theeveningbulletin.com — From Jan. 1 until May 8, five months out of the year, the government decides how our earnings are spent. Economist Walter Williams likened this to slavery in the sense that someone works all year and someone else decides how the fruits of his or her labor will be used. So in effect, Americans are nearly halfway towards economic slavery.
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harrybauzoniaOct 16, 2006
...and the rest of the year my wife determines how my earnings are spent. I'm just fully enslaved I guess.
bulkheddOct 16, 2006
Wow, how many people have said things like "taxes are necessary because we have to have things like roads, police, military, etc."? This is true and it's why Williams never said ALL taxes should be abolished. What he's saying is that those things are what the Constitution says the government can do. Nowhere in the Constitution does it say the government should pay for schools, welfare, social security, Medicaid, farm subsidies, etc. He's saying THAT is equivalent to stealing: forcibly taking money from me to pay for someone else's healthcare.Why are conservative African Americans looked down upon and called "Uncle Tom's". That's just disgusting and juvenile.
vietvetOct 17, 2006
A Libertarian mailing list calls for flogging this issue, so we get all these know-nothing types on digg. Many clearly from Virginia [GMU territory], documenting their well-deserved shame for their racist slaver history by trying to rewrite the history of the Slaver's Treasonous Rebellion, usually referred to "neutrally" as the Civil War. Many without any history, economics, or empathy for the average person, but well-endowed with an overactive sense of entitlement, based upon inherited wealth and unearned privilege. GMU -- the home of the Gentleman's C.
johnboiwaltuneOct 17, 2006
Not all 300 million Americans are taxpayers. Quite a few of those people are children, retired, housewives, unemployed, etc. I don't have the exact figures, but I'd be surprised if 150 million Americans even paid any income taxes last year. So $3,200 for each of us then :)
johnboiwaltuneOct 17, 2006
He's an idiot who doesn't understand that humans are part of the ecosystem, and we f**k with it at our own peril.
xevecOct 18, 2006
The rich do pay the bulk of the taxes. Are you nuts? I've seen the property taxes friends of mine have to pay. They are both accountants that live in a rich neighborhood. Their property tax alone is over $20,000(I think). They pay a s**t load in income tax as well. Businesses do have a boat load of taxes to pay as well. So I don't get what you mean by "percentage of income." About 40% of all taxes come from the rich.
xevecOct 18, 2006
both of you are idiots. There is no "mass extinction." The enviromentalists have lost their logic long time ago. Why do you think Patrick Moore, one of the co-founders of greenpeace...left the organization(he left when they started a pension plan). National Geographic made an article about the mass extinctions...but when Moore asked them to name some species...there was no list. Our enviroment is fine. It's government who destroys the enviroment. The endangered species act is a danger to endangered species because it prevents land owners from harboring these animals(it's called the shoot, shovel, and shut up method). That's because if an endangered animal is nesting on a property...it becomes under the jurisdiction of the US fish and wildlife service.Keep government off of the enviroment. They have damaged the enviroment most(as well as enviromentalists)
xevecOct 18, 2006
George Reisman is a god. Unfortunately, he retired from teaching. My friend is disappointed because he wanted to work under him in grad school.
thegoldstandardOct 18, 2006
BulkHedd "Wow, how many people have said things like "taxes are necessary because we have to have things like roads, police, military, etc."? This is true.."This is NOT true. Under anarcho-capitalism, all of these "public" goods could be privatized and accordingly become much more efficient. Have you ever actually looked into this option?