On this Christmas, I want to express my prayer that next year is more peaceful than this year.
I believe this is the 3rd year in a row I have posted this video to my online record.
Click here to watch the music video for Paul McCartney's Pipes of Peace - reliving the truce between some of the common English and German soldiers on Christmas day, 1914.
Also, I enjoyed reading this article yesterday, about these soldiers and how they simply withdrew their consent to the military commanders and political leaders.
Sunday, December 25, 2011
Saturday, December 17, 2011
Statists are getting desperate
Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) was going on about how we all need to take roads and bridges that were built by the state, we are safe because of state provided police, we got taught in public schools... and it goes on.
Not only do these statists never consider that these things could potentially be privatized or eliminated and left to the voluntary sector, but it seems like they actually worship these things. In addition, they completely ignore the fact that private wealth needed to be created FIRST, in order to raise tax revenue to build bridges and pay police. Wealth creation came first. This is not to say that goods provided by the state haven't helped more people increase their standard of living (that is a good debate). Perhaps if these goods were provided by actors in the voluntary sector instead of in the public (coercive) sector, the quality would be higher and the costs and prices to consumers would be lower!
For Elizabeth Warren to say that we (taxpayers) paid for roads and education and therefore someone who used these has a moral obligation to pay it forward in taxes misses a key idea. These business people were mostly forced to use public roads because the government has a monopoly on roads. Business people didn't have much of a choice.
And companies in many industries actually pay for private security, so even without police they have little worry about "marauding bands seizing everything."
Although she doesn't say it, she implies the assumption that without the state, we'd all be poor and at the whim of monopoly men running around with sacks of money with dollar signs on them scheming how to keep the people down. Obviously this is outrageous and not grounded in reality.
Elizabeth Warren: wrong.
Not only do these statists never consider that these things could potentially be privatized or eliminated and left to the voluntary sector, but it seems like they actually worship these things. In addition, they completely ignore the fact that private wealth needed to be created FIRST, in order to raise tax revenue to build bridges and pay police. Wealth creation came first. This is not to say that goods provided by the state haven't helped more people increase their standard of living (that is a good debate). Perhaps if these goods were provided by actors in the voluntary sector instead of in the public (coercive) sector, the quality would be higher and the costs and prices to consumers would be lower!
For Elizabeth Warren to say that we (taxpayers) paid for roads and education and therefore someone who used these has a moral obligation to pay it forward in taxes misses a key idea. These business people were mostly forced to use public roads because the government has a monopoly on roads. Business people didn't have much of a choice.
And companies in many industries actually pay for private security, so even without police they have little worry about "marauding bands seizing everything."
Although she doesn't say it, she implies the assumption that without the state, we'd all be poor and at the whim of monopoly men running around with sacks of money with dollar signs on them scheming how to keep the people down. Obviously this is outrageous and not grounded in reality.
Elizabeth Warren: wrong.
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