If you have been voting for politicians who promise to give you goodies at someone else's expense, then you have no right to complain when they take your money and give it to someone else, including themselves.
― Thomas Sowell
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
Unemployment benefits are at least $300 a week and the smallest stimulus was $600
Money isn't worth what it used to be:
Taxes should be eliminated.
If government was funded voluntarily the war machine would cease to exist.
As would all the corruption of the economy that such manipulation introduces.
Without government sticking its fingers into everything and inflating the money supply to deficit spend, the cost of schooling (and most everything else) would reduce.
No degrees should be funded by taxpayers. The subsidy is why these institutions can and do charge such absurd prices to begin with.
https://www.aei.org/carpe-diem/chart-of-the-day-century-price-changes-1997-to-2017/
Hey at least you'll get that immediate $2k check since the Democrats took the senate.
Once one concedes that a single world government is not necessary, then where does one logically stop at the permissibility of separate states? If Canada and the United States can be separate nations without being denounced as in a state of impermissible ‘anarchy’, why may not the South secede from the United States? New York State from the Union? New York City from the state? Why may not Manhattan secede? Each neighbourhood? Each block? Each house? Each person
― Murray N. Rothbard
We must promote the idea of secession. Or more specifically, we must promote the idea of a world composed of tens of thousands of distinct districts, regions, and cantons, and hundred of thousands of independent free cities such as the present day oddities of Monaco, Andorra, San Marino, Liechtenstein, Hong Kong, and Singapore. Greatly increased opportunities for economically motivated migration would thus result, and the world would be one of small [classically] liberal governments economically integrated through free trade and an international commodity money such as gold.
― Hans-Hermann Hoppe
To realize that we live in an absurd culture where we are taught absurd things by absurd people and threatened with absurd consequences for defying all of it is to achieve a level of contentment.
― Michael Malice
Conservatism, in its original sense, has no specific ideological content at all, since everything depends on what one is trying to conserve. In the last days of the Soviet Union, for example, those who were trying to preserve the existing Communist regime were rightly referred to as “conservatives,” though what they were trying to conserve had nothing in common with what was advocated by Milton Friedman, Friedrich Hayek or William F. Buckley.
― Thomas Sowell
There is nothing left to conserve, it's time to abolish.
The reason government employees are so disproportionately vile is that state authority attracts low-status, low-quality people who are now in the position to demand the respect and deference that they would never be able to earn otherwise.
― Michael Malice
Taxation is the root of all government evil.
Beyond the fact that it is theft, it is an unconscionable system of control
Regardless the federal government will kidnap you and let you die in prison if you refuse their mandates.
Just ask Irwin Schiff
This is no different from politicians being backed by shelves of books they never read.
Or in some cases, fake books even:
This data was from late January so I deleted the post to avoid misleading folks.
Still crazy though.
Taxation is theft, purely and simply even though it is theft on a grand and colossal scale which no acknowledged criminals could hope to match.
― Murray N. Rothbard
If the victims of authoritarian extortion, harassment, surveillance, assault, kidnapping, and murder simply stopped assisting in their own oppression, tyranny would crumble. And if the people went a step further and forcibly resisted, tyranny would collapse even more quickly.
― Larken Rose
This would violate the 5th amendment in that he will be deprived of liberty without due process... you know... found guilty.
No it's denying privileges not rights.
It is clearly a Bill of attainder though and that's the better constitutional argument against this.
I also came here to say this, it is a rare opportunity to put a stop to the Statist indoctrination we are forced to pay for.
Now is the time to push for school choice/vouchers if not the total elimination of the department of education.
I thinking sending commies to the red planet is probably more appropriate.
Whoever desires liberty, should understand these vital facts, viz.: 1. That every man who puts money into the hands of a “government” (so called), puts into its hands a sword which will be used against himself, to extort more money from him, and also to keep him in subjection to its arbitrary will. 2. That those who will take his money, without his consent, in the first place, will use it for his further robbery and enslavement, if he presumes to resist their demands in the future.
— Lysander Spooner
The more one considers the matter, the clearer it becomes that redistribution is in effect far less a redistribution of free income from the richer to the poorer, as we imagined, than a redistribution of power from the individual to the State.
― Bertrand de Jouvenel
Guns are completely inappropriate for the kind of sheep-like people the anointed envision or the orderly, prepackaged world in which they are to live. When you are in mortal danger, you are supposed to dial 911, so that the police can arrive on the scene some time later, identify your body, and file reports in triplicate.
― Thomas Sowell
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
Liberty Defined is also great.