On taxes, the Democrat favors a top income tax rate of 39.5%, and the Republican favors a top rate of 35%. Well, ain’t democracy grand? We get to debate a whole four and a half percentage points. We better spread this system all over the world!
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Tom Woods (in 2007) but still relevant today. (via eltigrechico)
The State thrives on war – unless, of course, it is defeated and crushed – expands on it, glories in it. For one thing, when one State attacks another State, it is able through this intellectual bamboozlement of the public to convince them that they must rush to the defense of the State because they think the State is defending them.
C.O.P.S - Criminal Organisation for “Public Safety”.
They’ll protect and serve the life out of you even for a victimless crime.
Indeed, a major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that…it gives people what they want instead of what a particular group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.
An inquisitive alien visits the planet to check on our progress as a species, and gets into a conversation with the first person he meets. The alien discovers that we live under the rule of a thing called “government”, and wants to understand more about what “government” is, what it does, and why it exists.
Produced and voiced by Graham Wright, based on part of the talk by Larken Rose at the Free Your Mind Conference 2011
This is classic, and everyone ought to watch it.
The American Republic will endure, until politicians realize they can bribe the people with their own money.
