“Libertarian” ideology is floating all around in conspiracy circles, so much so that I suspect there is plenty of dark funding for it coming from the billionaires.
This bogus variety of “libertarianism” has been cooked up in secret as limited hangout, a dead-end, a confusing, seemingly “anti-establishment” path for the foolish—a way to complain about what is wrong in the United States with friends without ever addressing the true problems, or lifting a single precious finger.
According to the “libertarians” the problem is all with government, and with a few bad apples who unfairly misused the system.
The proposed solution is that we need a weak government, but it is assumed that multinational corporations and private equity, although they make mistakes, are not the original cause of the crisis.
These “libertarians” following their master’s voice, repeat over and over that taxes are the problem because taxes were a fraud from the beginning.
This argument is not entirely wrong, but it is intentionally set up as trap, a wrong-headed detour into the forest.
Yes! The tax system is exploitative and unjust for the working man. It was a mistake from the beginning to establish taxes based on income.
But taxes are not inherently evil. That is what the billionaires want you to believe. In fact, taxes can be used to pay for a government that investigates billionaires and locks them up for their crimes.
Taxes should be based on assets, not on income, because most billionaires pay zero income taxes. Billionaires, like leeches, mosquitos, ticks and lampreys, do not work. They are simply parasites.
But these libertarians will never suggest that taxes could be based on assets, rather than on income. To do so would be to bite the hand that feeds. I, however, am happy, to bite deep into that hand that feeds.
Let us imagine that there was a real libertarian, a man who believed in freedom, liberty and a market economy. Freedom for the common man, liberty for the working woman, and a market economy where you or I can sell our products without multinational investment banks funding WalMart, or Amazon, to destroy our local economy through devious means.
This is what a true libertarian would say,
“The billionaires got rich by stealing from us, using the Federal Reserve, through quantitative easing, through the sales of bogus weapons systems, and through other tricks, and most famously, through the bogus COVID-19 pandemic. They stole trillions of dollars and created a class society in which they are the royalty and we are the serfs and slaves.
The money we have in the bank is worth a fraction of what it was worth because of the inflation that they intentionally created.
We do not need an income tax for billionaires like Elon Musk or Warren Buffet. Their assets should simply be seized and used to compensate the millions of victims of their scams, including the mother of all scams, COVID-19.
If you want, call it a tax. You won’t hurt our libertarian feelings. But we think it is simply justice, in accord with our sacred Constitution. As Huey Long said famously, ‘Share our wealth.’ ”
The assumption in the arguments of the gilded libertarians who curl up in the laps of billionaires, is that somehow those billionaires became billionaires because they were smarter than we are, because they worked harder than we do. The bookshelves of corporate-run bookstores are lined with self-help books the billionaires wrote telling us how to learn from their wise choices—but leaving out the truth of how they bribed and stole their way to riches.
The bottom line is that those billionaires are criminals who stole that money from us using shell companies, investment banks and by paying off politicians and government officials. There are only two parties left in Washington D.C. the whores and the pimps.
So far, I have yet to meet a real libertarian. All I see are blow-up, pay-to-play, libertarians, sucking at the teat. They might as well be on the Trilateral Commission, in the Council on Foreign Relations, or working for ALEC. That, at least, would be honest.
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