I’ve always heard that the LA Times was a liberal newspaper, but I was still shocked to read the Marxist ideals featured at the front of today’s LA Times “Current” (editorial) section.

The theme of one article was that the “super-rich” are not giving away enough of their wealth (complete with typical cartoon caricatures of fat disgusting rich people). I suppose a Marxist doesn’t believe that people should “own” anything and that other people in power should decide on their sustenance. Given this false ideal, it logically follows that rich people are, by definition, stealing from those who deserve it (those whose only qualification is that they didn’t create the wealth that they consume).

In the real world, people have free will and choice. People can choose to focus, read books, save money, become wiser, create more wealth, and invest in other wealth-creating entities. Just as easily, people can choose to unfocus, drink beer, play video games, spend more than they make, and have children while being financially destitute.

To a Marxist, the people who choose the lazy path are more deserving of wealth than those who create it. Furthermore, those who create the wealth deserve to be forced to work more, and have more stolen away. It’s no wonder that the Soviet Union was such an abysmal wasteland.

In a society, people can deal with one another by voluntary choice and free trade (capitalism) or force (fascism, Marxism, socialism, etc.). The proponents of Marxism in particular believe that those in power should control (force) who works in what profession and how much wealth these people deserve to keep according to their twisted anti-reality morals. In practice, this ideology has always lead to misery and purges.

In a just system, people should be allowed to keep that which they created. For without them, their hard work and choices, the wealth would not exist in the first place.

I am not a climate scientist and have not read first hand accounts of studies and the methods of those studies. However, I am exposed to the media and have done some investigation in to various claims and aspects of the supposed issue.

Given the incredible face-value claim and package solution to this “problem,” I’m always amazed at how many people choose to believe it. Given that the entire array of facts and contradictions DO NOT support the overall conclusion that human exhaust is causing a rise in global temperatures and that the net effect of this would be catastrophic, why do so many people accept the whole package: socialism and all?

I’m beginning to see that the debate more about the lack of the rational mind and failing education/philosophy than about temperatures and gas emissions. Asking people why they believe it will be more revealing and relevant to humanity’s future than the junk science.

This BBC channel-4 television program IS a “must see.”

As the global warming (GW) bureaucracy marches toward installing world socialism and tearing down the wealth creating factories, this documentary will show how this GW machine works, that the movement is political and not so interested in reality, and the endless manipulations that are being put on the public every day.

It will at least prod some people to WAKE UP and start questioning the unquestioned, thus realizing that human-caused global warming is actually a rather bizarre claim when presented with all of the data.

If you love science, technology, and modern quality of life in the developed world, you should start paying attention because this GW movement is one manufactured/fertilized environmentalist tactic in the war against humanity.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XttV2C6B8pU

If this link is broken at the time you read this, search for Global Warming Swindle on a search engine.

For those interested in conspiracy theories, consider the withholding of US federal and state income taxes.

By law, we are forced to send in our “fair share” of the tax burden at regular intervals. Employers are required not to give it to us in the first place, and send it directly to the governments.

Why not allow us to keep it until the annual tax bill is calculated?

Perhaps it’s to avoid the ensuing revolts when wealth-creating people are made fully aware of the huge dollar amount that they are forced to pay each year. Instead of being angry and horrified, people are usually happy to get a “refund.”

Perhaps it’s to avoid the huge tax “loss” from people who have already spent the governments’ share of their created wealth, and must declare bankruptcy (this doesn’t work with tax bills, so there’s no escape).

For further reading on the history of tax withholding, see this report: Evolution of Federal Income Tax Withholding. In 1943, the government used the opportunity of centralized power and patriotism to pass this law.

All of us owe it to humanity and the freedom of our progeny to be aware of our roles in supporting the ballooning government machine that invades our lives and choices, and forces us to work and slave for anything and everyone as long as it’s not for ourselves.

There is a proper role for government: the limited protection of our individual rights from other humans both foreign and domestic. It should not “redistribute” (i.e., extort from those who create it) it to other individuals, groups, unions, farmers, poor, underprivileged, deserving, undeserving, or any other imagined recipient.

We should start by knowing the exact figure in dollars and percentage that is extorted from us each year.

Tax Freedom Day is the last day of each year that the average person must work and produce wealth for the US federal and state government to confiscate—like it or not. According to the Tax Foundation site, people living in 1930 worked from January 1st until February 11th (11.2%) to pay their share of the federal and state government. In 2000, this time increased to May 3rd (33.6%).

Since this site is using averages for all people (it’s focused on the size of the government), it doesn’t account for the extremely unjust distribution of the burden: those who create more wealth are penalized more, those who create no little or no wealth are in many cases REWARDED through “social” programs and “safety nets.”

We’ve all heard and quickly forgot the horror story of the “fair” tax burdens: all those who create the bottom 50% of the wealth shoulder just over 4%; those who create the top 10% of the wealth shoulder 65% of the burden. Suckers.

It’s a wonder that the economy hasn’t yet collapsed. Perhaps there is some math whiz in the OMB who has determined that average people will stop creating wealth if they’re allowed to only keep, say, 50%. So the government is careful to keep it lower than this threshold.

It’s also easy for people to stick it to their neighbors by voting for more programs and socialism so long as those who earn more than they do are forced to pay. Looking at the distribution of the tax burden, it’s easy to see how these new laws are passed: to the more populous “poor” people, it’s easy money.

The more I think about it, the more I’m ready to quit and either sit at home and play Xbox all day or swing in my hammock and get away with contributing my measly 4%. At least I won’t be a sucker.