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I am an Australian citizen with an interest in economics and politics. This is where i can discuss the decisions of Australia and the global community, as well as promote liberalism as both a social and economic theory.
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I am an Australian citizen with an interest in economics and politics. This is where i can discuss the decisions of Australia and the global community, as well as promote liberalism as both a social and economic theory.
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Taxation is theft, so why blame the victim? Why, in effect, tell the victim of assault-by-taxation “if you don’t like it you can leave”? That position simply affirms that opposition to the violence of taxation will beget more violence. Why not say the same things to victims of physical and sexual assault?
Chris Leithner, personal correspondence 2009 (via conza)
(Source: leithner.com.au, via conza)
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Hotelier leaves home for a week so it can be decorated… then 15 [mutualists] move in
In the middle of completely refurbishing his five-bedroom house, Connan Gupta felt he deserved a week off.
It is a decision he is now regretting because 15 squatters took advantage of his short absence to occupy the £700,000 property.
The jobless Italians changed the locks and have taken up residence along with their three dogs and two cats.
They claim the fact they cannot afford to rent gives them the right to take over the Victorian property in Camberwell, South-East London.
Police are powerless to intervene because squatting is a civil rather than criminal offence.
Mr Gupta, a 40-year-old hotelier, has been forced to seek alternative accommodation and instruct a solicitor to have the intruders evicted.
He left the house on October 10 for his week off and returned on Monday to find he couldn’t open the door. A squatter’s rights notice was posted in a window.
‘This is just ridiculous,’ he said. ‘Everything’s in there. All my worldly possessions, clothes, valuables, and medication I need for a skin condition. It is hellish. I always triple-lock the house and when I went away I made sure everything was locked.
‘It is really scary that you can go on holiday and come back and your house has been taken. I’m profoundly shocked that this can happen.
‘I tried to open the door and found the locks had been changed. Then I saw the note, and banged on the door saying I was the owner and a voice inside said “Just go away”.
‘I just have to sit here and wait. It’s as if the squatters have more rights than I do.’](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_melb9xsgeI1qjqdh8o1_500.jpg)
Hotelier leaves home for a week so it can be decorated… then 15 [mutualists] move in
In the middle of completely refurbishing his five-bedroom house, Connan Gupta felt he deserved a week off.
It is a decision he is now regretting because 15 squatters took advantage of his short absence to occupy the £700,000 property.
The jobless Italians changed the locks and have taken up residence along with their three dogs and two cats.
They claim the fact they cannot afford to rent gives them the right to take over the Victorian property in Camberwell, South-East London.
Police are powerless to intervene because squatting is a civil rather than criminal offence.
Mr Gupta, a 40-year-old hotelier, has been forced to seek alternative accommodation and instruct a solicitor to have the intruders evicted.
He left the house on October 10 for his week off and returned on Monday to find he couldn’t open the door. A squatter’s rights notice was posted in a window.
‘This is just ridiculous,’ he said. ‘Everything’s in there. All my worldly possessions, clothes, valuables, and medication I need for a skin condition. It is hellish. I always triple-lock the house and when I went away I made sure everything was locked.
‘It is really scary that you can go on holiday and come back and your house has been taken. I’m profoundly shocked that this can happen.
‘I tried to open the door and found the locks had been changed. Then I saw the note, and banged on the door saying I was the owner and a voice inside said “Just go away”.
‘I just have to sit here and wait. It’s as if the squatters have more rights than I do.’
Every day needs a little Star Wars Awesome
1 month ago - 
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7 The enemies of liberty have always based their arguments on the contention that order in human affairs requires that some should give orders and others obey. Much of the opposition to a system of freedom under general laws arises from the inability to conceive of an effective coordination of human activities without deliberate organization by a commanding intelligence. One of the achievements of economic theory has been to explain how such a mutual adjustment of the spontaneous activities of individuals is brought about by the market, provided that there is a known delimitation of the sphere of control of each individual.
F.A. Hayek, The Constitution of Liberty (via libertariancontrarian)
It is true that liberty is not free, nor is it easy. But tyranny -even varying degrees of it - is much more difficult, and much more expensive. The time has come to rein in the federal government, put it on a crash diet, and let the people keep their money and their liberty.
Ron Paul (via alexryanhannah)
1 month ago - 2
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Tariffs: restrictions placed on the importation of foreign goods for the protection of domestic producers, so as to enhance their profitability thus enabling them to pay the taxes necessary for the support of foreign aid programs which provide assistance to those nations which cannot sell their goods in this country.
Butler Shaffer (via conza)
(via conza)
It just never ceases to amaze me how many students and professors will tell me all about how corrupt the government is and how all the politicians work for the corporations and not the people and then in the next breath claim we need more federal control over healthcare, energy, education, etc. The Leftist indoctrination is bad enough, but it doesn’t even standup to the logic of a third grader. And college students lap it up like mindless kittens left with a bowl of cream.
(via libertarianjames)
(Source: thelogicallibertarian, via libertarianjames)
1 month ago - 6
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Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government’s purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.
Justice Louis Brandeis (via themcdonaldcollation)
‘But what would you replace the state with?’ The question reveals an inability to imagine human society without the state. Yet it would seem that an institution that can take 200,000,000 lives within a century hardly needs to be ‘replaced’.
Joseph Sobran (via themcdonaldcollation)
Thinksquad: Taxes
Tax his land,
Tax his bed,
Tax the table,
At which he’s fed.Tax his tractor,
Tax his mule,
Teach him taxes
Are the rule.Tax his work,
Tax his pay,
He works for
peanuts anyway!Tax his cow,
Tax his goat,
Tax his pants,
Tax his coat.Tax his ties,
Tax his shirt,
Tax his work,Tax his pay,
He works for
peanuts anyway!Tax his cow,
Tax his goat,
Tax his pants,
Tax his coat.Tax his ties,
Tax his shirt,
Tax his work,
Tax his dirt.Tax his tobacco,
Tax his drink,
Tax him if he
Tries to think.Tax his cigars,
Tax his beers,
If he cries
Tax his tears.Tax his car,
Tax his gas,
Find other ways
To tax his ass.Tax all he has
Then let him know
That you won’t be done
Till he has no dough.When he screams and hollers;
Then tax him some more,
Tax him till
He’s good and sore.Then tax his coffin,
Tax his grave,
Tax the sod in
Which he’s laid…Put these words
Upon his tomb,
‘Taxes drove me
to my doom…’When he’s gone,
Do not relax,
Its time to apply
The inheritance tax.
(via sitriste)
2 months ago - 64
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