Jesus On Taxes

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  • Ned Netterville

Mar 11, 2019

MY DEFINITION OF CAPITALISM CAPITALISM (NOUN): An economic system of free markets, which results when and where there is freedom from any forcible or coercive (viz., government) intervention in markets. No other economic system can possibly evolve from such freedom. Freedom, not capital, is the one and only indispensable element of capitalism. Capital is important but even without any capital to start an entrepreneur can acquire capital by profiting from engaging in free exchange. Private property is crucial, but only because it is a crucial element of freedom. Private property could exist in the absence of freedom, but freedom cannot...

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NED’S PLAN: HUGE BENEFITS FROM SLAVERY REPARATIONS Mar 11, 2019

I propose substantial financial reparations be made by the U.S. federal government to all the descendants of African-American slaves and Native American tribes (or the tribes' individual members) whose lands were taken by force or fraud. Most importantly, I propose that the trillions of dollars necessary to pay for reparations be derived from the sale of all federal assets: land, buildings, equipment, infrastructure, gold and silver reserves, oil reserves, off-shore resources, businesses like Amtrak, U.S.P.S., etc.--everything! The federal government's ownership of assets constitutes one of the most damaging impositions on individual liberty there ever was. Reparations for the federal government's...

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PAX VOBISCUM = TAX ME NOT! May 1, 2018

Who doesn't long for world peace? To me, it all seems so simple. If each of us declined to use force in the conduct of our human affairs, peace would reign, ipso facto. Peace by this means may have been the main point of Jesus Sermon on the Mount. The problem is we didn't get it, at least not yet. We are forceful, violent people, and we don't seem inclined to do anything about it. One way we routinely and obliviously use force to get what we want is by taxing others. Taxation requires the initiation of force to facilitate...

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THE LORD’S PRAYER (REVISED) Mar 25, 2018

THE AMERICAN LORD'S PRAYER (With apologies to Jesus)   Our Father Who art in Washington Hallowed be thy name--Uncle Sam. Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done, On earth as it is in America. Give us this day our daily benefits and entitlements, And exterminate our enemies in Syria, Yemen, Iran and North Korea. As you did in Vietnam, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Tokyo and Dresden. But lead us not into freedom, And deliver us from our responsibilities, For thine is the tuition grant, And the housing voucher, And the flood insurance And Social Security, Now and forever Amen.

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MALUM IN SE, MALUM PROHIBITUM Mar 17, 2018

NED'S BLOG #23, FROM 12 FEBRUARY '06 The wonderful Wikipedia website provides the following definitions: "Malum in se (plural mala in se) is a Latin phrase meaning wrong in itself; it is an act that is illegal from the nature of the act, i.e. it is inherently evil without any fact of its being noticed or punished; such crimes as larceny, rape and murder are considered malum in se. This concept was used to develop the various common law crimes." This term is to be distinguished from malum prohibitum (plural mal prohibita), which means wrongs that are merely prohibited, i.e....

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BEYOND NAP Jan 2, 2018

The Teacher of Galilee: A Seer Who Really Did See This guest post was written by anthropologist and longtime-libertarian, Spencer Heath MacCallum. Minor changes to the author's original version were made to punctuation and formatting only. Read the original here: http://explorersfoundation.org/archive/maccallum-spencer-golden-rule.pdf A WAKE-UP CALL FOR CHRISTIAN LIBERTARIANS “How tantalizing,” economist William H. Peterson wrote some years ago, “to find that virtually all the world’s major religions exalt the Golden Rule in one way or another.” He reproduced the different wordings he had read as follows: CHRISTIANITY Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. JUDAISM Do not...

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GOOD BOOK, BAD BOOK, GREAT IDEA (Book Review, plus) Dec 2, 2017

THE HALF HAS NEVER BEEN TOLD: SLAVERY AND THE MAKING OF AMERICAN CAPITALISM INCLUDING BAPTIST’S AFTERWORD https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01HXM0R9Q/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1 By Ned Netterville AMERICA’S HOLOCAUST After reading Baptist’s book, I’m convinced the most horrendous conditions any group of Americans ever endured was being forced to do back-breaking work as a slave, a “field hand,” on a cotton plantation in the South during the period 1790 to 1860, as often as not ending up being killed (murdered?) by those conditions. Baptist’s book is an excruciating expose of what it was like to endure and often succumb to the horrendous torture inflicted on those slaves...

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JESUS NEVER PAID TAXES! Nov 1, 2017

JESUS NEVER PAID TAXES As was said by an itinerant-Internet preacher: "The Lord Jesus was also the only honest businessman in the world because he paid his taxes." Dear Mr. Preacherman: That is a damn lie. There are lots of honest businessmen, and Jesus never paid his nor anyone else's taxes. Taxation is theft. It is identical in every respect to the felony crime of extortion--except the state immunizes its collectors from prosecution. Paying an extortionist only ensures he will keep at it. The sophistry that denies taxation is theft would never fool Jesus. Especially in the first-century Roman Empire,...

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AN ODE TO IRWIN SCHIFF May 5, 2017

TOM PAINE, NATHAN HALE, PATRICK HENRY & IRWIN SCHIFF? What do these four Americans heroes have in common? They are all courageous American patriots of the highest order. But for raw courage in the face of ravenous enemies, Irwin Schiff stands head and shoulders above the other three. Author James Smith recently posted an article here at Liberty.me on the federal income tax. It is well worth reading. Here is the link to it; Its title is in the address: https://jamessmith.liberty.me/filing-taxes-is-only-slightly-more-preferable-than-prison/ I left a comment on his article. Here it is: Not for all of us. My number one American patriot...

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MORE ON THE LYNCHING OF IRWIN SCHIFF Apr 13, 2017

I wrote the following as a comment on an article published on the FEE website titled, "Even Economists Can't Do Their Own Taxes," by Antony Davies and James P. Harrigan. If you truly dig into the Internal Revenue Code (IRC) and the history of taxation and tax laws in America, including the Supreme Court cases pertaining thereto, you will discover two important facts: 1) You cannot possibly be legally liable for the individual income tax (or any of the several other employment taxes) because the Constitution with its Bill of Rights precludes the government from levying and collecting an income...

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