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Like the grey or black market? They arise not because of state intervention, but in spite of it. Markets are considered spontaneous just as much as th...
April 28, 2023 at 20:22
Of course, I would never actually use the phrase “Neosocialism” or “neoliberalism”, unless it was a term of abuse. Philosophically, Michel Foucault’s ...
April 28, 2023 at 17:48
As far as I know hardly anyone uses the phrase to describe their own politics or ideology, which is telling, so often it is little more than a term of...
April 28, 2023 at 17:23
One carrier would destroy the entire Royal Navy at the height of the empire. Anyways, it was besides the point.
April 28, 2023 at 00:24
The idea that a politician can represent me is an obsequious one, especially if they’ve never met me or considered my concerns. So I don’t look at it ...
April 27, 2023 at 23:11
Bernie-bro extra salty. His new man needs his questions curated for him.
April 27, 2023 at 20:23
Don Lemon, do you like that your president needs instructions on how to enter a room and say hello?
April 27, 2023 at 19:34
Biden carries with him “cheat sheets” that provide advance knowledge of a reporter’s question, whom to call upon, etc. One hilarious example shows Bid...
April 27, 2023 at 14:44
It’s true, I believe. On the whole of it, the liberal tradition of negative freedom has hardly made any inroads into the public domain until relativel...
April 26, 2023 at 19:11
It doesn’t help that most of the tenets were pure wind. Class consciousness, class struggle, historicism, dictatorship of the proletariat, the witheri...
April 26, 2023 at 14:51
For me it goes to “sourcehood”. Basically, the source of the action is that which willed it, decided it, governed it, chose it etc. Until anyone can s...
April 25, 2023 at 18:17
A bunch of lawyers and politicians may be of secret societies, but no society I’m a part of. Truth is you and I do not make any laws, and since we are...
April 25, 2023 at 03:09
So? It is not in our nature to agree on everything. That’s why I afford them the right to disagree.
April 24, 2023 at 21:18
They come from men. The idea is that given the evidence human nature provides, such is enough for a reasonable man to conclude what rights ought to be...
April 24, 2023 at 18:58
One of the oddest trends in the history of politics is the idea that man must create an institution which then confers rights and privileges upon man....
April 24, 2023 at 17:40
Though businessman is highly represented in the former occupations of reps and senators, so are lawyers, veterans, and professional politicians. So it...
April 24, 2023 at 14:36
It’s tax relief. The tax relief you get depends on the rate of tax you pay. You’re using money that is already taxed. If you do not earn enough money ...
April 23, 2023 at 20:51
I missed it. After having read it, it doesn’t appear that you’re avoiding or evading taxes at all. Availing oneself of the tax system is not the same ...
April 23, 2023 at 19:57
I favor the rule of the people; you favor the rule of a few. I favor democracy; you favor representative government. I favor sovereign persons; you fa...
April 23, 2023 at 19:22
Report a person or business you think is not paying enough tax or is committing another type of fraud against HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC). This incl...
April 23, 2023 at 19:20
Taxes are necessary for any regime that cannot generate its own revenue. The exploitation of both the labor and finances and the property of its citiz...
April 23, 2023 at 17:36
Tax evasion and tax fraud aren’t crimes in the UK? You also disclosed that you profit from tax collection insofar as you draw from the government’s fi...
April 23, 2023 at 17:12
States have certainly streamlined the activity of taking people’s money to the point where violence isn’t necessary. But tax evasion and tax fraud is ...
April 23, 2023 at 17:04
Somehow and at some point people were convinced that voting was tantamount to democracy, that marking a piece of paper every few years constitutes the...
April 22, 2023 at 19:01
There is a difference between a legitimate and an illegitimate authority. One's status as an official, or employment within a bureaucracy, is not good...
April 22, 2023 at 18:05
All state systems are capitalist, the socialist ones included. I don't think the existence of one precludes the existence of others because any state ...
April 22, 2023 at 17:54
One can search the entire website for the phrase “abolish the state” and find out that Mikie is the only one who ever drones on about it, hilariously ...
April 22, 2023 at 16:26
And people have the choice not to exploit their fellow man. Stop taking another’s stuff. Quit forcing another to labor for you. Find other means to sa...
April 22, 2023 at 06:38
If you want to delegate your responsibilities to your fellow human beings to someone else, go for it. But I don’t think that favoring a piece of legis...
April 22, 2023 at 02:07
I am not in favor of stealing people’s money so Mikie can say he favors legislation, no.
April 22, 2023 at 01:55
Until I see you feeding any of those people I will never deny them any means to acquire food. You would.
April 22, 2023 at 01:47
Do you think food just falls in someone’s mouth? All food is acquired with work, buddy.
April 22, 2023 at 01:41
Yea, if someone wants to be a slave, learns to be under the dominion of a master, and have his money taken from him without his permission, like you w...
April 22, 2023 at 01:34
If you want to call voluntary activity between consenting parties “slavery”, be my guest.
April 22, 2023 at 01:23
The employer is forced to deduct a specific amount or else he is breaking the law.
April 22, 2023 at 01:22
I don’t.
April 22, 2023 at 01:19
The principle is that I rail against the involuntary activity between non-consenting parties, not the voluntary activity between consenting parties. Y...
April 22, 2023 at 01:17
Why would I rail against the voluntary activity between consenting adults?
April 22, 2023 at 00:53
Personally I don’t care if your tax money built me a home made of gold and furnished me with every luxury I could imagine. It’s wrong to take fruits o...
April 21, 2023 at 23:58
Yes they are taken. You agree to a wage with an employer; the government takes a portion of your income. Neither you nor your employer determine how m...
April 21, 2023 at 15:51
It’s either/or, collectivism or individualism. There is no middle ground. I’m not saying you’re guilty of anything, either. I’m just showing you’re no...
April 21, 2023 at 15:41
One of the greatest conceits is that only man in his government form can lay asphalt, deliver packages, pick up garbage, or care for the sick. Here in...
April 20, 2023 at 19:40
I can appreciate that. It was a loaded question, anyways.
April 20, 2023 at 19:16
Are you for or against appropriating the fruits of someone’s labor?
April 20, 2023 at 18:27
I can show any number of quotes from socialists, fascists, conservatives, communists, throughout the ages about the atomization theory of individualis...
April 20, 2023 at 18:19
Conflating selfishness and individualism is a collectivist canard as old as the word itself, and flips the dictum that man is a social animal on its h...
April 20, 2023 at 16:05
It cannot be said that any of the problems of today are the result of individualism. Greed, egotism, self-concern, which are often associated with ind...
April 19, 2023 at 19:07
We often forget how Western communism is, how bourgeois Marx was, and so it would inevitably erect itself on the Roman, republican model. A written co...
April 19, 2023 at 03:52
My only real gripe is that most theories of mind and consciousness are dualistic, or fractured, whereas a human being is not. For some reason we try t...
April 14, 2023 at 16:50
Oh dear. You’re annoyed at the arrogance. Excuse me while I cringe. I’m annoyed at the fence-sitting and tone-policing. At any rate, yours or mine fee...
April 13, 2023 at 14:54