scudco

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by scudco 18y ago
By sending them to die in foreign(for them and the US) wars? I'm reminded of the scene in Gangs of New York where Amsterdam is getting off the ship and the Army is there enlisting people right on the dock. I think this kind of policy reeks
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by scudco 18y ago
Krugman shilling for Keynesian get-rich-quick schemes and insisting that what Obama(read The Executive Branch) needs is simply more power to spend our way out of The Greater Depression? Say it ain't so! All kidding aside Krugman accurately
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by scudco 18y ago
I hope to not be "that guy" but wasn't this plumber's ultimate motivation money? I mean he was out of it and needed it. He was willing to work at a loss(or lower profit) so he could get business. He innovated and won. If he had had customer
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by scudco 18y ago
I hope no one gave him this cliche as literal advice as he mentions in the first section. The first time I heard this cliche the first thought that popped into my head was, "That's a fun way to describe why programmers are always 'thinking
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by scudco 18y ago
I tend to think "economies of scale" or simply economics is a very difficult thing to understand. Governmental economic policy, whatever it may be, is the implicit practice of saying "We, the chosen few, understand one of the most complex t
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by scudco 18y ago
Am I leeching off the state or is the state leeching off its citizens? I did not go to public school, but the state still told my school what they must teach to be considered legitimate. I have been to a hospital. I have driven on a road in
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by scudco 18y ago
What if I want to simply secede from the government entirely? To your final point, though, I find this talk of emigration strange. Many people ask me this question and I concede that it is not entirely out of the realm of possibility for me
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by scudco 18y ago
Fines or jail time are merely the better alternative once one has decided to non-comply. If one nonviolently non-complies with the state's demands to pay taxes they will likely fine her. If she refuses to pay the fine they will likely come
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by scudco 18y ago
Do I have a choice? Aren't all(if not most) of the things you've mentioned government-controlled monopolies? More to the point, though, I want these services, but I think it is wrong to take money from people to finance these services. If y
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by scudco 18y ago
What if I chose to remain and not pay taxes. Am I then free to live peacefully and not be a part of the state? Essentially, what happens when I peacefully non-comply?
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by scudco 18y ago
I would like to live in peace with my neighbors. The only justifiable way to achieve this goal is through non-violent noncompliance against the coercive state. Also the post I linked to in my first comment explains why any illegitimate powe
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by scudco 18y ago
Out of fear of being murdered, yes. Honestly, this may sound like an exaggeration to prove a point, but I honestly pay taxes to save myself from certain death. But I am glad you asked because I am interested in not paying federal taxes next
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by scudco 18y ago
I know this might rile a few people up, but I think voting is coercive. Personally, I don't see myself ever participating in a vote unless I know everyone involved in its consequences is a consenting individual. So I respectfully disagree t
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by scudco 18y ago
All the other bureaucratic positions made out of thin air have worked out so well for the American people so far that I just can't wait to have my life more regulated in new and interesting ways. How exciting! I'm always so happy when we fi
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by scudco 18y ago
In America these problems are systemic because government has gotten in bed with powerful banks to create a monopoly via the Federal Reserve. We have given all economic power over the issuance of credit to very few with zero oversight. We h
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by scudco 18y ago
Herbert Hoover's interventionism prolonged the depression. The government enables monopolies. The government is currently enabling every rich wall-streeter's favorite monopoly, The Federal Reserve. We don't need the bailout. We need these c
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by scudco 18y ago
I can't say I took the time to read all of the articles. I will say that the few I did read stop short of explaining root causes. Here's what I've been passing around http://mises.org/story/3128
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by scudco 18y ago
Yes, because liberals and conservatives in the sense he is talking about are so amazingly different. How about we get real and start to talk about how we all want to control our neighbors. Both liberals and conservatives, in his definition,
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by scudco 18y ago
I think I can agree that CEOs will always take the highest-risk/highest-reward these days because the government continually bails-out this kind of bad behavior. However, I think it is the government itself which is the root cause of all th