LIBERTY: Do not relax; It’s time to apply the inheritance tax.

Monday, December 11, 2006

FROM MY LUDDITE FRIEND WHO CAN’T COMMENT:

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Hmmm….

—– Forwarded by JF/CHarrlotte on 12/11/2006 11:01 AM —–

Subject: Taxes

What Happened?

Be sure to read all the way to the end!

Tax his land,
Tax his bed,
Tax the table
At which he’s fed.

Tax his tractor,
Tax his mule,
Teach him taxes
Are the rule.

Tax his cow,
Tax his goat,
Tax his pants,
Tax his coat.

Tax his ties,
Tax his shirt,
Tax his work,
Tax his dirt.

Tax his tobacco,
Tax his drink,
Tax him if he
Tries to think.

Tax his cigars,
Tax his beers,
If he cries, then
Tax his tears.

Tax his car,
Tax his gas,
Find other ways
To tax his ass

Tax all he has
Then let him know
That you won’t be done
Till he has no dough.

When he screams and hollers,
Then tax him some more,
Tax him till
He’s good and sore.

Then tax his coffin,
Tax his grave,
Tax the sod in
Which he’s laid.

Put these words
Upon his tomb,
“Taxes drove me
To my doom…”

When he’s gone,
Do not relax,Its time to apply
The inheritance tax.

Accounts Receivable Tax
Building Permit Tax
CDL license Tax
Cigarette Tax
Corporate Income Tax
Dog License Tax
Federal Income Tax
Federal Unemployment Tax (FUTA)
Fishing License Tax
Food License Tax,
Fuel permit tax
Gasoline Tax (42 cents per gallon)
Hunting License Tax
Inheritance Tax
Interest expense
Inventory tax
IRS Interest Charges IRS Penalties (tax on top of tax) Liquor Tax Luxury Taxes Marriage License Tax Medicare Tax Property Tax Real Estate Tax Service charge taxes Social Security Tax Road usage taxes Sales Tax Recreational Vehicle Tax School Tax State Income Tax State Unemployment Tax (SUTA) Telephone federal excise tax Telephone federal universal service fee tax Telephone federal, state and local surcharge taxes Telephone minimum usage surcharge tax Telephone recurring and non-recurring charges tax Telephone state and local tax Telephone usage charge tax Utility Taxes Vehicle License Registration Tax Vehicle Sales Tax Watercraft registration Tax Well Permit Tax Workers Compensation Tax

COMMENTS: Not one of these taxes existed 100 years ago, And our nation was the most prosperous in the world.
We had absolutely no national debt, had the largest middle class in the world, and Mom stayed home to raise the kids.
What happened?

And I still have to “press 1” for English!

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Hey don’t gripe at me! I’m a libertarian. I’ve been telling you for eons that taxes are theft.

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GUNS: RKBA is a limit on the gubamint

Sunday, December 10, 2006

http://www.washingtontimes.com/metro/
20061207-110519-9728r.htm

http://tinyurl.com/y2u2z3

Right to bear arms applies to militias only, city tells court
By Matt Apuzzo
ASSOCIATED PRESS
December 8, 2006

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In a case that could shape firearms laws nationwide, attorneys for the District argued yesterday that the Second Amendment’s right to bear arms applies only to militias, not individuals.

The city defended as constitutional its long-standing ban on handguns, a law that some gun opponents have advocated elsewhere. Civil liberties groups and pro-gun organizations say the ban in unconstitutional.

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The Second Amendment have NEVER been interpreted to mean anything but an individual right!

The dead old white guys must be rolling over at the stupidity of the serf in the new Amerika!

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LIBERTY: Am I allowed to disagree with you without getting shot? Not in the new Amerika

Sunday, December 10, 2006

http://www.lewrockwell.com/molyneux/molyneux29.html

http://tinyurl.com/ylo93e

 

The Gun in the Room
by Stefan Molyneux

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I was recently involved in a debate with a woman about public schools. Naturally, she came up with reason after reason as to why public schools were beneficial, how wonderful they were for underprivileged children, how essential they were for social stability etc etc. Each of these points – and many more – could have consumed hour upon hour of back and forth, and would have required extensive research and complicated philosophical reasoning. But there was really no need for any of that – all I had to do was keep saying:

“The issue is not whether public schools are good or bad, but rather whether I am allowed to disagree with you without getting shot.”

Most political debates really are that simple. People don’t get into violent debates about which restaurant is best because the state doesn’t impose one restaurant on everyone – and shoot those trying to set up competing restaurants. The truth is that I couldn’t care less about this woman’s views on education – just as she couldn’t care less about my views – but we are forced to debate because we are not allowed to hold opposing views without one of us getting shot. That was the essence of our debate, and as long as it remained unacknowledged, we weren’t going to get anywhere.

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Libertarian have to keep pushing the concept that “governments are force; free markets are the ultimate expression of liberty”.

If I disagree with you about something in the government paradigm, one of us gets punished — financially, physically, or killed. In the case of financially, if the gubamint takes a portion of my past (i.e., my savings), my current (i.e., my time, my money, my earnings), or my future (i.e., prevents me from pursuing my dreams; makes me dependent upon the dole; restricts my thinking like the baby elephant so I can’t conceive of freedom), then I’m a slave to a greater or lesser degree. All we are discussing is degree. If the gubmaint doesn’t like my “side” of our disagreement, then it can send me to prison, or worse impoverish me. And, like David Koresh found out, being an enemy of the gubamint can get you very dead.

Contrast that to a free market:

If you and I disagree, they we can each “buy” our own custom solution. Peacefully and, in no way, infringing upon your choices. The marketplace uses that incredible complex calculus to compute what resources are applied to satisfy which needs. Eventually all markets clear supply and demand. (Rather quickly imho!) Everyone is satisfied at a price they are will to pay. The best use of scarce resources are “fairly” allocated to the most “urgent” use of them. So we get money by satisfying the needs of others and then we use that money to satisfy our own needs. The marketplace makes us free and harnesses our energy to the “right” problem. No one can drive us better than “greed”.

In some ways, one can blame poverty on gubamint, because it’s taxes and intrusions makes us “poorer”! Look at the countries in Africa for true government induced poverty.

So, in the cited example of “public education”, some are forced pay for what other’s want. With a goodly handling fee for the gubamint and all the squealing pigs involved. And, it delivers a terrible product. If public education was a car maker, no one would buy it.

If I was a poor inner-city minority, then I’d call this like Walter Williams said. “If the Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan set out to destroy black academic excellence in Philadelphia, I doubt whether he could achieve as much damage.”

Why do we tolerate this non-sense?

Government forces us to!

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INTERESTING: Old age is not for sissies.

Sunday, December 10, 2006

http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/
oped/articles/2006/12/08/the_abiding_legacy_of_my_
mother____the_listener/?rss_id=Boston+Globe+–+
Op-ed+columns

http://tinyurl.com/y42gdk

The abiding legacy of my mother — the listener
By Ellen Goodman | December 8, 2006

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Old age is not for sissies. My mother’s long slow terrible decline lasted over a decade. There was the television she could no longer work and then the telephone. There were the small spiral notebooks whose pages were covered with names from a past she struggled to retain. One page listed her favorite movie star: Cary Grant. Another listed my father’s best friend: Lou Novins.

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This really rang true as I am traveling down that road with my Mom. Dementia is a terrible thing. Slowly turning her from a “mom” into a shell of her former self. It saddens me. And, I’m not kidding when I tell people “when I get old, just shoot me!”

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ALUMNI: Another week; another issue of Jasper Jottings

Saturday, December 9, 2006

Shipped! Time to start next week’s. Is it all worthwhile?

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RANT: Yesterday was a blur

Saturday, December 9, 2006

I actually didn’t have any time to write.

This weekend’s work project, the final one of the year, for which I have some unclear responsibility, and some key people have taken off on vacation, has left me stressed.

Some of their backups need some reintroduction to some basic concepts: “No, we like to test BEFORE production, so that we know it will work in production. While I personally appreciate your innovative solution to the time problems, I think we should have you explain it to leadership so they can give you the proper credit for the idea. As a matter of fact, I think we should do that right now so they can express their appreciation of you innovation. Oh, OK, you can complete the testing before the end of the day. Great. Now what about the meeting with leadership? Cancel it. Sure. Fine. Have a great day!”

I can’t believe some people. The schedule is “tight”. But, what would be the purpose of testing AFTER one does something? Gee, let me shoot you in the foot to see if it hurts. The gun may not fire! But, if it does, then we didn’t need a test in the first place.

DUH.

This fellow should move to Flori-DUH!

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LIBERTY: It is the duty of every citizen to break the leader’s rules

Thursday, December 7, 2006

http://www.lewrockwell.com/nicholas/nicholas21.html

The Peasant Who Stood Up to Hitler
by Justine Nicholas

 

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When a leader allows himself to break the rules of humanity, it is the duty of every citizen to break the leader’s rules.

So wrote Franz Jagerstatter.

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Never heard this story. If true, it’s powerful heady stuff. It adds a new silver bullet to my arsenal … the “Jagerstatter Principle”.

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RANT: The needless suffering at Pearl Harbor

Thursday, December 7, 2006

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20061207/D8LS100G0.html

Pearl Harbor Survivors Meet for Last Time
Dec 7, 7:58 AM (ET)
By JAYMES SONG

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PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii (AP) – With their number quickly dwindling, survivors of Pearl Harbor will gather Thursday one last time to honor those killed by the Japanese 65 years ago, and to mark a day that lives in infamy.

This will be their last visit to this watery grave to share stories, exchange smiles, find peace and salute their fallen friends. This, they say, will be their final farewell.

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If one reads Robert Stinnett’s book on Pearl Harbor, “Day of Deceit: The Truth About FDR and Pearl Harbor”, you’ll come away with a real understanding of what caused all this dead, destruction, and suffering. It truly was a “day of Infamy”, but not as we thought it. As a cryptographer, I was stunned reading this. Further the fact that the truth was concealed for 60 years really lends credence to the quip “How do you know when a politician is lying? When his lips are moving.” There has to be, I hope, a special circle in hell for those politicians. Not that “ours” are any better. This should be required reading for voters and anyone considering entering the military.

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RANT: I hate software

Thursday, December 7, 2006

I wanted to listen to some music. Musicmatch Jukebox said it had to do an upgrade. Now it says it has to do a reboot. That’s not convenient. So why didn’t it say that BEFORE it asked to do the upgrade. I’d have said no and been able to use the software I paid for!! At least when the stuff is free you can’t ripe too much. But the free stuff is better behaved than the “professional crud”. Arghhhh!

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INTERESTING: Women are encouraged towards divorce because the system profits when their families implode.

Thursday, December 7, 2006

http://www.violentacres.com/archives/54/the-deadbeat-dad-myth

The Deadbeat Dad Myth
December 6th, 2006

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In the end, it’s all about money. Over two thirds of the divorces are initiated by women who were promised that they can have it all: The kids, the house, and a nice paycheck every week to ease the agony of their oftentimes flippant decision to destroy their families. What they don’t know is the only reason they are so often encouraged down this path has nothing to do with what’s ‘best for her family.’ The family concept could be repaired if more people were willing to work on it instead of cutting and running the second things got a little rough. Divorce, on the other hand, is a business that is keeping thousands of people in a new Lexus every year.

Let me say that again in case anyone missed it: Women are encouraged towards divorce because the system profits when their families implode.

Your divorce keeps the judges, the lawyers, the file clerks and the security guards all in jobs. Court appointed therapists and counselors benefit financially when you’re forced into programs with little substance designed to make you feel better about being in a broken home. The main benefactor is the child support agency who takes a 2% cut out of every child support check for as long as the child is in the system.

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Now that’s an interesting assertion. I think it’s interesting that the State doesn’t “insure” the judgment. I know for a fact that in New Jersey, that you may have a judgment, but if the State collects zero, you get zero. No skin off their nose. No stats on how they help or hurt the process. Now you can be sure if it was their money from taxes, they’d move heaven and earth to get it. If they were concerned about the children, they’d cut the family a check and assume the role of guarantor. So I tend to suspect that this fellow has it pegged — fees, employment, and contracts are probably the prime mover.

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