This bothers me about Obama....

afruff23
Wed, 02 Apr 2008 17:25:00 +0000

@kluge

I’m an advocate of kill the beast. That way it can’t keep coming back. What I mean by this is to stop collecting taxes immediately and sell off all government assets to pay off the debt. This is, of course, assuming that people would go for such a thing. As long as people are morally invested in the state, a new state will come right back up to replace the old one.

In your last paragraph, you detail the pillaging of people. However, I do not think you are recognizing the patterns. Theft in 21st century America is no different from mercantilistic practices of the past. People are unfairly granted access to the sale of certain things at the expense of others. For example, your local government only allows certain cable providers or the Federal reserve is granted a monopoly on currency. At the root of all of this mischief is the use of force. It is the grand unifier of evil actions. So long as a system is based on coercion (e.g. taxes, mercantilistic regulation, etc.), it will be subject to such imbalances in power.