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COMMENTS I’VE POSTED

1. Re: Tie Assessed Property Values to Market Values —

   “Starve the beast” methodology only seems to work when the agency on behalf of which the tax is levied can’t borrow cash, to be repaid from future taxes, i.e. Treasury bills, municipal bonds, etc.

   What local, state and federal government need is some sort of balanced-budget rule that —

   • Explicitly disallows borrowing to make up for shortfalls
   • Does NOT exempt “emergencies” from its scope. Let the “emergency” measure be funded by taking from the hug-a-thug arts-and-crafts programs and no-work-expected handout agencies.

   The “total required revenue” needs to take a nosedive — the sooner the better. If it’s done by the “legitimate authorities,” that nosedive can be somewhat controlled.

   If the nosedive is uncontrolled, that’s OK, too — let ’em burn down their own homes with riots.

   But that nosedive WILL happen, regardless — either in the controlled manner I’ve called for above, done by the “legitimate authorities,” or in the UNcontrolled manner, where the productive class gets fed up and either heads for greener pastures or rises in open revolt, followed by the parasitic tax-feeders burning down their own homes.

   Granted, most of the homes burned down will be owned in some capacity by the Productive Class, but that’s what insurance policies are for, right? At least maybe the Producers will have the good sense to learn from the experience.

2. Re: How Government Programs Expand Beyond Intent —

   One of the guys in my classes worked at Eclipse for a while. He told me that most of the employees there would show up, do an hour’s worth of work and then goof off for the rest of their shifts. This went on for about a year while he worked there.

NOTES

1. Reposted —
   1. Personal blogs and micro-blogs — Xanga

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COMMENTS I’VE POSTED

1. Re: “Government Spending Slavery Day” is Coming June 19th! —

   Good response — I remember Kayne from when she was one of the editorial staff at the now-defunct Crosswinds Weekly. She was like Eric Griego — good for entertainment value, but not for serious content.

   I got the biggest laugh out the response by “Jason M” —

   As a fiscal conservative and a Tea Party activist, I can only encourage you to write more columns for this and other sites.

   Please.

2. Commenting on a status posting by Adam Kokesh —
   

   I wonder if Bailey, Bancroft, Van Zorge, Bradley, et al., will jump on Stein’s case like they did on yours, calling him a “LYING TRATIOR,” among other things — after all, he’s criticizing the incumbent commander-in-chief, just like you did during the tenure of HRH George XLIII.

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COMMENTS I’VE POSTED

1. Re: Wilson Destroys Bingaman on Health Care Bill —
   

   Although Wilson seems to have no plans to run for office in the near future

   Hallelujah!

   it was good to see her jump into the health care policy debate on the side of those who opposed even greater federal intervention in Americans’ health care.

   Is this an attempt by her to make up for making the enactment of Medicare Part D the centerpiece of her 2002 re-election campaign? What a repulsive episode that was.

   Still, better late than never.

2. Re: Obama’s National Sales Tax —
   

   From the redstate.com article —

   Volker and Bernanke have used a two pronged strategy to vet the VAT. First is fear mongering. Bernanke argues that Americans need to choose between higher taxes or massive cuts in critical government programs. He mentioned Social Security, Medicare, Education and Defense as areas of government spending that would be targeted if we don’t raise taxes. This is a false choice. The federal government needs to reform entitlement programs, needs to root out waste fraud and abuse and should eliminate programs like the National Endowment for the Arts.

   I CHOOSE THE CUTS.

   “Rooting out waste, fraud and abuse” from government spending is the icing on the cake. Sooner or later, the crony capitalists who prop up the Chinese Communist Party are going to quit buying U.S. Treasury bonds, and start dumping the ones they already have. What happens then?

NOTES

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   1. Personal blogs and micro-blogs — Xanga

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COMMENTS I’VE POSTED

1. Commenting on MyYearbook:
   

   What was the first CD you ever bought?
   ~ 11:30 AM MST hours ago by Anonymous

   The absolute first? I have no idea, but it was probably something by Metallica, Iron Maiden or W.A.S.P.

2. Re: Big Government Stifles Entrepreneurs — A Rethink
   

   Anything that two or more people can mutually agree to, providing that they’re not initiating force or fraud against anyone else.

3. New Mexico Liberty, April 2010 is now online.
4. Re: Another Racist Tea Party, Scroll Down for Photographic Evidence from St. Louis
   

   If Morris Dees really cares about racially-based violence as much as he professes, why isn’t he suing the SEIU on behalf of Kenneth Gladney?

5. Re: Congressional Candidate Barela Shows Solid Grasp of Health Care Situtation
   

   The third-party system goes all the way back to FDR — employment-related “benefit” plans offered in lieu of cash, as those plans aren’t taxed as a bigger pile of FRNs would be.

   If these plans are truly a “benefit,” then why does the employee have to pay for it?

   Still, Barela is light-years ahead of Heinrich on this issue.

6. Commenting on MyYearbook:
   

   Nothing wrong with a free dating site per se — better than the pay-for-use dating sites. What kind of funny stories do you want? What’s off-limits here?

7. Re: Back to the Basics to Fix Education?
   

   These are nice ideas, but our schools are not designed to effectively educate children. They’re socialistic in nature and seem to exist for the benefit of the teachers’ unions and bureaucrats.

   They teach the kids how to lie, cheat, steal, sneak around, assault and batter people, and commit other crimes. While the kids are learning those life skills, they might learn other things, like reading, writing, mathematics, and science.

LISTENING / READING / WATCHING

1. The Dark Lady: A Romance of the Far Future by Mike Resnick

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COMMENTS I’VE POSTED

1. Posted somewhere —

   Gas prices do go down on occasion, and they are plenty regulated by state and federal government. A big part of gas prices is the taxes imposed on gas by the feds and the states.

   Any regulations that fix gas prices at lower than what the market price is will create shortages and black markets.

   @Mid Evil 77 — I’d like to get an inkjet printer set up so I could run Federal Reserve Notes through it — I’d print on them “This note is redeemable upon government demand from your life, liberty, property and pursuit of happiness.”