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Taxes have been despised by all since their invention in antiquity. They have been in existence for so long and have become so culturally ingrained that few see them as the blatant theft that they really are. The indoctrination is so complete few even see the meaning of the story of Robin Hood, which is not stealing inequitably distributed wealth from rich business men and redistributing it to the poor, but instead reclaiming taxes back from the government and the cronies who benefit from the government largess or oppression of their competitors, and returning it to the common taxpayers who are the target of government oppression or do not benefit from government largess, and in the process toppling the illegitimate and burdensome government to restore the true rulership.

There is no demand for a worker who does nothing anybody wants. The solution is the altruistic idea of doing what someone else wants to have done, not the selfish idea of doing what you want to do. This also entails the altruistic idea of devoting your life to the learning of how to fulfill the needs of others, otherwise known as successfully acquiring an education in practical and marketable skills,.

Productive labor is like reducing your carbon footprint. Work is not about raising your own standard of living, just as reducing your carbon consumption is not about saving yourself money. Work is necessary to provide the material needs of others. By not providing the material needs of others you contribute to the scarcity of goods and the increase in the cost of living for the poor. Not working is like smoking in public, or driving an SUV. It actually hurts other people. And just as there is a point where we may not be able to save the planet if we reach a certain level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, if a enough people are not working for the benefit of others our economy, and our society will end as well.

A work of literature that addresses the human psyche.

Excessive criticism of others is just masked self criticism.

That would also mean that every hand that strikes them is the hand of God, since they seem to see him as the source of all evil and suffering.

Actually, I don't think you should have to pay for the military. I also like your idea to earmark our federal contributions for what we wanted to fund, and in addition decide for ourselves how much we will pay.

Hate is fear. To cause fear is power. When you are hated you are already in the drivers seat. Do remember that when you hate in return.

The government is a consumer and redistributer. It is not a creator. It creates nothing. It coerces from one citizen and redistributes it to another. The land of the Louisiana Purchase was bought with confiscated private property. The railroad eminent domain property grabs by the government was again confiscating private property from one citizen and giving it to another. The government finds this exercise to be rather limiting though. People tend to notice when you are taking their stuff. So they have two other ways to take private property that are less detectable to the public. The first way is to put more dollars into circulation with nothing additional to back them. This decreases the purchasing power of each dollar by a small unnoticeable amount. Just as they are doing at the moment by paying their bond debt, which they call monetary policy or quantitative easing. This in essence shaves a small amount of the buying power of each dollar in our pockets, paychecks and 401ks, and transfers this value to the newly created dollars it is paying off its bond holders with, who are mostly bankers and stock brokers. What this is doing is slowly creating inflation, making the cost of everything go up, and slowly taking money out of everyone's pocket to pay off these rich bankers. The second way is even more genius, they borrow money with no intention of paying it back within their or our lifetime. Our children and grandchildren will have to pay this back. It in essence takes private property from future citizens, some before they are even born. But even with these methods you run into the same barrier. Eventually you run out of things to take from other people. And when you do there are only two unattractive options. A precipitous collapse of society into poverty, and violence, and/or the government redirects its confiscation from the assets of the last private property holders to the uncompensated labor it can extract from all. While a government may be necessary, exactly what government is, is optional. When I say all should pay taxes, let me be clear about what I mean. Everyone should donate the fruits of their labor deemed to be of a certain and equal value by the free market. I do not mean money taken from other tax payers. The fact that not all can figure out how to create things that are valued by others is not a problem of poverty but of ignorance, and is not cured or addressed by material goods but by education.

Welfare checks are written off of the bank account that holds all the money that is paid by taxes. When some of the money from these checks is collected for taxes it just goes right back to where it came from. There are no additional tax dollars, because the money came from taxes in the first place The same applies to all who work for the government. The money they use to pay taxes comes out of the pool of taxes, and goes tight back in. So, no additional taxes are collected. They are just shifted back and forth. The most you can say is that they were only pretending to give you the money in the first place. The only people who pay taxes are those who work in the private sector. When people who are paid by the government pay taxes they are doing so with money collected in taxes from someone working in the private sector.

Those who are on public aid, or public employment pay absolutely no taxes, unless the amount of taxes paid is larger than the amount received from the government. The taxes collected from the public subsidized are still paid with monies confiscated from those working in the private sector. Those working in the private sector pay for everything. Only they can pay because only they are in anyway creating wealth. I think all should pay the same amount of taxes, just like all pay the same for a New York Times, or a Maserati. My preferred form of charitable distribution is rewarding those who do things for me. You know, tipping, paying well. Something I could do much more of if I still had all that was extorted from me.

Living well is the best revenge.

No, like those who support taxing others, or those who are fond of receiving government handouts, I believe that somebody other than myself should pay.

An enlightened religious understands that the truth cannot be put into words. The enlightened scientist also knows that reality will never be completely described. There is no conflict between those who are seeking truth. The conflict is between those who are misguided and deluded enough to think that they have found The Truth.

Yes they are extorting me. They are lucky they are cute, otherwise they would be nailed up to my wall.

Someone should protest the idiot at his funeral.

When Human beings get something, they have a tendency to replicate the circumstances that they were in when they got something. When you give something to someone when they are sabotaging their own life they will continue to do so. This makes the gift giver a bad person. If you give a gift only when a person is making their life better then you are really helping them. So a gift can help or it can hurt. I am opposed to gifts that hurt and do not help. Therefore any gift should only follow a persons advancement, and should not be given before that advancement. The end goal should not only be end of gifts, it should also be the active participation of the person who has received gifts to not only repay his gifts but also contributing in helping others I have a garden, and squirrels started eating my tomatoes. To get the to stop, I started bribing them with nuts, and picking my tomatoes earlier (they did not like them green). Anyway, they are now at my door everyday and I doubt they hunt for food as much as they used to. If I had stopped feeding them they would all have died this winter. They are now dependent an me. This is why they have signs up in parks about not feeding animals. It is not because feeding them makes them sick. It is because feeding them stops them from feeding themselves, and places them closer to death. This is why charity should be administered sparingly. It is not cruel it is a kindness. I would also add that coarse words on this topic are not directed at the needy but toward those who would tug at heart strings to use the needy as a reason to steal from others out of personal greed or envy. Which is a despicable act because it side tracks charity from the poor to its own pockets.

The shadow knows.

Possibly, but credibility is not the reason for our foundation. The ULC was founded out of frustration with the existing credible organizations, and for the freedom of all to practice whatever they believe, regardless of its credibility to others. Legality is all that is necessary anyway. Besides the idea was that everyone already has the right to act as a minister, ordination is just the recognition of that fact. Add to this the idea that everyone has a right to decide what their religion is about, and you have a very libertarian anarchistic organization. Still this does not prevent any branch of the organization from becoming more mainstream.

Not so much Freedom, but the Free Market. After all many living things are free, have agriculture and husbandry, make and use tools, But only humans have a Free Market and the division of labor it entails. Without it no other innovations would be possible.

Supernovas that produce neutron stars blast everything that is not a neutron out of the star system on a tidal wave of neutrinos. And technically the electrons are not squished out but squished into the protons to produce neutrons. Gravity presses the electromagnetically repulsed electrons and protons into each other to form neutrons and neutrinos. In black hole gravity does the same thing with the strong force, and matter collapses infinity into itself with nothing left to stand against gravity

If the electromagnetic force cannot be overpowered by gravity then how is it that neutron stars have all the electrons squished out of them?

The Thunder,Perfect Mind - http://gnosis.org/naghamm/thunder.html The Hymn Of The Pearl - http://www.gnosis.org/library/hymnpearl.htm

And yet, If enough matter is present the slight gravitational force will cause the matter to accumulate together until, when it reaches a critical level the electromagnetic force will be overwhelmed. If a certain greater amount of matter is present, the weak force is overwhelmed, then finally the strong force is overwhelmed by yet more matter. In the end all other force can be overwhelmed by the force of gravity. The bits of paper demonstration works in this part of the universe, and under the the conditions present here. This does not mean the same thing applies everywhere. It does not apply on the surface of a neutron star, nor past the event horizon of a singularity. But you could say that under conditions a this force can overwhelm that force, under conditions b that force will overwhelm this force , and that in all conditions neither force is stronger.

It might be falling because they might be too stoned or paranoid to call the police, or to notice that any crime happened in the first place.