Socialist politicians presume that rich people take their wealth from the poor (or so called middle class) and it’s thus somehow fair and just for politicians to steal it back. While few politicians publicly say this, these socialists rely on this assumption in their arguments to prohibitively tax the rich.

This is blatantly false.

The world’s wealth is not a fixed value that happens to be unfairly distributed to some and not others. In a free market, wealth is CREATED. Some people create more wealth than others.

Some people choose to spend years cramming information in to their minds to make their actions and choices more effective. Others spend their evenings watching TV and drinking beer. Some people stay up at night reading more books and learning new skills while others stay up at night partying and birthing more children.

There is nothing unjust about the wealth creators keeping the wealth that they create – they typically develop unique skills for creating wealth, and their ability and opportunity to manage more wealth is a win-win for everyone. After all, the wealth wouldn’t exist at all if they didn’t put forth their effort.

In spite of this, today’s politicians are trying to further loot families who create more than $250,000 worth of wealth each year on the false premise that this $250,000 has largely been stolen from those who chose to live their lives irresponsibly or at a slower pace.

When the wealth creators finally give-up and to cap their capacity to create wealth at $250,000/year (or whatever number the politicians arbitrarily decide is rich), then humanity is in BIG trouble. (The socialists don’t seem to have a problem with this; a topic for a future post.)

NASA has spent nearly $300 million of your (forced) tax money on a satellite to monitor your CO2 emissions. Overtly, this is on the false premises that (a) CO2 causes temperatures to rise, (b) humans are producing significant amounts of this poisonous gas compared to non-human sources, (c) the earth should remain at a temperature determined by Al Gore, (d) human livelihood should be sacrificed to everything that is not human, and (e) the ideal earth contains no humans.

To add insult to injury, this satellite has crashed in to the ocean, so the value produced by this program is now exactly $0. However, there will likely be a second attempt in which even more of your (forced) tax money is used to further Al Gore’s conspiracy theories.

Ideas matter. Your government is robbing you, and then spending billions of dollars, and imposing laws to severely restrict the productive potential of humanity based on criminally flawed reasons. Please spend at least 10 minutes today reading about the ongoing debate between Al Gore and his “consensus” and the other consensus of climate scientists who do not support his fantastic claims.

You don’t need to be a scientist to employ reason. Most people simply believe Al Gore’s hysteria, and that’s good enough for them.

I watched The Godfather movies again recently. Its story touches on the gangs’ hidden relationships with elected officials, and how the gangs manipulate the government to achieve their goals. Ironically, at the end of the film’s credits appeared the ubiquitous sentence “This film made under the jurisdiction of the AFL-CIO” under the IATSE logo (pictured here).

Ironic because one could easily replace the character of Michael Corleone with most any modern union kingpin and the story would be the same: how people deal with one another by force, instead of voluntary free trade. Today’s unions have deeply permeated the government and routinely use the government’s monopoly on the use of force (courts, law enforcement, guns) to force individuals to give union members unearned wealth, and more government power.

Mobsters offer people “protection” for fees and allegiance (or else). Unions offer people unearned wealth for fees and allegiance. They obtain that wealth from anyone and everyone who doesn’t join the union (e.g., in the form of artificially expensive automobiles, films, and steel). Like mobsters, unions don’t engage in running businesses, they simply engage in malignantly looting businesses until they collapse (as with the American auto industry).

Since the unions are so embedded in to governments, they no longer need new businesses to loot, they simply convince government officials to tax and/or print more money, thus robbing society at large—particularly the most productive people.

Unions are also deeply embedded in the education and film industries. Because of this, you will almost never hear a disparaging word about unions, their means, or their purposes. Imagine a film-maker trying to produce a film critical about unions. Can you imagine Dom Corleone or any union official “allowing” such a film to get made?

There has been some effort recently to get Ayn Rand’s classic novel Atlas Shrugged adapted to a feature film. Given the novel’s defense of individual rights and voluntary free trade (as opposed to force), I bet that for the unions to allow it to get produced, the screenwriter will have to severely deform its message.

In case you haven’t heard, California in the midst of a state government budget crisis because it cannot finance its current spending levels without forcing more wealth away from Californians (i.e., raising taxes).

The local radio stations are playing advertisements from the California Teachers Association union (CTA) pleading for funding for “our children” to continue. Like modern terrorists who use human shields for cover, the CTA defends its government power and its salaries by purchasing ads featuring children as victims of selfish taxpayers.

The CTA has even spent huge amounts of taxpayer money defending itself against school vouchers to ensure that ALL education tax money goes directly in to the pockets of CTA goons, establishing a monopoly on education.

Unbelievable.

I was wondering what the California state expenses have actually been in recent years. After a difficult search of California state web sites (they are probably pretty ashamed of the figures), I finally found the numbers.

I was astonished that, like a cancer, the California state expenses have DOUBLED in just the last 10 years. I’m sure that there is more than the CTA to blame, but it’s obvious that the state expenses have more than plenty of room to shrink in spite of democratic/union/socialist rhetoric.