Slavery and Taxation
http://www.lewrockwell.com/buppert/buppert19.html
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Why taxation is slavery
Freedom's Phoenix
by Robert E. Podolsky
03/31/09
I have maintained for some time that taxation is government’s most criminal enterprise and that it is, in fact, a form of slavery. Yet it continues to baffle me that so many people cannot or will not see the obvious truth in these statements and insist on arguing that taxation is necessary to humanity’s well being and that it is not slavery at all. ‘The greatest good for the greatest number’ goes the usual utilitarian refrain … which I maintain is one of the greater falsehoods … for the usual reasons. But since these reasons are so elusive to the greatest number I have decided to explain my reasoning in language that (hopefully) anyone can understand, thus settling this dispute once and for all in the eyes of any reasonable person...
http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Editorial-Page.htm?InfoNo=048077
Happy holidays
Center for a Stateless Society
by Thomas L. Knapp
04/01/09
I’m from the government, and I’m here to help.’ Haha! April fools! On behalf of the Center for a Stateless Society, I move that April 1st be designated an official holiday for recognition of the contributions of the state to the health, wealth and happiness of its subjects. Randomly select any government action, taken at any time of any year, and I’ll offer you good odds if you want to bet that it is both well-intended and likely to accomplish its purported purpose. Maybe one, maybe the other, but never both. I’d put money on our bet … but government ‘money’ may be the killer app of state tomfoolery. It’s created out of thin air — the Federal Reserve announced a $1.2 trillion pump last month — and backed by nothing more than ‘the full faith and credit’ of a gaggle of compulsive liars who’ve already run up $10 trillion and change in debt...
http://c4ss.org/content/254
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=slavery
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=taxation
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Federal+Reserve
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=/buppert
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Robert+E.+Podolsky
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Why taxation is slavery
Freedom's Phoenix
by Robert E. Podolsky
03/31/09
I have maintained for some time that taxation is government’s most criminal enterprise and that it is, in fact, a form of slavery. Yet it continues to baffle me that so many people cannot or will not see the obvious truth in these statements and insist on arguing that taxation is necessary to humanity’s well being and that it is not slavery at all. ‘The greatest good for the greatest number’ goes the usual utilitarian refrain … which I maintain is one of the greater falsehoods … for the usual reasons. But since these reasons are so elusive to the greatest number I have decided to explain my reasoning in language that (hopefully) anyone can understand, thus settling this dispute once and for all in the eyes of any reasonable person...
http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Editorial-Page.htm?InfoNo=048077
Happy holidays
Center for a Stateless Society
by Thomas L. Knapp
04/01/09
I’m from the government, and I’m here to help.’ Haha! April fools! On behalf of the Center for a Stateless Society, I move that April 1st be designated an official holiday for recognition of the contributions of the state to the health, wealth and happiness of its subjects. Randomly select any government action, taken at any time of any year, and I’ll offer you good odds if you want to bet that it is both well-intended and likely to accomplish its purported purpose. Maybe one, maybe the other, but never both. I’d put money on our bet … but government ‘money’ may be the killer app of state tomfoolery. It’s created out of thin air — the Federal Reserve announced a $1.2 trillion pump last month — and backed by nothing more than ‘the full faith and credit’ of a gaggle of compulsive liars who’ve already run up $10 trillion and change in debt...
http://c4ss.org/content/254
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=slavery
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=taxation
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Federal+Reserve
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=/buppert
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Robert+E.+Podolsky
rudkla - 28. Mär, 05:41
