This is essentially the principle of taxation.
I pay the feds to prevent them from violently kidnapping me.
In all societies, public opinion is determined by the intellectual classes, the opinion moulders of society. For most people neither originate nor disseminate ideas and concepts; on the contrary, they tend to adopt those ideas promulgated by the professional intellectual classes, the professional dealers in ideas. Now, throughout history, [...] despots and ruling elites of States have had far more need of the services of intellectuals than have peaceful citizens in a free society. For States have always needed opinion-moulding intellectuals to con the public into believing that its rule is wise, good, and inevitable; into believing that the “emperor has clothes.
― Murray N. Rothbard
Perhaps the most valuable thing the "Great American Experiment" accomplished was to demonstrate that "limited government" is impossible. There cannot be a master who answers to his slaves.
― Larken Rose
The left does not win its battles in debate. It doesn’t have to. In the twenty-first century, media is everything. The left wins because it controls the narrative. The narrative is controlled by the media. The left is the media. Narrative is everything. I call it the Democrat-media complex.
― Andrew Breitbart
The great virtue of a free market system is that it does not care what color people are; it does not care what their religion is; it only cares whether they can produce something you want to buy. It is the most effective system we have discovered to enable people who hate one another to deal with one another and help one another.
— Milton Friedman
They are cucks who don't realize that the government of our founders allowed and encouraged private citizens to own cannons and warships or that the feds currently prohibit the manufacture of arms based on principles a century old.
Only a crisis - actual or perceived - produces real change. When that crisis occurs, the actions that are taken depend on the ideas that are lying around. That, I believe, is our basic function: to develop alternatives to existing policies, to keep them alive and available until the politically impossible becomes the politically inevitable.
— Milton Friedman
The man who puts all the guns and all the decision-making power into the hands of the central government and then says, ‘Limit yourself’; it is he who is truly the impractical utopian.
― Murray N. Rothbard
If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand.
— Milton Friedman
It would probably make a good meme over that picture of one of the Uighur camps.
This is also why they fight a culture war.
Our best answers for a free society are probably going to need to be put in secession efforts. Because once people see that as a working example and the world just doesn't blow up, then we can take secession all the way down to the individual.
― Eric July
Christianity in its true sense puts an end to the State. It was so understood from its very beginning, and for that Christ was crucified.
― Leo Tolstoy
The weapons our government uses to subjugate us have been illegal for citizens to own or manufacture since I was a toddler.
The central principle of Xi Jinping is that there must be a united, tightly controlled China. And he uses his rationale for the things he does based on that.
— Joe Biden on genocide
To overcome these challenges, to restore the soul and secure the future of America, requires so much more than words. It requires the most elusive of all things in a democracy: unity."
— Also Joe Biden
Culturally there are different norms that each country and their leaders are expected to follow
So the central — well, vastly overstated — the central principle of Xi Jinping is that there must be a united, tightly controlled China. And he uses his rationale for the things he does based on that.
― Joe Biden on Uighur genocide
Isn't one of Biden's core principles also "Unity"?
It also says the right to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
How's that working out for you?
In the long run, there is no such thing, and can be no such thing, as "limited government," because once someone is accepted by others as a rightful master, and believes himself to have the moral right to rule, there will be nothing and no one "above" him with the power to restrain him.
― Larken Rose
Socialism is the expression of the principle of violence crying from the workers' soul, just as Imperialism is the principle of violence speaking from the soul of the official and the soldier.
― Ludwig von Mises
A meritocracy immune to the interference of democracy.
Of course leftists hate it.
There is a book on this even “The Politics of Bitcoin: Software as Right-Wing Extremism”
It’s actually a good read and a great unintentional endorsement of Bitcoin to those who understand basic economics.
Your pay is theft.
Regulation causes this.
Insurance companies are regulated such that they have a percentage cap on profits.
This incentivizes them to raise the prices of everything to realize more profit in absolute terms.
Did something new happen there?
NFA is not applied there, but last I heard you had to register ammunition and some other bullshit.
It's the only place in the universe American citizens can legally avoid the IRS while retaining their citizenship.
The most basic principle to being a free American is the notion that we as individuals are responsible for our own lives and decisions. We do not have the right to rob our neighbors to make up for our mistakes, neither does our neighbor have any right to tell us how to live, so long as we aren’t infringing on their rights. Freedom to make bad decisions is inherent in the freedom to make good ones. If we are only free to make good decisions, we are not really free.
― Ron Paul
You and me both. Ron Paul is a national treasure.