Collecting Taxes, Taking Away Freedoms, and Killing People

As I scrolled through my Facebook news feed, I discovered the following artwork here, being shared by the page, “Independent Institute,” and originally posted it to my own wall, along with commentary…

“What the government is good at is collecting taxes, taking away your freedoms, and killing people. It’s not good at much else.” – Tom Clancy

My Commentary: Don’t say you weren’t warned!

The Religion of Government

As I scrolled through my Facebook news feed, I discovered the following artwork here, being shared by the page, “Freedom is a State of Mind,” and originally posted it to my own wall, along with commentary…

“Government is as unreal, as intangible, as unapproachable as God. Try it, if you don’t believe it. Seek through the legislative halls of America and find, if you can, the Government. In the end, you will be doomed to confer with the agent, as before.” – Voltairine de Cleyre

My Commentary: Meet the new religion. Same as the old religion…

The Difficulty in Explaining the Nature of Government to a Statist

As I scrolled through my Facebook news feed, I discovered the following artwork here, being shared by the page, “Living in Modern Times,” and originally posted it to my own wall, along with commentary…

“one does not simply explain to a Statist that the government is nothing but a monopoly on legalized violence”

My Commentary: *sigh* *facepalm*

Debating Taxation, the Working Class, and Professional Parasites

The following debate originally took place upon the Facebook wall of family, after they shared a photo from here

Genaire:

"It is wrong to tax a working person almost to the breaking point, then give it to a person who is able to work, but refuses to."

“It is wrong to tax a working person almost to the breaking point, then give it to a person who is able to work, but refuses to.”

Rayn: Word! The parasitic, tax-thieving, morally-bankrupt State, run by slimy banksters, politicians and corporations, and protected by an army of police and military minions, has spent far too long violently plundering its way through existence, while *forcing* the rest of us to endlessly struggle for survival under its brutal, murderous, imperialistic, hierarchical, tyrannically-bureaucratic, top-down controlled Pathocracy! It’s time that we acknowledge the extortion racket we are being subjected to as PURELY CRIMINAL, and finally stop negotiating with this financial and political terrorist! (Click Here to Continue Reading This Post)

But… Muh Legal System!

As I scrolled through my Facebook news feed, I discovered the following artwork here, being shared by the page, “Freedom is a State of Mind,” and originally posted it to my own wall, along with commentary…

“The Holocaust was legal. Slavery was legal. Segregation was legal. If you use the State as a metric for ethics, you’re going to have a bad time”

My Commentary: But, muh legal system!