Work hard enough and one day the state will confiscate a majority of your income.
What do you need rights for?
What do you need rights for? Are you up to something? –Statist proverb
The Argument Pyramid
How one responds during an argument can be scored on the pyramid shown below. Note: in a world filled with idiots, that bottom area is where most arguments will lie.
Keynesian Economics
In case of nothing to do, break glass and then sweep up broken glass.
Vice vs Crime
“Vices are those acts by which a man harms himself or his property. Crimes are those acts by which one man harms the person or property of another. Vices are simply the errors which a man makes in his search after his own happiness. Unlike crimes, they imply no malice toward others, and no interference with their persons or property.
In vices, the very essence of crime !—! that is, the design to injure the person or property of another!—! is wanting.
It is a maxim of the law that there can be no crime without a criminal intent; that is, without the intent to invade the person or property of another. But no one ever practices a vice with any such criminal intent. He practices his vice for his own happiness solely, and not from any malice toward others.
Unless this clear distinction between vices and crimes be made and recognized by the laws, there can be on earth no such thing as individual right, liberty, or property; no such things as the right of one man to the control of his own person and property, and the corresponding and coequal rights of another man to the control of his own person and property. For a government to declare a vice to be a crime, and to punish it as such, is an attempt to falsify the very nature of things. It is as absurd as it would be to declare truth to be falsehood, or falsehood truth.” – Lysander Spooner
Anarchy is no guarantee…
Anarchy is no guarantee that some people won’t kill, injure, kidnap, defraud, or steal from others. Government is a guarantee that some will.
Statism: The belief that you require permission to be free.
The biggest threat to America today is its own federal government. … The biggest dangers we face today don’t even need to sneak past our billion-dollar defense system… they issue the contracts for them.
The real question of government versus private enterprise is argued on too philosophical and abstract a bases. Theoretically, planning may be good. But nobody has ever figured out the cause of government stupidity — and until they do (and find a cure), all ideal plans will fall into quicksand.
Tree Hugger Joke
A woman from Los Angeles who was a tree-hugging liberal and an anti-hunter, purchased a piece of timberland near Colville, WA. There was a large tree on one of the highest points in the tract. She wanted a good view of the natural splendor of her land so she started to climb the big tree.
As she neared the top she encountered a spotted owl that attacked her. In her haste to escape, the woman slid down the tree to the ground and got many splinters in her privates. In considerable pain, she hurried to a local ER to see a doctor. She told him she was an environmentalist, a liberal, and an anti-hunter and how she came to get all the splinters.
The doctor listened to her story with great patience and then told her to go wait in the examining room and he would see if he could help her. She sat and waited three hours before the doctor reappeared. The angry woman demanded, “What took so long?” He smiled and then told her, “Well, I had to get permits from the Environmental Protection Agency, the Forest Service, and the Bureau of Land Management before I could remove old-growth timber from a ‘recreational area’ so close to a waste treatment facility. I’m sorry, but due to the Affordable-Care Act they turned you down.”