The Bible doesn’t have a lot to say about politics or how to govern a country. The only example of a government chosen by God is His theocracy, which, strictly speaking, failed because of the wickedness of the human heart. And while no one rises to power without God’s allowing it, evil power exists because [...]
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I used to think that laws were necessary for orderly interaction. I now see that laws are often a trap that most people succumb to when they think they are getting to tell other people how to live. Laws that anyone makes that are to be enforced by a central agency, even if it seems [...]
A Butter Filled Exploration of Government Interference in the Economy
I am going to buy butter today. I foresee three possible outcomes, because I know the government monitors what I buy and sooner or later they will have something to say about it: The government will arbitrarily decide that a certain amount of butter is extravagant. The amount I buy will be over the accepted [...]
The Pitfalls of Government Subsidized Stock Market Investments
It’s done all the time. A word that you thought you knew the definition to is taken and applied to a certain thing, in order to lull people into feeling warm fuzzies about what is really a power play hostile to freedom. Take the word “public,” for example. What does it mean? We’ve been taught, [...]
Is Investment Income from the Stock Market Free Money?
There is no such thing as free money. There may be fake money or stolen money, both of which affect the value of whatever is being used as money. But no money is free. There really is no “free” anything. Someone had to do some work for there to be results. That is the current [...]
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