Do you know where your lunch today came from? No, I don’t mean from what store; I mean do you know where the ingredients all originated? Who grew or harvested them? Who put them together? And where? Most of us (including me) don’t know, and don’t need to know.
Tag: government
The Back Story 011 – Taxation is Theft (3m)
The Back Story 011 explains why the practice of taxation by governments is tantamount to stealing from others.
Courts: The Circus of Cowardly Clowns
My opinion of government–and the unethical cowards who work for it–has just slipped down another couple of notches. I didn’t know that was still possible.
Why Our Coercive System of Schooling Should Topple
I’ve been called a crazy optimist, a Pollyanna, a romantic idealist. How can I believe that our system of compulsory schooling is about to collapse? People point out that in many ways the schooling system is stronger now than ever. It occupies more of children’s time, gobbles up more public funds, employs more people, and is more firmly controlled by government – and at ever-higher levels of government – than has ever been true in the past. So why do I believe it’s going to collapse – slowly at first and then more rapidly – over the next ten years or so? Here are four reasons.
Agreeing with The Opposition
I have sometimes said that I agree with “conservatives” and “liberals” each about half of the time: when they are right by opposing the opposition. That may be a slight exaggeration–they are probably right less often than that.
The Challenge to Decentralist Ideology
A large contingency of people consider the state/government to be the enforcer and protectorate of a society’s values. This might be the largest obstacle decentralists (like myself) have in espousing and explaining a decentralist ideology and sentiment.
Prohibition and Slavery
Several days ago I compared a disgusting group’s support of prohibition to support for chattel slavery. You may have thought I was exaggerating. But was I? Let’s look at the comparisons.
What a Perverse Presidential Incentive System!
All I can say is, we’ve got a hell of a political system on our hands when the surest way for a president to win the adoration of those who thought him a dangerous, ignorant, narcissistic, erratic, and bullshitting blowhard yesterday is to drop a bomb or fire a cruise missile today.
Taxation is Theft! So… Tax the Government?
How long would it take, do you think, for government to learn to be more efficient (it has no incentive to do so currently, after all), or at least learn to spend money with more discretion and purpose?
A Conversation Between Voluntaryists: Responsible Voting?
One of the best things about voluntaryism is you never know who is a voluntaryist. Kentucky is a big-government, culturally-conservative state, where I was born and raised in. Then I found out I have a like-minded neighbor. Among the radical libertarians who have made the Bluegrass state their home is Kilgore Forelle. Over breakfast we came up with a voluntaryist thesis which we turned into this dialogue here on EVC.