Forty-six million Americans are currently living in poverty, the largest number since the US Census began keeping poverty records. Forty-six million Americans are receiving food stamps, although it’s not readily discernible since EBT cards are issued to the poor. Otherwise soup kitchens would be as ubiquitous as Obama’s press conferences. How did a nation of rugged individualists become a nation of supplicants relying upon governmental largess for sustenance? What role have progressives’ played in the deterioration of our once shining city upon a noble hill?

Legalized stealing is ethically and thus morally wrong. Progressives use emotional arguments, based upon logical fallacy, to deceive the morally just that they have a property right in what others have earned. Progressives use the power and authority of government to accomplish their goal of stealing what others have earned in order to satisfied their wants, for no one has a right to the property others have earned. Thus, government legally steals wealth others have earned, in the form of taxes, and transfers it to others who have not earned it. For government does not produce wealth. It must rely upon those who do.

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While we have not learned the sheriff-coroner’s cause of death, the lawyer representing the father of Kelly Thomas proclaims he knows it. Before we rush to judgment, we ought to learn how the sheriff-coroner classifies Kelly’s death. Moreover, it might be a good idea to withhold judgment until Fullerton PD, the DA’s Office, & the FBI release their reports. Until then, any conclusion we were to reach would be conjecture.  With that written I will add my opinion that it looks bad for at least one officer, maybe more.

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Many years ago I learned that traffic fines were used as a sneaky tax. Traffic are no longer used to discourage violators’ infractions. They have become a way to force traffic violators to foot bills for general governmental operations. Thus, they are a sneaky tax. For instance, a base find of twenty bucks can wind up actually costing violators a hundred-forty-one simoleons.

We need an amendment to California’s constitution restricting fines to no more that the base amount as indexed to the 2010 the Uniform Bail Schedule.

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The Dream Act, if passed, will become another Californian nightmare. We can make accurate predictions about the pathogens contained within this bill if we keep a crucial and accepted concept in mind: people act in their own interests.

Government produces nothing. To secure its money, it must take from others that have produced wealth. Therefore, for government to give anything to anyone, it must first take money from someone who has earned it. This is contradictory to our natural right of property.

Since people act in their own interests, we can expect many of those who pay income taxes in California to avoid paying more. US Appeals Court Justice B. Learned Hand said, “Anyone may arrange his affairs so that his taxes shall be as low as possible; he is not bound to choose that pattern which best pays the treasury. There is not even a patriotic duty to increase one’s taxes. Over and over again the Courts have said that there is nothing sinister in so arranging affairs as to keep taxes as low as possible. Everyone does it, rich and poor alike and all do right, for nobody owes any public duty to pay more than the law demands.”

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