Saw an interesting post discussing the result of the dissapearence of taxes, and how it would be the best thing possible for the poor.
I've always believed that the altruistic tendencies of governments is one of the most dangerous things in the world, if not the most dangerous. For the government to rob one man of his contribution to society and give it to another (through their own misguided "moral reasoning") is the antithesis to what our Founding Fathers sought to do with this country. The more I read, and the more real world experience I attain, the more I've realized that the world is composed of three types of people.
1) the Producers - those who create value
2) the Looters - those who steal value through force or threat of force (income taxes...)
3) the Parasites - those who demand and receive the fruits created by the producers, via the looters, and return the favor by voting for or supporting the looters
This is largely along the line of Ayn Rand's reasoning, and if you want to read more about this framework of society, check out this book and this book.
The question for you is, which one of those 3 are you? Which one do you want to be? And what kind of person do you want leading society? Try to categorize the current political class into these categories and I think you'll come to look at things different. Believe in your own reasoning.
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I'd like to be a looter.
I don't think it is as simple as the Ayn Rand paradigms. All humans seem to fall into at least one of these categories, but the problem is that they often fall into more than one. Some who are producers in their own right use their new found power, wealth, produce etc to loot and mooch. As Daniel so eloquently points out, the part of 'looter' ain't an unrewarding position. It also comes with the added psychological bonus 'helping' the poor, less fortunate, etc. It's hard to find any mentally beneficial aspects to the life of a parasite, but free anything is hard to turn down and easy to pursue.
The big problem is that our representative system has made looting and mooching so dang easy to do that the 'producers' almost HAVE to jump in the game.
I also finally read Anthem. Not bad at all. For any who don't have the time to invest in the 900 page tome of Atlas Shrugged and want a glance at one side of Rand's philosophy check it out. Very quick read.
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