Government is responsible for high unemployment and bad economy

We need to keep beating this drum, because if we don't, all we'll hear and read about are immigrants, mosques and same sex marriage. The main cause of high unemployment and the economic downturn is taxation, government spending and government protection of special interests at the expense of the middle class and the poor. Government has siphoned off limited resources from the private market, taxed away investment and saving and blocked small and medium size businesses from developing and giving the poor a way out of poverty. This has been going on for quite awhile, and it's being accelerated presently.

Government can help turn around the economy by abolishing or lowering taxes. The middle class and lower middle class pays taxes to support subsidizes going to the rich, such as farm subsidies and bank bail-outs and auto company bailouts and support of Fannie and Freddie. The stimulus was a misdirection of resources which could have helped a lot of people now out of work. The private market will invest capital in more productive ways than government stimulus. But lowering taxes is not enough.

We need to end all corporate welfare. We need to end the wars and stop the insane spending on the military/industrial complex. We need to make it easier for the poor and middle class to start their own small businesses. Once government cuts back on wasteful government programs, the talent now wasted in government -- scientists and engineers and such -- will be available for productive work in the private market.

We need to stop wasting resources on the UN and foreign aid which winds up in the hands of dictators. We need to go after corruption and waste in government with a vengeance. By doing all these things and by abolishing or drastically reducing taxes, we can expand the economy and produce new wealth. Producing new wealth is the only way out of our present economic crisis. Poverty will be reduced by creating more opportunities in the private market.

These are the concerns we should be talking about -- not whether a mosque should be built in NY city. Murray Rothbard and Frank Chodorov were recommending these changes decades ago, but now moreso than before, we've got to allow the private market to work. Something as simple as changing licensing laws so that peddlers can make a living and small businesses can be created without red tape will make a big difference, but it will require a comprhensive effort to get government out of the way.

The American public, and especially the poor, should be fighting for these changes. The poor, relatively speaking, have more to gain from a free market than the rich -- these changes will make a bigger change in the lives of the poor than the rich. A good job with good pay, or the ability to start a successful small business, can be life changing for someone in poverty, yet the status quo blocks this progress, and, instead, offers crumbs through the welfare state. It's time for a change, and this is what the professional politicians fear the most - prosperity and independence.

Rationalizations from the left regarding taxes

http://www.taxfoundation.org/publications/show/26384.html

One of the popular criticisms of the Tea Party is that taxes are at historical lows, so, they think, the Tea Party's main complaint is bogus. Well, that is you don't count business taxes, dividends, capital gains -- and you don't count the new healthcare taxes.

American businesses are hampered competively by taxes which are extraordinarily high among industrialized nations. This hurts everyone, and it helps keep unemployment high. Now, the administration wants to increase taxes on those making over $200,000 -- plus increase energy costs through energy legislation. The adminsitration has also admitted the healthcare mandate is a tax.

The left's narrative is being challenged and disputed at every turn, yet they continue with talking points as if the facts don't exist.

Mid-term elections: time for a bold, free market vision

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/07/25/days-decide-republicans-bank-anti-dem-strategy-platform-unclear/

The above linked article states that Republican strategists are advising a moderate approach which is not controversial and won't give Democrats a target. In other words, they are advising a luke-warm campaign that doesn't promise to change anything.

This is a time for brave actions. If Republicans want to gain control of congress, they will have to show the nation they have a plan to get the economy moving. I would propose a five year moratorium on government programs and regulations to stabilize the business enviornment, then I'd look at every business tax which can be drastically lowered or eliminated. I would promise to repeal the healthcare plan and replace it with free market reforms. And that's just my moderate approach because I know that sounds radical to them --I would promise the private sector that a new congress will begin doing everything possible to remove obstacles to economic growth.

This is not a time for a weak, they-suck-and-we-dn't campaign -- it's time to separate from statism and make a clear distinction between a free market and government management and control.

That'll be $100,000 for strategy advice -- thank you.

John Kerry: One of the priests

http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/2010/07/23/taxes-are-for-the-little-people-not-john-kerry/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Cato-at-liberty+%28Cato+at+Liberty%29&utm_content=Google+Feedfetcher

Mr. Mitchell, in the link above, shows a part of what I'm getting at in my series -- Time to Regroup.

John Kerry preaches the religion, but as with all the priveleged in the ruling class, he doesn't walk the walk, just talks the talk.

Also, look at the latest on Charlie Rangel, another fallen priest. May our Heavenly State forgive them.

Robin Hood offends modern liberals

David Boaz at Cato writes a good article about the liberal reaction to the current remake of Robin Hood. I haven't seen the movie, but I read some blog posts criticizing those who claimed the new Robin Hood was libertarianish -- it offended the bloggers that limited-government types were politicizing the movie, but it appears the liberals are politicizing it, too.

Boaz asks a good question -- "What is it with modern American liberals and taxes?" Indeed! A bigger question is -- "What has happened to modern American liberals?" Liberals are clamoring for higher taxes, but why? To expand the power of the State?

Boaz writes:

Carlo Rotella, director of American Studies at Boston College, writes in the Boston Globe that this Robin Hood is “A big angry baby [who] fights back against taxes” and that the movie is “hamstrung by a shrill political agenda — endless fake-populist harping on the evils of taxation.” You wonder what Professor Rotella teaches his students about America, a country whose fundamental ideology has been described as “antistatism, laissez-faire, individualism, populism, and egalitarianism.”

Populism has taken a hit lately -- it has to be fake, uninformed, angry, shrill. Surely if the common people are at odds with the liberal political class, they're terribly mistaken, because the modern American liberal holds the correct positions and everyone else who disagrees is ignorant, angry, naive, probably southern, reactionary, insecure, improperly educated, close-minded, and there's a good chance they're racist.

Seriously, though, what the hell's going on with liberals? Is it not obvious by now that the State is completely out of control? Denial has to reach the stage of pathological to not recognize  we're headed for disaster if statism is not resisted. Once upon a time liberals were antistatist -- a powerful, interventionist State was anathema to the liberal mindset. And then there's individualism -- liberals were individualists who fought against homogenization and collectivization. Liberals were proponents of a free market and equal opportunity, battling the privileged few who oppressed those without powerful connections.

Thank goodness it's popular now to be antistatist. Liberals have somehow moved to the wrong side of history and have become patsies for the King. How did this happen? Since they like regulations so much, I propose we make it illegal for a statist to identify as a liberal -- there ought to be law!