Lynn Schroeder, the editor and own of the Cavalier Chronicle, my home county newspaper, is a solid conservative. His October 28th editorial was fascinating.
He interviewed Simon Black, the international investor. Black is horrified that tax protesters and those that do not pay their income tax end up in prison. He noted that not paying taxes is a civil, not criminal offense in the rest of the civilized world.
I think the not paying of taxes is a criminal offense because it keeps the people cowed and paying up to the criminals, the feds bullying them with the statist machine behind them.
Black praises America as a paradise for a consumer.
Bell complains that it is hell for those that want to invent, construct, start something new, produce or start a business. The government is burying businesses in paperwork for licenses, compliance demands, a myriad of growing rules and regulations.
And banks will not make it easy for a new business to open a an account or borrow money.
Black pronounces the Universal Law of Prosperity: produce more than you consume. This applies equally to people, governments and entire economies.
America consumes more and produces less, and the, I would characterize and the Universal Law of Becoming Poorer.
Black notes that we in the West are now poorer, in decline and less free.
This guy is brilliant--we need him as the Secretary of Commerce under the new Cruz Presidency in 2016.
Come to the libertarian side. We need your thoughts and efforts supporting a platform of personal liberty and responsibility.
ReplyDeleteLibertarians have much that is philosophically and politically precious and admirable. Rand Paul is a great guy but does not go far enough.
ReplyDeleteI am a pure Ted Cruz and Mark Levin conservative. We need a strong national defense, and need to intervene--sometimes with military force internationally when necessary.
Personal liberty and personal repsonsiblity are wonderful, liberating concepts.
I am really a lawful anarchist. I would that humans lived in cantons, a confederacy of constitutional republicanism, built upon a pure capitalist economy.
I see a future where the average citizen, regardless of race, color, creed or gender disposition, has developed her talents to such a degree that she is a incredibly impressive, accomplished self-realized person for whom Maslowian peak experiences are hourly occasions, but ones which she never loses enjoyment of.
A society, indeed a planet, of lawful anarchists, would necessarily need to be what I refer to as supercitizens. A society of supercitizens would be so smart, so informed, so resistant to cajolery, lies, manipulation and exploitation from crooked, selfish elites and demagogues that have always preyed on the sleeping masses, that the supercitizens will take over the country from the bottom up. Once they take over, they will run the country, and candy-ass, oily, corruptible politicians of every ilk will tremble and obey. This day is coming, maybe sooner and maybe after my death or assassination.