[Elliott Jackalope]

The point that you are missing is that when the money is taken away in taxes, it is used for programs and policies that are used against me and my interests. Tax money extracted from me is used to import Somalis into my neighborhood, and housing for sex offenders to be moved in next door, and free goodies for criminals who then rip me off. It's a no-win game, and I refuse to play any longer.

This system is too big, too powerful and too corrupt to be brought down by any means other than the means that brought down the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union was not "brought down" by external forces, it collapsed under its own weight when the majority of its citizens gave up trying to get ahead any longer. That's when their overbloated system finally fell. Not by force of arms, but by the death of a million cuts, each cut being inflicted by another "person of ability" throwing in the towel and giving up on being productive. This is how the Soviet Union was ended, and this is how our current socialist regime will be brought down as well.

[visualops]

Anyone who thinks that throwing in the towel and doing nothing is some sort of a "plan" to affect change is sadly mistaken. If you want to be swept along through life like a leaf in the wind, all the time moaning "it's out of my hands, I can't change anything" etc etc, so be it. I think that makes you a non-participant, and I have to wonder why you're a member of FR.

[Orion78]

Who is John Galt?