We can only HOPE that Amazon does that and provides a better, faster, safer, cheaper alternative to all of the above. USPS shouldn't even exist AFAIC, UPS and FedEx and the rest need real competition and Amazon is as real as competition gets.
All hospitals should be completely private, all health care should be completely private, all insurance should be completely private, there shouldn't be any government regulations around any of it. At that point there wouldn't be any single policy, it would be up to a specific hospital to deal with people as that private company sees fit, precisely as it should be. There shouldn't be such a thing as a 'universal' anything or 'free' anything.
people who advocate for gutting retirement and disability benefits don't get is that different jobs age people differently
- that's irrelevant. Retirement savings and disability insurance are a private matter and shouldn't be handled by any oppressive collectivist system (government) and no taxes (or printing/borrowing by any government structure) should be used for any of it, it's a private matter of every person.
what to do...either raise food prices, raise wages and offer better working conditions, or invent robots to handle the notoriously hard to automate task of harvesting food.
- again, you are approaching it as if 'we' have to do something (the collective 'we' - what, like the government?) Don't have to do anything (except abolishing government regulations of business, income and wealth taxes, borrowing and monetising debt and the entire concept of a welfare state and any form of redistribution of income and wealth.
Once the prices for food go up, there will be an opportunity to make a profit by increasing automation, so automation will be increased and no government has to do anything about it.
I am with Ajit Pai on this for the following reasons: private property owners must not be oppressed by any form of business regulations. That's my position on regulations.
Of-course to offset the possible negative effect of not having regulations in an otherwise heavily regulated world the removal of business regulations on some businesses cannot stand on its own, all business regulations must be abolished.
Furthermore, in order to remove incentives for companies and individuals from working with governments to reinstitute regulations that benefit few and hurt most people the governments must be declawed and their ability to regulate businesses must be abolished, this must be enshrined in the Constitution.
Lastly all income and wealth taxes need to be abolished, IRS must be shut down and abolished, the Federal reserve must be audited and prohibited from monetising government obligations.
The result of this is the abolishment of the welfare state for any and all intents and purposes, which would drastically reduce government oppression over individuals.
But if you give them a hundred times as much money, and they put ten times as much into their local economy... you can see where this is going, right? I'm not railing about small business owners here, I'm talking about the curd of the turd, the cream of the crap. You give 'em all the money
- you are under a completely false belief system where a person is 'given' his money rather than a person *making* his money. Your frame of reference is completely fucked up, in your opinion *not stealing all the money* from somebody = giving them the money that you didn't steal from them (yet).
People have the *right* to unionise, which means that a government will not stop (at least should not stop) people from creating/joining a union.
I bet that's *not* what your position is, for you this is not about a right of people to unionise, for you I think it is about a union forcing itself upon a business.
You should have the right to unionise, governments must not fine you or throw your ass to jail for doing that. What you should not have any right to is to force an employer to deal with your union. Employers also have their right to free association, if an employer does not want to deal with a union he shouldn't be forced to by any government.
Nazis are collectivists, socialists are collectivists, progressives are collectivists, Marxists are collectivists, fascists are collectivists, etc.
It is the individual vs the collectivists that matters, everything else is just a toss between different names for the same crap. Are Nazis and Communists exactly the same? Not exactly, but the differences are irrelevant while the similarities are striking, the similarities being in destruction of the rights of the individual and setting the power of the State above all.
I am not a conservative nor am I am a liberal, I am an anarcho capitalist and I hate all of you approximately the same, to me you are all a large pile of biomass that pools into vomit inducing blobs while snuffing the life out of actual individuals. AFAIC all of your laws against individual freedoms and income and wealth taxes are vile and horrendous and you all pretty much deserve every single horrible thing that is coming your way as a payment for the system that the vast majority of you support one way or another, which perpetuates and increases the power of the collective over an individual.
Good luck with that. Sovereign nations have been taxing their citizens for pretty much all of recorded history.
- USA was not stealing income and wealth from people this way for a long time until it started doing it and then its government apparatus grew and grew and the welfare transfers grew and grew until you here can say: 'good luck with that'. AFAIC: good luck with your desire to maintain this state of affairs, it is going to collapse itself and the sooner the better.
Individuals must be free to do business and accumulate property without collectivists/collectives stealing from them.
Good, all of this is excellent stuff, the taxes should hit those who want the taxes to hit others.
It's a boomerang hypothesis of mine: if your idea is that somebody else should pay for your life and you build a political system around that ideology then be prepared to be hit back by the very system that you set up to achieve your goal.
It's a great thing, the taxes should hit those who believe that they themselves should benefit from taxing others.
All income and wealth taxes should be abolished, made explicitly illegal and any attempts at reinstating such taxes should be punishable by immediate execution - hanging by the neck until dead of anybody who suggests to steal from anybody at all this way.
First, any business who can't afford to pay an employee $15 an hour shouldn't be hiring employees.
- clearly you are not running a business. Not every job is worth $15/hour, whether a company can pay somebody $15/hour is irrelevant if the *task* that needs to be executed only produces $8/hour of value then paying somebody $15/hour to execute that task is a loss of at minimum $7/hour (but actually it's a bigger loss than that).
A store can probably afford to spend $15 on a grocery bagger but why should it do that if that task in itself is actually not generating anywhere near that type of a revenue for the store? So instead the store will hire 0 baggers and not pay anything for that task and the customers will bag groceries themselves.
That's the actual choice, not company existing or not existing, hiring or not hiring at all, the choice is to execute certain tasks or not to execute them.
Except that the tax cuts will allow give many of the poor people a 100% tax cut, while some of the wealthy will get a few percentage point cuts. Of-course a 100% tax cut for a poor person is small in absolute dollar amounts to 1-2% or so for a wealthy person, however when put in percentage amounts the reality actually proves to be quite different than various collectivist bullshit propaganda would have you believe.
Of-course the collective shouldn't be able to steal any income or wealth at all from any individual or a business.
Prices spiking in emergencies is the only reliable way to deal with emergencies, by providing incentive for people to supply the important missing items, like food, energy, medical supplies, etc. That's the opposite of the connotation that 'price gouging' is creating, it's actually life saving.
No jobs or income. A guaranteed minimum income may cost something, but sure costs a lot less than having to deal with a constant insurgency of people with no hope or future, w
- nothing that a moderately sized army of terminators couldn't fix.
Global warming. Pay me now, or pay me later. Pay me now
Fuck unions and fuck governments. Fuck you too obviously for supporting this insanity that a property owner cannot do whatever he wishes with his property when a bunch of thieves decide to pillage it.
- that's the way it should be. That's the way *everybody* should do it to stop this cancer of socialism, of unions, of anything that steals private property rights.
I really hope it was a union busting move, I absolutely do hope so. Hopefully it wasn't because of losing money but specifically because somebody was trying to control the guy's private property outside of his desired parameters. AFAIC if you try to unionise you are trying to steal from me, I would shut down any part of my business (or the entire business) immediately to stop that behaviour.
I could not post the comment under my primary account (I have 2 comment per 24 hour limit due to the prevailing ideology of the moderating majority) , so posting it from the backup account.
You just proved my point completely without understanding it and without realising that you did.
The reason your Canadian health insurance would be too expensive for you to pay out of pocket (and generally why it is too expensive to pay for *health care* out of pocket) is because it is provided "for free" by the government, which means the money that is used to provide it is stolen from everybody who is forced into the system and used to provide you with sub par health care (I know a few things about Canadian system, I lived there for nearly two decades). Canadian health care system is sub par, it causes multiple unnecessary deaths due to shortage of specialists and extremely long waiting lists. Canadian emergency rooms are understaffed and overextended, you have to wait what, 4-12 hours in an emergency room for somebody to do something to you (and 4-12 hours is something that you would wait in a larger city, never mind Canadian country side the problems are deeper.
My argument is ideological, no doubt, my ideology is ideology of freedom and ideology of non-aggression. This means my ideology is that theft by a collectivist government is unacceptable under any circumstances.
As to university tuition - Canadian universities are sub par and by the way, today a Canadian university is selling space to foreign (mostly Asian) students, where are all these Canadian university graduates today? Certainly they cannot afford their education at these subsidised institutions even at lower tuition fees when compared to the American universities. There shouldn't be *any* subsidies from anybody to anybody especially not subsidies based on the violence of the State.
Ha, so that 'miracle' played itself out quite a bit when the Pilgrims tried building their Communism and then almost died from hunger because that's what Communism (any collectivism actually) does, it removes personal responsibility together with personal ownership and then everybody suffers. It wasn't until the people become selfish that USA succeeded.
I am a very selfish person, I like doing what I like doing and I do not like people getting in the way of what I do. I do what makes me happy and happiness to me comes from achieving my own goals on my own terms and not being part of any collective. I love being selfish.
I agree and I feel happy that the SJWs and other collectivist types are depressed. Hopefully they can depress themselves into oblivion and leave this place for people who think instead of feeling.
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the better jobs in search of employees all ran away from the socialist paradise that USA has become.
why is it that you are so scared of an opinion different from yours, you sound like a triggered child.
We can only HOPE that Amazon does that and provides a better, faster, safer, cheaper alternative to all of the above. USPS shouldn't even exist AFAIC, UPS and FedEx and the rest need real competition and Amazon is as real as competition gets.
All hospitals should be completely private, all health care should be completely private, all insurance should be completely private, there shouldn't be any government regulations around any of it. At that point there wouldn't be any single policy, it would be up to a specific hospital to deal with people as that private company sees fit, precisely as it should be. There shouldn't be such a thing as a 'universal' anything or 'free' anything.
people who advocate for gutting retirement and disability benefits don't get is that different jobs age people differently
- that's irrelevant. Retirement savings and disability insurance are a private matter and shouldn't be handled by any oppressive collectivist system (government) and no taxes (or printing/borrowing by any government structure) should be used for any of it, it's a private matter of every person.
what to do...either raise food prices, raise wages and offer better working conditions, or invent robots to handle the notoriously hard to automate task of harvesting food.
- again, you are approaching it as if 'we' have to do something (the collective 'we' - what, like the government?) Don't have to do anything (except abolishing government regulations of business, income and wealth taxes, borrowing and monetising debt and the entire concept of a welfare state and any form of redistribution of income and wealth.
Once the prices for food go up, there will be an opportunity to make a profit by increasing automation, so automation will be increased and no government has to do anything about it.
I am with Ajit Pai on this for the following reasons: private property owners must not be oppressed by any form of business regulations. That's my position on regulations.
Of-course to offset the possible negative effect of not having regulations in an otherwise heavily regulated world the removal of business regulations on some businesses cannot stand on its own, all business regulations must be abolished.
Furthermore, in order to remove incentives for companies and individuals from working with governments to reinstitute regulations that benefit few and hurt most people the governments must be declawed and their ability to regulate businesses must be abolished, this must be enshrined in the Constitution.
Lastly all income and wealth taxes need to be abolished, IRS must be shut down and abolished, the Federal reserve must be audited and prohibited from monetising government obligations.
The result of this is the abolishment of the welfare state for any and all intents and purposes, which would drastically reduce government oppression over individuals.
But if you give them a hundred times as much money, and they put ten times as much into their local economy... you can see where this is going, right? I'm not railing about small business owners here, I'm talking about the curd of the turd, the cream of the crap. You give 'em all the money
- you are under a completely false belief system where a person is 'given' his money rather than a person *making* his money. Your frame of reference is completely fucked up, in your opinion *not stealing all the money* from somebody = giving them the money that you didn't steal from them (yet).
People have the *right* to unionise, which means that a government will not stop (at least should not stop) people from creating/joining a union.
I bet that's *not* what your position is, for you this is not about a right of people to unionise, for you I think it is about a union forcing itself upon a business.
You should have the right to unionise, governments must not fine you or throw your ass to jail for doing that. What you should not have any right to is to force an employer to deal with your union. Employers also have their right to free association, if an employer does not want to deal with a union he shouldn't be forced to by any government.
Nazis are collectivists, socialists are collectivists, progressives are collectivists, Marxists are collectivists, fascists are collectivists, etc.
It is the individual vs the collectivists that matters, everything else is just a toss between different names for the same crap. Are Nazis and Communists exactly the same? Not exactly, but the differences are irrelevant while the similarities are striking, the similarities being in destruction of the rights of the individual and setting the power of the State above all.
I think you got the sequence slightly wrong, it has to be this: Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, A, B, Select, Start!
I am not a conservative nor am I am a liberal, I am an anarcho capitalist and I hate all of you approximately the same, to me you are all a large pile of biomass that pools into vomit inducing blobs while snuffing the life out of actual individuals. AFAIC all of your laws against individual freedoms and income and wealth taxes are vile and horrendous and you all pretty much deserve every single horrible thing that is coming your way as a payment for the system that the vast majority of you support one way or another, which perpetuates and increases the power of the collective over an individual.
Good luck with that. Sovereign nations have been taxing their citizens for pretty much all of recorded history.
- USA was not stealing income and wealth from people this way for a long time until it started doing it and then its government apparatus grew and grew and the welfare transfers grew and grew until you here can say: 'good luck with that'. AFAIC: good luck with your desire to maintain this state of affairs, it is going to collapse itself and the sooner the better.
Individuals must be free to do business and accumulate property without collectivists/collectives stealing from them.
Good, all of this is excellent stuff, the taxes should hit those who want the taxes to hit others.
It's a boomerang hypothesis of mine: if your idea is that somebody else should pay for your life and you build a political system around that ideology then be prepared to be hit back by the very system that you set up to achieve your goal.
It's a great thing, the taxes should hit those who believe that they themselves should benefit from taxing others.
All income and wealth taxes should be abolished, made explicitly illegal and any attempts at reinstating such taxes should be punishable by immediate execution - hanging by the neck until dead of anybody who suggests to steal from anybody at all this way.
First, any business who can't afford to pay an employee $15 an hour shouldn't be hiring employees.
- clearly you are not running a business. Not every job is worth $15/hour, whether a company can pay somebody $15/hour is irrelevant if the *task* that needs to be executed only produces $8/hour of value then paying somebody $15/hour to execute that task is a loss of at minimum $7/hour (but actually it's a bigger loss than that).
A store can probably afford to spend $15 on a grocery bagger but why should it do that if that task in itself is actually not generating anywhere near that type of a revenue for the store? So instead the store will hire 0 baggers and not pay anything for that task and the customers will bag groceries themselves.
That's the actual choice, not company existing or not existing, hiring or not hiring at all, the choice is to execute certain tasks or not to execute them.
Except that the tax cuts will allow give many of the poor people a 100% tax cut, while some of the wealthy will get a few percentage point cuts. Of-course a 100% tax cut for a poor person is small in absolute dollar amounts to 1-2% or so for a wealthy person, however when put in percentage amounts the reality actually proves to be quite different than various collectivist bullshit propaganda would have you believe.
Of-course the collective shouldn't be able to steal any income or wealth at all from any individual or a business.
Prices spiking in emergencies is the only reliable way to deal with emergencies, by providing incentive for people to supply the important missing items, like food, energy, medical supplies, etc. That's the opposite of the connotation that 'price gouging' is creating, it's actually life saving.
No jobs or income. A guaranteed minimum income may cost something, but sure costs a lot less than having to deal with a constant insurgency of people with no hope or future, w
- nothing that a moderately sized army of terminators couldn't fix.
Global warming. Pay me now, or pay me later. Pay me now
- ditto.
Fuck unions and fuck governments. Fuck you too obviously for supporting this insanity that a property owner cannot do whatever he wishes with his property when a bunch of thieves decide to pillage it.
You vote union? We vote scorched earth.
- that's the way it should be. That's the way *everybody* should do it to stop this cancer of socialism, of unions, of anything that steals private property rights.
I really hope it was a union busting move, I absolutely do hope so. Hopefully it wasn't because of losing money but specifically because somebody was trying to control the guy's private property outside of his desired parameters. AFAIC if you try to unionise you are trying to steal from me, I would shut down any part of my business (or the entire business) immediately to stop that behaviour.
It is high time we get rid of it.
- Aaah! But is it high daylight saving time we get rid of it?
I could not post the comment under my primary account (I have 2 comment per 24 hour limit due to the prevailing ideology of the moderating majority) , so posting it from the backup account.
You just proved my point completely without understanding it and without realising that you did.
The reason your Canadian health insurance would be too expensive for you to pay out of pocket (and generally why it is too expensive to pay for *health care* out of pocket) is because it is provided "for free" by the government, which means the money that is used to provide it is stolen from everybody who is forced into the system and used to provide you with sub par health care (I know a few things about Canadian system, I lived there for nearly two decades). Canadian health care system is sub par, it causes multiple unnecessary deaths due to shortage of specialists and extremely long waiting lists. Canadian emergency rooms are understaffed and overextended, you have to wait what, 4-12 hours in an emergency room for somebody to do something to you (and 4-12 hours is something that you would wait in a larger city, never mind Canadian country side the problems are deeper.
My argument is ideological, no doubt, my ideology is ideology of freedom and ideology of non-aggression. This means my ideology is that theft by a collectivist government is unacceptable under any circumstances.
As to university tuition - Canadian universities are sub par and by the way, today a Canadian university is selling space to foreign (mostly Asian) students, where are all these Canadian university graduates today? Certainly they cannot afford their education at these subsidised institutions even at lower tuition fees when compared to the American universities. There shouldn't be *any* subsidies from anybody to anybody especially not subsidies based on the violence of the State.
Ha, so that 'miracle' played itself out quite a bit when the Pilgrims tried building their Communism and then almost died from hunger because that's what Communism (any collectivism actually) does, it removes personal responsibility together with personal ownership and then everybody suffers. It wasn't until the people become selfish that USA succeeded.
some articles on the matter.
I am a very selfish person, I like doing what I like doing and I do not like people getting in the way of what I do. I do what makes me happy and happiness to me comes from achieving my own goals on my own terms and not being part of any collective. I love being selfish.
I agree and I feel happy that the SJWs and other collectivist types are depressed. Hopefully they can depress themselves into oblivion and leave this place for people who think instead of feeling.