Johan Biermann

In a true capitalist society taxes are limited to that required for maintaining law and order, the police, and defending the country against foreign invaders. The government does not interfere in the economy. There are no tax breaks, subsidies, exemptions, grants, legal protections, bailouts, and trade protections for corporations or citizens.

If capitalism is so great, why do corporations need so many tax breaks, subsidies, exemptions, grants, legal protections, bailouts, and trade protections? When citizens need these things, why is it socialism?

Sozialismus war nie „fürsorglich“ – er war immer eine Ideologie der totalen Gewalt gegen den Einzelnen. Wer Privateigentum abschafft, muss zwangsläufig Menschen abschaffen, die es benutzen wollen. Das Ergebnis ist eine Hierarchie von Schlägern und Opfern: 100+ Millionen Tote, Gulags, Hungersnöte und ein Stasi-Staat als Beweis. Ich will keine „Fürsorge“ durch den Staat, sondern freiwillige Kooperation zwischen mündigen Individuen. Kapitalismus ist das einzige System, das auf Konsens statt auf Zwang basiert – und genau deshalb hat er mehr Armut beseitigt als jede „umverteilende“ Diktatur. Wer heute noch „aber das war nicht echter Sozialismus“ sagt, ignoriert nicht nur die Geschichte, sondern die Logik: Sobald du das Recht auf Eigentum und freie Entscheidung leugnest, bleibt nur die Knute übrig.

So its like this. You work for 45 years, you buy a house and pay it off. Meantime you buy some shares and some other property to help pay the way in retirement. The whole way through you had to pay tax BEFORE you put money into these investments. But according to @tanya_plibersek, your kids should be paying tax again when you die. Ponder that. Why save? Why put money away? Why take care of your own family? Because people like Plibersek and @AlboMP just want to take it from you.

"It is overlooked that 'the market' is not some sort of living entity making good or bad decisions, but is simply a label for individual persons and their voluntary interactions ... The 'market' is individuals acting." Murray Rothbard

“The dispute is not whether planning is to be done or not, but whether planning is to be done centrally, by one authority for the whole economic system, or is to be divided among many individuals.” — Friedrich Hayek

It's true.

They sold you a 3% income tax in 1913. By World War II it was 90% for the top bracket. The same people now want a wealth tax on assets you haven't sold. The number they give you is never the final number.

Here’s an idea… Rather than the government mandating digital ID on all of us, we should be mandating digital ID on the government to monitor exactly where they spend our tax money and the meetings they have with corporate lobbyists. We don’t serve them. They serve us.

"Public opinion is often shaped by those who never face the consequences of their ideas." - Thomas Sowell

The court has interpreted the law about what businesses should recognise as a woman. Unfortunately, the law is stupid and needs to change.

“Destroying the Earth” by this standard means producing the electricity, heat, cooling, transportation, fertilizer, machinery, and medicine modern life depends on, including for the people condemning it. Socialists want all the benefits industrial civilization provides, they just resent that someone profits by creating and maintaining it. The contradiction is always the same: the producer is treated as evil precisely because he’s productive. Success becomes “greed,” trade becomes “exploitation,” and wealth creation becomes “destruction.” It’s not really about saving the planet. It’s about moral hostility toward achievement and a desire to politically control or confiscate what successful people build.

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I enjoyed this book, but would like it to remain fictional

It would benefit socialists to realize prices aren’t set by emotion or greed, but by supply and demand. And it would benefit them even more to realize that the policies they demand often destroy the incentive to create supply in the first place. Punish production, investment, profit, expansion, and risk-taking hard enough, and supply shrinks while demand remains. The predictable result is shortages, stagnation, and higher prices, followed by politicians blaming “greed” for the consequences of the policies they imposed.

"The rights of individuals are not derived from the government; on the contrary, it is the government that derives its just powers from the consent of the governed." #LysanderSpooner

"It is our duty not to prophesy evil, but to fight for a better world." —Karl Popper.

Freedom is a prerequisite for prosperity.

It was theft then and it's theft now.

If we didn’t pay taxes, they couldn’t fund the fraud. 🤔