Letter to my Representitive and Senators
I started to write a letter to send to my representatives and senators about what I would like to see to them. My intent is to have it be fairly strongly worded.
I was wondering if others here would take a look at it and provide their feedback. It needs to be concise enough that someone will read it but long enough to cover a few major points.
As it evolves I will update it on this thread, and anyone my use it, in whole or in part for there own letters to there representatives..
I was wondering if others here would take a look at it and provide their feedback. It needs to be concise enough that someone will read it but long enough to cover a few major points.
As it evolves I will update it on this thread, and anyone my use it, in whole or in part for there own letters to there representatives..
To get out of this we enacted the whiskey tax, and put down the whiskey rebellion. I disagree with the whiskey tax (one of the few things Washington did that set a bad example for later years) because it was a minority paying for the expenses of all.
The result of no flat tax that everyone paid an equal percentage was, in the very early part of our country, a tax that some minority paid (whiskey producers) to cover the debts we (the citizens) had incurred. Thus making the majority a bunch of moochers of the whiskey producers.
It is a complex problem to look at what the best way to collect revenue is and how to keep that method from getting out of control as it has today.
I did not realize the PTO was self-funding. That is cool, and the way it should be with anything that you can do it with.
Thanks for the post.
I'm trying this again. :)
I like the idea of deciding to pay for police or fire as a yearly deal, here's my concern about that and the military-I don't want a feudal society. it breaks down too easily. If we have more than one private police situation, we're back to the thug kind of mentality-pay me for your protection. we have to agree on some things. But with fire fighting, I think it works well. In the states there are now areas that contract with fire departments individually or in townships. If your house goes up in flames well-you aren't contracted, well there's a risk to be assessed or I suppose you could be sued by nearby homeowners-maybe that already happens anyway. I'm not sure.Trademarks, copyrights and patents are already handled this way. The PTO is self-funding. The only self-funded agency in the government. All protections are provided through fees. Infringement issues are handle through the courts. It would work really well, but the general treasury STEALS from their fee base-over 1B during the last decade, so their efficiency has suffered greatly, don't get me started, gggrrrrr...
however, I am picking up from David that he's all for feudal- so he can hang out off the grid and be prepared if there's trouble for whomever he's prepared to infrastructure and protect. I think he's probably exceptional in his ability to handle those things. I don't get the efficiency of the choice, but it's his choice.
Paying for copyrights and trade marks each year if you want them enforceable would be a perfect wan to handle that aspect.
I think most of the services required by government could be paid for just like in business, I purchase what I want by paying an annual fee for the service to be available to me. Schools, libraries, roads, police and fire departments can all work this way.
The one I have never found, from rand or anyone else is how to pay for military, thus why I ashed about that one. The best suggestion is a head tax or sales tax everyone pays.
You sound like a anarchist moocher rather than a socialist moocher.
What I am asking, and what you keep refusing to answer is:
How do you plan to pay for the costs of protecting your freedom and property rights? Not my freedom or property rights, but yours?
Did it really matter that the declaration of independence was written? Or that the Burgess brought up there grievances with England before that multiple times? Or that the Boston tea party was the result of the rejection of the Burgess suggestions on the 17 taxes forced against the colonists?
It did not change the course of the king, but it did make it so that when action was needed, it was very clear who had initiated force. The requests and latter demands were well documented and done in the open, honestly.
I think it the reason the US revolution was successful and formed the government it did at the end rather than end up with a dictator of some type as all other revolutions I have studied did. There may be another somewhere in history where the revolution did not simply put a different dictator in charge, but I do not know of it.
If we are to do something about it, we must list out what we want to those with the power to do something about it, repeatedly and as often as we can, until they address it, the system collapses or we have support for a declaration of independence again.
What else can you do? Are we not remiss if we do nothing?
If there is no tax how to you propose we pay for things that have to be done to have a society. In particular how do you pay for a military to protect individual property rights without a tax?
Without a military we will not have our individual rights for long. Freedom has costs, how do you propose we pay those costs?
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