Look At It This Way (#LAITW)

If you want more than minimum wage, have more than minimum skills.

“Givers need to set limits because takers rarely do.” Rachel Wolchin

The government can only give to someone what it has taken from someone else.

“Politicians never accuse you of greed for wanting other people’s money – only for wanting to keep more of your own money,” Joseph Sobran.

First, do you believe in evil? Seems like an odd question, but a necessary starting point. Some don’t believe in evil. Folks who don’t believe in evil won’t be reached by this argument.

The argument? The only answer to evil is to defeat it. Eliminate it.

There was a time when we (Americans) eliminated evil (e.g. Hitler) instead of tolerate it.

The former works, the latter does not.

Ronald Reagan

And it appears to me that we’re at maybe .5 generations away right now.

I like the way Ayn Rand puts it:

“If a businessman makes a mistake, he suffers the consequences. If a bureaucrat makes a mistake, you suffer the consequences.”

An argument for a sales tax on internet purchases is “the government needs/deserves its fair share.” Horse pucky. Outside of very limited, actually helpful, things government has done to support commerce (generally under the hard infrastructure category), there’s no argument that government deserves anything from commerce. Commerce is just another source of money for the government to spend wherever it wants.

If a law is written and/or approved by people exempt from that law, whether outright or by practicality, we’re screwed.

Wait, what?!

Per the NY Times.

Is anyone paying attention?