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Socialist Greed vs. Free Market “Greed”

Socialist Greed vs. Free Market “Greed”

 

A common scam involves taking a constant reality that always applies to everyone, then uniquely applying it to one set of people or one set of ideas.

Which of the following sounds more greedy to you?:

 

  1. Give me your money or I’ll have my employees put you in a jail cell and shoot you if you resist (taxation)
  2. I cannot get a penny out of your pocket unless you voluntarily give it to me in exchange for a product, service, or charitable gift

 

Most of us fear social disapproval, so being called greedy decreases our confidence in promoting the voluntarist ideas of free markets.

No longer should freedom advocates feel guilted by those who advocate government, the primary cause of theft (regulation and taxation) and mass murder (war) today and throughout history.

For more see, The Voluntaryist Handbook.

The Great American Fraud, David Petraeus, The Worst American General Since McClellan, Says Ukraine War Going Great

Update: If Russia uses nukes in Ukraine, Petraeus says: “Just to give you a hypothetical, we would respond by leading a Nato – a collective – effort that would take out every Russian conventional force that we can see and identify on the battlefield in Ukraine and also in Crimea and every ship in the Black Sea,” Petraeus told ABC News’ “ABC This Week” anchor Jon Karl.

Voluntary Charity Gave Us the Statue of Liberty and the Salisbury Cathedral

Voluntary Charity Gave Us the Statue of Liberty and the Salisbury Cathedral

764 years ago, the Salisbury Cathedral was consecrated in England. Considered the oldest example of early Gothic architecture in England, the old beauty maintains the largest cloister, the tallest spire, and the largest external park or “cathedral close,” of any cathedral in Britain. Inside are also one of the oldest continual-working clocks, and one of the 4 surviving copies of the Magna Carta….Construction was paid for by donations, principally from the canons and vicars of southeast England, who were asked to contribute a fixed annual sum until the building was completed.

– Good News in History September 20th, GoodNewsNetwork.org

 

According to the National Park Service, the idea of a monument presented by the French people to the United States was first proposed by Édouard René de Laboulaye, president of the French Anti-Slavery Society and a prominent and important political thinker of his time. The project is traced to a mid-1865 conversation between Laboulaye, a staunch abolitionist, and Frédéric Bartholdi, a sculptor…. Fundraising included advertising, exhibitions, public events, and the sale of souvenirs. Though wealthy individuals did contribute, it was the small donations of hundreds of thousands of working people and children on both sides of the Atlantic that made the Statue of Liberty a reality.

Raising Funds for Liberty, NPS.gov

 

For more on the philosophy of voluntaryism, see The Voluntaryist Handbook.

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