The federal income tax is simply a modern iteration of the corvée. It forces each citizen to spend a portion of their time and labor working for the crown.
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Daily Thought
No one is free who refuses to accept the consequences of their own actions.
Daily Thought
There are none so poor as those who only have student loan debt.
Daily Thought
The greatest and only truly lasting legacy we leave is written in the hearts of those we serve.
Daily Thought
Guilt and shame are very different. We feel guilt when we violate principles. We feel shame when we violate social norms.
Fed Up by Danielle DiMartino Booth
When the economy crashed in 2008, few people were in a better position than Danielle DiMartino Booth to witness the crisis as it unfolded. At the Dallas Fed, she’d been sidelined for years for warning that housing was in a bubble. That changed very quickly when Lehman Brothers collapsed, and from 2009 to 2015, she… Continue reading Fed Up by Danielle DiMartino Booth
This is the world we now live in
Coming soon to a collapsing economy near you!
Daily Thought
Sacrifice always precedes greatness.
A sci-fi throwback for your listening pleasure
So I took a DNA test…
…and the results were really surprising! Okay, the 99% European part was not surprising. As far as I can tell, all of my ancestors came to the United States from either the Czech lands, the British Isles, or Scandanavia. But the proportions are WAY different from what I was expecting! My sister took the same… Continue reading So I took a DNA test…