Thank you Jim for another excellent article, and for all the work that you do.
This article brought to my mind one of my favorite Stefan Molyneux quotes (from the good Stef, back in the old days):
"It's been easier to convince people to hand over half their income, their children to war, and their freedoms in perpetuity, than to engage them in seriously considering how roads might function in the absence of taxation."
Taxation -- widespread, systematic theft -- is proof of how far we still are from being a civilized society.
The more people refuse to participate in systems based on coercion, theft, and murder, the better things get. The more people build networks and systems based on voluntary cooperation to mutual benefit, the better things get.
I met Stefan Molyneux in New Hampshire, at the Porcupine Freedom Festival, in 2011. He was a speaker. In a manner of … speaking … so was I. It was an interesting time. I was working to build up the Sovereign Mutual Aid Response Teams because it seemed like the SMART thing to do. -grin-
Stefan had some changes, it’s true. I don’t think anyone who went through 2016 emerged entirely the same. But he found his metier, I guess.
Taxation is theft.
Inflation is theft.
Regulation is theft.
The goofs in the gooferment in the district of corruption took $6.5 trillion for fiscal year 2024. That’s a lot of theft. And it works out to more than $2 million per goof in budget authority and salary and benefits, on average. That’s a lot of theft.
There will be a reckoning. I don’t believe it will be pretty. It won’t be entirely admirable, either, as things will … swing … a long way in the other direction. But a reckoning is essential.
My next door neighbor is loaning me his pneumatic nail gun today (building a new shed). He purposely built a 3-foot fence between our yards instead of a 6-foot because "we like yall" and to prevent any breeze from being blocked. I rebuilt my back fence with his nail gun, in fact. Great neighbors. We only moved here two years ago after New Orleans got too expensive, too noisy, too insane. We also had great neighbors in the city proper but the yard signs! UGH. Lotsa TDS. Masques, yes, I have a problem with masques and the smelly plastic fibers they suck into your body (more insanity). Did I mention that they're also de-human-izing? (that sentence is in Jim-speak ;-) Jim, thank you for another fire essay. And I appreciate forthright, honest ideas from a fellow Catholic. Blessings. R
Thank you for your kind words and for reading my stuff. It sounds like you and your neighbours get along well, which is awesome. It is well to be good to those around you. Hard times are coming, it seems, and we should all be good to one another.
One does not need even to be Christian to see they are all demons, and that they are legion. But so is God everywhere. At least that is how it seems to me and why you are here now -- to help point the way.
I would say that one should seek to become Christian in order to be in communion with Jesus and the saints. The price of eternal salvation has been paid, and it would be well to get involved.
Thank you Jim for another excellent article, and for all the work that you do.
This article brought to my mind one of my favorite Stefan Molyneux quotes (from the good Stef, back in the old days):
"It's been easier to convince people to hand over half their income, their children to war, and their freedoms in perpetuity, than to engage them in seriously considering how roads might function in the absence of taxation."
Taxation -- widespread, systematic theft -- is proof of how far we still are from being a civilized society.
The more people refuse to participate in systems based on coercion, theft, and murder, the better things get. The more people build networks and systems based on voluntary cooperation to mutual benefit, the better things get.
I met Stefan Molyneux in New Hampshire, at the Porcupine Freedom Festival, in 2011. He was a speaker. In a manner of … speaking … so was I. It was an interesting time. I was working to build up the Sovereign Mutual Aid Response Teams because it seemed like the SMART thing to do. -grin-
Stefan had some changes, it’s true. I don’t think anyone who went through 2016 emerged entirely the same. But he found his metier, I guess.
Taxation is theft.
Inflation is theft.
Regulation is theft.
The goofs in the gooferment in the district of corruption took $6.5 trillion for fiscal year 2024. That’s a lot of theft. And it works out to more than $2 million per goof in budget authority and salary and benefits, on average. That’s a lot of theft.
There will be a reckoning. I don’t believe it will be pretty. It won’t be entirely admirable, either, as things will … swing … a long way in the other direction. But a reckoning is essential.
My next door neighbor is loaning me his pneumatic nail gun today (building a new shed). He purposely built a 3-foot fence between our yards instead of a 6-foot because "we like yall" and to prevent any breeze from being blocked. I rebuilt my back fence with his nail gun, in fact. Great neighbors. We only moved here two years ago after New Orleans got too expensive, too noisy, too insane. We also had great neighbors in the city proper but the yard signs! UGH. Lotsa TDS. Masques, yes, I have a problem with masques and the smelly plastic fibers they suck into your body (more insanity). Did I mention that they're also de-human-izing? (that sentence is in Jim-speak ;-) Jim, thank you for another fire essay. And I appreciate forthright, honest ideas from a fellow Catholic. Blessings. R
Thank you for your kind words and for reading my stuff. It sounds like you and your neighbours get along well, which is awesome. It is well to be good to those around you. Hard times are coming, it seems, and we should all be good to one another.
God bless you and your family. Amen.
One does not need even to be Christian to see they are all demons, and that they are legion. But so is God everywhere. At least that is how it seems to me and why you are here now -- to help point the way.
I would say that one should seek to become Christian in order to be in communion with Jesus and the saints. The price of eternal salvation has been paid, and it would be well to get involved.
I am so interested in your day to day life, how did you come to live at a truck stop?
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