Button, Button (Whose Utopia?)

Campaign for Liberty ^ | 9/5/09 | By Robert Hawes

[Bokababe]

.....We wear such amazingly effective political blinders, don’t we? It’s always "the city," "the county," "the state," or "the country," that pays for what we want and heels to our demands. Never Bob the struggling family man. Never Jill the single mom. Never anyone we know. Never anyone we have to explain ourselves to.

Such is the cold, impersonal ugliness of statism, and the subtle, de-humanizing way in which it works itself into our consciousness. Statists never stop to think about the individuals they harm because, politically speaking, individuals either don’t matter to them or else escape their notice. They consider themselves "big picture" people. They see only society itself, broken down into various competing subgroups to be crunched and graphed like so many numbers ("digital individuals," if you will). Civilization is their political blackboard, filled with social equations waiting to be brought into utopian balance. Statists never see Bob or Jill having to struggle harder to make ends meet because of some new tax. What they see is how nice a brand new stadium would look and how it might "advance the community as a whole."....

[Bokababe]

Sorry folks, the real link for the article is here I accidentally linked to the discussion of the article.

[Bokababe]

Anti-statist Ping!

[95B30]

Funny, but I was just thinking about how do we stop these elected jerks from continuously passing laws? How many laws are there? All those laws are the “buttons” and none really knows what they awr or how many Bob, Jill, Rick etc.. have been effected. So my thought is we need to get people in to fight against more laws until we have cleaned up what we have and see if anything is needed. NY had a great summer with the Legislature shut down and few laws voted on this year.

Kick ‘em all out and remember that we do not need more laws at this point...maybe we should start repealing a few!

Cheers!

[Excellence]

Cap and Tax will kill me, but I’m just a button.

[Senator_Blutarski]

This article is very good and brings up one of my favorite questions for my liberal friends:

Liberals always want to sock it to the rich guys, and have some clip level for being "rich". A common threshold is a household income of $150,000, which many two income households hit. The liberals say its not "fair" and want the rich to pay more taxes. I ask them "OK how much is fair? What percentage of a $150,000 household income should be confiscated as tax revenue?"

I invariably get an answer like "Well, the rich guys don't pay enough." I then press them: "How much should they pay? What is fair?"

I never get an answer. They never thought about it and don't want to think about it. They just want to soak the "rich".

Their intellectual dishonesty is appalling.

[dcwusmc]

Thanks for the post. It should make interesting reading on this lovely Labor Day!

[bamahead]

Statists never stop to think about the individuals they harm because, politically speaking, individuals either don’t matter to them or else escape their notice...Civilization is their political blackboard, filled with social equations waiting to be brought into utopian balance.



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