Rethinking the Auto Bailout

Attackdonkey — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 18:33:00 GMT

I certainly agree with all who were against the bank bailout, as the banks work hand in hand with the Fed to create inflation and rob us of our money, but the auto industry is not in the same boat as the banking industry.

In practice I am in favor of a Federal bailout of the American Auto industry though I would approach it from a different angle. What I am in favor of is not a bailout, but retribution. I can only imagine how much the Federal government has taken from the big three car makers in the form of taxes since he inception of the coorporate income tax, and I don't have a problem with theif giving his victim back his rightull belongings, infact I believe Justice demands it!

The federal government should repay to the car makers their tax money from the last several years or even decades, agree not to tax them anymore, stop the regulations they have on the Auto industry, prohibit state regulation of the industry and their labor restrictions, and stop inflating the money supply both by the Fed and the fractional reserve banking system.

I shared the first point of my plan with a statist coworker and he said that would be fine except that as soon as Ford and GM got their tax money back, other people would want their money back, and if the car companies were exempted from paying taxes, everyone else would want the same treatment. He went on and on and I was never able to layout the rest of my plan, but this in and of itself is a good first step, and the retort he gave as a reason not to do it, I hold as a great reason to do it.

To see the tax money as one's own money, and not the government's is a great first step, and we have an oppurtunity to do it here.

(GAY) Marriage.

Attackdonkey — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 04:35:00 GMT

Before we get into marriage itself. I believe there is something to be said against the current tax code. I am for the tax break granted to married people insofar as the smaller a tax is, the closer it is to being no tax at all, and the better. All citizens should be treated the same. A proper ethic does not say all men (and women) should be robbed equally, but they should not be robbed at all.

Now lets talk about marriage itself. As to whether it is between 2 men, 2 women, one man and several women, or one man and one woman, I find the last to be the only one morally appropriate, But above that I say it is onlyh between adults and their creator, and not between them and government. Government has no role to play in the institution of marriage.

Instead of the gay community pressing for state sanctioning of their marriages, they out to advocate the elimination of the state’s involvement in marriage all together, because it is none of the state’s business. The Christian right should join in this movement but for a different reason, if they are intent upon “preserving” the sanctity of marriage, they ought to call for the abolition of state sanctioned marriages on the grounds that it is not the government, but God who brings two people into holy matrimony.

In either case I find the licensing or non licensing of people to get married by the state to be unconstitutional on the grounds of the right to assemble, and associate, and that is what a marriage is, whether 2 men, 2 women, or 1 of each, it is an association of those people.

Finally, this is not to say that gay marriage is moral, only that it is unethical for anyone to involve themselves in other’s affairs through the force of law, and again ultimately, that it is a greater evil to say that it is the state, and not God, or at best the state, partnered with God, that makes a marriage legitimate. Even with the state out of the marriage business, it may be difficult to find a church to marry two homosexuals. But then, ultimately it might not be an issue, if the state recognizes two people living together for 6 months as common law marriage, they ought to recognize just about any marriage.

Homosexual marriages should pose no threat to the true believer, if they believe that it is only God who sanctions marriages; what difference should it make to them what the state acknowledges as a marriage (which would be necessary in the case of divorce, and dispute settlements)?

From both the religious right and the gay community there should be a call for the separation of the state from marriage.

Attackdonkey : state.

Rethinking the Auto Bailout

(GAY) Marriage.