A month later…

I know I mentioned last time how busy I was, which is why I haven’t written as much as I would’ve liked to since I’ve been back at school. Things here have been promising. My student organization has grown, I’ve started a discussion group on campus, and an internet talk radio program is in the talks right now (as soon as we can raise 300 dollars). That and all the personal issues that go along with a being a young college kid, and the blog has been kind of shoved to the back burner. However, I’ve decided to use my lazy sundays to write. Even though once a week isn’t a frequent as I promised originally, things change.

Lack of posts

I apologize for the recent lack of posts. This being something I do as a hobby, sometimes I can’t dedicate as much time as I would like to it. I’d like to also point out the fact that I am a 21 year old college student with a part time job, a broken down car, and is frantically making sure he has enough money to continue going to college 24/7. With this is mind, in the future I plan on trying to be as regular as possible with my articles. I spent some time today creating a list of topics that I plan on doing in the future pending any breaking news that I feel the need to write about before then. Later today, taxes part 2.

Gone for the day

Early shift at work, then a trip for the rest of the day. The reason I’m posting that here is because I didn’t post yesterday, and I won’t be able to again to so I’m going to make a preview/other information post really quick before work.

Coming up this week are taxes part 2 and 3,  the war on drugs (really the war on humanity), how schools would probably work in a free society, and after that I’m taking requests for topics or I’ll come up with new ideas on my own.

Other then that, check out this great stuff!

Hyperinflation Nation (part 1, check out 2 and 3)
Great podcast with player on the front page, something I checked out recently and getting more into
Great article referenced by Rothbard in one of my favorite lectures.

That should keep everyone busy for awhile until I get back. Any one have anything specific questions or topics for articles, feel free to comment here.

Taxes part 1

Imagine this. You are given one hundred thousand dollars, but, as there always is, there’s a catch. You don’t get to spend it yourself. You get to pick 10 people to decide how you would want the money to be spent, however you only get to pick the people, they are the only ones who can deliberate and make the final decision on the how the money is spent for you. Do you think that there is any chance that the money would be spent just how you actually would want it to?

This, on a much larger scale and no where near altruistically, is what happens in congress. You barely get to pick who they are, the money they’re spending is money you earned that they are stealing from you, and it’s not necessarily spent in your favor.  Which brings us to the hypocrisy of taxes.

No one can spend your money as well as you can. This goes for everyone. Only you know your own best interests and can make minute by minute decisions on how your monetary situation affects those interests. How could anyone expect a group of 435 representatives and 100 senators selected largely by people who aren’t you, in states you couldn’t even vote in anyway, who are consistently bombarded by well paid lobbyist who represent people who also aren’t you, and don’t forget that they are also bound to vote for party lines or risk losing their funding for their re-election.

My point is this, no matter how perfect one person, or even a majority of these people truly represent you, there is no way they could spend the money better if they just spent it yourself. Which leaves me to challenge you this,

I challenge the reader to name one issue the government has gotten involved in that has gotten better.

Mission Statement.

Society is in a decline. Not just in America, but around the world. National banking and fiat money shift wealth towards those favored by the hands of power. Regulation, subsidies, privileges, and guarantees have all distorted the world economy so much so that Keynesians look foolish and narrow sighted even to the common American.

The idea of personal freedom is almost laughable in the western countries that have adopted a culture of fear to rationalize away the logic of true freedom. The movement towards true freedom has been snatched away in favor of a return to the old order. No one is above the law, even though most people could easily name several groups of people associated with government who act like it. The people who claim to enforce the law couldn’t possible even know all of the numerous laws that apply to them. Judges sit on high feeling like kings in their courtroom. The IRS, CIA, and the FBI loom mysteriously behind a curtain of power only to be mentioned in movies and T.V. shows and every now and again on the evening news.

The principals the country were built on are clearly gone. Hierarchical rule and class favor have taken what was a revolution and turned it on it’s head. What was once a country separating church and state for the first time, stayed out of entangling alliances and stood for low taxes is now unrecognisable. In it’s stead sits 702 bases in 130 countries, a United Nations attempting to police the world, and unjust income and inflation taxes.

The only thing more restricted then our financial freedom is our personal freedom. We are a generation marching backwards towards tyranny over the mind. A stunning majority of arrests in this country are for victimless crimes. More shocking then that is the percentage of jail populations due to a failed war on drugs and a self imposed black market. There are phrases like “hate speech” thrown about on nightly news, special interest groups pitted against each other for government special privileges, our conversations are recorded, and we can be held indefinitely without cause.

The only solution to turning this around is information. The message is a common sense one. There was a surge in the idea of Libertarianism in the mid-70′s and now, the year after the Ron Paul revolution. There still isn’t a consistent principled message going to the American people. That is all we need to turn this around. Any logical man, looking back at history and comparing it to the world today can see that man is best served when he is sovereign only to himself. This is why I have started this blog, to look back on  the thinkers that have lead me to my conclusion, to bring to light today’s events in a way that is unseen in the media, and to look at the true nature of government and show that at it’s core is violence, and therefor never the answer.