First, people need to stop voting for every issue on the ballot. It increases your property tax. Second, when you get a letter saying they are going to increase the value of your property, fight it. FIle an appeal with your Board of Revisions. (I did and I won!). Lastly, start leaning on your politicians to stop charging property tax on people older than seventy years of age. 63% of my taxes go to the school. I have already paid my fair share for my children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren. Enough is enough.
Here we go again - another person convinced they can change a broken system by working within the same broken system. Vote harder! We need another ballot measure! The 'enemy of state' needs to become the 'enemy of the political party system' - which are two wings of the same demon.
Is that the way the Founding Fathers did it? Let’s look back at Concord Green. Did Captain Parker say…HEY the British scum King wants us to give up our ASSAULT rifles. Let’s take a vote. Who says YEAH…meanwhile the redcoats are putting ball and powder in their assault rifles just in case the vote doesn’t go the way they want…. Oh wait, that isn’t how it went down at ALL. No votes needed. Shoot the bastards.
I put my home in the name of my oldest son already so I’m unable to claim any exemptions on the tax. Maybe we should use the same tactic that some Chinese were using in some of the towns out in the country…use your imagination.
What do I think? I think you're absolutely, 100% correct, CL.
The "property tax" thing has infuriated me for as long as I can remember. Yet as with virtually every other provable fact of their existence, try telling a "homeowner" that they rent vs. own? The reaction I've received over the years has been virtually identical -- pablum.
No indignation at the immorality of it. No outrage. Just pablum about how it pays for things like "educating" "our" children. "Our" children? We (unfortunately) had none, so the "education" of how many children not my own have I had my wealth stolen for? And to a person, most are perfectly fine with this.
I could go on, but I'd probably write something I'd regret.
Go on. You shout it from the highest hills. As Frederic Bastiat stated so eloquently in The Law…which I posted in this article…"When plunder has become a way of life for a group of men living together in society, they create for themselves in the course of time a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it."
~ Frederic Bastiat in "The Law"
My neighbors do not see the immorality of stealing from someone by “voting”.
... and the mind-fucked would have us all believe if we read to our children at home we are disadvantaging others! You can't make it up! Proverbs 27:12 "The prudent see danger and take refuge, but the simple keep going and suffer for it."
Yup. Or that learning how to add, subtract, write, read, comprehend can only happen -- and happens best -- within the indoctrination camps -- I mean, screwels. And that somehow we all benefit when "our" children receive good edumacations.
Oh, I'm gettin' old. Can't take this shit anymore. :)
And thank you for that quote from Proverbs. I love that.
Also, in my "old" age, I typo'd "edumacation," which I just fixed.
For me, reaching this age -- or "getting old" -- is more about exasperation than anything else. Especially in this age where all we hear is about how super duper everybody is -- and then you look around or listen to people?
Really. As I said, gettin' harder and harder to "take this shit anymore." 🤣 🤣 🤣
"Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late." [Ben Franklin] Ben also said, "Most people are dead by ~25, but aren't buried until ~75" I used to think my life was a tragedy - but now I know it's a comedy. Peace!
"Threats to 'democracy'" are threats to the bureaucracy. We don't consider all the ancilliary "jobs" that the system of glorified welfare recipients have been convinced they provide to us. In Oregon if two doctors agree that a Ten-yr-old can have an abortion or sex-change - the two docs can do it without the parent's consent... so liberal and loving. The government is invalid after forcing their own stooges to take genocidal experimental bio-weapons masquerading as vaccines... everything the govmt does is violence. The government acts as though they are providing jobs and paying wages to people - and the people act like they're working and being paid... neither are true. Stockholm Syndrome is alive and well - people have become so entangled in the illusion/lies they've been brainwashed/conned with, that they believe the only answer is, the old adage, "If you can't beat 'em - join 'em." Enough People are happy to have their government steal from them... as if it is somehow selfish and ignorant to go against the herd. The reason they don't believe they've been lied to and brainwashed is because they've been lied to and brainwashed. Thanks for posting your frustrations with the fascist policies/bullshit we are force-fed, even though we've already had more than enough.
... thanks for article - and the opportunity for me to 'crack a vent' - there are more of us than you might think... 1 chases 1,000 and 2 chases 10,000 ;-)
I don't share my thoughts because I think it will change the minds of the Marxists who think differently. I share my thoughts to show the people who think like I do that they're not alone.
The problem is going to be that they are going to send out people with GUNS to make you either leave your home or murder you. So…how do you respond in that case? My answer is AIM SMALL, MISS SMALL.
I didn’t have children and resent that I have to pay tax for their education. If you have kids then YOU are responsible to make sure they get education. And property tax! Car tax! Like you I agree 100%
The worse part, Tricia, is that you aren’t paying for their education. You are paying for their INDOCTRINATION into COMMUNISM which is what the whole basis for “public” education was in the first place going all the way back to the 1880’s George Carlin made mention of the reason without using the word “communism”.
right on and my parents paid there house Morgage off about 15 years early and when it came time to pay the yearly taxes my mom would say time to pay the rent, she knew, what about people like me who never had kids, why should i pay for someone else's kids to go to school, a bad school at that, it's all fucked up and needs to be fixed. had some moron tell me it's my duty to send his kid to school
Well, it IS your duty to send his kid to school if you live in a COMMUNIST country! Oh wait..come to think of it…Actually it’s NEVER YOUR duty to do anything for anyone else but yourself and your family. Otherwise why can that moron say it’s your duty to clean his house? Wash his car? Take car of his pets, if any pets are dumb enough to have him? He is most like the PRODUCT of the 10th plank. So he sees nothing WRONG with it. https://www.courageouslion.us/p/communism-american-style
Great angry style. Jesus said something like if you are look warm, I will reject you? As the outrageous behaviors of the government and its corporate overlords continues, I noticed most of the men around me are look warm. I say, we are on the verge of Nuclear war with Russia, and they say yes the Biden guy is nuts? Your death and destructions are planned and imminent by Washington thugs, and you don't care about gathering a demonstration to demand peace?
My friend decided to "get his" and take a job with the State of CA. Parasites is right. Daily I'm regaled with stories of staffs so bloated that the only effort or creativity a State worker need manifest is to figure out how to look busy and not go crazy from too much idle time... stories of waste, of largess with public funds... sick leave, vacation, "hardship pay", bonuses for nothing. Pension. Health care coverage that would make a Pasha blush.
Recently, CA decided to raise the pay for jury duty to $100/day. He, though, a State worker, is alotted a sum equal to his salary.
He works for the State Veterans administration where they have all of the funding outlined above - and far more - yet they feed the resident elderly processed garbage because it's cheap, easy for the quartermaster (who has no dietary experience or expertise) to order, and easy for the untrained kitchen staff to heat (not 'cook') and serve with much of it going in the trash as the residents would often rather go hungry.
He purports to be a conservative, fancies himself as an eager patriot (a sunshine patriot and a would-be Garret trooper, I'm sure) as long as someone else would throw the first punch... and he celebrates the Liberals' nanny state programs saying "if everyone else is sucking gravy from the trough, I might as well, too."
He often urges me to seek employment with The Beast, but I am happy with the level of poverty my old age allows me to forge. One less thing to keep me awake at night.
Governments are the incumbent crime syndicate hierarchy and nothing else. Not anywhere. Not ever.
I thought I had read in cursive source, a letter from TJ to Samual Kercheval that elaborated on his opion of bankers, by way of conterfeiting extravagance and the chains debt, bringing forth unanswerable power to government and justifying the the war of all against all, but I can't find it. Whether it only existed in my confused mind or has been scrubbed by the treacherous federales I cannot say. But he did tell John Tayler that "banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies; & that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale" https://teachingamericanhistory.org/document/letter-to-john-taylor/. Jefferson also made the point to Gilpin that ‘"bellum omnium in omnia’ is become the real principle of the conduct of nations", not in a state of nature but usurpation by organized crime of human autonomy https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/03-01-02-0403. It does not take a nimble mind to understand the gravity of connecting those conditions and to see what root must be struck.
First, people need to stop voting for every issue on the ballot. It increases your property tax. Second, when you get a letter saying they are going to increase the value of your property, fight it. FIle an appeal with your Board of Revisions. (I did and I won!). Lastly, start leaning on your politicians to stop charging property tax on people older than seventy years of age. 63% of my taxes go to the school. I have already paid my fair share for my children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren. Enough is enough.
Here we go again - another person convinced they can change a broken system by working within the same broken system. Vote harder! We need another ballot measure! The 'enemy of state' needs to become the 'enemy of the political party system' - which are two wings of the same demon.
I wish we could post picture in the comment section. I'm sending it to you.
You change the system by voting people out of it.
Is that the way the Founding Fathers did it? Let’s look back at Concord Green. Did Captain Parker say…HEY the British scum King wants us to give up our ASSAULT rifles. Let’s take a vote. Who says YEAH…meanwhile the redcoats are putting ball and powder in their assault rifles just in case the vote doesn’t go the way they want…. Oh wait, that isn’t how it went down at ALL. No votes needed. Shoot the bastards.
there are not enough people with backbone to get the job done right, i am still waiting for that moment
If only...
You really believe that don't you? That's exactly what has brought us the mess we're in... the lessor of two evils is still EVIL.
How? The system shouldn’t exist...replacing the people in it doesn’t abolish it.
So—Jonathan and Doug: What is your solution? As H. Rap Brown said: "If you are not part of the solution, you are part of the problem."
A tax revolt is the only way to solve this issue.
One where the locals will stand WITH each other. Ever see Braveheart? Remember when a body fell on the table?
I put my home in the name of my oldest son already so I’m unable to claim any exemptions on the tax. Maybe we should use the same tactic that some Chinese were using in some of the towns out in the country…use your imagination.
I put a Transfer on Death deed, naming a couple of my kids, on my house, car and bank accounts, to avoid Probate Court. Everyone should do that.
That’s gonna trigger a capital gains tax is it not?
And yet no one EVER has any gains. The higher number reflect the less valuable FED NOTES. Not an increase in alleged wealth.
What do I think? I think you're absolutely, 100% correct, CL.
The "property tax" thing has infuriated me for as long as I can remember. Yet as with virtually every other provable fact of their existence, try telling a "homeowner" that they rent vs. own? The reaction I've received over the years has been virtually identical -- pablum.
No indignation at the immorality of it. No outrage. Just pablum about how it pays for things like "educating" "our" children. "Our" children? We (unfortunately) had none, so the "education" of how many children not my own have I had my wealth stolen for? And to a person, most are perfectly fine with this.
I could go on, but I'd probably write something I'd regret.
Go on. You shout it from the highest hills. As Frederic Bastiat stated so eloquently in The Law…which I posted in this article…"When plunder has become a way of life for a group of men living together in society, they create for themselves in the course of time a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it."
~ Frederic Bastiat in "The Law"
My neighbors do not see the immorality of stealing from someone by “voting”.
... and the mind-fucked would have us all believe if we read to our children at home we are disadvantaging others! You can't make it up! Proverbs 27:12 "The prudent see danger and take refuge, but the simple keep going and suffer for it."
Yup. Or that learning how to add, subtract, write, read, comprehend can only happen -- and happens best -- within the indoctrination camps -- I mean, screwels. And that somehow we all benefit when "our" children receive good edumacations.
Oh, I'm gettin' old. Can't take this shit anymore. :)
I love it Screwels. Edumcations. PRICELESS!! I’m remembering and using those for sure. @SheThinksLiberty …yeah, getting old SUCKS.
And thank you for that quote from Proverbs. I love that.
Also, in my "old" age, I typo'd "edumacation," which I just fixed.
For me, reaching this age -- or "getting old" -- is more about exasperation than anything else. Especially in this age where all we hear is about how super duper everybody is -- and then you look around or listen to people?
Really. As I said, gettin' harder and harder to "take this shit anymore." 🤣 🤣 🤣
"Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late." [Ben Franklin] Ben also said, "Most people are dead by ~25, but aren't buried until ~75" I used to think my life was a tragedy - but now I know it's a comedy. Peace!
Another gem (Franklin quote). Thank you, Doug.
"Threats to 'democracy'" are threats to the bureaucracy. We don't consider all the ancilliary "jobs" that the system of glorified welfare recipients have been convinced they provide to us. In Oregon if two doctors agree that a Ten-yr-old can have an abortion or sex-change - the two docs can do it without the parent's consent... so liberal and loving. The government is invalid after forcing their own stooges to take genocidal experimental bio-weapons masquerading as vaccines... everything the govmt does is violence. The government acts as though they are providing jobs and paying wages to people - and the people act like they're working and being paid... neither are true. Stockholm Syndrome is alive and well - people have become so entangled in the illusion/lies they've been brainwashed/conned with, that they believe the only answer is, the old adage, "If you can't beat 'em - join 'em." Enough People are happy to have their government steal from them... as if it is somehow selfish and ignorant to go against the herd. The reason they don't believe they've been lied to and brainwashed is because they've been lied to and brainwashed. Thanks for posting your frustrations with the fascist policies/bullshit we are force-fed, even though we've already had more than enough.
Thank you Doug. I wish you were a neighbor.
... thanks for article - and the opportunity for me to 'crack a vent' - there are more of us than you might think... 1 chases 1,000 and 2 chases 10,000 ;-)
Oh, goodness...What a great comment, Doug. Thank you.
I don't share my thoughts because I think it will change the minds of the Marxists who think differently. I share my thoughts to show the people who think like I do that they're not alone.
Amen to that.
Amen brother! The real revolution will come not with guns but when all realize that we need to quit funding the parasites. Yes a real tax revolt!
The problem is going to be that they are going to send out people with GUNS to make you either leave your home or murder you. So…how do you respond in that case? My answer is AIM SMALL, MISS SMALL.
Would that be measuring for herd management? :)
Don't give me ideas.
Consensus is already in the air, like cotton wood.
They only do that when the numbers are small.
I didn’t have children and resent that I have to pay tax for their education. If you have kids then YOU are responsible to make sure they get education. And property tax! Car tax! Like you I agree 100%
The worse part, Tricia, is that you aren’t paying for their education. You are paying for their INDOCTRINATION into COMMUNISM which is what the whole basis for “public” education was in the first place going all the way back to the 1880’s George Carlin made mention of the reason without using the word “communism”.
🎯
So true.
right on and my parents paid there house Morgage off about 15 years early and when it came time to pay the yearly taxes my mom would say time to pay the rent, she knew, what about people like me who never had kids, why should i pay for someone else's kids to go to school, a bad school at that, it's all fucked up and needs to be fixed. had some moron tell me it's my duty to send his kid to school
Well, it IS your duty to send his kid to school if you live in a COMMUNIST country! Oh wait..come to think of it…Actually it’s NEVER YOUR duty to do anything for anyone else but yourself and your family. Otherwise why can that moron say it’s your duty to clean his house? Wash his car? Take car of his pets, if any pets are dumb enough to have him? He is most like the PRODUCT of the 10th plank. So he sees nothing WRONG with it. https://www.courageouslion.us/p/communism-american-style
and
https://www.courageouslion.us/p/the-law-2024
Great angry style. Jesus said something like if you are look warm, I will reject you? As the outrageous behaviors of the government and its corporate overlords continues, I noticed most of the men around me are look warm. I say, we are on the verge of Nuclear war with Russia, and they say yes the Biden guy is nuts? Your death and destructions are planned and imminent by Washington thugs, and you don't care about gathering a demonstration to demand peace?
... you can kill the body but not the soul.
Spot on!
My friend decided to "get his" and take a job with the State of CA. Parasites is right. Daily I'm regaled with stories of staffs so bloated that the only effort or creativity a State worker need manifest is to figure out how to look busy and not go crazy from too much idle time... stories of waste, of largess with public funds... sick leave, vacation, "hardship pay", bonuses for nothing. Pension. Health care coverage that would make a Pasha blush.
Recently, CA decided to raise the pay for jury duty to $100/day. He, though, a State worker, is alotted a sum equal to his salary.
He works for the State Veterans administration where they have all of the funding outlined above - and far more - yet they feed the resident elderly processed garbage because it's cheap, easy for the quartermaster (who has no dietary experience or expertise) to order, and easy for the untrained kitchen staff to heat (not 'cook') and serve with much of it going in the trash as the residents would often rather go hungry.
He purports to be a conservative, fancies himself as an eager patriot (a sunshine patriot and a would-be Garret trooper, I'm sure) as long as someone else would throw the first punch... and he celebrates the Liberals' nanny state programs saying "if everyone else is sucking gravy from the trough, I might as well, too."
He often urges me to seek employment with The Beast, but I am happy with the level of poverty my old age allows me to forge. One less thing to keep me awake at night.
Governments are the incumbent crime syndicate hierarchy and nothing else. Not anywhere. Not ever.
I thought I had read in cursive source, a letter from TJ to Samual Kercheval that elaborated on his opion of bankers, by way of conterfeiting extravagance and the chains debt, bringing forth unanswerable power to government and justifying the the war of all against all, but I can't find it. Whether it only existed in my confused mind or has been scrubbed by the treacherous federales I cannot say. But he did tell John Tayler that "banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies; & that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale" https://teachingamericanhistory.org/document/letter-to-john-taylor/. Jefferson also made the point to Gilpin that ‘"bellum omnium in omnia’ is become the real principle of the conduct of nations", not in a state of nature but usurpation by organized crime of human autonomy https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/03-01-02-0403. It does not take a nimble mind to understand the gravity of connecting those conditions and to see what root must be struck.
I agree wholeheartedly with your points. Solid essay.
I especially appreciate: "...paying to have our children lobotomized by a government run school system...."
!00% agree.