marshaul
Campaign Veteran
Except for his views on the union?
Yup. I'm just going for accuracy here.
Except for his views on the union?
Yup. I'm just going for accuracy here.
http://libertarianmoney.wordpress.com/2014/04/07/7-reasons-youre-not-free-to-leave/
The next time someone tells you that you’re free to leave do the following: (No, don’t really do the following.)
1. Lock them in your trunk.
2. Give them forms they can fill out to get permission to leave your trunk and tell them they’re free to leave.
3. If they try to escape without permission, lock them back up and don’t let them fill out their escape forms for a while.
4. When they properly fill out their escape forms, make them wait a few months, and then pull them out of the trunk to “free them.”
5. As of that point, throw them in a different trunk and give them some blank forms.
6. Then tell them to be thankful that you protect their freedoms so much better than the US government.
1. You’re Still Extorted If You Leave
A small country in Africa called Eritrea actually taxes it’s citizens for being alive. It has a draconian tax system that requires all citizens pay a 2% tax no matter where they are in the world. That means, if their citizens move out and use absolutely none of the governments services, they’re still required to pay 2% of everything they make. This practice has been attacked by the United Nations for its treatment of human rights. It’s the only country…
Wait… There are two countries in the world that practice citizenship based taxation. The second country, of course, being the United States.
No matter how little you use the services in the United States, you’re required to pay taxes. In fact, even if you’re required to pay taxes in the country you move to (because you use their services,) you still need to pay the US government.
While the world is anxious to harp on one of the smallest nations in the world for a 2 percent tax, virtually no one is allowed to mention the elephant in the room. United States citizens can be required to pay over half of their income while living somewhere completely different. Of course, human rights violations don’t count for America.
Your also taxed when your dead or your heirs are.
The only way to not be enslaved..
1- Deal strictly in cash
2- Never enter into any contracts with the G.
3- Store plenty of ammunition and food and water.
Obvious treat everyone with respect and know the Constitution.
As a non slave, we have a natural right to be left alone.
My .02
Regards
CCJ
"Cash" is a private IOU note that is getting passed around.
Nonsense.
Value (all value) is arbitrary and assigned. The value of the USD is no less real than is the value of gold or silver.
Society attaches value – real value – to the USD, therefore it is no more an "IOU" than would be the exchange in a direct barter.
I strongly suspect that you misunderstand the problem with fiat currency. The problem with fiat currency is quite exclusively the ability of the Fed (or whoever) to effect perpetual inflation.
The only thing that makes the USD valuable as a currency is that the use of it significantly reduces the threat of government action against you, as opposed to attempting to use any competing currency. You use USD in order to avoid government action against you, not because it has any certain characteristic which makes it a good currency as gold and silver have characteristics which make them good currency. Gold and silver have not traditionally been used as currency in order to avoid consequences some government has threatened for the use of competing currency, USDs have.
No, that isn't what makes it valuable.
Value is the market measure of perceived utility. The USD has value because it has utility. You can, with a stack of USDs, obtain any commodity or service one might desire. Therefore, it has some real value.
Note that this is a subjective thing. This means that, should perceptions of utility change, so will the assigned value. The USD is valuable because everybody agrees it's valuable, same as gold or silver.
Consider that the USD is valuable (and widely used, although perhaps less so than once upon a time) across the entire globe, and yet the US government has no ability to force individuals in other countries to value or use the USD.
Gold and Silver has had a historic value as a medium of exchange. It's rare and takes work to get. That could change over night, some invention that mines gold or fuses gold cheaply so that it becomes as valuable as aluminum (once a very rare metal).
No, that isn't what makes it valuable.
Value is the market measure of perceived utility. The USD has value because it has utility. You can, with a stack of USDs, obtain any commodity or service one might desire. Therefore, it has some real value.
Note that this is a subjective thing. This means that, should perceptions of utility change, so will the assigned value. The USD is valuable because everybody agrees it's valuable, same as gold or silver.
Consider that the USD is valuable (and widely used, although perhaps less so than once upon a time) across the entire globe, and yet the US government has no ability to force individuals in other countries to value or use the USD.
Not trying to be argumentative, but that is not true. Our government coerces at every turn, within its borders and surely outside of them as well.
Government has no power to print money in the first place.... So eat that.
I melt down an an oz of gold and it's still and oz of gold same with silver.
Apply flame to a FRN and try to melt it, it burns and become worth nothing or something really close to nothing.
I melt down an an oz of gold and it's still and oz of gold same with silver.
Apply flame to a FRN and try to melt it, it burns and become worth nothing or something really close to nothing.
One could apply the same argument to just about any form of food. If you burn them, all of their energy value is dispersed, and you're left with carbon. While I see your point, this doesn't make for a very persuasive argument against the inherent value of something. In fact, at the most basic and primal level, gold and silver are worth far less than food.
Food has intrinsic value