WHOA DUDE, WHAT? LEGALIZING ISN'T LIBERTARIAN? PASS ME THE BONG. GOO GOO GOO JOOB.

So today, editors at Reason.com published yet another indoctrination piece by Reasonoid cultie handler Shikha Dalmia, this time about the failings of the political establishment to understand 20-somethings in America, or those wrongly dubbed Millennials as they're were born seven years before the start of the new millennium.

"...they are aspiring entrepreneurs who want worldly success—along with legal pot." ~ Shikha Dalmia

Legal pot isn't what authentic libertarians want. Legal pot expands the size and scope of government, without doubt, an anti-libertarian result.

Libertarians seek fewer laws thus to live by liberty, also said in freedom, or that realm where politicians are content to leave alone anyone.

Legalization requires law. Law imposes duty and right. There can be no right without duty, no duty without right. There can be no law without matching duty and right.

Legalization adds law. Legalization doesn't subtract law.

Pushing for legalization pushes against libertarianism. No one can claim to be libertarian and also advocate for more law. Doing so would be the same as claiming to be on a diet and then doubling one's caloric intake.

Removing the law from the books is the libertarian act. Substituting one law for another is mere tweaking control and leaves power in place.

Take driving and flying. Once there were no laws with respect to driving or flying. Americans were at liberty to drive or fly. Americans had no duty not to drive or fly without license and politicians lacked any right to prosecute through their agency, anyone driving or flying. And then politicians legalized driving and flying.

Legalization isn't decriminalization. Only when laws that impose criminal liability thus giving right of prosecution to the agency of legislators get repealed, do previously deemed criminalized acts become decriminalized.

In 2012, voters in Colorado and Washington passed ballot initiatives legalizing marijuana for adults 21 and older under state law in their respective states. Long ago, Congress decreed that marijuana is a dangerous drug and that the illegal distribution and sale of marijuana is a serious crime.

What happens when someone in Colorado grows seven plants and gets caught by Colorado authorities? What happens when someone gets caught with one dram or even one grain over one ounce if the authorities so desire to measure? What happens if someone trades pot for a power drill and later someone reports this trade to the authorities? What happens when someone grows more than he can smoke over time and he accumulates more than eight ounces and the authorities catch him?

It is illegal to possess more than one ounce of marijuana for recreational use. It is illegal to grow or cultivate seven or more marijuana plants. It is illegal to give away marijuana to other adults aged 21 and over without trading pot for cash or bank credits.

The Colorado legislators decreed that possessing more than eight ounces is a Class 5 felony. Those convicted face between one to three years in prison and fines between $1,000 and $100,000.

If anyone is caught using marijuana in public or having it out in the open, that one can be sentenced to an additional 15 days in jail. If this is their second offense or more, that one could face double the maximum sentence.

As well, according to the Office of National Drug Control Policy, pot remains a Schedule I controlled substance. Those who use, grow or sell marijuana remain at risk for prosecution. There is no defense against marijuana charges in federal court.

The 21st Amendment to the United States Constitution repealed the 18th Amendment, which had criminalized the production and sale of beverage alcohol. Until 2013, the residents of Alabama and Mississippi were prohibited from home-brewing beer. Those living in those states had to suffer 80 years of brilliant legalization.



If only we get the laws right this time... — well that is the mantra of every progressive liberal in the history of progressivism and liberalism in the age of scientism.

Libertarianism means living by few laws, hence having few duties to few corresponding rights. Libertarians advocate liberty, not legalization. Libertarians advocate freedom not rules-adherence to officialdom.

Those who advocate for more law are not libertarians. They might be indoctrinated into the false belief they are, but they're not. Every "legalize it" advocate is a liberal progressive and not a libertarian.

That is the problem with the culties at Reason.com. These culties are Rockefeller Republicans / (Bill) Clinton New Democrats.

Owing to the pernicious effects of hyper indoctrination, the culties at Reason.com have been trained  to believe, wrongly, of course, that anyone can become "freer". Anyone is either free or not free. There isn't such thing as degrees of freedom, statistics and mechanics notwithstanding.

Freedom is the virtual realm where no laws exist in the presence of government. Freedom is what speakers of Old French into English called liberty. Where there is law, there isn't freedom. Where there is law, there is duty and right, capacity, authority and power.

Words are the means to meaning. Words label concepts. Concepts are invariant. The culties at Reason.com might  not like these concepts freedom and liberty but never are their misuses of words going to erase those concepts from reality.

Giving anyone permission, license and the like fails to make anyone free. Such instruments give those who grant such control. No one can be free while also being under control.

Nothing shall change as long as many let themselves become indoctrinated to false doctrine as the pseudo-libertarians have at Reason.com. No one shall get free adding new laws.

REASONOIDS OF REASON.COM, AMERICA'S CRYPTO-REPUBLICANS


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IF YOU DRIVE A CAR, I'LL TAX THE STREET. IF YOU TRY TO SIT, I'LL TAX YOUR SEAT. MR. WILSON. MR. HEATH.

There are only three kinds of taxes regardless of the guises politicians pitch the gullible to disguise the tax. There are taxes on wealth, there are taxes on capital and there are permission taxes.

With the rise of Born-Again Socialism revivalist preacher Thomas Piketty, there have been howls for taxes to get levied.

In ELITES SEEK TO PUNISH WORKERS WITH A CONSUMPTION TAX, OR A TAX ON WORKERS' WEALTH, I reveal the sneaky effort of some who seek to claim a consumption tax is not a tax on wealth.

Behind every tax scheme of every politician is a this: You don't have right to your property gained by profit in trade and they lack the duty to keep their hands from your property. 

Said another way: You have the duty to surrender all of your property to the amount that politicians say you do.

Wealth Taxes

Wealth is the name given to property put to purchase and sale for cash and credit. Any tax levied on property in a purchase and sale is a wealth tax.

Wealth taxes go by these names — income tax, capital gains tax, payroll tax, gift tax, estate tax, excise tax, as well as the family of ad valorem taxes such as sales tax, goods and sales tax, land tax, declared worth tax, car registration tax, legal filings tax.

Businesses get taxed on net sales, which are sales less expenses. Unfairly, workers get taxed on gross sales. Workers don't get to deduct their expenses incurred to produce their sales, which is defined as work.

So-called negative income taxes aren't taxes at all. Such is welfare. It's not full freight welfare. It's subsidy welfare, or that which subsidizes the inefficiency of workers who qualify to receive it based on an arbitrary benchmark of income.

A Capital Gains tax is a tax on income derived from the sale of an asset, most often ownership in a firm, which gets called stock or equity, or ownership in a debt owed by a firm, which gets called bond. As a capital gains tax is an income tax, it is a wealth tax.

Payroll taxes to fund social security are wealth taxes as such taxes get levied on income. As always, all taxes on income are taxes on wealth since such taxes get levied on sales in purchases and sales of wealth for wealth.

Payroll taxes that force workers to purchase unemployment insurance all the same are wealth taxes, regardless of the intent. As always, income taxes are wealth taxes. Payroll taxes are wealth taxes.

Excise taxes are taxes levied on the quantity of property being traded. Typical excise taxes are fuel taxes of gasoline and diesel, alcohol taxes on the quantity sold, tobacco taxes on the quantity sold.

Sales taxes as well as GST (goods and services tax) are known as ad valorem taxes since taxes get levied on the sum paid in a purchase and sale. Sales and GST taxes are taxes on wealth. 

Any tax on either unimproved land or improved land also is a tax on wealth whether as a one-time levy or as a recurring levy and also get consider as ad valorem taxes since the tax gets levied on a claimed fictitious resale price. 

Other sneaky ad valorem taxes include taxes on so-called declared worth of things such as car registration fees, taxes on property in chattel sent through mail, tariffs on imports or exports, taxes on cash or bank credits transferred to foreign bankers, taxes on legal document filings related to purchases and sales such as realty deed transfer filings.

Gift taxes and inheritance taxes (also said estate taxes) are among the most pernicious kinds of taxes as such are direct swipes of property by politicians.

When someone gives a gift to another, the gift giver relinquishes property in what is given without pay. As it is a gift, a trade fails to arise as all trades consist of property for property, specifically, wealth for wealth.

Capital Taxes

Capital is the name given to property put to produce work or stock. Any tax levied on property used to produce work or stock is a capital tax.

A tax on capital would be a fee paid to license a dump truck that hauls gravel to pave roads since the dump truck is the capital. If the tax levied levied on the weight of the truck, it is an excise tax. If the tax gets levied on the estimated sales price of the vehicle, it is an ad valorem tax.

A tax on capital would be a fee paid to pollute the air during the blasting of pig iron with pure oxygen while producing steel since the blast furnace is the capital. A tax paid on the tons of pollutants would be an excise tax. A tax paid on the pig iron before its conversion into steel would be an ad valorem tax.

A tax on capital would be a fee paid for a building permit since the labor put to building is capital. 

Permission Taxes

Permission taxes are taxes against the property in oneself. These are the strangest kinds of taxes. 

One kind of permission tax is a marriage license, which is a levy for a legal filing. Another kind of permission tax is a driver's license for personal use.

Permission taxes levied as licenses to do work are capital taxes. So a permission tax for a driver's license for commercial use is a capital tax. A fee paid to have a restaurant inspected before opening is a capital tax. A fee paid for any kind of license authorizing work is a capital tax.

VAT — Value Added Taxes

A VAT (value-added tax) is a wealth tax, though wrongly, many believe such taxes are capital taxes. The key to understand the difference between a wealth tax and a capital tax is this: 

A wealth tax gets levied on what you are trying either to own to rid yourself thereof. A capital tax gets levied on what you own already.

For the seller of product, if the seller bears the burden, a VAT is a wealth tax. A VAT tax can work like a capital tax if the buyer of bears the tax and uses what is acquired in a purchase and sale as capital in production because such a tax inhibits using capital.

Often, a VAT gets levied as an ad valorem tax.

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Here are the Beatles performing their song Taxman.

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