{"id":12684,"date":"2009-04-17T18:24:37","date_gmt":"2009-04-17T18:24:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/04\/17\/taxation-a-liberty-issue-3\/"},"modified":"2009-04-17T18:24:37","modified_gmt":"2009-04-17T18:24:37","slug":"taxation-a-liberty-issue-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/04\/17\/taxation-a-liberty-issue-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Taxation: A Liberty Issue"},"content":{"rendered":"

Despite their name, liberals seem uninterested or insufficiently interested in the 'real' liberties, those pertaining to property, money, and guns, as opposed to the 'ideal' liberties, those pertaining to freedom of expression. A liberal will go to any extreme when it comes to defending the right to express his precious self no matter how inane or obnoxious or socially deleterious the results of his self-expression; but he cannot muster anything like this level of energy when it comes to defending the right to keep what he earns or the right to defend himself and his family from the criminal element from which liberal government fails to protect him. He would do well to reflect that his right to express his vacuous self needs concrete back-up in the form of economic and physical clout. Scribbler that I am, I prize freedom of expression; but I understand what makes possible its retention.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Taxation, then, is a liberty issue before it is a 'green eyeshade' issue: the more the government takes, the less concrete liberty you have. Without money you can't get your kids out of a shitty public school system that liberals have destroyed with their tolerate-anything mentality; without money you cannot live in a decent and secure neighborhood. <\/font><\/p>\n

CNN reporter Susan Roesgen in <\/font>this YouTube clip<\/font><\/a> demonstrates just how preternaturally obtuse liberals can be when it comes to taxation and governmental misuse of public funds.  She simply does not grasp the connection between taxation and liberty. Nor does she understand what motivates the tea-party protesters.  For more on this, see <\/font>"Slandering the Tea-Parties"<\/font><\/a> by Hans Bader.  <\/font><\/p>\n

Taxation is a liberty issue.  The goverment must justify its taking; the onus is not on the citizen to justify his keeping. Government exists to serve us, not the other way around.  But I should qualify:  it is us as individuals<\/em> that the government exists to serve, not us collectively.  It is precisely the collectivism and socialism of contemporary liberals that needs to be opposed.<\/font><\/p>\n

Addendum<\/em>:  Notice how that bird-brained Roesgen refers to the protesters as anti-government.  How stupid can a liberal be?  Or is she willfully distorting the issue?  Opposition to fiscal irresponsibility is not opposition to government as such.  No doubt there are a few anarchists among the protesters; but the vast majorityof them are libertarians and conservatives who have no objection to (limited) government.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Despite their name, liberals seem uninterested or insufficiently interested in the 'real' liberties, those pertaining to property, money, and guns, as opposed to the 'ideal' liberties, those pertaining to freedom of expression. A liberal will go to any extreme when it comes to defending the right to express his precious self no matter how inane … Continue reading “Taxation: A Liberty Issue”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12684\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}