Topic: Abolition of Statism
The Deadbeat State We kept our end of the "deal", and then some. Government has abandoned most of it's duty yet continues to stick us with an ever growing bill for services we often don't want, need or even get.by Dan Steward
(libertarian)
Thursday, January 22, 2009
The state is quick to label those they deem delinquent on its perceived debts to it, as "deadbeats". I wish to counter this with the idea that the actual layabouts are government itself. It is the height of hypocrisy when it goes after presumed deadbeat parents then takes a vast chunk of the swag off the top for itself, mafia style before giving what remains to the parent.
It somehow satiates its conscience charging much more than the value of the level of service it provides. Their clerks and collection agents appear to be able to sleep well at night, knowing that they steal food from the mouths of those they again claim to protect from said deadbeats.
Apologists for the state make the argument that some sort of vague and seemingly ever changing "social contract", is in effect and man has struck a bargain with government in perpetuity, just by virtue of being born and breathing air. He is assumed to be bound to that contract, his unseen chains a very poor substitute for his consent to be governed.
It shamelessly breaks its promises to us to end taxation for something once the project has been completed. In the county where I live, over twenty years ago a new airport had funding extracted from those who dine out or stay in a hotel, in the form of a 1% hotel and restaurant tax added to the state sales tax charged. The promise from the local politicos was that once the airport was finished, so would be the tax.
Not only did the tax not die the deserved death it should have gotten after the airport was completed, it instead doubled the tax to 2% a few years later and it continues to this day. Government continued the role of crooked contractor, sending us a bill long after the tab was settled. Try that slick little move in the private sector and they'll put you in a cage for your efforts.
It does not protect us from aggressors neither foreign nor domestic. The courts will throw out all cases where law enforcement officials are sued should they not protect you from criminals, even if you are in protective custody. Again you've kept your part of the deal by paying for "protection" from thugs, and the deadbeat state, went out of it's way to only give you the illusion of protection. Over 700 military bases are built abroad prove that the defense department is interested primarily in defending its lucrative contracts above all else.
The state promises to put forward its best efforts, yet we see the worst it can do both to and for people as we get no bargain at all in our forced bargain with it. Yeah, "deadbeat" sums it all up just fine.
With Liberty,
Dan Steward
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