After ALL taxes (fed, ss, state, local, property, excise, utility, sales, medicare, gas, interest, capital gains, telephone, and the list goes on) we pay between 40% -50% of all our money to the government. That means every day I work until lunch time for the govt against my will. I am literally one half of a slave. And for all that money what we get are crappy schools, traffic clogged highways, a negative rate of return on a govt retirement program (ss), the irs, $500 toilets, and that list goes on. The Internet poses a great opportunity. The Internet cannot and should not be regulated by geographical govt. The Internet cannot and should not be taxed. Don't just say its going to happen, FIGHT it.
Rule #1, any person has the right to do what they want as long as they are not hurting someone else. The mess we are in now is because *the majority* of the people who vote in the politicians believe this does not apply to drugs, thus the insane war. The war on drugs is a perfect example of tyranny of the majority.
Internet voting would be a big disaster. I am not a big fan of voting or democracy in general. Does it mean if 51% of the poplulation thinks all of sudden my right to do X is no longer important that I cannot do it because I am in the 49%? Too much of this going on already.
Much prefer a few set of simple rules that we all abide by, and then anything else we do is up to us. Hmmm, sounds kind of like the Internet itself.
Let me first wholeheartedly appoligize for being responsible for Hitler, Stalin, Milosovich, Franco, and Mussolini. And that is just the last several decades.
There is no difference between an American and a European, we are human, and most men are capable of being tyrants. You are naive or shortsighted (extreemly shortsighted considering the first sentence I wrote) to think you have nothing to defend against. Or maybe you just think when the time comes someone else will do the defending for you.
I am not driven by pride, I am driven by the belief that one day all people will free from bullshit govt oppression of the big and small things, but not without a fight. The Bill of Rights and the Dec of Ind are a damn good start towards this end.
Not against unions, they should just have to compete and play by the same rules as everyone else. In a free society people who want to work should be allowed to work without death threats, bullets through the living room window, being beat up, stabbed, harrassed, etc. In your scenario, if the boss increases wages, and therefor the price of their product, in a competitive system someone else will probably provide me the same product at a lower price. Without cohersion unions are out of business, and they know it. That is why they are so violent.
Because although their are many encroachments on our freedom here, this is comparatively one of the most free countries in the world, a hell of a lot more than most socialist boarderline third world European countries. For some reason people like you recognize an individuals right to free speech, etc., but think it is so awfull that I should have the right to defend myself, my property, or my family with a gun. Maybe if Europe respected this right we wouldn't have to continually rescue your sorry asses from the despots and tyrants that take over. Freedom is an all or nothing proposition. There are not some freedoms that people deserve and some that they do not.
The whole point of the Libertarian party is that you should not be forced to do something you don't want to do. Right now we don't have a problem with people being forced not to join unions, it is very much the other way around.
I recently joined the Libertarian party, ex Republican, and find the exact opposite to be true. Almost too much concentration on boring stuff like winning elections rather than the type of discussions you talked about that I like. I suppose that is a good thing. Anyway, I love the party, I love the philosophy, and I know they are going to be big at some point in the future.
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After ALL taxes (fed, ss, state, local, property, excise, utility, sales, medicare, gas, interest, capital gains, telephone, and the list goes on) we pay between 40% -50% of all our money to the government. That means every day I work until lunch time for the govt against my will. I am literally one half of a slave. And for all that money what we get are crappy schools, traffic clogged highways, a negative rate of return on a govt retirement program (ss), the irs, $500 toilets, and that list goes on. The Internet poses a great opportunity. The Internet cannot and should not be regulated by geographical govt. The Internet cannot and should not be taxed. Don't just say its going to happen, FIGHT it.
ever drink alcohol? if so think you should be moving here.
Rule #1, any person has the right to do what they want as long as they are not hurting someone else. The mess we are in now is because *the majority* of the people who vote in the politicians believe this does not apply to drugs, thus the insane war. The war on drugs is a perfect example of tyranny of the majority.
Internet voting would be a big disaster. I am not a big fan of voting or democracy in general. Does it mean if 51% of the poplulation thinks all of sudden my right to do X is no longer important that I cannot do it because I am in the 49%? Too much of this going on already.
Much prefer a few set of simple rules that we all abide by, and then anything else we do is up to us. Hmmm, sounds kind of like the Internet itself.
Let me first wholeheartedly appoligize for being responsible for Hitler, Stalin, Milosovich, Franco, and Mussolini. And that is just the last several decades.
There is no difference between an American and a European, we are human, and most men are capable of being tyrants. You are naive or shortsighted (extreemly shortsighted considering the first sentence I wrote) to think you have nothing to defend against. Or maybe you just think when the time comes someone else will do the defending for you.
I am not driven by pride, I am driven by the belief that one day all people will free from bullshit govt oppression of the big and small things, but not without a fight. The Bill of Rights and the Dec of Ind are a damn good start towards this end.
Not against unions, they should just have to compete and play by the same rules as everyone else. In a free society people who want to work should be allowed to work without death threats, bullets through the living room window, being beat up, stabbed, harrassed, etc. In your scenario, if the boss increases wages, and therefor the price of their product, in a competitive system someone else will probably provide me the same product at a lower price. Without cohersion unions are out of business, and they know it. That is why they are so violent.
Because although their are many encroachments on our freedom here, this is comparatively one of the most free countries in the world, a hell of a lot more than most socialist boarderline third world European countries. For some reason people like you recognize an individuals right to free speech, etc., but think it is so awfull that I should have the right to defend myself, my property, or my family with a gun. Maybe if Europe respected this right we wouldn't have to continually rescue your sorry asses from the despots and tyrants that take over. Freedom is an all or nothing proposition. There are not some freedoms that people deserve and some that they do not.
The whole point of the Libertarian party is that you should not be forced to do something you don't want to do. Right now we don't have a problem with people being forced not to join unions, it is very much the other way around.
I recently joined the Libertarian party, ex Republican, and find the exact opposite to be true. Almost too much concentration on boring stuff like winning elections rather than the type of discussions you talked about that I like. I suppose that is a good thing. Anyway, I love the party, I love the philosophy, and I know they are going to be big at some point in the future.