[Y]ou will see the rise of the double standard–the men who live by force, yet count on those who live by trade to create the value of their looted money- the men who are the hitchhikers of virtue. In a moral society, these are the criminals, and the statutes are written to protect you against them. But when a society establishes criminals-by-right and looters-by-law- men who use force to seize the wealth of disarmed victims- then money becomes its creators’ avenger. Such looters believe it safe to rob defenseless men, once they’ve passed a law to disarm them. But their loot becomes the magnet for other looters, who get it from them as they got it. Then the race goes, not to the ablest at production, but to those most ruthless at brutality. When force is the standard, the murderer wins over the pickpocket. And then that society vanishes, in a spread of ruins and slaughter. Ayn Rand
Atlas Shrugged,(1905-1982)
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to …
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. Aristotle
Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with …
Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save. Will Rogers
Will Rogers (1879-1935)
Statesmen are dead politicians. Lord knows we need more statesmen. Opus the …
Statesmen are dead politicians. Lord knows we need more statesmen. Opus the Penguin
Bloom County
Marriage is based on the theory that when man discovers a brand …
Marriage is based on the theory that when man discovers a brand of beer exactly to his taste he should at once throw up his job and go work in the brewery. George Jean Nathan
(1882 – 1958)
The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty, and the destiny of …
The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty, and the destiny of the republican model of government, are justly considered as deeply, perhaps as finally stake, on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people. George Washington
1732-1799. (Investor’s Business Daily, November, 3, 1998)
Marriage is a lottery, but you can’t tear up your ticket …
Marriage is a lottery, but you can’t tear up your ticket if you lose. F. M. Knowles
If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we …
If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future. Winston Churchill
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, British statesman and Prime Minister (1940-1945; 1951-1955) 1874-1965
Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he …
Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he doesn’t become a monster. Frederick Wilhelm Nietsche
WYDEN: “I can’t imagine the Supreme Court wants to give the wealthiest people on earth billions in tax cuts.”
Let’s parse “I can’t imagine the Supreme Court wants to give the wealthiest people on earth billions in tax cuts”. There is no annual billionaires wealth tax or taxes on unrealized gains yet. Wyden says that NOT TAXING PEOPLE is a tax cut? Is anyone paying attention to his stupidity? So every year that 100% of your income is not taxed, you got a tax cut. There are grave constitutional issues for imposing taxes on unrealized gains, does anyone in DC care?
Is he the dumbest person in the Senate? Perhaps, but there is plenty of competition.
It won’t be long until this impacting “a few hundred” people is “a few hundred million people.” Remember the $400,000 cutoff is where one is rich or not.
“Build Back Better” is an Orwellian name if ever there was one. The Democrat party and many of their voters believe that your life and the products of it may be disposed of at their whim. The same justification that led to their defense of slavery, just in the third party now: it isn’t “we need it”, it is “someone else’s need justifies taking the hours of your life.”
See https://apple.news/Ad7K0nNcDSTqPQrIlsaFx3A
p.s. If you want to destroy a country and liberty, debase the currency. The degree to which the currency is debased will be proportional to the destruction. MMT is insanity masquerading as economics.