Yes I understand the idyllic nature of controlled experiments. Unfortunately we don’t live in a sterile controlled laboratory and so cannot realistically perform such experiments in many fields that affect human behavior. As I see it, the best we, as rationally discerning human beings, can expect is to study history in its raw uncensored form, identify trends/patterns, and apply logic as best we can. I’m not saying this process of deduction is infallible; simply that it is only recourse we have to make informed decisions. In the absence of controlled experiments it is the best we’ve got.
History is a set of lies agreed upon.”
Napoleon Bonaparte
Amidst all of my research I always try to maintain my humility. That being said I will not reject the possibility of new information as well as the opportunity to help those around me if I deem that information may be of some service to them. Humility has its place in situations of propriety; however in others when the well being of close friends may be imperiled it becomes a genuine hindrance.
The only thing new in the world is the history you do not know.”
Harry S. Truman, 33rd US President
The “complicated events” you speak of are, in my humble opinion, not complicated at all. They are simply events that have not been presented in such a lucid manner as to render it easily comprehensible to a child. There is no such thing as something too “complicated” for one to understand. This is a wretched admittance of one’s own inadequacy that should not be conveyed to others. I have explained, to the best of my ability, the Mandrake Mechanism, Quantitative Easing, The Federal Reserve, Central Banking, Price/Stealth/Absolute Inflation, Fractional Reserve Lending, the role of Precious Metals in a society, the reason for their banishment etc to many patients, including young teenagers, who I would not consider geniuses or people with high IQs. All of them seemed quite surprised and quite grateful to discover that this is neither elusive nor secretive information privy to only a select few. Rather financial education is something that is palpably lacking in our government education. I do not believe this to be a coincidence.
If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.”
Albert Einstein
Yes I do emphatically believe with all my heart that unfettered free enterprise is best. I have read the link provided and it immediately transports me back to my history class in my middle/high government school. I understood this clearly as I absorbed the pro-government propaganda laid out by my teachers unquestionably. What hope does a tender impressionable young mind have against legions of authoritative teachers with their coercive curriculums? This is teaching by violent force. This is not the way my children will learn. You can be sure of that.
History is a matter of perspective. While I cannot assert that the history I learned outside of school to be completely objective, I can say there is enormous value in learning history from many differing frames of reference in order to gain a more balanced approach. One must take care where the source originates and who benefits from the telling of history in a particular way. Would we not procure contrasting viewpoints of history told by the slaves or the masters? Conqueror or the conquered? Husbands or the wives? Doctors or the patients? Rulers or the subjects? Parents or the children? Schoolmaster or the pupils? Debtors or creditors?
The study of money, above all other fields in economics, is one in which complexity is used to disguise truth or to evade truth, not to reveal it.”
John Kenneth Galbraith, US economist, public official, and diplomat
This link points to the over-simplified Disney explanation of the history of our country as it is taught ad nauseum in our government schools. To the best of my knowledge it expounds, please correct me if I am wrong, that government (good) is the white knight that comes to rescue the disenfranchised and under-privileged citizenry from big corporation (bad) who exploits the people for every ounce of their labor for a dreadful pittance. That without our valiant government we all would be working since childhood for 2 dollars an hour for 16 hours a day without bathroom breaks, vacations, or holidays for the rest of our lives until our miserable deaths. Oh and also without the wonderful free government healthcare we would all be incessantly sick and walking over dead bodies on the way to our slave labor at the hands of big fat men with bags of money. This is the drivel I have been force fed since my induction into government education and I refuse to accept any more of it. From now on I am seeking alternative vantage points for my intellectual stimulation. Just as Teddy Roosevelt in this over-simplified article proclaims “No man, no matter how powerful, was above the law.” From which celestial power does this flesh and blood mortal get the authority to determine which business should succeed and which should fail? I assert none, just like the rest of us. Only the free market, open exchange, and the immutable laws of supply and demand have the power to determine the success or failure of any business. No government or despot possesses this wisdom no matter how well intentioned.
A law is an opinion with a gun.”
Stefan Molyneux
Is it any surprise that when one attends US government schools the common narrative spewed is pro- US government history? I don’t think so. Our federal government, self-proclaimed to be the destroyer of monopolistic trusts, is itself the largest monopoly of force and coercion in the land. There is nothing benevolent or gentle about the federal government in its nature or method of action. It does not produce any valuable good or service from which is voluntarily purchased by the people. Voluntary is the key word. If something is forced and not offered voluntarily, this is the fundamental reason why the very essence of government is inhumane, immoral, and wicked. All edicts and decrees issued forth are forced upon the people from the barrel of a gun or by threat of imprisonment or fine. This is not the definition of a civilized society. With slight variations this is the definition of Fascism, Communism, Totalitarianism, Oligarchy, Monarchy, Aristocracy, Kleptocracy etc. Virtually any form of government one can conceive of is the antithesis of Agorism, Voluntaryism, Anarcho-Capitalism, Free Market etc. The name is irrelevant. The principle is what counts and that principle is the Non-Aggression principle. This asserts that anything is possible except those actions which transgress on the freedom and sovereign rights of another.
The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government.”
This alert should not be taken lightly. One should not relax in confidence knowing that since the price of the metals is quite low that this artificially suppressed climate will maintain itself for much longer. This illusion can only persist if there is sufficient supply to meet the soaring demand. Once this supply dries up, the market will react by soaring tangible assets prices to spectacular heights as can only happen when unquenchable demand meets a brick wall. This is a process as inevitable as it is natural and no Government or Central Bank on Earth can stop it. At some point it behooves us to stop resisting the wave and just ride it. What happens when an unstoppable force meets an immovable object? We will soon find out.
Haha Please enjoy this hilarious 4 minute video of standup comedian Michael Connell as he discusses the difference between money and currency. The government printing currency and saying “This is money!” is like McDonald’s making chicken nuggets and saying “This is chicken!” The government is in the lucrative business of making fiat currency just like McDonald’s is in the business of making fiat chicken.
The factors which affect value, spell DUST (Demand Utility Scarcity Transferability).”
Anonymous
The modern banking system manufactures money out of nothing. The process is perhaps the most astounding piece of sleight of hand that was ever invented. Banking was conceived in iniquity and born in sin. Bankers own the Earth. Take it away from them, but leave them the power to created money and control credit, and with the flick of a pen, they will create enough money to buy it back again. But if you want to continue as the slaves of bankers and pay the cost of your own slavery, let them continue to create money and to control credit.”
Happy Birthday Federal Reserve! Yesterday, December 23, 1913 a day that will live in infamy, marked the 100th anniversary of the creation of our beloved Federal Reserve System, the Central Bank of our country. Why is this significant and abominable? Let us examine the ways.
The conclusion then, is, that neither the representatives of a nation, nor the whole nation itself assembled, can validly engage debts beyond what they may pay in their own time.”
Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 1789. ME 7:457
Then I say, the earth belongs to each of these generations during its course, fully and in its own right. The second generation receives it clear of the debts and encumbrances of the first, the third of the second, and so on. For if the first could charge it with a debt, then the earth would belong to the dead and not to the living generation. Then, no generation can contract debts greater than may be paid during the course of its own existence.”
Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 1789. ME 7:455
Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world. He who understands it, earns it … he who doesn’t … pays it.”
Albert Einstein
It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and money system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.”
Now, that is what Henry Ford wants to prevent. He thinks it is stupid, and so do I, that for the loan of $30,000,000 of their own money the people of the United States should be compelled to pay $66,000,000 — that is what it amounts to, with interest. People who will not turn a shovelful of dirt nor contribute a pound of material will collect more money from the United States than will the people who supply the material and do the work. That is the terrible thing about interest. In all our great bond issues the interest is always greater than the principal. All of the great public works cost more than twice the actual cost, on that account. Under the present system of doing business we simply add 120 to 150 per cent, to the stated cost.”
Thomas Edison
I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country. A great industrial nation is controlled by its credit system. Our system of credit is concentrated. The growth of the nation, therefore, and all our activities are in the hands of a few men. We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the civilized world no longer a Government by free opinion, no longer a Government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a Government by the opinion and duress of a small group of dominant men.”
President Woodrow Wilson years after signing the Federal Reserve Act into law
The money powers prey upon the nation in times of peace and conspire against it in times of adversity. It is more despotic than a monarch, more insolent than autocracy and more selfish than a bureaucracy. It denounces, as public enemies, all who question its methods or throw light upon its crimes. I have two great enemies, the Southern Army in front of me and the bankers in the rear. Of the two, the one at the rear is my greatest foe.”
President Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War
The powers of financial capitalism had another far-reaching aim, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole. This system was to be controlled in a feudalist fashion by the central banks of the world acting in concert, by secret agreements arrived at in frequent private meetings and conferences.”
Carroll Quigley, American historian, theorist of the evolution of civilizations, and author of “Tragedy and Hope”
Haha this 3 minute video about raising the debt ceiling made me literally laugh out loud! Referring to the National Debt, Total Annual Revenue, Deficit Spending, and Annual Budget Cuts in terms of billions or trillions of dollars can have anyone’s head spinning. However when simplified and applied to the finances of an individual household the economic insanity is quite clear. It is unsustainable, societally damaging, and must come to an end.
Mike Maloney strikes another golden knockout blow with this 29 minute video of his most latest Episode 4 of the Hidden Secrets of Money: The Biggest Scam in the History of Mankind.
Whenever destroyers appear among men, they start by destroying money, for money is men’s protection and the base of a moral existence. Destroyers seize gold and leave to its owners a counterfeit pile of paper. Paper is a mortgage on wealth that does not exist, backed by a gun aimed at those who are expected to produce it. This kills all objective standards and delivers men into the arbitrary setter of values. Gold was an objective value, an equivalent of wealth produced. Paper is a check drawn by legal looters upon an account, which is not theirs: Watch for the day when it bounces, marked “account overdrawn.”
Ayn Rand
It stipulates in Article 1, Section 10 that “No State shall…coin Money, emit Bills of Credit; make anything but gold and silver coin a Tender in Payment of Debts…” The term “Bills of Credit” refers to any paper fiat currency that is not backed by gold or silver. Our government is allowing unconstitutional and illegal fraud to take place on a daily basis ever since 1913 when the US Economy was hijacked by the Federal Reserve!
The few who understand the system will either be so interested in its profits or be so dependent upon its favours that there will be no opposition from that class, while on the other hand, the great body of people, mentally incapable of comprehending the tremendous advantage that capital derives from the system, will bear its burdens without complaint, and perhaps without even suspecting that the system is inimical to their interests.”
The Rothschild brothers of London writing to associates in New York, 1863
According to Mike Maloney the US dollar is the “liar’s lie”, meaning it is one of the most inaccurate indicators of economic vitality that exists. Incidentally that applies to all fiat currencies across the board. Rather in order to ascertain the true value of anything one must compare it to the price of commodities, most notably precious metals. Therefore regardless if the DOW is measured in an oz of gold, barrel of oil, bushel of wheat, lb of copper etc the result is the same. It is hopelessly plummeting in value in relation to these. However just looking at it from a purely Federal Reserve Note perspective it’s pushing to all time highs!
The study of money, above all other fields in economics, is one in which complexity is used to disguise truth or to evade truth, not to reveal it. The process by which banks create money is so simple the mind is repelled. With something so important, a deeper mystery seems only decent.”
John Kenneth Galbraith (1908- ), former professor of economics at Harvard, writing in ‘Money: Whence it came, where it went’ (1975).
The Federal Reserve cannot maintain this facade of stable prices for very long with $85 billion/month being printed. The “smart money” of billionaires are already exiting the stock market and heading into hard assets. Unfortunately the “dumb money” of the masses is always lagging hopelessly behind like a dog chasing the tires of yesterday’s news.
This is a good article explaining the history of fractional reserve banking, central banks, the landmark case of The First National Bank of Montgomery vs. Jerome Daly (1969), and how paper money came to be accepted by the people. I would, however, be careful regarding her proposed State imposed solution of government fiat currency printing. No law can forcibly create peace, prosperity, or wealth. This can only occur through willing individuals engaged in peaceful and voluntary trade.
The Jerome Daly case is notable in that it was the first time that it was admitted in a court of “law” that banks create currency out of thin air the moment the borrower signs the loan document. Not only is it created out of thin air but it is to be paid back with the application of usurious interest. Therefore Mr. Daly correctly surmised that since the bank never had the money to “lend” as collateral in the first place, how can the bank ever claim to own the property should the “borrower” default on his pretended loan? The answer is the banks have no legitimate right to own any property, since this process completely violates the true definition of the word “lend”. If I need to borrow a shovel it would make sense that I need to obtain it from someone who has a shovel to lend me. A paper shovel contract simply will not do. Furthermore if you have a shovel and lend that shovel to me, would it make sense to ask me to repay you with two shovels? From where did the second shovel come into existence? If it was borrowed from someone else who also lent his shovel with interest one can understand how this system would rapidly fall apart as the mounting debt would quickly become massive and unsustainable due to the concept of compounding interest.
A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.”
Mark Twain
A similar process occurs at the federal level when the US government borrows currency into existence from the Federal Reserve. This process has many names such as currency creation, the Mandrake Mechanism, Quantitative Easing, bond/asset purchases etc. They all amount to the same thing, the counterfeiting of currency into existence at the direct benefit of those who issue it and at the direct harm to those who have their savings in currency. Furthermore if only the principal portion of all loans is created as currency and not the interest portion, how can society ever expect to pay back all these loans? The truth is it cannot, and this is the painful reality and Achilles heel of our monetary system, which is only recently beginning to show itself. It is a self-perpetuating debt spiral that can only sustain itself with the creation of ever more debt. Once the people realize this and stop borrowing currency into existence the entire house of cards crumbles into itself in a fantastic deflationary collapse. It is an endgame that has been pre-ordained since the whole deception began.
This Wealth Transfer has the ability to create vast amounts of wealth to those understand this mechanism and destroy vast amounts of wealth to those who remain ignorant. The information is there for anyone to see and understand. In the age of information, ignorance is a choice!
The world will soon wake up to the reality that everyone is broke and can collect nothing from the bankrupt, who are owed unlimited amounts by the insolvent, who are attempting to make late payments on a bank holiday in the wrong country, with an unacceptable currency, against defaulted collateral, of which nobody is sure who holds title.”
The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.”
Hahaha here is a hilarious 4 minute video on the 12 banned items by the TSA for Christmas. It’s nice to know that our Federal Government is using our hard earned tax money wisely by giving these nice incompetent people a job. We should feel grateful for the sexual molestations and occasional theft that occurs in the name of the “War on Terror”. All in an honest day’s work!
Here is a hilarious yet on point 2 minute video on the abuses we all directly face with the NSA’s immoral and unjust criminal activities. Stop funding these criminals with your tax dollars! Stop committing tax financed murder overseas! Just ignore the State and it will go away!
Here is a funny 2 minute cartoon video on Season’s Greeting from Spying Claus. This is a special message from your neighborhood magical, morbidly obese, diabetic, mythical, peeping tom philanthropist.
Here is a fascinating 8 minute Stefan Molyneux examination on the importance of teaching one’s children the truth about the world, or at least one’s understanding of the truth, let alone not lying to them with a mythical quasi NSA figure such as Santa Claus that “sees us when we’re sleeping, knows when we’re awake, and knows if we’ve been bad or good.”
Others argue “Believing in Santa Claus gives kids a sense of wonder about the world.” Is it necessary to lie to our children in order to provide them with a sense of wonder? I do believe that there is enough uncertainty and mystique we can glean from attempting to teach our children about the real world, let alone deceiving them with a tale that abandons all reason for the sake of one day.
Our children are born as foreigners in a strange land. They know nothing about prison, pain, flowers, toys, crime etc. They trust us, as the authority figures, to provide them with the truth about the world. If we deceive them with falsehoods, what does that speak about our credibility? Be truthful with your children. They deserve nothing less. The truth does not hurt. The truth is beautiful, wondrous, and inherently magical.
Here is a profoundly enlightening 8 minute video on the inherent injustice of taxation and the ramifications that are associated with it. There are three ways that one may procure wealth. The first is the Economic model which is the voluntary exchange of goods and services for money. The second is the Inheritance model which is when someone voluntarily gives or donates money to you. The third is the Mafia model which is when your wealth is involuntarily stolen from you by threat of fine or imprisonment. By which model do you think the State and the IRS procure their funds through taxation? The first two are the ways of civilized human beings. The last one is the way of savage beasts.
There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want, merely because you think it would be good for him.”
Robert Heinlein
Some people assert “The currency is received in the form of taxes goes towards positive public works such as roads, bridges, and tunnels. How can that be so wrong?” Set aside for a moment the basic realization that, given the option of currency creation, our present day State does not need our paltry tax currency for funding its myriad murderous activities. In assessing the inherent morality regarding taxation the key word to consider is voluntary. If a thief steals your currency against your will and then assures you he will give that currency to his sick grandmother, is that is still considered theft? Is that still morally wrong? I believe most rational minded people will conclude this to be so. Why then is the same coerced extortion, when viewed on a grand scale in the form of coercive taxation, considered to be our civic duty? Make the paying of taxes entirely optional and we will see how many Sovereign individuals would willingly give a portion of their hard earned wealth to the murderous high priests of government to squander it on overseas wars, wealth redistribution, subsidies, bailouts, drone strikes, NSA spying, increased surveillance technology, Drug Wars etc.
Statism – ideas so good they have be mandatory.”
Anonymous
There are three ways the State can receive funding for its various endeavors; taxation, currency creation, or borrowing. Through the collusion between the State and Central Bank of any given country one may assume that procuring funds through taxation and borrowing from foreign countries is negligible and unnecessary when compared to the tremendous benefits that are showered upon the elites through the magical elixir of currency creation, also known the Mandrake Mechanism, and the subsequent currency devaluation that it brings. If it can be seen that taxation is not the primary method relied upon by the State to receive funding then what purpose does taxation in fact serve? After such logic the inevitable conclusion one arrives at is that taxation is merely the means by which the dominant ruling elitist class maintains its power over its subjects through systematically depriving them of the fruits of their labor and industry. It is not about paying your fair share, performing your civic duty, or paying for infrastructure such as roads, bridges, and tunnels. When the State may employ, through the Federal Reserve, Quantitative Easing or any other fictitious asset purchase with currency made out of thin air to pay for it’s over $1 trillion per year massive military-industrial budget, war campaigns, and global imperialistic conquests the notion that it relies on taxation to fund itself is fundamentally absurd and puerile.
The power to tax is the power to destroy.”
Chief Justice John Marshall, McCulloch vs. Maryland 1819
Given that some slaves are content, nay proud and willing, to surrender an arbitrary portion of their wealth to the ruling class is incontrovertible proof of the success of government educational institutions, tertiary education, and the propaganda spewed forth by the lamestream media. These are the people that will impede, in whatever way they can, the efforts of others who strive to unshackle us all from our institutionalized confines. They must be pitied and gently educated, not destroyed. Hopefully they will not become a hindrance to the cause of liberty. If they do not understand the reasons for which we resist please let them step aside.
Banking was conceived in iniquity and was born in sin. The Bankers own the Earth. Take it away from them, but leave them the power to create deposits, and with the flick of a pen they will create enough deposits to buy it back again. However, take it away from them, and all the fortunes like mine will disappear, and they ought to disappear, for this world would be a happier and better world to live in. But if you wish to remain slaves of the Bankers and pay for the cost of your own slavery, let them continue to create deposits.”
Sir Josiah Stamp, President of the Bank of England in the 1920s, the second richest man in Britain.
It is no coincidence that the Federal Reserve, the IRS, and the Federal Income Tax were all created in 1913. They are all symptoms of the same cancer that has, since 1913, metastasized to gargantuan proportions that today primarily functions to suck the monetary life blood from the working, productive, and thoroughly dwindling middle class. All the State derived jobs and the people they employ cater to this monstrosity are to be held in wretched condemnation for the parasitic abomination they support. They may be good people who mean well and they might be doing it in order to simply make a living for themselves and their families but there are various other less destructive and less harmful ways of earning a living than assisting in the violent subjugation of one’s fellow man.
Everyone wants to live at the expense of the State. They forget that the State lives at the expense of everyone.”
Frederic Bastiat
The key to the complete and absolute overthrow of a society is not overt military invasion but rather the gradual whittling away of societal prosperity through inflation, the growth of the State, and the piecemeal removal of civil liberties. It is in this spirit that taxation of a populace is most effective. Inflation is, by its very nature, a hidden tax on the purse of the people that is scarcely felt until the damage is severe and irreparable. Every unit of currency that is created derives its value by stealing it from all the currency that is already in existence. This is the most insidious tax of all since it is truly a silent economic killer.
There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency. The process engages all the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and it does it in a manner which not one man in a million can diagnose.”
John Maynard Keynes
Paying your taxes like a good little slave is supporting the biggest mafia on the planet, which routinely uses that currency to kidnap, torture, pillage, rape, and murder others who would not bend over and submit to its treasonous and criminal intent. Given that we are, all of us, sovereign beings answerable to no government and with sovereign inalienable rights that no government can give nor take away, it follows that we only consent to being taxed through our fundamental ignorance of this assertion. Taxation is only theft to the extent that the ignorant and indoctrinated masses allow their wealth to be stolen by the extreme minority of psychopaths, for if they truly understood the enormous power they possess in sheer numbers they would not stand for this injustice one day longer.
It’s been easier to convince people to hand over half their income, their children to war, and their freedoms in perpetuity – than to engage them in seriously considering how roads might function in the absence of taxation.”
Stefan Molyneux
Production always precedes predation. Throughout history there have been many small tribal societies, devoid of formal governmental institutions, that have lived peacefully, harmoniously, and have produced great abundance for those living among them. This unfortunately is an attractive opportunity for criminals and rogues who seek out such societies in order to overthrow, dominate, and enslave them. When presented with the choice of working to support oneself through innovation and parasitically living off the work of others, the latter is always the preferable choice for megalomaniacs, also known as politicians, kings, and emperors. The productive sector of society must always exist before a criminal ruling class can come along and extort them for the fruits of their labor and thrift.
It is easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.”
Mark Twain
Attempting to tame and cage a wild animal is a formidable task indeed, however once the spirit of freedom has forcibly been expunged that free spirit rarely makes a reappearance. The process of enslaving future generations becomes immeasurably easier with the passage of time. Without the previous direct experience of true freedom the progeny may be easily converted and inculcated into blind State worship by the government indoctrination camps known as public schools. Thus is established the propagation of a criminal ruling class who firmly entrenches themselves in the minds of their subjects as being necessary, inevitable, and self-evident.
One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.”
Carl Sagan
There is a term that puts all this into clear perspective. That term is “tax financed murder”. One must look past all the pomp and ceremony that apparently gives the thieving politicians validation to understand the true nature of their iniquity. This is done in exactly the same manner that a magician uses pyrotechnics to enhance the theatricality of his show. Neither is based on logic and reason. Political campaigns are based on buzz words and the mindless repetition of key phrases which proves to be as effective for swaying public appeal as any advertisement for Coca Cola, McDonald’s, or the latest cell phone.
Let them march all they want, so long as they pay their taxes.”
Alexander Haig, Secretary of State to President Reagan
Stripped to its bare essence, taxation is the word provided by the ruling class to justify theft of the fruits of industry and labor of the working productive class. The percentage of taxation and items taxed is entirely arbitrary as can be seen by the fact that since 1913 income tax, excise taxes, import taxes etc have all been increasing. The wealth of a man is his property, and just like his real estate, his possessions, his inventions etc, he is absolutely justified in resisting, to the full extent of his being, any man or entity, which includes the State, attempting to rob him of that property. Rarely are any taxes or laws repealed, rather they are most often added or augmented in scope.
Liberty will not descend to a people, a people must raise themselves to liberty.”
Emma Goldman
The authority of the State to institute laws with impunity, which includes taxation, may be freely challenged by anyone who recognizes the inalienable sovereign status of all individuals. Ask those who would exert their influence over you “Where do you get your authority?” In a pyramid hierarchical society, such as the one we have been conditioned to accept, each bottom layer places the blame of their actions on the next layer above. This continues until perhaps the President is reached. From where does the President obtain his authority? If he answers God, then we have descended into the ungrounded justification of the god-kings of antiquity who have claimed their right to rule directly from the gods themselves, resistance against whom would be considered blasphemous. If he answers the Constitution, then one must ask from what divine source does the Constitution derive its power to rule and subjugate? The Constitution is, after all, just a piece of parchment paper, with scribbling, albeit fancy calligraphical scribbling, by dead white slave masters. Such an insignificant piece of paper cannot realistically possess the magical authority to prudently guide the development of any nation state. The impossibility of this task becomes more apparent the larger the State becomes. Verily as the State grows in size subsequent amendments, alterations, substitutions, transmutations, deletions, and additions must be made in order to accommodate and validate the expansion. This becomes the norm such that the intent of the original document itself becomes adulterated to such a degree as to scarcely be recognizable. Thus paper documents are insubstantial for the purpose of justifying the authoritarian claim to power.
Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.”
Voltaire
If 0% taxation is freedom and 100% is slavery, then at which point does a man become a slave? I would argue that anything above 0% is some level of economic slavery since even 0.5% taxation is involuntarily collected by means of violent force and is therefore immoral, unjust, and must be resisted. The fact that the American people have allowed the excessive growth of the State and that of insufferable tax laws to asphyxiate them to the extent that it has is testament to man’s docility and complacency when subjected to the gradual losses of freedoms and progressive encroachment of oppressive bureaucracy. For a free people to remain free no amount of taxation must be tolerated. This is known as the boiling frogs syndrome. Complacency and a lack of vigilance only breeds further exploitation and theft.
When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, ‘This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know,’ the end result is tyranny and oppression, no matter how holy the motives. Mighty little force is needed to control a man whose mind has been hoodwinked; contrariwise, no amount of force can control a free man, a man whose mind is free. No, not the rack, not fission bombs, not anything — you can’t conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him.” Robert A. Heinlein
Another way to look at the immoral issue of taxation is from the perspective of plunder. Here is what the great Frederic Bastiat has to say on the matter:
The question of legal plunder must be settled once and for all, and there are only three ways to settle it: 1) The few plunder the many. 2) Everybody plunders everybody. 3) Nobody plunders anybody.”
Frederic Bastiat, “The Law”
When we are governed by an entity that functions solely through coercion and brutality, what type of person is attracted by these positions of power? It seems only logical to conclude that psychopaths and mad men would vie for the ability to rule and dominate others. Most sane people are content to maintain order in their own home, let alone try to govern one’s neighbor, street, town, city, state, or country. Thus elections can be described as congregations of psychopaths vying for the unique opportunity to dominate others using the only monopoly of violent force in the land, the State.
None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.”
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
We must protest and boycott everything “compulsory” regarding government which includes education, healthcare, taxation etc. It gives nothing of itself. It is not a producing sector of society. In order to give it must first steal from somewhere else. Therefore when it does give the State is merely giving us back our own money on their terms. We must de-legitimize and nullify its power! It has no power! We give it all the power! It is a hollow entity that does not exist in its own right. We can starve it and free ourselves anytime we wish. However first in order to do so we must understand the nature of our own slavery.
I freed a thousand slaves. I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves.”
Harriet Tubman
This truly enlightening 3 minute animation video is for all you loyal subjects who believe your tax dollars are going towards something meaningful, just, and productive. Approximately 53% of our tax dollars are directed to strengthen and empower the War Machine in all its murderous and barbaric efforts overseas. This is tax financed murder at its finest. We, the American taxpayers, are either blissfully ignorant or wickedly complicit in the bloody intent for which our tax dollars are used. Regardless of the reason for our compliance the consequences are the same. People are murdered as a result.
“We can ignore reality but we cannot ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.” Ayn Rand
Here is wonderfully simple 3-minute animated video depiction of why being an entrepreneur in America is such a daunting task. The Federal Government is the unwanted business partner of all business owners. It does nothing to contribute capitol or labor, instead adding more and more legislation and taxes each year to the already over-burdened load that exists. The ratio of producers:parasitic dependents is tipping. A functional society cannot exist when the former dwarfs the latter.
“I sit on a man’s back choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am sorry for him and wish to lighten his load by all means possible, except by getting off his back.” Leo Tolstoy, “What Then Must We Do?”