Statism, which is the root of all evil, reigns supreme. #nostatism #statism

@thejapantimes #Statism, which is the root of all evil, reigns supreme.

"Whoever wishes peace among peoples must fight statism," — Ludwig von Mises.
https://mises.org/mises-daily/mises-war-0
#statism #mises #war #peace

@thejapantimes #Statism leads to disaster.

William Perkins, Puritan leader, considers “Christ crucified.” A fraud, oppression, or even mere “hard dealing”, does in effect suck the blood out of that neighbor, but also that of Christ. Blood is drawn out the heart blood of Christ.

Today, conservatives may talk of a different kind of “vampire”— one that sucks the blood of hard-dealing people by getting on their case.

How can you rightly know Christ crucified?

#christian #un #Statism #DivineJoy #DefendLife

Очередной шаг по огосударствлению «Авито». #государственныйбизнес #statism

"From an infancy of complete dependence and subjection to adults, the child must grow up gradually to the status of an independent adult. The question is under whose guidance, and virtual ‘ownership’ the child should be: his parents’ or the State’s?"
https://mises.org/mises-wire/menace-public-education
#education #publiceducation #statism

Bureaucrats brainwash people into thinking they know how to serve consumers better than private producers. This is not the case.
#bureaucracy #statism #freemarket

(Pure) capitalism is an economic system with division of labor and private ownership (not only of the means of production, but) of all human property, including the means of production, consumer goods, and man himself and products of his labor. The logical and economic consequence of such a preposition is that capitalism is naturally beneficial not only for capitalists and entrepreneurs, but for everyone, for all the people in society.
#capitalism #statism #economics #science

"Modern civilization is a product of the #philosophy of laissez faire. It cannot be preserved under the ideology of government omnipotence. Statolatry owes much to the doctrines of #Hegel. However, one may pass over many of hegel’s inexcusable faults, for Hegel also coined the phrase “the futility of victory”. To defeat the aggressors is not enough to make peace durable. The main thing is to discard the ideology that generates war."
https://mises.org/online-book/human-action/part-six-hampered-market-economy/chapter-xxxiv-economics-war
#statism #economics #history #war

"The market economy involves peaceful cooperation. It bursts asunder when the citizens turn into warriors and, instead of exchanging commodities and services, fight one another." — Ludwig von Mises, Human Action.
https://mises.org/online-book/human-action/chapter-xxxiv-economics-war/1-total-war
#mises #economics #war #history #politics #statism #humanaction #capitalism #marketeconomy

"It’s looking more and more like this playbook is following the exact same story that we’ve witnessed during every other Republican administration over the past forty years: there is a lot of talk of budget cutting, but in the end, the trajectory of federal spending is always relentlessly upward—often with bloated military budgets leading the way."
https://mises.org/mises-wire/federal-spending-only-going-trump-pushes-trillion-dollar-defense-budget
#statism #budget #deficit #defence

"On March 25, six masked federal agents seized a Turkish graduate student on the streets of Somerville, #Massachusetts. Rumeysa #Ozturk—who was wearing a hijab—was a Fulbright scholar working on a doctorate at Tufts University. Ozturk was snatched up because she co-authored a student newspaper op-ed a year earlier that criticized #Israel, as I discussed here on March 31 (“First They Came for the Op-Ed Writers”)."
https://mises.org/mises-wire/foreign-student-persecution-imperils-any-american-who-advocates-freedom
#freespeech #freepress #statism #freedom

"But the fact is that President Trump is not the root cause of America the ugly. He’s just a manifestation of the very bad, rotten systems under which Americans live today. It’s those systems that have made America ugly. There are nine systems to which I am referring, all of which work in tandem:
The welfare-state system;
The regulated/managed economy system;
The income tax/IRS system;
The paper-money/Federal Reserve system;
..."
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2025/04/jacob-hornberger/america-the-ugly/
#usa #economics #politics #statism

"By sucking up so many defense dollars—especially those earmarked for the USAF—the F-35 program has harmed America’s defense capability. There is no reason to continue to dump good money after bad into this black hole. The Defense Department and Congress need to learn lessons from this debacle."
https://mises.org/mises-wire/case-against-f-35
#statism #defence

"But there is another income tax paid by all wage earners, regardless of income level, and that is the payroll tax. There is a reason why politicians never mention this income tax: it is connected to the very popular welfare programs known as Social Security and Medicare. The Social Security tax in 2025 is 12.4 percent. The Medicare tax is an additional 2.9 percent."
https://mises.org/mises-wire/irs-isnt-going-away-and-how-we-know
#taxation #incometax #payrolltax #statism #medicare #socialsecurity #economics #politics

@nathanu You are wrong. Capitalists do not "rob working people". Workers are paid the market price for their services. It is the consumers, including people like you, who prevent the employers from paying workers 2 or 20 times more. In reality, it is the state, the government with its clients, that robs the people with taxes, inflation, regulation, etc.
#capitalism #taxation #inflation #statism

"The #presidency can break up businesses, shut down airlines, void drilling leases, bribe foreign heads of state or arrest them and try them in kangaroo courts, nationalize land, engage in germ warfare, firebomb crops in Colombia, overthrow any #government anywhere, erect #tariffs, round up and discredit any public or private assembly it chooses, grab our guns, tax our incomes and our inheritances, steal our land, centrally plan the national and world ..." https://mises.org/mises-wire/why-we-need-rule-law
#statism

@williamlmiller Thanks for the details. Both the negative and positive income taxes kill incentives to work hard for the consumer. This is how the law of marginal utility works. The APF is a bureaucratic plaything. It is a road to full #socialism. People should choose between equality and prosperity. They can't have both.
https://mises.org/search?articles_prod%5Bquery%5D=%22alaska%20permanent%20fund%22
#ubi #taxation #welfarestate #statism

The great Murray Rothbard called UBI a negative income tax and a guaranteed annual income. The book is free and available in several formats.
https://mises.org/online-book/new-liberty-libertarian-manifesto/chapter-8-welfare-and-welfare-state/negative-income-tax
#ubi #rothbard #taxation #welfarestate #statism