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JUST A LITTLE SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE TO THINK ABOUT.

Have you even noticed?

Counties across the country are actually jailing people for living the way they want to live — off the grid. The headlines are all over the place …

The Burden Of Income Tax Implies that Government Owns You

The income tax is enshrined into law but it is an idea that stands in total contradiction to the driving force behind the American Revolution and the idea of freedom itself.

We desperately need a serious national movement to get rid of it – not reform it, not replace it, not flatten it or refocus its sting from this group to that. It just needs to go.

The great essayist Frank Chodorov once described the income tax as the root of all evil. His target was not the tax itself, but the principle behind it.

Since its implementation in 1913, he wrote, “The government says to the citizen: ‘Your earnings are not exclusively your own; we have a claim on them, and our claim precedes yours; we will allow you to keep some of it, because we recognize your need, not your right; but whatever we grant you for yourself is for us to decide.”

He really does have a point. That’s evil. When Congress ratified the 16th Amendment on Feb. 3, 1913, there was a sense in which all private income in the U.S. was nationalized. What was not taxed from then on was a favor granted unto us, and continues to be so.

This is implied in the text of the amendment itself: “The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration.”

No Limits

Where are the limits? There weren’t any. There was some discussion about putting a limit on the tax, but it seemed unnecessary. Only 1% of the income earners would end up paying about 1% to the government. Everyone else was initially untouched. Who really cares that the rich have to pay a bit more, right? They can afford it.

This perspective totally misunderstands the true nature of government, which always wants more money and more power and will stop at nothing to get both. The 16th Amendment was more than a modern additive to an antique document. It was a new philosophy of the fiscal life of the entire country.

Today, the ruling elite no longer bothers with things like amendments. But back in the day, it was different. The amendment was made necessary because of previous court decisions that stated what was once considered a bottom-line presumption of the free society: Government cannot tax personal property.

What you make is your own. You get to keep the product of your labors. Government can tax sales, perhaps, or raise money through tariffs on goods coming in and out of the country. But your bank account is off-limits.

The amendment changed that idea. In the beginning, it applied to very few people. This was one reason it passed. It was pitched as a replacement tax, not a new money raiser. After all the havoc caused by the divisive tariffs of the 19th century, this sounded like a great deal to many people, particularly Southerners and Westerners fed up with paying such high prices for manufactured goods while seeing their trading relations with foreign consumers disrupted.

People who supported it – and they were not so much the left but the right-wing populists of the time – imagined that the tax would hit the robber baron class of industrialists in the North. And that it did. Their fortunes began to dwindle, and their confidence in their ability to amass and retain inter-generational fortunes began to wane.

Limit to Accumulation

We all know the stories of how the grandchildren of the Gilded Age tycoons squandered their family heritage in the 1920’s and failed to carry on the tradition. Well, it is hardly surprising. The government put a timetable and limit on accumulation. Private families and individuals would no longer be permitted to exist except in subjugation to the taxing state. The kids left their private estates to live in the cities, put off marriage, stopped bothering with all that hearth and home stuff. Time horizons shortened, and the Jazz Age began.

Class warfare was part of the deal from the beginning. The income tax turned the social fabric of the country into a giant lifetime boat, with everyone arguing about who had to be thrown overboard so that others might live.

The demon in the beginning was the rich. That remained true until the 1930’s, when FDR changed the deal. Suddenly, the income would be collected, but taxed in a different way. It would be taken from everyone, but a portion would be given back late in life as a permanent income stream. Thus was the payroll tax born. This tax today is far more significant than the income tax.

The class warfare unleashed all those years ago continues today. One side wants to tax the rich. The other side finds it appalling that the percentage of people who pay no income tax has risen from 30% to nearly 50%. Now we see the appalling spectacle of Republicans regarding this as a disgrace that must change. They have joined the political classes that seek advancement by hurting people.

The Payroll Tax

It’s extremely strange that the payroll tax is rarely considered in this debate. The poor, the middle class and the rich are all being hammered by payroll taxes that fund failed programs that provide no security and few benefits at all.

It’s impossible to take seriously the claims that the income tax doesn’t harm wealth creation. When Congress wants to discourage something – smoking, imports, selling stocks or whatever – they know what to do: Tax it. Tax income, and on the margin, you discourage people from earning it.

Tax debates are always about “reform” – which always means a slight shift in who pays what, with an eye to raising ever more money for the government. A far better solution would be to forget the whole thing and return to the original idea of a free society: You get to keep what you earn or inherit. That means nothing short of abolishing the great mistake of 1913.

Forget the flat tax. The only just solution is no tax on incomes ever.

But let’s say that one day we actually become safe from the income tax collectors and something like blessed peace arrives. There is still another problem that emerged in 1913. Congress created the Federal Reserve, which eventually developed the power to create all the money that government would ever need, even without taxing.

For the practical running of the affairs of the state, the Fed is far worse than the income tax. It creates the more-insidious tax because it is so sneaky. In a strange way, it has made all the debates about taxation superfluous. Denying the government revenue does nothing to curb its appetites for our liberties and property. The Fed has managed to make it impossible to starve the beast.

Chodorov was correct about the evil of the income tax. Its passage signaled the beginning of a century of despotism. Our property is no longer safe. Our income is not our own. We are legally obligated to turn over whatever our masters say we owe them. You can fudge this point: None of this is compatible with the old liberal idea of freedom.

You doubt it? Listen to Thomas Jefferson from his inaugural address of 1801. What he said then remains true today:

“…what more is necessary to make us a happy and a prosperous people? Still one more thing fellow citizens, a wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.”

Smart men our ancestors were. Very smart people indeed!

THAT ANSWER RIGHT THE HELL HERE. BAM!

Anti-gunners like to bring up a term when they argue for gun control: “gun violence.” They make it sound so reasonable that gun violence must be stopped, but we need to ask ourselves: What is gun violence, and is gun violence even real?

If you talk to an anti-gunner, they will, of course, tell you that gun violence is the most horrible thing occurring in the world today, but Robert A. Margulies, M.D. (yes, a medical doctor) begs to differ. In fact, Margulies says that gun violence is a myth. He writes,

I DO NOT BELIEVE THAT THERE IS ANY SUCH THING AS “GUN VIOLENCE.” THERE IS ALSO NO SUCH THING AS KNIFE VIOLENCE, CAR VIOLENCE, ALCOHOL VIOLENCE, ETC. VIOLENCE IS PERPETRATED BY AN INDIVIDUAL OR GROUP. THE TOOL USED IS IRRELEVANT.

MOST ARTICLES ABOUT ‘GUN VIOLENCE’ ARE WRITTEN AS IF TO JUSTIFY POSITIONS THAT THE AUTHORS DON’T RECOGNIZE OR ACCEPT AREN’T TRUE. LET’S BREAK IT DOWN:

1. SUICIDE, WHETHER INVOLVING FIREARMS OR NOT, IS AN ACT OF DESPERATION, REMORSE, INABILITY TO ACCEPT CIRCUMSTANCES, OR CHOOSING TO AVOID A SITUATION THAT THE INDIVIDUAL CANNOT CONTROL.

THE LITERATURE IS REPLETE WITH DATA ABOUT OTHER COUNTRIES’ NUMBERS AND RATES OF SUICIDE. CULTURE STRONGLY INFLUENCES RATES AS WELL AS THE PREFERRED MECHANISMS. SUICIDE BY FIREARM MAKES UP APPROXIMATELY TWO-THIRDS OF UNITED STATES FIREARM-ASSOCIATED DEATHS.

2. JUSTIFIABLE HOMICIDE FALLS INTO THE CATEGORY OF SELF-DEFENSE, INCLUDING LAW ENFORCEMENT ACTION. WHETHER IT INVOLVES FIREARMS, CONDUCTED ELECTRICAL WEAPONS, BLUNT OBJECTS, POINTED OBJECTS OR BLADES, OR HANDS MAKES NO DIFFERENCE IN THE END.

THESE MAKE UP 20 TO 25% OF FIREARMS-ASSOCIATED DEATHS. THESE OUTCOMES ARE SOCIALLY AND CULTURALLY ACCEPTABLE.

3. THERE ARE SMALL AND DECLINING NUMBERS OF ACCIDENTAL FIREARM DEATHS IN THE UNITED STATES.

4. THAT LEAVES APPROXIMATELY 25% OF FIREARMS ASSOCIATED DEATHS DUE TO CRIMINAL ACTIVITY. MORE THAN HALF OF THESE OCCUR IN JUST A FEW OF OUR LARGE CITIES AND ARE ASSOCIATED WITH GANG ACTIVITY AND OTHER DRUG OR SEX TRAFFICKING CRIME.

WITH THAT BASIC INFORMATION ON THE TABLE, THE QUESTION BECOMES: WHAT TO DO ABOUT VIOLENCE? THE EMPHASIS ON FIREARMS IS A PROVERBIAL RED HERRING. THE PROBLEM IS NOT FIREARMS, KNIVES, OR TIRE IRONS IN THE HANDS OF THE POLICE OR HONEST CITIZENS.

THE AVOWED INTENT OF MUCH OF THE LITERATURE ON “GUN VIOLENCE” IS TO DESIGN LAWS THAT WILL PRECLUDE CRIMINALS OBTAINING FIREARMS. THAT IDEA IS EITHER MISTAKEN OR MALICIOUS. NO LAW WILL PREVENT A CRIMINAL FROM BREAKING THE LAW. THAT IS WHAT DEFINES “CRIMINAL”. THE ONLY PURPOSE OF LAWS IS TO PUNISH PEOPLE FOR VIOLATING THEM, WHICH MAY BE OF SOME DETERRENCE. UNTIL HUMAN NATURE BECOMES ANGELIC, THERE WILL BE THE NEED TO PUNISH CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR.

Dr. Margulies nails this issue on the head. Gun violence is a myth. Violence is a reality, but the tool used in violence is irrelevant, and banning guns hasn’t and won’t solve the problem of violence committed by criminals.

It is exactly this reason that we need to both oppose all gun control laws and also train to be able to protect ourselves and those we love. Because a law isn’t going to prevent a criminal from doing evil; you will be what restrains evil when it appears at your proverbial ‘front door’.

FACT:

DON’T SUPPORT NEWS MEDIA THAT HATES YOUR VALUES!

Gun customization’s can be a hobby, fun and flashy, but did you know that customizing can also be used as evidence against you in a trial?

They also go as far as to attack posters on your car, what is written on your T-shirts and every single word scrutinized on your social media accounts.

LET’S PUT IT THIS WAY. ALL DISTRICT ATTORNEY’S ARE CAREER ASPIRING, NOT TO MENTION COMPLETE SCUMBAGS, SO THE ASSHOLES WILL USE EVERYTHING AND ANYTHING IN THEIR POWER TO RAISE THEIR STATUS, EVEN AT THE COST OF YOUR LIFE.

YOU ALL DO KNOW THAT THE SOLE PURPOSE OF THE MEDIA IS ONLY TO STIR UP THE POT, RIGHT?

GUN CONTROL IS EQUIVALENT TO RELIGION FOR ADVOCATES OF IT. REMEMBER THAT!

WHILE GUN OWNERS SIMPLY WISH TO BE LEFT ALONE, PROHIBITIONISTS AREN’T SO INCLINED.

START TAKING LESSONS FROM THE GUN CONTROL CROWD.

THEY NEVER STOP AND THEY NEVER GIVE UP. THEY CONTINUE TO PUSH AND KEEP PUSHING THEIR ‘AGENDAS’.

IT’S NO LONGER ENOUGH TO JUST POST PRO 2ND AMENDMENT SOCIAL MEDIA POSTS OR DONATE A CAUSAL $5 TO THE NRA OR OTHER GROUP(S) OF CHOICE AND THEN SIT BACK AND THUMP YOUR CHEST AND THINK YOU’VE NOW ‘DONE YOUR PART’.

THE FACTS ABOUT DONALD TRUMP AND THE DEMOCRATIC RUSH TO IMPEACH HIM FOR RUSSIAN COLLUSION

With all the stories out there today regarding these ever-present words, ‘Trump’, ‘Russia’, ‘Collusion’, ‘Mueller’, here are some background details you are very likely not aware of, but I am.

This is insider knowledge.

The news is full of commentary and analysis on the Mueller Report.

One of the fundamental and most critical aspects of this unprecedented “investigation” is of the origins of law enforcement and intelligence agencies “spying” on Donald Trump, members of his campaign and family members.

The entire investigation was founded on intelligence collected through the process of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) Warrant issued by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC). A Warrant Application that was clearly fraudulent and blatantly treasonous. An application that could only have been presented to the FISC with the illicit support and criminal coordination of America’s top law enforcement departments.

The talking heads on TV (cable and the internet included) have never had their boots on the ground in one of these operations.
Neither has 99% of the US Intelligence operatives or DOJ agents.

There are very clear safety measures and procedures in place to prevent exactly what ‘they’ did to candidate and president-elect Donald Trump and his associates and organizations.

I think the most effective way to reveal how bad, evil, corrupt and conspired the government sanctioned spying on Donald Trump was is to explain exactly how it is supposed to work and exactly what safeguards were built into the process to protect and prevent this very crime. Safeguards designed and demanded upon by both Houses of Congress before they authorized the FISA.

The FISA process has one and only one purpose…

The FISC issues a FISA Warrant for legal espionage efforts against a U.S. person or persons after a preponderance of evidence has been developed by federal law enforcement officers that an American Citizen is a witting or unwitting agent of a foreign power engaged at some level of espionage against America.

The laws of this nation prohibit spies from spying on any American in the US – for virtually any reason. The only exception is if during the course of an approved and proper investigation by a federal law enforcement agency, it is discovered that an American citizen is conducting espionage.

The FBI has an incredible array of powers and tools to legally investigate suspected criminal activities. However, in the course of their investigations, agents have to follow stringent rules that are in place to protect citizen rights, with focus especially on the First, Fourth, and Fifth Amendments.

Federal law enforcement agents must develop cases based on evidence and then preserve the chain of evidence. Their powers of investigation and invasion are properly limited while allowing them to build and present a case for public trial.

Spies have no such restrictions. They can use all of their expertise, training, resources, technology and every source and method in their repertoire without being concerned about following the rules of evidence collection.

Why? Because their mission is not to build a legal case in a criminal investigation to submit to a prosecutor who will then present the case to a judge. Their mission is to ruthlessly and aggressively protect American national security through spying on adversaries and preventing them from spying on us. None of what they do ever gets into the court system, as all of their sources and methods are deemed classified and remain classified.

Before a FISA warrant is issued to any intelligence operative, the DOJ has to submit verified, corroborated and authenticated evidence to the FISC. And the application for that warrant has to unquestionably describe the activities of an American citizen here in the US engaged in an act of espionage against the US.

Then, the secret panel of judges (their identities are concealed to protect them from threats, blackmail, bribery and even hostile espionage) reviews the submitted application for the Warrant.

Their role is to protect the civil liberties and ensure due process of any American listed on the application.

By the very nature of the separation of powers, the judges of the FISC must rely on the veracity of the information contained in the application for a FISA Warrant submitted to them by the DOJ.

Once satisfied that the DOJ, through proper legal criminal investigative procedures, has produced sufficient evidence that an American is involved in spying on America, they issue the FISA warrant to the Intelligence Community.

It is then incumbent on the specially trained operatives of America’s international espionage network to engage in a no-holds-barred domestic espionage operation.

So, has this legal and authorized procedure been adhered to since its inception in 1978 under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act?

Nope. Most definitely not.

In 2002, the court revealed that the FBI Director (Freeh) and the AG/DOJ had “supplied erroneous information to the court” in more than 75 applications for search warrants and wiretaps.

Then in 2011, the Obama administration reversed restrictions on the National Security Agency, (NSA) permitting the agency to deliberately search Americans’ communications.

This became possible due to a new provision, section 702, being included in the 2008 legislation on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. An Act passed during the Obummer Administration and the 110th. US Congress.

And without Congressional approval, the Obama Administration no longer required a warrant for each individual target. That change meant that the NSA could listen and record any communications of a U.S. Citizen without a court first determining that there is probable cause that the people they were talking to were terrorists, spies or “foreign powers”.

Note that this Executive Branch change to the FISA procedures and limits was accomplished by the Obummer Administration without public debate or any specific authority from Congress.

The purpose of the Warrant is to transfer the actionable intelligence out of law enforcement and over to the Intelligence Community.

Understand, the FBI has fully trained and qualified counter-intelligence agents who can develop a case and arrest criminals engaged in espionage. But they are limited to legal and authorized methods to procure and collect evidence. Spies have no such limitations or restrictions.

Understanding this process helps you understand that the FBI needed the services of the American intelligence agencies in order to ‘uncover’ the proprietary activities of Donald Trump, his family, associates and campaign for U.S. President.

The FBI simply does not have the expertise or resources to conduct full blown espionage, so they brought on members of the intelligence community to conspire with them to circumvent the law and founding principles of the Constitution and the rights it guarantees to its sovereign citizens.

That’s the background.
And here is what happened to our President…

Beginning no later than 2015 and I suspect as early as 2013, the party in control of the White House leveraged its powers over the CIA, NSA, DNI, DHS, DOJ and especially the FBI Director and the senior leadership of the FBI to develop a falsified FISA application.

The White House instructed the various players to coordinate with the Hillary Clinton campaign and enlist the aid of its politically/monetarily motivated allies at CNN, MSNBC, ET EL, etc. to cast an international plume portraying the ‘evidentially’ proven tale of a U.S. Presidential candidate who was conspiring with Russia to bring America to its knees.

The FBI and others colluded and repeated the same false story until the claims appeared to have veracity.

Meanwhile, the FBI/DOJ used the “wide-spread” knowledge of this Russian collusion to trick the FISC into issuing a FISA Warrant.

How much domestic espionage did the FBI and other secret government intelligence gathering organizations (including many that you have never heard of; Q Group, SCS, F9, etc.) conduct against Trump and his efforts to win the White House? I do not know for sure. But what I do know is that this is the most massive, treasonous criminal coupe attempt in America’s history.

In the past, we have seen many waves of abuse of the police and intelligence gathering powers of the federal government, but to my knowledge, this is the first orchestrated effort to include the illicit collusion of all of the highest law enforcement and espionage agencies in the executive branch.

We have also seen plenty of openly biased news and media outlets, but this is the first time that they have openly worked with top level authorities in the federal government in order to affect/alter an election, challenge the efficacy of an election and then attempt a conspired coupe to overthrow and replace a duly elected president.

Was there a conspiracy to collude with Russia for the purposes of overthrowing the U.S. Government and instituting socialism (Liberalism) in America?

Hell yes! And the Democrats almost got away with it.

LEVI STRAUSS CEO CHIP BERGH is all fired up and he seems unwilling to rest until he’s single-handedly alienated every freedom-loving customer the company ever had.

Bergh has been in the news for some time now sounding off and piping in about his absolute hatred, distaste and contempt for the 2nd. Amendment and has just recently outlined the three ways that he plans to use his company name recognition and money to bolster his anti-gun, anti-2nd. Amendment agenda.

For ignoring the nationwide success of permitless carry, also known as Constitutional Carry, the Kentucky State Journal newspaper deserves the latest raspberries award.

In an editorial written for when Kentucky Governor signed the bill to make it the nation’s 16th. permitless carry state, this good for nuthin’ news organization, and I use those words very loosely, and its editorial board wrote the following:

THERE’S NO SUCH THING AS ‘GUN’ VIOLENCE!

Anti-gunners like to bring up a term when they argue for gun control: “gun violence.” They make it sound so reasonable that gun violence must be stopped, but we need to ask ourselves: What is gun violence, and is gun violence even real?

If you talk to an anti-gunner, they will, of course, tell you that gun violence is the most horrible thing occurring in the world today, but Robert A. Margulies, M.D. (yes, a medical doctor) begs to differ. In fact, Margulies says that gun violence is a myth. He writes,

I DO NOT BELIEVE THAT THERE IS ANY SUCH THING AS “GUN VIOLENCE.” THERE IS ALSO NO SUCH THING AS KNIFE VIOLENCE, CAR VIOLENCE, ALCOHOL VIOLENCE, ETC. VIOLENCE IS PERPETRATED BY AN INDIVIDUAL OR GROUP. THE TOOL USED IS IRRELEVANT.

MOST ARTICLES ABOUT ‘GUN VIOLENCE’ ARE WRITTEN AS IF TO JUSTIFY POSITIONS THAT THE AUTHORS DON’T RECOGNIZE OR ACCEPT AREN’T TRUE. LET’S BREAK IT DOWN:

1. SUICIDE, WHETHER INVOLVING FIREARMS OR NOT, IS AN ACT OF DESPERATION, REMORSE, INABILITY TO ACCEPT CIRCUMSTANCES, OR CHOOSING TO AVOID A SITUATION THAT THE INDIVIDUAL CANNOT CONTROL.

THE LITERATURE IS REPLETE WITH DATA ABOUT OTHER COUNTRIES’ NUMBERS AND RATES OF SUICIDE. CULTURE STRONGLY INFLUENCES RATES AS WELL AS THE PREFERRED MECHANISMS. SUICIDE BY FIREARM MAKES UP APPROXIMATELY TWO-THIRDS OF UNITED STATES FIREARM-ASSOCIATED DEATHS.

2. JUSTIFIABLE HOMICIDE FALLS INTO THE CATEGORY OF SELF-DEFENSE, INCLUDING LAW ENFORCEMENT ACTION. WHETHER IT INVOLVES FIREARMS, CONDUCTED ELECTRICAL WEAPONS, BLUNT OBJECTS, POINTED OBJECTS OR BLADES, OR HANDS MAKES NO DIFFERENCE IN THE END.

THESE MAKE UP 20 TO 25% OF FIREARMS-ASSOCIATED DEATHS. THESE OUTCOMES ARE SOCIALLY AND CULTURALLY ACCEPTABLE.

3. THERE ARE SMALL AND DECLINING NUMBERS OF ACCIDENTAL FIREARM DEATHS IN THE UNITED STATES.

4. THAT LEAVES APPROXIMATELY 25% OF FIREARMS ASSOCIATED DEATHS DUE TO CRIMINAL ACTIVITY. MORE THAN HALF OF THESE OCCUR IN JUST A FEW OF OUR LARGE CITIES AND ARE ASSOCIATED WITH GANG ACTIVITY AND OTHER DRUG OR SEX TRAFFICKING CRIME.

WITH THAT BASIC INFORMATION ON THE TABLE, THE QUESTION BECOMES: WHAT TO DO ABOUT VIOLENCE? THE EMPHASIS ON FIREARMS IS A PROVERBIAL RED HERRING. THE PROBLEM IS NOT FIREARMS, KNIVES, OR TIRE IRONS IN THE HANDS OF THE POLICE OR HONEST CITIZENS.

THE AVOWED INTENT OF MUCH OF THE LITERATURE ON “GUN VIOLENCE” IS TO DESIGN LAWS THAT WILL PRECLUDE CRIMINALS OBTAINING FIREARMS. THAT IDEA IS EITHER MISTAKEN OR MALICIOUS. NO LAW WILL PREVENT A CRIMINAL FROM BREAKING THE LAW. THAT IS WHAT DEFINES “CRIMINAL”. THE ONLY PURPOSE OF LAWS IS TO PUNISH PEOPLE FOR VIOLATING THEM, WHICH MAY BE OF SOME DETERRENCE. UNTIL HUMAN NATURE BECOMES ANGELIC, THERE WILL BE THE NEED TO PUNISH CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR.

Dr. Margulies nails this issue on the head. Gun violence is a myth. Violence is a reality, but the tool used in violence is irrelevant, and banning guns hasn’t and won’t solve the problem of violence committed by criminals.

It is exactly this reason that we need to both oppose all gun control laws and also train to be able to protect ourselves and those we love. Because a law isn’t going to prevent a criminal from doing evil; you will be what restrains evil when it happens near you.

Yes you, because YOU are YOUR OWN FIRST LINE OF DEFENSE and YOU are responsible for your own safety and the safety of family, friends and others dependent up such circumstances.

You do NOT wait minutes for the police to arrive when seconds count. PERIOD! GOT THAT.