09-10-2016, 05:07 AM
(09-10-2016, 04:35 AM)Eric the Green Wrote:(09-10-2016, 04:31 AM)Galen Wrote:(09-10-2016, 03:04 AM)Eric the Green Wrote:(09-10-2016, 02:58 AM)Galen Wrote: The Tri-County area is infested with a bunch of politically correct people virtue signaling assholes. Like Eric the Obtuse they don't have enough sense to leave everyone else alone. Its ironic when you think about it, if they weren't busy stealing from me and trying to run my life I wouldn't give a shit what they did.
Pay your taxes without complaint. Be a citizen.
Citizenship these days is badly overrated. Medieval serfs got to keep more of their earnings.
They couldn't buy much with them, though, and they didn't have a government that served them in any way except (maybe) to protect them from brigands and other lords. Nor did they have any social and economic mobility, nor much freedom or much of a life. At least some Americans still have that mobility, though much less since the conservatives took over in 1980. What you forget is that quality of life is about more than just your own personal stash of money/wealth.
True enough but that society was the product of technological limits and the high costs of projecting force. See Davidson and Rees-Mogg for a full explanation. My personal quality of life is very much a function of the amount of my wealth that I can keep. Actually, wealth inequality started getting worse in 1971 which was before Reagan. An interesting year for a number of reasons.
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard. -- H.L. Mencken
If one rejects laissez faire on account of man's fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action. -- Ludwig von Mises
If one rejects laissez faire on account of man's fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action. -- Ludwig von Mises