The assumption that the government could be trusted with the savings of the People was the first mistake.  But it's not like the people had a choice — they were merely coddled with a progressive liberal's promise.  Nothing new under the Sun — those in power must be kept in check, they are NEVER to be merely trusted but bound by the chains of the Constitution.

You cannot win a rigged game.  When the tokens used for trading labor and capital are interest-bearing debt instruments, every 'dollar' saved loses its buying power in proportion to the annual interest rate AND the rate of introducing paper money higher than the rate of production to back it.  A nickel could buy what a dollar does today 50 years ago.  Every kid today will need to be a millionaire to live as my parents did back in the 50's making $100 a week (if even that).

;-) This is straight out of the authoritarian's playbook.  "You can't enjoy freedom unless you are ruled by your betters."  FDR officially put America on the road to socialism — somewhere between Stalin's communism and Hitler's fascism, and America has never been able to return to true Republicanism.  Saddest of all is that the majority of the population doesn't even know it.

Some of the more 'liberal' of the teachers we hired started trying to expose our children to their form of social justice.  Without good parental oversight, teachers can preach their progressive religion all day without opposition. 

That's why it is so important that our teachers be possessed of sound morals — they should be wise, not fresh out of college with a teacher's certificate (that's a red flag right there).  Teachers are examples the children follow — blue hair and nose rings should be nowhere NEAR our children.

My children flourished in Montessori school, then once we began travelling the world, home schooling, we later joined with other families who were in the same boat and formed our own little school to educate our children free from political indoctrination.  It was not perfect (nothing collective really is), but parents learned as much as the students. My children are better for it and lived an incredible adventure that no school curriculum could ever provide.

I believe Nock refers to the 'masses' as the unthinking collective that is herded like cattle to the slaughterhouse.  The 'Remnant' are those that realized they could jump the fence and were in fact not just 'meat' but possessing of 'spirit' free and unbeholden to the designs of those that laid claim to them. 

Freedom requires the desire to be free and the knowledge, courage and effort needed to live so.  The masses are doomed unless they wake up and turn off that road to perdition and follow the road less travelled.

It is indeed unfortunate that the education necessary to resist such a con of colossal proportions is intentionally kept from the classes of common men and their governors.  In fact, the fall of every monarchy in Europe can be traced to this very scam.  Those that know how it works are only too eager to profit from it at the expense of the liberties and welfare of the People. 

Every dollar in circulation is in fact a debt — the more 'money' you have, the more debt you are holding.  It is in fact 'Monopoly' money, and we are treated as but pieces in the game.  Those that run the game already lay claim to everything and everyone, now it is the simple pleasure of playing God. 

Being beholden to the insatiable Leviathan, the rulers’ perverted desire for ever more power can never be satisfied, for they, too, have conned themselves out of true wholeness.  As they sow, so shall they reap — it is the law.

All I can say is, the science is never settled. Science should not be used as a revolutionary force.  The search for truth is the search for 'reality' — what is, what was, and what may be.  The 'Truth' is ever in front of us, hidden in plain sight by our false understanding of it, whether that be intentional deception or those sacred cows we never question (often it is just plain ignorance). 

Rather than a revolutionary force, Science should be 'revelatory' and liberating from the chains of the mind and heart. 

Does God exist?  It seems self-evident to me, for the artist is known through his art and the designer through his designs.  If humankind is a million years old, and the Earth 4.5 billion years old, it is thus mathematically impossible for the creation of all life on the planet to have 'evolved' from a primordial soup without an intelligence behind it.

Bertrand Russell may have been a smart philosopher, but like so many of his ilk, a poor mathematician.

Sooner or later, the bill comes due.  Woe unto those still around when it does...

Simply doing the math, I do not think the system will last another 50 years.  Will that signal the end of the world?  We must only hope that the 'remnant' will retain the wisdom against ever following this path again...

Hear, hear!!  So simple, this could be explained in a single grade school math class.  What would take longer is the explanation on how we got here... hence, why not one in a million high school graduates know this.

Here demonstrates the immutable principle of money mechanics: property derives its value from labor.  Any commodity's 'value' is directly proportional to the amount of labor required to acquire it. 

Money is merely a medium of exchange for labor and property.  'Credit' is a debt that must be repaid, and unless forgiven, perpetually obligates the debtor to the creditor.  It is not too difficult then to understand that a people that depend on a debt-based currency are held perpetually in servitude, their labors and property claimed by their creditors until the debt is paid, and since the debt can never be repaid (by design) their servitude is complete.  The path of the freeman is narrow indeed, and wide is the path to destruction.

I like it! 

Thanks, Brooklyn.  Indeed that is the conundrum — the enemy (communists, socialists, fascists) print up their own money while impoverishing the common man, and war ultimately requires 'credit' to defend oneself.  I believe all wars are bankers wars, and all presidential assassinations were in response to executive orders that aimed at cutting the chains to perpetual debt to the international banking cartel.

When the debt is greater than all the money in circulation, you soon understand the scam, Waffler.  The 'debt' is the money supply — that is how 'money' is issued.  You happily worked for the IRS as a useful idiot "rivet[ing] their chains on the necks of our fellow-sufferers."  Talk about a sick liar...

Democrats (socialists) ushered in this system, and republicans were only too happy to allow it since it put tremendous power into their hands as well.

250 years later, the USA has been turned into the very vassal state it refused to be in 1776.  In fact the money system is pure debt now, and paying the interest now costs more than any government service, and they still borrow more to pay the interest.  If a person did that, they would soon be bankrupt — certainly no creditor would kept lending more.

Sounds more like Nero fiddling while Rome burns...

Yes, but what kind of taxes?  Taxes were supposed to come from commercial activities, not private labors. 

Remember that the government can do nothing a citizen can't do to his neighbor — our government is a representative one, and all powers enumerated are powers the people individually already have.  The proper jurisdictions of law protect the common man in the common law, regulate businesses in commercial law, and establish military rules in admiralty-maritime law. 

Using commercial paper (i.e. legal tender) in lieu of cash (hard currency) comes with rules for its use — paying interest on these promissory notes is one of the conditions, and all users are subject to those conditions.  The corruption is that using lawful currency has been made illegal in this system — merchants cannot accept gold or silver money for purchases because the fiat money system operates in a box — like the board game, Monopoly money has no real value outside of the box, and you can't use 'real' money to buy properties in the game. 

The truth is that taxes don't pay for services, they pay the interest on the unpayable debt that has been converted into the money supply.  The debt can never be repaid — it is the money supply!

There was a time when the USA was the most prosperous nation on Earth, with zero debt, and no income taxes.  Ever wonder how we got there without income and property taxes?

Good lord, Fred, history has proven every one of your proposals wrong.  I suggest going back to the drawing board.  Utopian ideals cannot be enforced without creating a class of one people to govern the rest, and such power always ends up in the hands of he most morally deprived individuals.  Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

In other words, we need to perfect authoritarianism, because the current version doesn't go far enough.  Government makes a poor parent.  Fred, sorry, but no one can be trusted with such power.  I'd rather have freedom with a flawed populace than a dictator that thinks he can do no wrong.

Once a free republic is converted into a socialist dependency, there's no going back without cancelling every social program not consistent with the powers enumerated by the US Constitution. 

That's the tactic — make everyone dependent upon government services (as if that is the way it has always been), and they cannot survive without them. 

What few really understand is that all these services are paid for with money the government prints up itself and charges itself interest on as a guardrail against unlimited paper money — they can't be trusted with the power to simply print the money they need, the lust for power is insatiable, and an indoctrinated populace in communist ideals doesn't understand the consequences of such policies.  That's why history is no longer a requirement for a high school diploma (forget about a college degree...).

Waffler revealed long ago that he worked for the IRS and retired on a government pension.  So, no mystery there ...

From what I have read about the IRS, each taxpayer has an Individual Master File (IMF) that assigns a percentage of corporate excise taxes to each person, thus applying corporate status to individual 'persons.'  In other words, to tax a person's labor, he/she must be treated as a corporation in order for the law to apply. 

The issue has always been a matter of jurisdiction.  The 'voluntary' aspect is to get the 'taxpayer' to declare they are a corporation subject to the tax.  Those that have successfully circumvented this keep a low profile, because the government will make an example of them, and find ways to put them in prison for any number of reasons — there are enough 'laws' on the books to make anyone a criminal, and that's not an accident. 

Remember, the 'process' of having to defend yourself is the punishment, it is very costly, and the govt has unlimited resources and the game is rigged in their favor. It is illegal for a slave to escape his slavery without permission.

Of course it goes without saying, the government should cut about 90% of its spending on subsidies personal and/or corporate.  Pay for actual things of value, a real return-on-investment.  No more welfare fraud scams.  Institute non-profit health insurance (which even socialist healthcare doesn't do).  Create a REAL social security fund that cannot be raided whenever the government wants to (and replaces it with interest-bearing IOUs).  Return to REAL capitalism — i.e. trading in capital, holding capital, not the exact opposite trading in IOUs and holding IOUs.

It's not only possible, it's the law.  The price for cheating is servitude!