June 2021- Fun Stuff

FREEDOM

CS Lewis said, “Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.  It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies.” 

SCIENCE

Pew Research Center...Among young white liberals, 46% reported being diagnosed with a mental health condition, a rate much higher than young white moderates (26%) and young white conservatives (21%)...The study also showed that young white females who identified as liberal or very liberal were by significant margins the most likely to report a mental health diagnosis at 56%, compared to 28% of young moderate women and 27% of young conservative women.

Two lab rats are talking one day and one rat asks if the other is going to get the jab. The second rat replies, ”Hell no! They haven’t even finished the human trials yet!”

THEORIES

Global Warning/Climate Change-  the only theory that is proven no matter what the data is. - Author unknown

'Critical Race Theory' isn't any more a credible political / social orientation than pedophilia is a credible sexual orientation. End it.  -Author unknown

To best know where rumors come from is to start them yourself. -Machiavelli

TAXATION

Salvianus, a contemporary writer and historian at the time, wrote “the name of Roman citizen, once not only much valued but dearly bought, is now voluntarily repudiated and shunned, and is thought not merely valueless, but even almost abhorrent.”   Regarding the effect of very high taxes that drove many people away to leave Rome in 387 AD, shortly before the fall to the Visigoths (in 410 AD).  In his book Decadent Societies, historian Robert Adams wrote, “by the fifth century, men were ready to abandon civilization itself in order to escape the fearful load of taxes.”

Today we are entering a similar era of extreme taxation that marked the morally and financially bankrupt late-stage Roman Empire.  At the state level, places like California have proposed all sorts of idiotic ideas, from hiking the already-high individual and corporate rates, to a statewide wealth tax, to even an ‘expatriation tax’ for anyone who leaves California (FYI – New Jersey already has such a tax on real estate sales where the seller moves out of state! (I never paid a tax so happily in my life! – PWL) .  The State of New Jersey is chasing away its highest income earners by raising taxes from 8.97% to 10.75%, and dropping the income threshold from $5 million down to $1 million. What a surprise-- wealthy people and businesses are leaving California and New Jersey in droves! (soverignman.com 4/27/21)

MEMES