[watcher1]

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[Abcdefg]

You can't con an honest man.

"The Federal Income Tax Con: They conned us into allowing them to tax our income by promising that the maximum tax rate would never be more than 3%, and that only the very rich would ever have to pay it."

The concept of the government having a claim on one's income was accepted under the guise of sticking it to the other fella (the rich). That generation bought into the class warfare con and now there is probably no way to get out of the mess.

[Maelstrom]

Thanks Tailgunner Joe.

[muir_redwoods]

I am anti-collectivism. The fact that that's become indistinguishable from an anti-government position is not my fault.

[Howie]

Good one!

[freebounder]

thanx Taigunner Joe.

i agree with the article and what he means to write, although i would disagree with some of his definitions.

The athiestic mockery of altruism is most deceptive. What socialists think is their brand of altruism is really thinly disguised Egotism. It is the egotistical (and hypocritical) imposition that ***I*** must determine what ***YOU*** must do so that the others may be happy.

Those of us who are believers are commanded by our Lord to follow that form of altruism that would have us (voluntarily and in good concsience) treat others in the manner that we would want to be treated (in consideration of God, and nature) if the situations were reversed.

in debate, when the opposition defines the terms, the proponents can scarcely win the argument. in many areas that deal with thinking, reasoning, and perception we seem to have let the socialists redefine the terms.

since 9-11 i have resolved to be insistant on using that Standard of American English in philosophical, sociological, and political accord with our founding fathers. (Mr. Webster left us an incredible legacy of words well defined and pregnant with the principles of Life, Libery, and Justice.)

Hume, Voltaire, Nietzsche, Marx, Engels, Pound, ad naseum, can go to a very warm dark place. Their conceits woven into revised definitions of many languages have helped bring about tyrannical nightmares that have extinguished the life, liberty, and happiness of tens of millions.

Once again, i agree with what the author wrote but the proper label should be statist egotism, not altruism.

Please let me know if i am being too a.r.

thanx
freebounder

[Zon]

Great read TJ, Thanks.

"The law perverted! And the police powers of the state perverted along with it! The law, I say, not only turned from its proper purpose but made to follow an entirely contrary purpose! The law become the weapon of every kind of greed! Instead of checking crime, the law itself guilty of the evils it is supposed to punish!" -- Frederic Bastiat

“The state is the great fiction by which everybody tries to live at the expense of everyone else.” -- Frederic Bastiat

You must make up your own mind. Then only you can decide what you must do about it. The answer is investigation and exposure. Their schemes can't survive if we are all aware of what they're doing and resist en masse.

"There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come." -- Victor Hugo

[AAABEST]

Bump for later. Looks like a good one.

[sauropod]

Yes.

[Consort]

Conservatives don't like big government — so the Liberals filled the void and they now have almost total control of it. The bureaucracy is manly Democrat.

Conservatives don't like the unions that control our public schools (and our kids while they are in school) — so the Liberals filled the void and they have almost total control of our public schools.

Same thing for labor unions, social programs, etc, etc, etc.

Let's call it Right Flight, aka "ignore it and it will go away," aka "run away and then whine about it,".....

[spodefly]

bttt -- for reading when I can actually hold my eyes open bump.

[OXENinFLA]

Whoo! BUMP I gotta print this out and take the time to read this.

[Fraulein]

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[erinjohn]

Tailgunner Joe was right.

[Fraulein]

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