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The basic premise of libertarianism is that each individual should be free to do as he or she pleases so long as he or she does not harm others.
Healing Our World: In An Age of Aggression (2003)
Wealth is created when we use existing resources in new ways. Since such creativity is virtually limitless, wealth is too.
Healing Our World: In An Age of Aggression (2003)
Those too poor to own their own home pay no property taxes, but their rent reflects the taxes that the landlord must pay. The poor pay higher rents to subsidize inefficiency and waste.
Healing Our World: In An Age of Aggression (2003)
Many subsidized exclusive monopolies are public services. On average, we pay twice as much through our taxes for these services as we would if they were provided by the private sector.
Healing Our World: In An Age of Aggression (2003)
Can you imagine a school system funded by taxation hiring a teacher who equated taxation with theft? Hardly! Consequently, our children are instructed by teachers who believe that first-strike force, fraud, or theft is acceptable as long as it’s for a good cause.
Healing Our World: In An Age of Aggression (2003)
By making our police force an exclusive, subsidized government monopoly, we increase the cost and decrease the quality of protection, especially for the poor. By banning handguns, we disarm the disadvantage.
Healing Our World: In An Age of Aggression (2003)
[M]ost poverty in the world today is caused by aggression, not ignorance. The illusion that aggression-through-government benefits the poor at the expensive of the rich is just that, an illusion.
Healing Our World: In An Age of Aggression (2003)
Aggression hides in our culture under many names. Taxation is only an example, but one of the most widespread and uneconomical. If this concept seems incredible to you, consider the shift in awareness that it implies. Are we like children, accepting five pennies for our dime?
Healing Our World: In An Age of Aggression (2003)
When we consider that resources will one day be mined from planets other than the earth, that matter and energy are totally interchangeable, and that basic chemical elements can be transmuted, we realize that resource seeds are so abundant that they do not impose practical limitations on the creation of wealth at all.
Healing Our World: In An Age of Aggression (2003)
We defer to authority figures because they are supposed to know more than we do. If a mistake is made, it's easy to lay the blame at their feet. Ultimately, however, we are responsible for choosing the authority figure we defer to. Choosing to defer to one who urges aggression against others still puts the responsibility on us.”
Healing Our World: In An Age of Aggression (2003)