POLICY: Here’s a good idea for a Gooferment diktat about corporations

Thursday, August 13, 2026

✔ 2026-08Aug-09 solar panel.

As much as I am against Gooferment diktats and “tax policy”, how about, until we get to a free open AnCap¹ society, the Gooferment require “corporations”² to purchase offsets from private homeowners’ rooftop solar panels.  

With the inet, there would be no need for the Gooferment to run anything but a domain to facilitate and document the transfers.  Not that homeowners would cheat and sell the same rooftop solar array credits to multiple corporations or the corporations would fudge “buying” the credits!  (Unlike how every Gooferment (welfare) program gets abused. Argh!)

Corporations are a construct of Gooferment diktats which most little L libertarians hate.  Since with public ownership, they do represent a collection of people. Where it gets further diluted is when “shares” are held by other corporations.  That actually dilutes the power of worth of individually owned shares. See how the Big Pension Funds supported the “DEI” initiatives of large corporations despite the general public’s opinion DEI. Argh!

Opinions?

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¹ Anarcho-capitalism is a political ideology and economic theory that advocates for the abolition of state monopolies and the expansion of economic liberalism and market economy through the promotion of a voluntary society. Proponents argue that a society could function without a centralized state through voluntary exchange and private institutions that provide legal and security services relegating coercion to the collection of tort damages, and refining recoupment in the context of a free and open marketplace. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarcho-capitalism

² Libertarians generally oppose the idea of corporations being treated as individuals with the same rights, arguing that this can lead to excessive corporate influence in politics and undermine democratic processes. They believe that while corporations should have some rights, they should not have the same rights as individual citizens. https://www.libertarianism.org/videos/what-you-probably-havent-heard-about-citizens-united

³ Libertarians often argue against corporate influence in politics by advocating for limited government intervention and regulation, which they believe can reduce the opportunities for corporations to exert power through lobbying and political contributions. They emphasize the importance of free markets and individual liberties, suggesting that when government is less involved, corporate interests will have less sway over public policy. https://leadershipnowproject.org/corporate-political-influence-101/

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POLICY: Wars should be fought by the leaders?

Thursday, August 6, 2026

https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/noel-loomis/short-science-fiction/text/electron-eat-electron

Short Science Fiction

Noel Loomis
Electron Eat Electron

  • This ebook is the product of many hours of hard work by volunteers for Standard Ebooks, and builds on the hard work of other literature lovers made possible by the public domain.
  • Noel Loomis was a prolific writer of short fiction for popular pulp magazines from the 1930s into the 1970s. While he wrote many western novels and some western short fiction, the majority of his short-form work was science fiction.
  • It was first published in 1946, in Planet Stories.

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This had been a concession to left-wing agitation that, if there was to be another war, it should be fought by the leaders and not by the ranks.

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What a novel idea!

To bad no one listened in 1946!

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POLICY: Amish Families in New York should have the Religious Vaccine Exemption

Saturday, July 25, 2026

https://thevaccinereaction.org/2026/07/amish-families-in-new-york-lose-religious-vaccine-exemption-case/

Amish Families in New York Lose Religious Vaccine Exemption Case
by Carolyn Hendler, JD
Published July 23, 2026
Federal & State Courts

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Yoder held that even a neutral and generally applicable compulsory education law could not override Amish parents’ religious objection to sending their children to high school. After Mahmoud, that exception applies broadly to any school policy that interferes with parental religious exercise.

The Second Circuit found the New York vaccine law to be a different kind of burden than set forth in Yoder. The court wrote that the law “does not regulate what children are taught, does not require them to affirm any belief, does not expose them to state-selected instruction contrary to their parents’ faith, and does not enlist school officials to displace parental religious formation.” The burden, the court held, “may be serious, but it is not the kind of state interference with a child’s religious development that triggered strict scrutiny in Yoder or Mahmoud.”

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New York legislatures voted to eliminate the religious exemption in 2019 after an alleged measles outbreak centered in Rockland County among the Orthodox Jewish community. New York is now one of five states that does not permit religious exemptions to school vaccine requirements. The other states are California, Connecticut, Maine and West Virginia.

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The current and past justices serving on the U.S. Supreme Court have given very little indication that they would be willing to overturn the pivotal 1905 Jacobson decision that has underpinned U.S. public health law for more than century. To have the utilitarian Jacobson decision reaffirmed by the Supreme Court in the 21st century could deal a fatal blow to medical freedom in America with repercussions that could last another 120 years.

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For as much as I admire the Amish for their commitment to their beliefs, I don’t understand their choice.  But that’s my problem; not theirs.  While I don’t want to live that life style, I stand firmly as a little L libertarian with them in the resistance to the Gooferment’s tyranny.

Hard to imagine that “rights” are held in such disrepute.

The principles of little L libertarianism are Life, Liberty, and Property which all flow from the natural right of self-ownership.  I can’t imagine that the RIGHT to self-ownership doesn’t extend to the RIGHT to raise your children as you see fit.  

While it maybe debated as to exactly WHEN the RIGHTS of the child inure — to take or have effect —  the parents’ RIGHTS are paramount.  (Probably, at least when they can assert them, or have their rights asserted for them by a Guardian ad Litem as in cases of physical or mental abuse.)

Clearly, the the New York vaccine law interferes with parental religious exercise and as such should be subject to the strictest scrutiny. IMHO

Argh!

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POLICY: Gooferment has no business being in the “charity industry”

Tuesday, May 26, 2026

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/18qBWdRDdr/

NBC News

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Under President Trump’s “big, beautiful bill,” food stamp applicants are fighting to prove eligibility and facing questions about birthday gifts sent over Zelle.

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@S Kent Troy

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You want my “charity” you damned well better be poor! Working in the “inner city” for 40 years I had the opportunity to visit many bodegas. After they became used to seeing the “white guy” and I became furniture in the neighborhood, the beer and cigarette sales with food stamps resumed right in front of me.

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https://www.mercatus.org/economic-insights/expert-commentary/disaster-relief-lessons-chicago-fire-1871

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The Chicago fire was a highly destructive event, leaving more than a third of the city’s 300,000 inhabitants homeless. Almost 18,000 buildings were consumed by the flames, including the city’s most expensive properties. Critically, from the perspective of the disaster relief scholarship, in 1871 there was no analogue to the present-day, Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), meaning that relief efforts had to be decentralized. Moreover, there was no institutionalized source of government financial aid, or a ready-made disaster relief plan that could be implemented. To a large extent, it was up to Chicago’s residents to develop solutions to the calamity that they faced.

Part of the weakness of the central government at the time of the fire was due to the absence of federal income tax. Moreover, as a corollary, there were no tax write-offs associated with charitable donations, meaning that the relief funding needed to be primarily private, and incentivized either by having a direct stake in the outcome, or by pure altruism.

In fact, 57 per cent of the funds secured by those charged with coordinating relief efforts came from private contributions, including individuals, businesses and corporate entities.

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I disagree with the statement: “Part of the weakness of the central government at the time of the fire was due to the absence of federal income tax.”  The “income tax” imho is the most destructive socialist imposition on Americans.

The Gooferment has no business being in the “charity industry”. Truly private charity can differentiate between the “welfare farmers” and those in need.

The Gooferment only gives “money” (with strings); private charities (like the Salvation Army and many churches give people what they need more than money (i.e., a support network; things that money just can’t buy).

As a special note, compare what the Salvation Army pays its staff as opposed to the Gooferment or Big Charities. Private charity is low overhead and focused problem solving.

We need less socialism and more individual actions.  Americans are very generous people DESPITE the income tax.  Imagine what you could do if you had ALL of your paycheck. Argh!

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POLITICAL: No doubt that “immigration” needs to be reformed

Tuesday, March 31, 2026

https://johnklar.substack.com/p/ice-turns-its-attention-to-sanctuary?publication_id=779141&post_id=190837721&isFreemail=true&r=3vwsqx&triedRedirect=true

ICE Turns Its Attention to Sanctuary State Vermont
The Green Mountain State favors criminals above public safety.
John Klar
Mar 19, 2026

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This perversion of logic was clearly visible in the Burlington fiasco on March 11. A Mexican national who has entered the country illegally at least twice, and who drove drunk at risk of killing someone’s child, was defended while police officers were targeted. The vehicles were not unmarked; Corona-Sanchez was not sought for speaking Spanish.

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Mob Rule by “Peaceful” Agitators

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Vermont has ostensibly favored criminals and illegals over law-abiding residents for years. Illegals are granted driving licenses that are also used to register them to vote. Taxes for residents have steadily skyrocketed, driven by spendthrift climate change policies, ever-burgeoning public “benefit” programs, and failed schools that hire ever more bureaucrats as student enrollment declines in tandem with plummeting scores in core subjects. The once-Republican mecca has become an unrecognizable sanctuary for failed progressive experiments.

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Comments on social media suggest many Vermonters object to this whirlpool of Marxist-like policies that are creating an economic cesspool in this once-thriving, idyllic state. Progressive extremists engage in toxic tactics and bizarre optics, such as the attempted Burlington arrest of an illegal criminal repeat offender, taunting ICE to send more agents to uphold the rule of law that once prevailed. Meanwhile, more and more citizens beg ICE to dispatch more agents to rescue them from this anarchic disgrace.

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Akin to a “heckler’s veto”¹, this is really “mob rule”²!

Citizens have the right to petition for a “redress of grievances” but that is usually ignored by Gooferment politicians and bureaucrats.   They do have the power of “jury nullification”³ that id aa much bigger “slap in the face” to powerful!

Mob rule is unacceptable in a free society.  

If the mob doesn’t like the law that ICE is enforcing, jury nullification is the proper remedy.

I, for one, would much rather:

(1) More reasonable DUI laws for first offenders.  So if I was on a jury in a DUI case for a first offender, where there was no damage, injury, or heaven forbid a death, then I’d vote “not guilty”  because of the draconian penalties;  on the other hand … … 

(2) Strict sentences for repeat DUIs.  The Gooferment exists to protect us from ourselves.  Hence, those otherwise draconian penalties are warranted.

(3) When someone has come to the attention of the judicial bureaucrats, it’s fair to examine what else they may be guilty of.  Immigration status is perfect time for enforcement. If you have no right to be here, then you should be IMMEDIATELY deported.

There’s no doubt that “immigration” needs to be reformed.  As does “welfare”, but by reasoned discourse; not mob rule.

IMHO

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¹ A “heckler’s veto”occurs when a  crowd restricts or silences a speaker to prevent a hostile, disorderly, or violent reaction from an audience. Coined by Harry Kalven, this concept describes how a crowd’s negative response can effectively veto free speech.

² Also known as “mobocracy,” it is government by the masses or a chaotic crowd.

³ While juries have the power to nullify (a “not guilty” verdict is generally final and cannot be overturned), they are not often told they have this right, and lawyers are generally prohibited from directly advocating for it in court.

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POLICY: We need to “correct” “birth tourism” and “anchor babies” for “tourists” AND illegal immigrants!

Monday, February 9, 2026

https://nypost.com/2026/01/29/opinion/how-china-supercharged-birth-tourism-and-scammed-american-citizenship-for-up-to-1-5-million-babies/

How China supercharged ‘birth tourism’ and scammed American citizenship for up to 1.5 million babies
By Peter Schweizer
Published Jan. 29, 2026, 6:30 a.m. ET

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“Birth tourism” — where pregnant women have their child on America soil to become citizens — has been happening for decades. But Chinese elites have “weaponized” the practice, says author Peter Schweizer, raising a generation of legal citizens who have no loyalty to the US. In this excerpt from his new book, “The Invisible Coup: How American Elites and Foreign Powers Use Immigration as a Weapon,” he explains how.

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Since the US government does not directly track birth tourism, we must rely on estimates. In 2012, one nonprofit calculated that about 36,000 foreign-born women gave birth in the United States and then left the country.

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Without a doubt, DJT47 needs to eliminate these loopholes.

We need to “correct” this for tourists AND illegal immigrants!

It seems OBVIOUS to me!

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POLICY: “Malinda’s Law,” a nation-wide registry for individuals with a history of child abuse

Thursday, January 8, 2026

https://www.change.org/p/enact-malinda-s-law-for-child-safety-in-pennsylvania?signed=true

Enact Malinda’s Law for Child Safety in Pennsylvania

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We propose “Malinda’s Law,” a new nation-wide registry for individuals with a history of child abuse. This registry would enable real-time communication between agencies whenever a child-related emergency or abuse report involves a prior offender. By strengthening these lines of communication, we aim to protect innocent children from slipping through the cracks of a broken system.

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And, why not have such a registry in the Pepuls Republik of Nu Jerzee?

I’m a little L libertarian but convicts should be registered.

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POLICY: Seems like the jury was blinded to the facts by the judge?

Friday, August 22, 2025

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14919347/honor-killing-trial-lacey-washington-ihsan-ali-sentencing.html

Dad who ‘tried to strangle daughter in Muslim ‘honor killing’ is jailed for 32 months after shock verdict
By NIC WHITE, US SENIOR INVESTIGATIONS REPORTER
Published: 17:33 EDT, 18 August 2025 | Updated: 17:43 EDT, 18 August 2025

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A father accused of trying to strangle his teenage daughter in a Muslim ‘honor killing’ has been jailed for almost three years.

Ihsan Ali, 44, stood trial for second-degree attempted murder alongside his wife Zahraa Subhi Mohsin Ali, 40, over the October 18, 2024, attack.

A Thurston County Superior Court jury found them not guilty on July 31, but convicted Ihsan of lesser charges against his daughter Fatima Ali.

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It’s obvious that this was a miscarriage of “justice” to this girl.

The report doesn’t say what their immigration status is.  

Regardless of what it is, the husband and wife should be either deported or denaturalized and deported.

It further apparent that they have not be good “citizens” hence the felony convictions.

I like Japan’s treatment of “muslims” due to their conduct and failure to live peacefully in civil society.  

Islam is NOT a “religion”; it’s an ideology that seeks to fundamentally change society.

Hence, as a gun-owning pro-life pro-choice little L libertarian, they should depart from the USA and return to wherever they came from.  They are not … …

“Give me your tired, your poor,

Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,

The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.

Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,

I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”

… … “yearning to breathe free” and as such are not welcome to share in the American experiment.

Argh!

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POLITICAL: Why do we have special deductions in the income tax code

Thursday, July 31, 2025

FROM FACEBOOK

<< EDITOR ADDED DATE 2025-07-24>>

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/19L9n3gvEj/

S Kent Troy, @skenttroy

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OK, a quick question, how many of you are aware that the BBB includes a provision for a $ 1,700 tax credit for a donation to a non public school scholarship program? If I owe uncle $ 15,000 next year I’d much rather give him $ 13,300 and spread the other $ 1,700 among the Catholic Schools I and my kids attended. Thanks to the “Jewish Weekly Standard” for the info!

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A more important question to this little L libertarian is “Why?”

  • Why have this “loophole” when the USA has the current 137T+ national debt and the guesstimated 200T+ in unfunded liabilities that our posterity will have to deal with.
  • Why is the Gooferment “picking” winners and losers with the manipulation of the tax code — best to figure out how to end Gooferment Skrules and put parents in charge. (They had them; they feed them; they should school them.).
  • Why don’t we stick to the Dead Old White Guys’ vision of a very limited Federal Gooferment? Why do we continue to accept the “bad behavior” of politicians and bureaucrats at all levels of society?

Why …, … why …, … why …?

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POLICY: Pull the USA out of NATO … … and the UN while you’re at it

Monday, June 30, 2025

FROM 1440 https://join1440.com/

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NATO Spending Hike

NATO leaders are expected to agree to ramp up defense spending when the two-day summit concludes today. Countries may commit to spending 5% of their gross domestic product on defense by 2035—up from the current 2% target, which 22 of the 32 member countries have met. 

The commitment responds to a call from President Donald Trump, who has conveyed skepticism about the military alliance’s value to the United States. The US is one of NATO’s biggest contributors, responsible for roughly 16% of the alliance’s collective $3.5B budget last year. It is also the only country to have triggered Article 5, which assures collective defense for all member countries. Spain struck a deal with NATO to be exempted in the final communique, instead committing 2.1% of its GDP to defense. Learn more about NATO here. 

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https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/topics_67655.htm?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter&user_id=66c4b9c55d78644b3a882a4d

#getoutofNATO, #NATO, #endNATO

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Given the USA’s fiscal state, I would like to see us pull out of NATO and the UN.

“Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.”
— Thomas Jefferson

Can anyone give a good reason not too?

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