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Originally Posted by Schroeder
Yeah, totally stolen! We don't get anything in return at all! 
We all had to pay for our education, we have to pay to use the roads, the police and fire fighters won't move unless we can assure them to be able to pay for their services, the Bundeswehr has ceased to exist, my parents never got any support for raising their children and I don't get any unemployment money whatsoever. The world sucks!
I hope the irony was clear!  |
My school and education has been payed for at the time by the taxes of my father. The roads were built on grounds that should have been private, and politicians or "states" have no legal claim to own them and thus charge a fee for their use, I also would like to be asked whether I want a road to be build in my name and at my cost before I get blackmailed to straighten the bill. Better than tax-financing of public stuff (which is only meant to give the political and bureaucratic parasites a basis for living at the cost of all others) would be to leave costs for roadbuilding to merchantmen's and traders' action and organisation, and them organising it, and then calculating the costs into their product's prices - that would be in conformity with market logic and would mean that road building, product formats and production methods all compete on the market. The state must not compete at all - it sets prices for its inferior services which are too high, and never gets held accountable for it. Firefighters should be employed by local communities only, what they often are, or the do it voluntarily - oh wait, the EU just came with a new legislation that will ban voluntary firefighters - a specific pillar int he German system - on grounds of working hours exceeded (the EU wants to add hours from voluntary engagement by private people to their regular job workload and so have them all exceeding allowed working hours - and btw what has the dictators of the EU to regulate in the german local firefighter organization and in the question of how private people decide to spend their private time for what purposes???? Police is the stormtroop of the big monopolist for violence, expropriation and tailoring the law to its liking: the state. i would prefer more private security companies needing to compete in this area. In capitalism, competition and free price fixing is key, monopolism (by companies or the state) is death of freedom. And the Bundeswehr was enslaving young men at will of our political masters and stole some time of their lives and now it is send into operations that I do not support, that I oppose, and that I see no reason why I should pay for them. Like yourself, I do not take and never have taken any state subsidies and financial aids or reliefs, I pay more into health insurance than I cost the system due to the drugs I take, and my family, despite having suffered huge losses in wealth (due to a 3 year legal battle with parts of our distant hostile family), is all by itself and also not getting any aid, nor wanting it.
You note it: the socalled "Umlagesystem" I despise and call a criminal exploitation of the young, and the socalled "Generationenvertrag" is a treaty that was never put before me and which i never have signed nor was I ever asked about nor have I ever given it my acceptance.
I owe nobody nothing, and made sure for that. My loyalties to some people are voluntary decisions by myself. Me having to pay for a thousand things I do not want, that I oppose, on which i do not get asked, is an exploitation on the grounds that the state can send moire men with rifles against me than I an send against it. Else I would tell the state "F.U." Its no issue decided by morals or (corrupted) laws, but the comparing of pure brutal force - and I am weaker than the parasites.
Free market negotiating of demand and offer and price fixing is what makes people free. Socialist planned economies and state regulation of the market is what makes them unfree. Today, practically all aspects of our lives are regulated by th state: health, education,m work, finances - everything. Even the market is heavily regulated and planned. Capitalism is giving chance to everybody, and those who adapot to the market's demands win, and those unable to adapt loose. Fair chance. The only thing that destroy this, is not capitalism itself, but the distortion of and big threat to capitalism: monopolism. It is inherent in caiptalism, yes, it is an existential antagonist like death is to evertyhing that lives. And like life tries on to push back deathl, freedom-loving people must be ion guard to not allow monopolism. And that includes to not allow states, the biggest monopolists of all.
Le tthere be free trading between the people. LKet there be their nown responsibilit yin how they organise and what vlaue they contirbute to what offerings. You see in history that wherever this was the case, there was peace, and prosperity and wealth, and freedom. And where kings and republics appeared to regulate all this and erected controlling regimes, peace and freedom, prosperity and wealth got destroyed, and often it led to war.
Trading people do not want wars. Weapon traders being the exception, maybe.
Key is to prevent the erection of monopoles, and to ensure a design of interaction that guarantees that there will always be alternatives to any offer, producer, price. Of all Mafias there are, states are the biggest, the worst and the most destructive and dangerous. And ask yourself who is declaring wars. Ordinary people doing their business in their shops in the street - or somebody else?