kirchoff

*"a surefire way to end the war..."*

Yeah. Stop funding them.

3 months, 4 weeks ago onReddit in downwithtyranny.blogspot.com

Dear Senator Levin;

Once again evidence is provided that the Guardians of Leviathan have never read a history book. High tax rates were used by the Old Right as a weapon against Wilson during WWI. Don't recall exact quotes but they were along the lines of *You insist on entering this war? Then you and your industrial and banker friends can pay for it."* Of course, they were already annoyed because Wilson had such a predeliction for using the War Dept as a debt-collection agency.

Didn't work all that well. The costs increases were passed onto the consumers. As a protest of sort against war it failed as Wilson didn't hesitate (and possibly dangerously) to expand the war when he sent U.S. troops into Siberia interfering in the Russian Revolution. It also established the precedent for mind-boggling individual income-tax rates.

I suggest something simpler. Try saying "NO" on the next request for war funding. ... See all content Hide content

3 months, 4 weeks ago onReddit in downwithtyranny.blogspot.com

*"If you watch..."*

...the 1951 version w/ Alastair Sims, and watch closely, one will see Scrooge spares not even himself from the effects of his chosen lifestyle. Here is presented no 'Goldman-Sachs' spectacle of in-your-face wealth amidst poverty; indeed, his clothes are worn and holed, he owns little furniture, he walks instead of hiring conveyance, etc. He practices the very austerity upon himself he demands upon others.

*You must read* to fully appreciate Scrooge's rebuff of the gentlemen who approach him for donation. Scrooge refers to "prisons", "Union Workhouses", "the Treadmill", and the "Poor Law", pointing to these institutions he already supports and, unsaid, involuntarily through tax confiscation.

These horrors upon the poor and destitute were not unleashed by Scrooge. **No, these came from The State.**

I think Levin - as well as the initiator of this thread - miss the whole point of *A Christmas Carol*. It is so much more than the story of a grasping miser - or successful businessman - indifferent to the suffering around him. He is a study of one human's response to personal tragedy.

Certainly, as the happy-enders would have it, when the 'clue-bird shits', Scrooge does not petition The State for greater relief of the poor. **No, he takes it upon himself.**

My favorite part of the film is when the "blind" girl(?) with the dog flee at the approach of Scrooge. Con-artists exist in all times and places. ... See all content Hide content

3 months, 4 weeks ago onReddit in mises.org

If it is a hoax - then, yes I did.

Just reflexive. The most egregious examples are always sought after to justify controlling people.

3 months, 4 weeks ago onReddit in mises.org