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Thanks PH. Well beyond any WOW or WTF.

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The ideological genesis of globaisation (or looked at subjectively as the destruction of the American economy and socialstructure), can be better understood if one erases the image of political spectrum and replaces this with a circle, the ends of 'left' and 'right' joined as 'dictatorship', with people power/democracy at the old centre.

This is because the NWO has always been played by the instigators of Communism and of Dictatorship, eagerly supported by the Old World aristocracy. Now it becomes clear that to blame Russia or China as the source of ideplogical corruption is an engineered chicane, designed to trip, and to obfuscate and confuse.

What is really happening is that 'people power consensus and self-determination' are being eroded and erased as the noose slowly tightens on us all. In America, the process began when the Thomas Paine 'Rights of Man' concept of Constitution and Manifesto were replaced with the Plutocrat's version. You are all looking in the wrong place for the traitors.

'The Communist takeover' narrative has been applied more successfully in the US than anywhere else in the world, which is what provides oxygen for the wars against Russia and China. Any non-American geopolitical strategist can see this clearly but since Hollywood blinded Americans with the "Patton" movie, entirely hollow 'exceptionalism' has reigned. Truly, Hollywood runs America. And who owns Hollywood?

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Jun 28, 2023Liked by Peter Halligan

An income tax is indentured servitude. To wit, you 'owe' the government a certain number of days of your labors before you can net anything. It's also the most regressive of taxes because the only way to lessen your tax indebtedness is to earn less.

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Socialize the losses, privatize the profits.

It has worked for ten thousand years, maybe longer.

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Has to stop. Can you imagine what the allocation to investments in, say, the banking, motor and airline industry would be if the "expected return" included a 50% bail-out by the tax payer in the event of collapse? Plenty of people around who are smart enough to "resurrect" bankrupted companies and industries. rather than keep them in a zombie like state (like Japan!)

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First, you have to reduce the effect of government.

Back in the 70's, we foolishly thought that the private sector was the way to go, no one having taught us different, and with nuclear weapons war would be obsolete, except for the occasional Viet Nam, which we decided wasn't going to happen again.

Thus, private industry would make government irrelevant, oh you would still have the welfare moms and families living off the government, you'll never get rid of them, but private industry would reduce their impact to near zero, a penny on the dollar they would make.

But, government rules would make it all much more expensive, more than any of us thought. The Administrative State was born.

No taxes, tariffs would pay for it all, was the future, or at least the future except for government.

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Well, tariffs and quotas are part of the problem also.

The rule of law is supposed to protect people from the harm inflicted by others. and to prevent vigilante justice. When crimes are not prosecuted, the rule of law is worthless - hence the Soros backed attorneys going for "no bail" and turning property laws and most crimes into misdemeanours. I think the prosecuted crime rate to crimes committed is down to below 5% in cities.

Many "regulations are "political" i.e. discriminatory (positive discrimination is just as bad as negative discrimination) - for example, hate speech prosecutes those outside LBGTQ++ at ten times the rate per capita as inside LBGTQ++ who are the biggest offenders - same goes for violence committed by pro and anti-abortion activists.

Out of interesr, I am guessing that at least 30% of welfare payments are fraudulent, meaning that those deserving of welfare are receiving far less than they should.

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Well, the thing about the tariffs is they never hurt those imposing them, unless there is a monopoly, like you have now in most food products.

Before, you reduced those to equalize when somebody reduced the ones you had imposed on your products. Free trade.

Good grief, when someone is receiving welfare in 5 states (a lot of that goes on), it isn't anything but theft. Theft which the government doesn't want to crack down on because they "figure it in."

The rule of law is a joke, period. A buddy got busted for a couple of joints (marijuana cigarette) years ago. It cost him about $250. Now, he just got busted again, but hey, they don't even have to take him in because it legal now, there is just a ticket. It's $1250 plus court costs, $450, and he hasn't even found out what else. He said "I liked it better when it was illegal."

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