GOVEROTRAGEOUS: “Taxation IS theft” spawns the CERTIFIED POLITICAL PROMISE idea

Saturday, May 9, 2026

https://www.newstribune.com/news/2026/may/03/commentary-everyone-hates-taxes-that-doesnt-mean/

COMMENTARY: Everyone hates taxes — that doesn’t mean you can skip them
Chicago Tribune (TNS)

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“Taxation is theft” is typically Libertarian-coded, a view that carries deep skepticism about the wisdom, efficiency and trustworthiness of government’s ability to spend our money better than we would ourselves. We suspect many folks who voted for President Donald Trump do not like paying taxes. Perhaps they even have this slogan taped to their rear bumper.

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You can protest how your tax dollars are used. You can press your lawmakers for a different approach. You can support candidates who reflect your priorities and hold them accountable once they’re in office. You can argue about how much should be collected in the first place.

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Yes, I do have the bumper stickers and it’s not like anything seems to work!

Unconstitutional regime-change war at the behest of Israel as well as widespread Welfare / Medicare / Medicaid fraud makes me enraged!

How about introducing the concept of a “CERTIFIED” (as in the Post Office “certified mail return receipt requested”) … … “CERTIFIED POLITICAL PROMISE”!  (Some lawyer be willing to create one pro bono for the good of the Republic?).  I envision it as an Undated Resignation Letter.

Date: TBD
TO: We, The People
FROM: ____ candidate for ____

PROMISE:  ____  (i.e., specific, measurable, attainable, realistic and time bounded)

CONSEQUENCE:  Consider this my immediately effective resignation

SIGNED:

NOTARIZED: 

COPIES TO: The National Archives, the current President, and the Governor of my State

That should suffice to cut down on the politicians’ <synonym for excrement> on the difference between CAMPAIGNING and GOVERNING!

Hey it’s worth trying ❶.

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❶ The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas. — Linus Pauling

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: No Gooferment bailouts for any failing corporation.

Saturday, May 2, 2026

https://nypost.com/2026/04/24/opinion/spirit-airlines-deal-threatens-another-bailout-boondoggle/

Spirit Airlines deal threatens yet another bailout boondoggle
By Stephen Moore
Published April 24, 2026, 5:13 p.m. ET

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It’s a strange conundrum: If a company gets too big and successful and dares earn too much money, the US government accuses it of being an evil monopoly and tries to break it up.

And if it loses too much money, the government swoops in and bails it out with taxpayer dollars — as we’ve seen multiple times now, from banking to the auto industry.

Rewarding failure and punishing success isn’t a very smart economic game plan.

In the latest chapter of this saga, the federal government is reportedly about to provide a half-billion-dollar taxpayer bailout to Spirit Airlines.

Aren’t you excited to learn you may become a shareholder?

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And the politicians have a long and inglorious history of picking losers.

Think of the hundreds of millions of dollars lost under President Barack Obama’s so-called stimulus, when the government turned itself into a venture capital fund and “invested” in companies like Solyndra and Fisker Auto — celebrated solar panel and electric car manufacturers that went bust after huge infusions of tax dollars.

How many times have we been told that Amtrak and the US Postal Service are about to become profitable?

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The Gooferment —  at any level — as well as any politicians and bureaucrats should not be favoring any corporation or people with “investments” from the Taxpayers’ pocket.

I still remember how upset my sainted wife was when the Gooferment bailed out GM and the bond holders got screwed.   I also remember when my favorite tax accountant got screwed when Bear Sterns was allowed to go bust but AIG was bailed out.  And remember when the Gooferment was to bail out individual mortgagees that suddenly became bailouts for the Big Banks — who promptly gave big bonuses to high-earning employees, CxOs, and directors. Sigh!  

The beauty of “capitalism” is that “the invisible hand of the marketplace” rewards those who satisfy the consumers’ needs making a profit and applies discipline to those that don’t.  All without a single Gooferment bureaucrat!

When Gooferment seeks to frustrate the marketplace: (1) it doesn’t work since it doesn’t change the leadership, management, and workers behavior that got them into unprofitability in the first place; (2) the taxpayers become the deep pockets for further losses; and (3) continues the immorality of Gooferment theft and “training’ “We, The Sheeple” that the Gooferment knows what’s best for “us”!

Bottom line: No Gooferment bailouts for any failing corporation.

Argh!

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: There are not TWO standards of “justice”

Monday, April 27, 2026

https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/soldier-charged-over-maduro-raid-bet-rcna341710?utm_campaign=april24morningnotenonsubs&utm_medium=email&utm_source=iterable&utm_content=morningnote

U.S. soldier involved in Maduro raid charged with betting on the operation
The special forces soldier allegedly made more than $400,000 on Polymarket as a result of the bets, prosecutors say.
April 23, 2026, 6:00 PM EDT / Updated April 24, 2026, 7:05 AM EDT
By Tom Winter, Jonathan Dienst, Steve Kopack and Chloe Atkins

 

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Federal authorities arrested and charged a U.S. special forces soldier who is accused of using classified information about the raid that removed Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro from office to make prediction market bets.

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Van Dyke was charged with “unlawful use of confidential government information for personal gain, theft of nonpublic government information, commodities fraud, wire fraud, and making an unlawful monetary transaction.”

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Not trying to excuse bad behavior But I can understand the moral confusion of some poor guy trying to make a buck.

When does this standard apply to Congress?  Seems two faced.

And, FBI Director Kash Patel, as well as Attorney General Todd Blanche, “makes clear no one is above the law” is absolute <synonym for excrement from a male cow>!  Remember the “Epstein files” and then tell me there are not TWO standards of “justice” —  one for the rabble and another for the political class!

Argh!

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: “Health Insurance” has been screwed up since the World War II wage and price controls

Saturday, April 25, 2026

FROM AN EMAIL BY:

Tom Woods (HappyEarner.com) 
<< EDITOR ADDED DATE 2026-04-22>>
RE: I have a series of eBooks called “Your Facebook Friends Are Wrong About….”

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The first title in my series was Your Facebook Friends Are Wrong About Health Care — appropriate, since everybody knows there’s something wrong with the system, but few understand where the blame really belongs.

The problem is not a lack of government involvement: wherever government involvement is least felt — direct primary care practices, for example, or areas like LASIK or cosmetic surgery — the system works by far the best.

The “insurance” part of the system is particularly screwed up — it came into existence thanks to World War II wage and price controls, and it’s subject to crazy restrictions and mandates.

In our screwed-up society people talk a lot about creating “parallel institutions” — and then they do nothing.

CrowdHealth actually created a parallel institution. It’s an alternative to health insurance, and it operates in parallel to the insane system everyone else is trapped in.

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I’ve blogged about this before.  I think many times.  It came to the forefront in my “attention space” when I had to get “health insurance” for my minor child.  What a fúçĸĭṅğ disaster!  And, I don’t use that word lightly.

I had two experts, and my insurance carrier that couldn’t make heads or tails out of my problem. 

In trying to solve it, I had the “fun” of calling my insurance carrier and being greeted with a “dead end” message (basically tummy you to buzz off) “call back during normal business hours” on a Tuesday at noon EDST. Argh!

Imagine if your life insurance or car insurance was tied to your employment.

Argh!

I’m writing my representatives to disconnect “insurance” from “employment” by removing the business tax deduction for “insurance” ASAP!

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: To ban Styrofoam, people have to choose to not use it

Sunday, April 5, 2026

https://johnklar.substack.com/p/connecticut-ban-on-styrofoam-packaging?publication_id=779141&post_id=192102107&isFreemail=true&r=3vwsqx&triedRedirect=true

Connecticut Ban on Styrofoam Packaging Frustrates Struggling Restaurants
Lost customers and increased overheads feared.
John Klar
Apr 02, 2026

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A pending Connecticut bill that would ban Styrofoam take-out packaging and impose numerous other mandates on restaurants in the Constitution State illustrates the classic metaphor of roads to Hell being paved with good intentions. Some restaurants perceive that Connecticut’s constitution is being crumpled up and burned in the legislature’s drive to stop Styrofoam from being crumpled up and landfilled.

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This demonstrates the difficulty in changing consumption habits – if consumers do not demand change, it is difficult for either government or businesses to impose it from on high.

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A wise Persian king asked his advisers to bring him something that would make him happy when he was sad and vice versa. They eventually brought the king a ring on which is inscribed “This too shall pass.”

Most already see that recycling is a joke.

We see our carefully sorted waste products all dumped in the same truck. It’s no longer profitable for companies to recycle, but we continue to have “recycling theater” making us waste time and effort.

So too banning Styrofoam is fruitless; we the people know what we want. And politicians of bureaucrats should just get with the program.

Argh!

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: Why we need more school choice

Wednesday, April 1, 2026

A post on FACEBOOK, got me on a rant about Gooferment Skrules.

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Without Gooferment Skrules funded by tax dollars, parents would choose their education options.  

Gooferment Skrules kill Catholic Schools in several ways:

  1. Catholic families are taxed for Gooferment Skrules regardless if they use them or not;
  2. It’s impossible to compete with something given away for “free” by the Gooferment;
  3. Gooferment Skrules teachers drive up the market rate and absorb the supply;
  4. Gooferment imposes diktats on all “schools” that only Gooferment Skrules can meet or ignore without penalty;
  5. the Teachers’ Union wields tremendous clout over Gooferment politicians and bureaucrats and sets the “curriculum” and “the rules”;
  6. the “education” provided by Gooferment Skrules is so inferior to private schools that can’t be ignored. What are parents supposed to do? Vote more! Argh! 

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It’s like if the Gooferment subsidized McDonald’s by forcing Burger King customers to pay for a McDonald’s burger too.

We can IMMEDIATELY see that as “unfair”.   

But the powerful elite think that “education” is something only Gooferment can do.

We need the SEPARATION of Gooferment from almost everything it does.   Let’s start with “education”.  

Argh!

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: Anti-religious Bias in Gooferment?

Monday, March 30, 2026

https://www.judicialwatch.org/fbi-targeting-of-traditionalist-catholics/

March 17, 2026
Judicial Watch: Federal Court Sets Hearing in FOIA Lawsuit on FBI Targeting of Traditionalist Catholics

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(Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch announced today that a federal court hearing will be held in Washington, DC, on Thursday, March 19, 2026, at 3:30 p.m. ET in a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) over records about the Biden FBI’s targeting of “radical traditionalist” Catholics.

Judicial Watch, along with CatholicVote Civic Action, sued the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Justice Department in April 2023 for records containing key words and records about a FBI memo targeting Catholics (CatholicVote Civic Action and Judicial Watch, Inc. v. Federal Bureau of Investigations and Department of Justice (No. 1:23-cv-01166)).

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“Why won’t this DOJ and FBI reveal the full record on one of the most notorious abuses of power under Biden—the FBI’s targeting of Catholics for their Christian religious beliefs,” Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said. “This concerns the First Amendment, and the Biden Justice Department’s flagrant abuse may be criminal.”

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There is a war on “freedom of” versus “freedom from” religion, it seems obvious that there is an anti-religious bias in government. I attribute that to the communist/leftist/woke progressive that inhabit government.

Leave people alone! 

This is not Orwell’s 1984 where the Gooferment is everything to everybody. Gooferment continues to attack organized religion the was a queen bee kills all her competition to lead the hive.

Argh!

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GOVERNACIDE: Gooferment Skrules adults are “racist”?

Monday, March 23, 2026

https://nypost.com/2026/03/13/us-news/california-appeals-court-sides-with-student-punished-for-writing-any-life-below-black-lives-matter-sketch/

Schoolgirl, 6, off the hook for poignant hand-written BLM letter principal said was ‘racist’ thanks to 1960s civil rights ruling
By Ross O’Keefe
Published March 13, 2026, 8:17 p.m. ET

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“Today’s ruling affirms what should be obvious: Students don’t lose their constitutional rights just because they’re young,” Caleb Trotter, senior attorney at Pacific Legal Foundation, said in a release published online. “The Constitution protects every student’s right to free expression. No child should be punished for expressing a well-intentioned message to a friend.”

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Child's drawing on white paper that says "Black Lives Mater any life" with four colored ovals underneath, held by a hand.

I know at least one child who is “pure of heart”.  He really doesn’t “see” color yet.  And he too is “pro life”.

“Suffer the little children to … …”

“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.”
— Martin Luther King Jr. “I Have a Dream” Aug. 28, 1963

Gooferment Skrules are designed to produce cannon fodder for the Army, willing morons for the factories, and useful idiots to vote for and be led by the elite.  

For this “principal” to see racism is the problem.

Argh!

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: OOOPS, facial recognition got it wrong

Saturday, March 21, 2026

https://boingboing.net/2026/03/12/grandmother-jailed-108-days-after-facial-recognition-got-it-wrong.html

Grandmother jailed 108 days after facial recognition got it wrong
Ellsworth Toohey 4:44 pm Thu Mar 12, 2026

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Fargo police had identified her as a bank fraud suspect using AI facial recognition software. The software was wrong.

Lipps spent nearly four months in a Tennessee jail without bail — classified as a fugitive, she had no hearing, no interview, nothing. North Dakota officers didn’t retrieve her until October 30, 108 days after the arrest.

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Sorry, but which politicians and bureaucrats are going to jail for 108 days?

In another great example of “justice” (habeas corpus for me but not for thee), this lady lost everything due to a “software error”.  Even a modest amount of investigation would have prevented this.

Hope she gets a good lawyer and can penetrate “qualified immunity”!

Argh!

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS:The first to go should be the politicians and bureaucrats and their relatives

Friday, March 20, 2026

https://www.lewrockwell.com/lrc-blog/as-iran-war-escalates-congress-passes-automatic-involuntary-draft-registration/

As Iran War Escalates, Congress Passes Automatic Involuntary Draft Registration
By Daniel McAdams
March 11, 2026

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As often happens, the NDAA bill contains some of the worst language of all legislation. This year is no different, with language slipped into the bill that automatically and involuntarily registers young men for the military draft. With the war in Iran escalating and talks of troops needed.

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Where is the spirit of Charlie Rangel when you need it?

Former U.S. Representative Charlie Rangel (D-NY), a Korean War veteran, repeatedly introduced legislation between 2003 and 2015 to reinstate a military draft, known as the Universal National Service Act. He argued that mandatory service for all, including women, would ensure shared sacrifice and force Congress to be more cautious about entering conflicts.

All us crazy little L libertarians would chime in to pass it.  Not because we wanted a “draft” but we wanted all the politicians and bureaucrats on record.  None of this non-sense about an “all volunteer army” when the body bags start coming home and its a disproportionately composed of poor and minority men.  When all the rich and powerful kids seek out convenient slots in the National Guard or Reserves.  As a Viet Nam era draftee, I didn’t have any such political pull.  So “register and take” everyone —  men, women, rich, poor, white, black, brown, or green.

So, I am fundamentally opposed to “the Draft” —  didn’t Lincoln free the slaves? —  as an infringement on our basic human rights.

So if the Congress wants to have a draft, then the first to go should be the politicians and bureaucrats and their relatives!

“No matter who you vote for, you get John McCain” – @ThomasEWoods.

“Any infringement of them is equally a crime, whether committed by one man, calling himself a robber, or by millions, calling themselves a government.” — Lysander Spoone The Unconstitutionality of Slavery

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