDP and the machines will put us all into The Matrix for safekeeping.

Or, if we’re lucky there will be a zombie apocalypse before then.