These are where Government takes your rights away.... and then will sell (lease) your liberty back to you, for a price.
~ Aristotle Sabouni
Created: 2022-05-29 |
The left created agencies like the FCC or FDA to do exactly that. FDR took licenses away from his political opponents and then created the “fairness doctrine” to punish those who weren't pro-administration enough. The FDA has been used to go after political opponents as well. You can't empower government, without empowering corruption.
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- California Notary - My wife spent like $500 (and a few days in class) getting her notary. Well, sorta. She spent that to get trained, passed the test, and go everything she needed. She was blocked by the County Recorder, for no good reason but to exert power, because that's what Bureaucrats do in California. No accountability.
- California Water Crisis - California's water drought has nothing to do with rain, and everything to do with the failure of government. Cal captures 1% of the water, then since 2007 flushes 46% of that into the ocean for "environmental purposes" (a baitfish the delta smelt), 43% goes to farming, 11% goes to urban areas. When there's a problem they raise the cost of water and punish the 11%: because that's where the money is.
- Cops hired Handymen to arrest them - Tampa Florida (Hillsborough County) residents can sleep safer knowing that cops arrested 118 people for providing Handyman services without proper licenses. None of them were charged for failing to provide the work they were required to, screwing up the work, defrauding folks by lying and saying that they were licensed. Most licenses were just expired.
- Cost of Education - Since the U.S. nationalized part of education, the costs have skyrocketed and the quality has plummeted. The U.S. spends more per world than most of the world that outperforms us. Money corrupts/controls. Politicians in control of anything converts it to being about politics (and their agenda). Either parents or politicians are in control. So now a quiz: what did we learn?
- Education - Articles about a the state of "Education" or statist indoctrination (usually in America). To a point, all education is biased in what it focuses on, and what it leaves out. When those biases are local and directed by parents (free market), it's less cult'ish inodctrination than when it's directed by the State/Party. If you have no say over your kids education, you're not free.
- Seatbelt Laws - If you don't wear a device that the state demands, they will take your property, liberty, or life (if you resist). The fact that most of the time the seatbelt helps, but in a few cases (fire, submersion, certain impact angles) it can hurt or kill you, doesn't matter. One size fits all, and progressives know what's for your own good better than you do.
- Straw Bans - Banning Plastic Straws (and cocktail sticks) is ignorance-based virtue signaling. 10 rivers (8 in Asia, 2 in Africa) are responsible for 95% of the plastic pollution in the Oceans. The rest of the world is 5%; the U.S. ranks 20th on that list. California decided that banning plastic straws would help with 0.002% of the problem, so they're willing to annoy everyone for a symbolic cause with no benefit and significant harm.
- Suffocating Liberty - the cost of red tape - Each new tax, law or regulation, comes with costs (compliance, non-compliance, enforcement and punishment). We have 174,545 pages of regulations, 73,954 pages in our tax code, 23,000 page in our federal legal code, double that for statutes, 300,000 criminal punishments from administrative agencies. Then add in the state+local laws, regulations and taxes on top.
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