It's not a black market because the dominant gang which maintains control by threatening violence has not outlawed sale or resale or those particular items. Perhaps a gray market. Regardless, these secondary markets primarily appear where prohibition or price controls exist, but also where items are priced well below market value such as when demand rapidly increases and/or supply rapidly decreases. Without prices reaching equilibrium as they naturally do in a free market, you just have long lines, shortages, and what amounts to a lottery as to who gets what.
Sounds like those "rednecks" are bringing in supplies from farther away and selling at market prices... Creating an overall increase in supply of items which are scarce and in high demand. Moving supplies which may only be scarce in a given area costs money, doing so in a dangerous area generally requires greater incentive for those transporting and selling them. You are free to not pay the temporarily inflated prices, the more people who choose to do without the more downward pressure on prices.
The only reason this government mandate came about is because of other government mandates, namely safety mandates on newer vehicles that eliminate rear visibility. I drive 80s trucks and 60s cars. Excellent visibility all around. Aside from a few fastback body styles which limit blind spot visibility, but even that is much better than most new cars I've been in.
New cars have very high door panels, and thick/wide A/B/C pillars making windows much smaller. There are also front seat head restraints, and in the past few years rear seat head restraints as well. Good luck seeing anything out the tiny windows past that maze of DOT/government mandated view blocking devices. Now check out those tiny side view mirrors they use these days, virtually useless. To make matters worse the glass is curved to magnify the image, give a narrower field of view in an already tiny mirror! I feel claustrophobic and blind in the rare event I drive my girlfriend's fairly new car. Believe it or not she doesn't bother turning her head when changing lanes, and I kind of understand why... You can't see a damn thing looking over your shoulder anyhow. None of my fastbacks were ever that bad and they didn't even have mirrors on the passenger side, and not once did it ever occur to me to desire one on that side as it simply wasn't necessary in a vehicle you can see out of.
The problem is government induced. Government mandates safety "features" that people don't want (if they were cars would be offered with those features and sell well), those safety features result in limited visibility in all directions. With limited visibility in all directions, especially behind, pedestrian strikes increase. Government mandates more things people don't necessarily want.
This reminds me of the government interference in the 70s. Government mandates safety features, which tremendously increase the weight of cars reducing MPG. Then they mandate emissions requirements, which greatly reduced MPG. Then they mandate MPG requirements... etc... In 1960 economy cars were getting 32+ MPG and selling well. What was the problem? People had a choice of whether to buy the small car that gets good MPG, looks nice, has decent power, and so forth, or big a bigger less efficient car which had great power, looked good, etc. The problem was choice, so government outlawed choice and the free market and the result was small cars that got low MPG and were hideous.
Tape would be best, though kind of pricey. Either that or hard drives either cheap slow disks or to be more pricey duplicate your live setup. It's not gonna be cheap for 20 TB of home use data, I'm guessing mostly of the size comes from video and audio, probably could be reacquired if need be. Backup your most prized data (personal documents, pictures, video, etc. that cannot be replaced) and take your chances with RAID 6 on the rest.
I don't have an internet connection at home, cost is too much especially with how the two providers charge pretty hefty for just internet and a negligible cost to get cable TV as well. They just want to "bundle" you into a whole $100+/mo package so I can't justify the recurring cost. I do like to play games from time to time though. I have a company issued smart phone which I use to look things up, but I don't want to tether to my personal machine and run up the data costs playing games. Internet authenticating DRM, partiuclarly always on, means I simply won't buy it.
Enforce the existing laws. It doesn't matter why you ran that red light, or were weaving in and out of your lane, or hit that other car, etc. All that matters is actions and what has been done. What might happen is irrelevant.
Yet the population continues to grow. Why move to a place with a high likelihood of flooding or otherwise detrimental weather? Or if you do, why complain and beg for government help when you knew it was coming and decided not to prepare for the inevitable?
They don't cram twice as many seats as there should be in their planes.
Personally I'd be fine with standing room only for flights up to 6 hours or so, if it meant cheaper ticket prices. My preferences are fairly irrelevant though, as I won't fly anymore. I do not want to be harassed by the TSA and other government thugs to fly on a private airline. My business is between me and the airline I choose to pay for their service, not the government. For me it's drive or take a train (when possible), at least before they expand the TSA further into rail stations and hubs.
There is not a single libertarian who supports or endorses slavery. Libertarians are against anything that violates the rights of others. I would hope we can all agree slavery is a violation of the slave's rights, so it should be clear that libertarians wholeheartedly oppose slavery.
Perhaps you mean the Chinese way? Their lax restrictions on air quality is part of why there is so much manufacturing there, as it's not economically feasible in other countries such as America.
You're ignoring the fact that there are often several people and objects near to you when you are shooting. Ejected casings hit things and bounce around before hitting the ground. Personally I've had my own brass hit me or go down my shirt a few times. It happens, it's hot, and it burns.
If you were born in America, you are an American. To call yourself anything else is disgraceful. If you were born elsewhere and became a US citizen, then it is appropriate to call yourself a -American. Such as a Frenchman who has become a US citizen, then the term French-American would be appropriate and descriptive.
I dislike it when colored people born in America call themselves African-Americans. They are not, the term is incorrect. If Africa is such an important part of your life that you must define yourself by it, then go get citizenship in an African country, in which case you'd be an American-.
Sad but true about many black communities dragging down those who try to make more of themselves. Either way, I generally refer to them as "colored people" as that seems to be the preference amongst themselves, NAACP. I dislike the term "African American", it does not apply to colored people who are not Americans and if you are an American... Any man who refers to himself as something else and then an American is not an American at all.
Perhaps not the height of my own libertarian activism but there isn't time for much more than that, and discussing politics whenever it is brought up in conversation. Personally I'm too busy working to make that other half of my income that Uncle Sam steals, If I was allowed to keep that money that I earned I would have a lot mroe time for activism... But then in that scenario it wouldn't be encessary. I suppose that's waht the socialists and neocons want, keep the peasants working as hard as they can so they can scrape by, just just shy of hard enough that they can't make do... or they'll revolt. Status quo, a vote for a socialist of a neocon is a vote for more slavery. Get back to work, tax slave.
What is it with people that take advantage of the high social development afforded by higher tax rates only to run off to a low tax rate area when they become rich?
We really need to make sure people understand that ALL wealth comes from government.
Government can create no wealth. All government can do is take your money and restrict your freedoms. The only method government can use to accomplish those goals of thievery and coersion (or slavery, if you want to be honest about it) is violence. Everything government does is with the threat of violence.
It seems people become libertarian AFTER they become rich, as they have the mistaken belief that they somehow made their wealth themselves. They have no idea the kind of infrastructure and work government put in to get that one dollar to travel into their hands in the first place. No, the wealthy didn't magically conjure up that dollar into their pockets.
I am not rich by any stretch. I don't have all the "necessities" that most of America seems to have, things like a TV, air conditioning, a car less than 30 years old, etc. yet I am a libertarian. Numerous threats of violence for made up "crimes" pushed me to become a libertarian. Discovering all the hidden taxes, and how "rich" I could be if government didn't take so much much of my income, well over half of what I earn, pushed me to become a libertarian. All I want is to be left alone by the government. I don't want them to take anything from me with threats of violence and I don't want to take anything from them, just a small constitutional government operating on a minimal budget to cover their minimal purposes.
Interestingly enough I find most rich people are either hardcore socialist or hardcore neocons. I know of very few rich libertarians.
Thank you. I do not have children and will not for many years, if ever. I simply cannot afford children, in large aprt as a result of the over 50% of my income taken through taxation. What I want is to pay my own way, and for others to do the same, or at least not steal from me to subsidize their expenses.
And the majority of road costs are (or at least should be) paid by local taxes and fuel/vehicle regsitration taxes. Even that portion which comes from local taxes benefits people local to those roads, as you mentioned. Would I prefer a private business free market solution? Yes, of course, as it would mean lower cost for roads than the current taxes I pay.
The problem is spending other people's money (taken at gunpoint, mind you) on your kids. Pay for your own children's education, don't rob me to do it.
Fine. Then don't expect my tax money to implement laws to protect you from having the rest of your money taken away from you by someone else because they want it.
I don't. Laws don't protect, and it's not the government's job to protect anyone.
Lets all devolve into a bunch of people living in armed compounds telling everyone else to fuck off. You don't get roads, you don't get electricity, you don't get laws, you don't get nothing that you can't get and keep yourself by force.
See, in your system, you want someone to help pay to enforce your rights, and you want to opt out of paying to help anybody else. Which means as long as you get what you feel you're entitled to, everyone else is on their own. Why should my taxes pay to preserve the rights of the rich?
You do get roads, toll roads run by private companies as well as other roads paid for locally through taxation (vehicle registration tax, fuel tax, etc.). You get a lot fewer laws, as local laws would not be able to trump natural rights. I do not want anyone to pay to enforce my rights, I want government to stop violating my rights. I'm not entitled to anything, and neither are you. Nobody else should pay for something I use. Education is not a right, food is not a right.
It's not so much "society" and "civilization" as it is a collection of armed camps.
I sincerely hope you get the opportunity to experience life the way you think it should happen. I bet someone will decide you've got a pretty mouth.
All you drooling idiots who whine about the taxes being forcibly taken from you at gun point seem to conveniently forget there's a lot of those services you do make use of... take those away, and you can have something like Somalia or the inside of a prison. Bet that would be fun.
What services exactly is the government providing me? In the context of this dicscussion, education, there is already a free market alternative... Private schools. In my area private schools are often cheaper than state run schools and clearly offer a better education. The problem is, everyone is forced at gunpoint to subsidize someone else's education. If parents had to pay for their children's education themselves they would choose the better private schools at lower cost than state run schools. There is no free market, so only the rich can afford to send their children to good/better schools since they cna afford to pay twice while the rest of us cannot.
Agreed. Rich people well into six figures wasnt toys instead of tools to do their job, and they want them for free despite the fact that they cna easily afford their own personal toys without struggling financially. Then the rest of us get shafted with at best, a raise to cover the official rate of inflation, which is a far cry from the real rate of inflation (look at what things cost vs a year or two ago!), or more typically a much smaller raise if any... On top of already being below median wage for a particular job. The icing on the cake is the six figure people get bonuses in the tens of thousands of dollars for shafting all the rest of us on raises/cost of living adjustments. At the bare minimum,simply doing an adequate job (not a spectacular job) a 3%-4% raisae is in order. Those who do very well or go above and beyond should get significantly greater than that, to get above the real inflation rate. Anything less is an annual pay cut. That stuff infuriates me and is a great demotivator.
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It's not a black market because the dominant gang which maintains control by threatening violence has not outlawed sale or resale or those particular items. Perhaps a gray market. Regardless, these secondary markets primarily appear where prohibition or price controls exist, but also where items are priced well below market value such as when demand rapidly increases and/or supply rapidly decreases. Without prices reaching equilibrium as they naturally do in a free market, you just have long lines, shortages, and what amounts to a lottery as to who gets what.
Sounds like those "rednecks" are bringing in supplies from farther away and selling at market prices... Creating an overall increase in supply of items which are scarce and in high demand. Moving supplies which may only be scarce in a given area costs money, doing so in a dangerous area generally requires greater incentive for those transporting and selling them. You are free to not pay the temporarily inflated prices, the more people who choose to do without the more downward pressure on prices.
The only reason this government mandate came about is because of other government mandates, namely safety mandates on newer vehicles that eliminate rear visibility. I drive 80s trucks and 60s cars. Excellent visibility all around. Aside from a few fastback body styles which limit blind spot visibility, but even that is much better than most new cars I've been in.
New cars have very high door panels, and thick/wide A/B/C pillars making windows much smaller. There are also front seat head restraints, and in the past few years rear seat head restraints as well. Good luck seeing anything out the tiny windows past that maze of DOT/government mandated view blocking devices. Now check out those tiny side view mirrors they use these days, virtually useless. To make matters worse the glass is curved to magnify the image, give a narrower field of view in an already tiny mirror! I feel claustrophobic and blind in the rare event I drive my girlfriend's fairly new car. Believe it or not she doesn't bother turning her head when changing lanes, and I kind of understand why... You can't see a damn thing looking over your shoulder anyhow. None of my fastbacks were ever that bad and they didn't even have mirrors on the passenger side, and not once did it ever occur to me to desire one on that side as it simply wasn't necessary in a vehicle you can see out of.
The problem is government induced. Government mandates safety "features" that people don't want (if they were cars would be offered with those features and sell well), those safety features result in limited visibility in all directions. With limited visibility in all directions, especially behind, pedestrian strikes increase. Government mandates more things people don't necessarily want.
This reminds me of the government interference in the 70s. Government mandates safety features, which tremendously increase the weight of cars reducing MPG. Then they mandate emissions requirements, which greatly reduced MPG. Then they mandate MPG requirements... etc... In 1960 economy cars were getting 32+ MPG and selling well. What was the problem? People had a choice of whether to buy the small car that gets good MPG, looks nice, has decent power, and so forth, or big a bigger less efficient car which had great power, looked good, etc. The problem was choice, so government outlawed choice and the free market and the result was small cars that got low MPG and were hideous.
Tape would be best, though kind of pricey. Either that or hard drives either cheap slow disks or to be more pricey duplicate your live setup. It's not gonna be cheap for 20 TB of home use data, I'm guessing mostly of the size comes from video and audio, probably could be reacquired if need be. Backup your most prized data (personal documents, pictures, video, etc. that cannot be replaced) and take your chances with RAID 6 on the rest.
I don't have an internet connection at home, cost is too much especially with how the two providers charge pretty hefty for just internet and a negligible cost to get cable TV as well. They just want to "bundle" you into a whole $100+/mo package so I can't justify the recurring cost. I do like to play games from time to time though. I have a company issued smart phone which I use to look things up, but I don't want to tether to my personal machine and run up the data costs playing games. Internet authenticating DRM, partiuclarly always on, means I simply won't buy it.
Enforce the existing laws. It doesn't matter why you ran that red light, or were weaving in and out of your lane, or hit that other car, etc. All that matters is actions and what has been done. What might happen is irrelevant.
Yet the population continues to grow. Why move to a place with a high likelihood of flooding or otherwise detrimental weather? Or if you do, why complain and beg for government help when you knew it was coming and decided not to prepare for the inevitable?
Artificial islands or reefs (including ones made of recycled glass) to make the shoreline more absorptive and break the waves."
Clearly the author has never been to the NJ/NY shoreline... It's already coated in "recycled" glass.
They don't cram twice as many seats as there should be in their planes.
Personally I'd be fine with standing room only for flights up to 6 hours or so, if it meant cheaper ticket prices. My preferences are fairly irrelevant though, as I won't fly anymore. I do not want to be harassed by the TSA and other government thugs to fly on a private airline. My business is between me and the airline I choose to pay for their service, not the government. For me it's drive or take a train (when possible), at least before they expand the TSA further into rail stations and hubs.
Good thing I don't drive any vehicles with air bags.I'll stick with my simple, cheap and reliable vehicles that won't try to kill me.
The Russians have several on Venus.
There is not a single libertarian who supports or endorses slavery. Libertarians are against anything that violates the rights of others. I would hope we can all agree slavery is a violation of the slave's rights, so it should be clear that libertarians wholeheartedly oppose slavery.
Perhaps you mean the Chinese way? Their lax restrictions on air quality is part of why there is so much manufacturing there, as it's not economically feasible in other countries such as America.
Like cats?
You're ignoring the fact that there are often several people and objects near to you when you are shooting. Ejected casings hit things and bounce around before hitting the ground. Personally I've had my own brass hit me or go down my shirt a few times. It happens, it's hot, and it burns.
If you were born in America, you are an American. To call yourself anything else is disgraceful. If you were born elsewhere and became a US citizen, then it is appropriate to call yourself a -American. Such as a Frenchman who has become a US citizen, then the term French-American would be appropriate and descriptive.
I dislike it when colored people born in America call themselves African-Americans. They are not, the term is incorrect. If Africa is such an important part of your life that you must define yourself by it, then go get citizenship in an African country, in which case you'd be an American-.
Sad but true about many black communities dragging down those who try to make more of themselves. Either way, I generally refer to them as "colored people" as that seems to be the preference amongst themselves, NAACP. I dislike the term "African American", it does not apply to colored people who are not Americans and if you are an American... Any man who refers to himself as something else and then an American is not an American at all.
Perhaps not the height of my own libertarian activism but there isn't time for much more than that, and discussing politics whenever it is brought up in conversation. Personally I'm too busy working to make that other half of my income that Uncle Sam steals, If I was allowed to keep that money that I earned I would have a lot mroe time for activism... But then in that scenario it wouldn't be encessary. I suppose that's waht the socialists and neocons want, keep the peasants working as hard as they can so they can scrape by, just just shy of hard enough that they can't make do... or they'll revolt. Status quo, a vote for a socialist of a neocon is a vote for more slavery. Get back to work, tax slave.
What is it with people that take advantage of the high social development afforded by higher tax rates only to run off to a low tax rate area when they become rich?
We really need to make sure people understand that ALL wealth comes from government.
Government can create no wealth. All government can do is take your money and restrict your freedoms. The only method government can use to accomplish those goals of thievery and coersion (or slavery, if you want to be honest about it) is violence. Everything government does is with the threat of violence.
It seems people become libertarian AFTER they become rich, as they have the mistaken belief that they somehow made their wealth themselves. They have no idea the kind of infrastructure and work government put in to get that one dollar to travel into their hands in the first place. No, the wealthy didn't magically conjure up that dollar into their pockets.
I am not rich by any stretch. I don't have all the "necessities" that most of America seems to have, things like a TV, air conditioning, a car less than 30 years old, etc. yet I am a libertarian. Numerous threats of violence for made up "crimes" pushed me to become a libertarian. Discovering all the hidden taxes, and how "rich" I could be if government didn't take so much much of my income, well over half of what I earn, pushed me to become a libertarian. All I want is to be left alone by the government. I don't want them to take anything from me with threats of violence and I don't want to take anything from them, just a small constitutional government operating on a minimal budget to cover their minimal purposes.
Interestingly enough I find most rich people are either hardcore socialist or hardcore neocons. I know of very few rich libertarians.
Undead corpses, the dangerous kind.
Thank you. I do not have children and will not for many years, if ever. I simply cannot afford children, in large aprt as a result of the over 50% of my income taken through taxation. What I want is to pay my own way, and for others to do the same, or at least not steal from me to subsidize their expenses.
And the majority of road costs are (or at least should be) paid by local taxes and fuel/vehicle regsitration taxes. Even that portion which comes from local taxes benefits people local to those roads, as you mentioned. Would I prefer a private business free market solution? Yes, of course, as it would mean lower cost for roads than the current taxes I pay.
Fine. Then don't expect my tax money to implement laws to protect you from having the rest of your money taken away from you by someone else because they want it.
I don't. Laws don't protect, and it's not the government's job to protect anyone.
Lets all devolve into a bunch of people living in armed compounds telling everyone else to fuck off. You don't get roads, you don't get electricity, you don't get laws, you don't get nothing that you can't get and keep yourself by force.
See, in your system, you want someone to help pay to enforce your rights, and you want to opt out of paying to help anybody else. Which means as long as you get what you feel you're entitled to, everyone else is on their own. Why should my taxes pay to preserve the rights of the rich?
You do get roads, toll roads run by private companies as well as other roads paid for locally through taxation (vehicle registration tax, fuel tax, etc.). You get a lot fewer laws, as local laws would not be able to trump natural rights. I do not want anyone to pay to enforce my rights, I want government to stop violating my rights. I'm not entitled to anything, and neither are you. Nobody else should pay for something I use. Education is not a right, food is not a right.
It's not so much "society" and "civilization" as it is a collection of armed camps.
I sincerely hope you get the opportunity to experience life the way you think it should happen. I bet someone will decide you've got a pretty mouth.
All you drooling idiots who whine about the taxes being forcibly taken from you at gun point seem to conveniently forget there's a lot of those services you do make use of ... take those away, and you can have something like Somalia or the inside of a prison. Bet that would be fun.
What services exactly is the government providing me? In the context of this dicscussion, education, there is already a free market alternative... Private schools. In my area private schools are often cheaper than state run schools and clearly offer a better education. The problem is, everyone is forced at gunpoint to subsidize someone else's education. If parents had to pay for their children's education themselves they would choose the better private schools at lower cost than state run schools. There is no free market, so only the rich can afford to send their children to good/better schools since they cna afford to pay twice while the rest of us cannot.
Yep, I'm curious on the content and how well I'd do.
The problem is spending other people's money (taken at gunpoint, mind you) on your kids. Pay for your own children's education, don't rob me to do it.
Agreed. Rich people well into six figures wasnt toys instead of tools to do their job, and they want them for free despite the fact that they cna easily afford their own personal toys without struggling financially. Then the rest of us get shafted with at best, a raise to cover the official rate of inflation, which is a far cry from the real rate of inflation (look at what things cost vs a year or two ago!), or more typically a much smaller raise if any... On top of already being below median wage for a particular job. The icing on the cake is the six figure people get bonuses in the tens of thousands of dollars for shafting all the rest of us on raises/cost of living adjustments. At the bare minimum,simply doing an adequate job (not a spectacular job) a 3%-4% raisae is in order. Those who do very well or go above and beyond should get significantly greater than that, to get above the real inflation rate. Anything less is an annual pay cut. That stuff infuriates me and is a great demotivator.