reply to post by MathematicalPhysicist
The founders also believed that certain people were sub-human and should be enslaved.
You quite obviously believe the same thing yourself, but that ignores the point. I did not bring up the Founders to praise them, but to make clear
that the tyranny they believed they lived under was marshmallows and pussy cats compared to the tyranny American's face today.
The founding fathers were revolutionary people, but we have come a long way since their times. The founding fathers were also notoriously
isolationists. See how well that worked out for us when pearl Harbor happened?
A long way, in many ways, in the wrong direction. Your nonsensical historical reference is absurd. Pearl Harbor happened at at time when the U.S.
was not, by any stretch of the imagination, isolationists, and Pearl Harbor was during World War II, but America has all ready fought a World War
(that would be WWI to clear up the confusion for you), and had engaged in several military excursions before WWI. The empire building by the U.S. had
begun long before Pearl Harbor.
So if all tax were to be abolished...
There you go again, relying on straw man arguments. Doing away with income taxation is not the same as abolishing taxation. You frame it this way
because you have no valid argument to defend the perpetual income tax in the U.S. that has funded the military industrial complex you have all ready
lamented.
who would maintain the infrastructure of the country and the roads?
Are you for real?
Who would conduct government research for pure science?
The Wright Brothers were not funded by government, nor was Henry Ford, and Jonas Salk wasn't a government scientist either. If you were a scientist
of his caliber maybe you wouldn't be so concerned about government funding and expect people to pay taxes so you can have a pay check to do God knows
what.
Obviously not the private industry, as anything that does not have any immediate returns on profit will simply be scrapped.
Ironically you called me a communist! The Wright Brothers were in private industry. Henry Ford private sector. Jonas Salk private sector. At some
point the ugly beast of corporatism reared its ugly head and private industry became something else all together. Many people in this thread get
that you have no faith in any individual other than yourself, but you have shown little reason to give any of us to share your faith, and of course,
you have dismissed many a member in this thread who have earned far more respect than you have. This is a sign of elitism.
If it wasn't for the research of NASA that had no practical applications at the time, we would pretty much still be back in the 1950's in terms of
technology and development.
Your grasp of history and what really happened is shamefully inexcusable. Before NASA existed there were test pilots flying Bell X class series jets,
(Bell being a part of "private industry"), that led to the breaking of the sound barrier and were geared, by the time X-15 was developed, to fly
straight into space:
When it began in the early Fifties, the X-15 program was going to lead America into outer space. The pilots at Edwards Air Force would fly ever
more powerful rocket planes faster and higher until, inevitably, they went into orbit. The X-15, an audacious airplane designed to fly at Mach 7, at a
time when engineers were still struggling to make the X-planes behave at Mach 2, was going to be a big step toward space.
But...
The last X-15 flew in 1968, when the much-heralded Apollo program was taking America to the Moon. What happened? Why did the logical,
cost-effective, and far-sighted X-15 not take America into the Space Age? Two things happened to the X-15: Sputnik and John Kennedy's commitment to
put a man on the Moon by 1970.
acepilots.com...
A highly entertaining and edifying book on that Bell X series contrasted with NASA's tin cans atop rockets is told in Tom Wolfe's
The Right
Stuff, but do not despair about any reading, it was also made into a movie that remained fairly faithful to the book, and both illustrate how the
politics of the space race tragically killed great technology.
Which privately funded agency would have conducted pure research of the dangers of smoking cigarettes?
Are you serious? Any smoker of length needs no government study to know how dangerous to their health these cigarettes are. Of course, sugar, and
particularly high fructose sweetener's are dangerous too, and if people are listening to their bodies they don't need any research studies,
privately funded or government funded, to tell them this.
Interesting. You have no form of evidence to support your argument that there is an elitist agenda to institute a world government, and yet you call
our observations fairy tales and delusional fantasies?
I am currently debating an elitist whose agenda is undeniably to advocate one world government, and whose fairy tales and delusional fantasies are
clearly on display.
What I will never understand with you libertarians is this: Once you overthrow the government and scrap all regulations on corporations and
taxation
I have never claimed to be a libertarian, this is a label you and the other guy are using, obviously as a pejorative, to describe me, while then both
of you rely upon strawman arguments to misrepresent what I have argued. You must necessarily lie in order to "refute" my arguments. This is more
than telling.
I am not the one advocating any overthrow of government, you are. A one world government will never come into existence as long as The Constitution
for the United States of America stands in its way. Further, your lie that I advocate scrapping regulations for corporations is telling as well.
Corporations are charted fictions that exist solely by permission of the state that chartered them. In the United States, that means these
corporations exist by the grace of the people, and because of their artificial and granted existence, they are undeniably subject to regulation.
However, an unincorporated sole proprietor is not subject to these same regulations, and yet, somehow government seems to think they are. How so?
Why the combination of the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment and the fact that Congress has statutorily defined corporations as "person"
has led to the misguided notion that now everyone has to be regulated in order to give Equal "Protection" to the corporations.
Corporatism is not capitalism, and corporatists hate capitalism and free and unregulated markets. Ironically, you seem to hate the free and
unregulated market - as nonexistent as it is - too.
do you not realize the people who control the corporations are the so-called elite who will monopolize the world and force children into manual labor,
since most poor won't be able to afford education and children will obviously have to go back to working for a living?
I have just explained to you the facts about corporations. Because they exist by grant of charter, they are ultimately controlled by the people of
the state in which they were chartered. What can be chartered into existence can have that charter revoked. Of course, most people are woefully
ignorant of such causative actions and would instead whine like you are about how they are powerless to end corporatism. Useful idiots, each and
every one. Useful to corporatism.
Isn't that your ideal world rather than a government that is elected by the people to keep the order and justice? How would you plan to deal with
rogue corporations without any form of regulations or taxation? Remember Enron?
I just explained how I would deal with rogue corporations, and have used this site specifically to advocate We the People using our inherent political
power to revoke corporate charters of those corporations guilty of malfeasance. Of course, while many take your position and attempt to frame me as
someone else, few even considered entering that thread called Killing Corporations. I used to, in responding to people like you who foolishly attempt
to frame as something I am not, link that thread, but no one ever even bothers to read it. Why? I can only guess, but my best guess is that no one
wants to kill a corporation, they instead want to empower even more the very government that charters the corporation and then refuses revoke the
charter after their gross malfeasance.
People, much like you, seem content to blame and whine and cry and sob, and have absolutely no intention at all of actually solving the problems.
Advocating an even bigger government certainly won't do this, and even so, you are clearly not in favor of killing a nasty corporation, just
empowering government agencies tasked to prevent their malfeasance and perpetuate the moral hazard. Remember "too big to fail"?