"Each time Texas goes all in on the Union, futilely trying to stop Washington from committing slow-suicide, we lose; we lose more rights and control over our lives, we see more debt accumulated to weigh down future generations and cripple our economy, and we have more delay in Texas reaching her full potential. We need to be realistic and recognize the U.S. for the sinking ship it is. We need to stop putting our faith in false promises, and our hopes in Alabama senate races. If we are going to change anything substantially for the better, Texas will have to it on its own.Time to Texit!"
Ryan Thorson
"There is an age-old means to free people from coercive states rather than wait for them to implode from gangster-driven economics — secession. It amounts to a public declaration that a certain group of people no longer considers themselves subject to their state’s jurisdiction. It’s quite possible a tidal wave of secessions will occur as states grow more debt-drenched, bureaucracy-laden and weaker.
The only problem with secession is the state. States survive by bleeding its subjects, literally (wars) or figuratively (taxes). Fewer subjects means less blood. A state that loses too much blood imperils its survival. Plus it’s a sign of weakness if it can’t check the bleeding, and no state can afford to look weak among the community of like bullies."
George Smith
"No child is going to be imbued with an entrepreneurial spirit who grows up with the idea that he 'deserves' to be able to do X. This is a self-destructive pity party. Children should also not be taught destructive nonsense about 'the rich,' the one group in society we are permitted to hate, and whose achievements may never be mentioned. Why, they're possibly rich through inheritance! Or by 'exploiting' someone earning minimum wage! This is economic nonsense.
If the emphasis is on who is 'deserving,' then answer me this. Suppose eye transplants are possible. My child is blind. Your child has two functioning eyes. Does your child 'deserve' those eyes more than my child? If not, then you are required to transfer one of your child's eyes to my child."
Tom Woods
"When a collective acts to stop people from leaving, all they are doing is exposing the fact that their reasons for existing are inadequate and unconvincing. This goes for Spain, it goes for the EU and it goes for the rest of the world. Globalists and collectivists should take note — decentralization is the true model for the future. In the long run, forcing people into participation in the system is a losing battle."
Bob Livingston
"The more dictatorial decrees judges hand down, the more conflict between the losers and winners (just as the Dorks envision), and the more lawsuits to come. That increases the demand for more courts, more personnel, more employees of the State dependent on it for their livelihoods and more victims foolishly hoping government will adjudicate to their benefit next time.
Tragically, even the victims seldom ask whether we 'need' such an exhausting system at all."
Becky Akers
"Being an abstraction, America as Idea is utterly devoid of every vestige of historical contingency. Emptied of all of those racial, ethnic, religious, and cultural particularities, the individual and collective experiences of the generations of human beings who made America what it is, American Exceptionalism is bloodless, lifeless, an eternal, timeless category that is designed to accommodate a virtually infinite number of pieces of machinery (human beings)—as long, of course, as those pieces are either indistinguishable from one another or at least treated as if they are such.
Thus, we find American Exceptionalists enthusiastically supporting relentless and potentially limitless immigration from practically anywhere and everywhere in the world, but mostly from countries and cultures whose mores, histories, and traditions are often not only distinct from, but antagonistic toward, those of Americans."
Jack Kerwick
"It is a wonderful political theory, but 'though shalt not' does not bind a community. I really don’t get it anyway. Who really believes that the non-aggression principle is an all-encompassing formula for a peaceful life? Who really believes that the non-aggression principle will define itself, interpret itself, and defend itself? I guess only those who view it as a religion of some sort.
In any case, it is all of the 'thou shalts' that we share – not with 100% conformity, but generally accepted – that binds a community. A community with a generally accepted set of 'thou shalts' will come closest to a self-governing community.
Something or someone will govern: either learned tradition and culture built on 'what works' or a strongman (whether dictator or democracy) making it up as he goes along.
Which one offers more stability in the law? Which one offers the best prospect for freedom in a world occupied by humans?"
Bionic Mosquito
"It goes without saying that most sober observers would grok that lower corporate tax rates lead to lower prices on goods and services in a modestly competitive environment and all the usual collectivist suspects were mewling and caterwauling about breaks for the rich. Even they would know better if they considered it. But there is a reason. They never assume any of the government produced fiat currency is anything more than a temporary loan to the Helots laboring in the vast feedlots known as America. The zookeepers don’t want a dime repatriated to the hapless laborers. They have so internalized the state, it is outside their moral imaginations to understand that one’s toil and wealth belongs to the individual."
Bill Buppert
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