Taxes make all productive people slaves to the state. Conscription makes a certain class slaves to the state with a kicker―their involuntary servitude may get them killed. From Eric Peters at ericpetersautos.com:
You have probably heard that Congress – Leftists abetted by a majority of Republicans – recently emitted a new federal policy that automatically inducts young men and women into what is styled the “Selective Service” system. By which is meant the involuntary servitude system, despite the latter having supposedly been made constitutionally unlawful after the federal government forced the Southern states to accept being governed without their consent.
The federal government specializes in such etymological jujitsu – which is to say, mind-fucking.
It is not enough that the Southern states that attempted to depart from a “union” they no longer wished to be bound to were forced back into the “union,” after a bloody war of subjugation. The war of subjugation was styled a “civil war,” implying the Southern states sought to deny the people of the Northern states their right to be governed by the federal government they’d consented to be governed by. The framing the people of the South as “insurrectionists” and “rebels” is exactly what King George III styled the American colonists who successfully seceded from Great Britain four-score and seven years prior.
Never mind that.
Similarly this business of involuntary servitude being putatively illegal. What then is this business of the “draft” – as the dragooning of young men (and now, young women) into “service”? Are they free to say no to such service? If they are not, then is it not involuntary servitude?
The great H.L. Mencken had the quote about the Gettysburg Address was flipped as the South were the ones fighting for freedom and just leave me alone.
Why, it sounds feudal this dragooning and this pay taxes for civilization then what happens when it crumbles?
A tax jubilee, me likey, and hopefully it does get so incompetent and stupid that they can’t collect.
I kid, the classic Beatles song Tax Man comes to mind.
I still believe an IRS audit caused my parents divorce, joint filers with antique shop, greenhouse, roadside fruit stand, on the weekend, during the stagflation malaise misery index years of Jimmy Carter of the CPUSA (D) wing of the big kabuki club that we aren’t in, I was knee high to a grasshopper but gifted with memory.
(H/T-God)
That was just way too much side hustle going and isn’t the Drug War really about money exchanges they don’t control and to destroy rights?
There is a limit to the shelf life of Potemkin smoking mirror (H/T-LV) delusions and we are just about there.
Remember, freedom is easy, can you say…NO!
If not, then you aren’t free.
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