I would like to have some better learned Objectivists explain the current political social situation to me
I would like to see how Objectivism views/interprets the current politics. Are the Liberals right? The Trump people right? No one right? What would work better, and could actually be achievable?
Click videos at the top and they are chronologically listed.
If you want to see the results, look online and find a chart showing inflation in the US from the 1780's to the present. Prior to the federal Reserve Act in 1913 inflation did not exist in the US except when a war was being fought that meant the government spent more than it had to destroy things outside the US.
The value of the US dollar was stable from the time the US constitution was signed until 1913. No inflation. Stable prices. Bankers had to provide their own money to be able make loans and get rich on interest. ZERO inflation. The elderly could save some of their earnings and count on being able to support themselves in their old age because prices would be stable. Since 1913 solely because of the Federal Reserve Act the price level today is 26 times higher than in 1913.
On average if it cost $1 in 1913, today it costs $26 solely because of the banking cartel stealing from everyone else legally after bribing the US government to create the Federal Reserve Act.
Read the book. For the first time you'll understand why you are angry and who is the cause.
I'm learning more but I don't understand the Fed system very well. And, I can't see what a return to a gold standard would look like for me personally. But, I DO understand basic market scarcity principles and know that as they print, WE PAY for it as a hidden tax. Printing = Devaluation of the $ in our pockets. Scarcity = HIGHER value.
I'm for the IRS being eliminated completely, too. With Trump also bringing tariffs back as a revenue source for the Federal government and knowing that he's big on "under budget and ahead of schedule" projects, it's not too outlandish to believe he's also in the process of fixing the WASTE, FRAUD, and ABUSE of the taxpayer's resources. And, the amount of THAT that has been going on, if everyone realized, would make even the most disengaged person go get the torches and pitchforks in RAGE. I'm not exaggerating.
So, he's obviously reducing the size of this monster and he's finding and reinstituting the Constitutional means for revenue collection. I think we're on the cusp of something many could not imagine.
And, it tells you why the HATE for him is enormous and pretty bonkers. To put it MILDLY.
Known as the "anti-slavery clause", this section drafted by Thomas Jefferson was removed from the Declaration at the behest of representatives of South Carolina.
My wife and I have lived in the same house for 40 years and have paid off the mortgage long ago, but can still be thrown into the street if we miss "Royal Rent" payments. My ancestor, who fought in the Rev War, was paid with land that had no such lien attached - and no income tax, either. He's probably rolling in his grave knowing government bullies will show up at my door to slap me around if I don't cough up the loot.
"Nobody is articulating - or even brainstorming - these kinds of moves back to Constitutional restraints and individual liberty..." Point well taken! I suspect the big rise in the price of beef is at least partly due to the BLM (Bureau of Land Management) stepping on ranchers in the West, but I don't see any addressing the issue after the last shootout.
Trump has been deregulating some things through executive orders and the left has been screaming - I see it on Facebook all the time about how the planet is doomed for one thing or another. Maybe he'll get around to a few more things on your list, but for now he certainly has other blips on his radar.
"So, fast forward to the early 1900’s and you’ll come across several key events that make it quite obvious there was a master plan at work to enslave the people. If you read a book named The Creature From Jeckyll Island, you’ll become intimately acquainted with the happenings in the year 1910, when 6 men, who were either elite bankers and/or politicians, met in secret in a place named Jeckyll Island. The purpose of this meeting was to formulate plans for economics reforms for the United States. This is where the banking cartel began in this country. The idea of a central bank had always been rejected, and so the men who met on Jeckyll Island, needed to come up with a way to trick the people into allowing a central bank to be instituted.
Three years later, in 1913, President Wilson signed the Federal Reserve Act into effect, which is the current central bank in the United States, even though it is actually not governed by any agency of the Federal Government. Eight years later, in 1921, the Maternity Act was passed which required all birth to be registered with the state. So, now all key pieces were in place for the upcoming bankruptcy default and restructure."
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Even if he owned slaves (a very un-Objectivist idea, anathema) he was a Patriot to the country. He had many faults, but all humans do. Still does not detract from the statement.
And he was not a thorough Obj.ist.
I always found AR delightful.
But again, the mere proposal, championed aggressively and publicly, and debated seriously in the halls of Congress, would ipso facto vault the issue to prominence and pull the entire context of property taxation in the direction of individual rights and the importance of private property - something desperately needed at a time when the UN's "Agenda 21" implementation is being ramped up aggressively.
The abolition of the Income Tax would be a vast benefit, obviously, but the need to maintain funding for essential government rights-defense functions (as identified in the Declaration of Independence,) would require its replacement. The transition between which would be a delicate - if not prohibitively difficult - balancing act.
Ideally a national sales tax would be a contender, if for nothing else on the issue of financial privacy alone.
[Nobody should have access to the details of anyone else's income or finances. If you were to discover that a neighbor or even a relative had found a way to examine your personal finances you'd be outraged; why then do we acquiesce to a pack of faceless IRS bureaucrats doing precisely the same, annually? A sales tax would eliminate that privacy violation.]
But before as radical a change as Income Tax repeal and replacement could be even feasible, there would have to be a drastic, sea-change-type reduction in Federal spending in all areas except the three essentials: the Armed Forces, the Police and the Courts.
Meanwhile, Malta, Lichtenstein, Croatia, Thailand, Monaco, Fiji, the Cook Islands, New Zealand, Israel, Dubai, Bahrain are countries where there is no residential property taxation at all, or at most a one-time tax on purchase or sale of a residence, but no perpetual, annual tax on property. The United States of America, once the leader of the free world, has a less-just tax policy than Croatia? Than Malta? Than Dubai?
It's for that reason - and the impending specter of retirement - that I think a property tax abolition is a great and long-overdue idea. Also the fact that with virtually every American home "owner" likely being an enthusiastic supporter, it would sail to ratification in record time. But yes, the Constitutional legality of it would have to be hashed out before it could be advanced.
And to take it back to my original point: Regardless of legal feasibility, this is the kind of thing we should be hearing from Trump and from all of the Congressional Republicans, continuously, aggressively and relentlessly. The collectivist Left seem to understand this "pendulum swing," because they are continuously spewing a barrage of ever more atrocious assaults on individualism, capitalism and liberty regardless of plausibility - and it serves the purpose of maintaining focus on their warped agenda. From their opposition - the elected Republicans - we typically hear pins hitting the floor, in seeming quadraphonic clarity. Some other off-the-top "radical for liberty" demands, great and small, that could be and should be demanded:
- The selloff of all government-held lands not sitting directly beneath legitimate government buildings, facilities and military bases, à la Senator Cruz' 2016 campaign pledge (which would be another stake through Agenda 21's heart);
- The repeal of all absurdities such as regulations of toilets, bans on incandescent light bulbs, and "water use" regulations on appliances such as clothes washing machines;
- The repeal of all land-use regulations which violate the property rights of landowners;
- The opening of first class mail delivery to any and all competitors to the USPS (again, if bureaucratic Japan, socialist Britain and even theocratic-hell Iran can successfully privatize their government postal delivery, so can we);
- The 100% deregulation of homeschooling, of for-profit private schools, of parochial schools, and the implementation of a phase-out of government-run "public" education in total;
- The review and evaluation of all laws on the premise of coercion as the sole criterion for rights-violation - which would eliminate vast swaths of government regulation;
- ... to name a few.
Nobody is articulating - or even brainstorming - these kinds of moves back to Constitutional restraints and individual liberty, while the opposition continues to vomit an endless stream of assaults on them. This must change, but it won't unless Trump gets himself a whole new, better lineup of advisers.
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