Government

[rightwinger]

Do you have a bank account? If you deposit or withdraw more than $10,000 in cash over multiple transactions, you could be imprisoned for up to five years. You could also lose every penny in the account, under the theory it “facilitated” your crime.

Yup, makes it hard on those trying to launder money or dodge taxes

 

[owebo]

Do you have a bank account? If you deposit or withdraw more than $10,000 in cash over multiple transactions, you could be imprisoned for up to five years. You could also lose every penny in the account, under the theory it “facilitated” your crime.

Yup, makes it hard on those trying to launder money or dodge taxes

Just switch to cash....

 

[gipper]

Do you have a bank account? If you deposit or withdraw more than $10,000 in cash over multiple transactions, you could be imprisoned for up to five years. You could also lose every penny in the account, under the theory it “facilitated” your crime.

Yup, makes it hard on those trying to launder money or dodge taxes

It has to be a bitch when a LWNJ like the poster above, gets his ass in sling when big gov comes a knocking.

 

[rightwinger]

Do you have a bank account? If you deposit or withdraw more than $10,000 in cash over multiple transactions, you could be imprisoned for up to five years. You could also lose every penny in the account, under the theory it “facilitated” your crime.

Yup, makes it hard on those trying to launder money or dodge taxes

It has to be a bitch when a LWNJ like the poster above, gets his ass in sling when big gov comes a knocking.

Not really.....I follow the rules and pay my taxes

I don't hide income

 

[rightwinger]

Do you have foreign investments? If you neglect to tell Uncle Sam about them, you could face draconian penalties. Forget to file just one form? You could face a $10,000 penalty per account per year.

Freak'n gubmint won't let me dodge taxes by hiding the money in offshore accounts

 

[rightwinger]

It’s no wonder the US has the world’s largest prison population. More people rot in local, county, state, and federal prisons in the US than in all other developed countries combined. Over 2.2 million Americans currently live in some type of jail.

But you will find almost no one in our jails for excessively long dog leashes or failing to report income

Our jails are filled with petty drug ofenders

 

[gipper]

Government is a Mafia extortion racket...except the Mafia is far more honorable.


How is This Different from a Mafia Extortion Racket?
Five years ago the government of Florida gave the Seminole Indians a license to operate blackjack games at their gambling casinos. The “price” of the license is reportedly $1 billionannually to the state. The license has now expired, but the Seminoles continue the blackjack games, and the state government is suing them. The state now wants to “renegotiate” the license contract for $2 billion according to news reports.

Question: How is this different from a Mafia-style extortion racket? (“You wanna do business in my neighborhood, you gotta give me a taste”).

Answer: It’s not.

UPDATE: An emailer writes to remind me that the Mafia is “more honorable” than government since it at least doesn’t claim to be “legitimate.” Another emailer writes to point out that the Seminoles were also given a state-sanctioned monopoly on table games, hence the monopoly profits that can be “taxed” at a billion bucks a year. This of course is the story of “natural monopoly” in America: State and local governments grant monopolies, then share in the monopoly loot.

LRC Blog LewRockwell.com

 

[owebo]

It’s no wonder the US has the world’s largest prison population. More people rot in local, county, state, and federal prisons in the US than in all other developed countries combined. Over 2.2 million Americans currently live in some type of jail.

But you will find almost no one in our jails for excessively long dog leashes or failing to report income

Our jails are filled with petty drug ofenders

Almost...

 

[Old Rocks]

Government is a Mafia extortion racket...except the Mafia is far more honorable.


How is This Different from a Mafia Extortion Racket?
Five years ago the government of Florida gave the Seminole Indians a license to operate blackjack games at their gambling casinos. The “price” of the license is reportedly $1 billionannually to the state. The license has now expired, but the Seminoles continue the blackjack games, and the state government is suing them. The state now wants to “renegotiate” the license contract for $2 billion according to news reports.

Question: How is this different from a Mafia-style extortion racket? (“You wanna do business in my neighborhood, you gotta give me a taste”).

Answer: It’s not.

UPDATE: An emailer writes to remind me that the Mafia is “more honorable” than government since it at least doesn’t claim to be “legitimate.” Another emailer writes to point out that the Seminoles were also given a state-sanctioned monopoly on table games, hence the monopoly profits that can be “taxed” at a billion bucks a year. This of course is the story of “natural monopoly” in America: State and local governments grant monopolies, then share in the monopoly loot.

LRC Blog LewRockwell.com

That is what you get with a Republican governor like Rick Scott.

Not sure they can do anything with the Seminoles in any case, they are still listed as a hostile foreign government.

 

[jon_berzerk]

Some folks believe they should be able to fly their drones anywhere without regulations.

gipper has trouble with authority is all.

If it wasn't for government Gipper would be drinking water that is pissed in and worrying about watching where he stepped out of fear of running into a violent gang of thugs.

would be drinking water that is pissed in

that is cute

like you are not now

--LOL

 

[gipper]

Government is a Mafia extortion racket...except the Mafia is far more honorable.


How is This Different from a Mafia Extortion Racket?
Five years ago the government of Florida gave the Seminole Indians a license to operate blackjack games at their gambling casinos. The “price” of the license is reportedly $1 billionannually to the state. The license has now expired, but the Seminoles continue the blackjack games, and the state government is suing them. The state now wants to “renegotiate” the license contract for $2 billion according to news reports.

Question: How is this different from a Mafia-style extortion racket? (“You wanna do business in my neighborhood, you gotta give me a taste”).

Answer: It’s not.

UPDATE: An emailer writes to remind me that the Mafia is “more honorable” than government since it at least doesn’t claim to be “legitimate.” Another emailer writes to point out that the Seminoles were also given a state-sanctioned monopoly on table games, hence the monopoly profits that can be “taxed” at a billion bucks a year. This of course is the story of “natural monopoly” in America: State and local governments grant monopolies, then share in the monopoly loot.

LRC Blog LewRockwell.com

That is what you get with a Republican governor like Rick Scott.

Not sure they can do anything with the Seminoles in any case, they are still listed as a hostile foreign government.

Don't be a dumb ass Old Crock...ops too late.

This occurred in 2010. The governor was Charlie Crist...not that it really matters, but I am a stickler for the truth, unlike you.

Even at your advanced age, you haven't learned that there is little difference between the two parties when it comes to running extortion rackets.

 

[gipper]

DEATH BY GOVERNMENT...it is most common.

Government causes more death, suffering, and destruction than all other things combined, but if you inform a statist of this clearly obvious fact, they lose their small minds.

DEMOCIDE!!!
Over the past decade a number of researchers have attempted to document the extent to which various governments during the twentieth century committed acts of mass murder against their own citizens. The millions of deaths catalogued by such researchers as R.J. Rummel, author of Power Kills and Death by Government, and by the authors of The Black Book of Communism, are not deaths caused by foreign armies, but by all those unfortunate souls’ own governments.

The reason for all the killing, whether it is called genocide or "democide," to use Rummel’s term, was to eliminate all opposition to the ruling regime and its ideology. In Russia, the kulaks "who resisted collectivization [of land] were shot, and the others deported," according to The Black Book of Communism (p. 9). When the rural population of the Ukraine resisted, Stalin created a famine that killed 6 million in a few months. "Virtually identical crimes" were committed "by the regimes of Mao Zedong, Kim Il Sung, and Pol Pot," according to The Black Book (p. 10).

In Power Kills, R. J. Rummel writes that "democidal" regimes tend to become even more vicious toward their own people when their political power "is conjoined with an absolutist ideology" (p. 93). And, "when the rulers of such regimes find for whatever reason that the continued existence of a social group is incompatible with their beliefs or goals, totalitarian power enables them to destroy that group" (p. 93). "War or rebellion" have often provided "an excuse and cover for a regime to eliminate those social groups it finds objectionable."

Armed with this understanding, the authors of The Black Book present the following statistics regarding how various communist governments killed their own citizens by the millions (p. 4):

• U.S.S.R.: 20 million deaths
• China: 65 million deaths
• Vietnam: 1 million deaths
• North Korea: 2 million deaths
• Cambodia: 2 million deaths
• Eastern Europe: 1 million deaths
• Latin America: 150,000 deaths
• Africa: 1.7 million deaths
• Afghanistan: 1.5 million deaths

Rummel has studied more than just the former communist regimes, and includes Nazi Germany’s 21 million civilian murders, among others.

https://www.amazon.com/Black-Book-C...6087&linkCode=xm2&redirect=true&tag=ff0d01-20

 

[gipper]

Government continues...

From Doug Casey:
The government is a force. The essence of government is coercion. So, people attracted to it are necessarily the wrong kind of people, coercion-oriented people. Government draws much more than its share of criminal personalities.

And they’re not the most intelligent people—completely contrary to common belief. It’s because one sign of intelligence is not just seeing the immediate and direct consequences of an action—any intelligent six-year-old can usually do that. It’s seeing the indirect and delayed consequences of actions. They’re very bad at that.

Almost everything government does, certainly relative to the economy, creates distortions and misallocations of capital. Their inflation of the currency discourages saving and creates the business cycle. Their taxes and regulations destroy capital. Their actions are almost purely destructive of society. This reminds me of one definition of stupidity—it’s an unwitting tendency to self-destruction. So, people in government are not “the best and the brightest.”

Doug Casey: With Some Luck, Trump Will Destroy the Republican Party

 

[Votto]

To some, it is good and effective. How can they believe this, when the truth about it is obvious.

Here is just one little tidbit about the tyranny of government. More to follow.


You’re Likely Committing a Crime Right Now
Do you own a dog? You could face six months in federal prison If you walk it on federal lands on a leash longer than six feet in length.

Do you have a bank account? If you deposit or withdraw more than $10,000 in cash over multiple transactions, you could be imprisoned for up to five years. You could also lose every penny in the account, under the theory it “facilitated” your crime.

Do you have foreign investments? If you neglect to tell Uncle Sam about them, you could face draconian penalties. Forget to file just one form? You could face a $10,000 penalty per account per year.

There’s no requirement that you know any of these crimes exist for you to be found guilty of violating them. After all, “Ignorance of the law is no excuse.”

Given that fact, you might think that Uncle Sam would make it easy to understand exactly what’s legal and what’s not. Think again.

In 1790, the first set of federal criminal laws contained a grand total of 20 crimes. Since then, the number of federal crimes listed has grown like cancer. No one knows how many federal crimes exist, although a 1998 study from the American Bar Association concluded the total was likely “much higher” than 3,000.

It’s no wonder the US has the world’s largest prison population. More people rot in local, county, state, and federal prisons in the US than in all other developed countries combined. Over 2.2 million Americans currently live in some type of jail.

Given these facts, you could be forgiven for thinking that Congress might put the brakes on penning new federal criminal law. Unfortunately, that’s not happening. Indeed, the pace of federal “criminalization” is accelerating. A 2008 study concluded that since the start of 2000, Congress created at least 452 new crimes. That’s more than one a week.


You’re Likely Committing a Crime Right Now

If you make everything illegal, then you can pick and choose who you want to be in jail in terms of what laws you wish to enforce.

So if you like someone like Hillary, you don't enforce the laws, but if you dislike a perceived threat or nuisance to your political party or political system, then you just lock them up.

 

[Votto]

Some folks believe they should be able to fly their drones anywhere without regulations.

gipper has trouble with authority is all.

If it wasn't for government Gipper would be drinking water that is pissed in and worrying about watching where he stepped out of fear of running into a violent gang of thugs.

If it was not for .gov, water would be cleaner....

The biggest polluter in the world, is the US government. But try telling that to a dupe like Mattieboy...and watch his little head explode. The truth for some is just to hard to accept.

The dirtiest sites in America are US government properties. Research DOD and DOE locations for just five minutes...but this is ignored by statist dupes.

Link?

 

[owebo]

Some folks believe they should be able to fly their drones anywhere without regulations.

gipper has trouble with authority is all.

If it wasn't for government Gipper would be drinking water that is pissed in and worrying about watching where he stepped out of fear of running into a violent gang of thugs.

If it was not for .gov, water would be cleaner....

The biggest polluter in the world, is the US government. But try telling that to a dupe like Mattieboy...and watch his little head explode. The truth for some is just to hard to accept.

The dirtiest sites in America are US government properties. Research DOD and DOE locations for just five minutes...but this is ignored by statist dupes.

Link?

Most are not classified....

Take for instance the Philadelphia Navy yard. It was killed by Clinton, and when they abandoned it, the navy figured out it couldn't leave because the property was so contaminated....it's now classified as the naval reserve basin....

It just is what it is....but let's be honest....

 

[gipper]

Some folks believe they should be able to fly their drones anywhere without regulations.

gipper has trouble with authority is all.

If it wasn't for government Gipper would be drinking water that is pissed in and worrying about watching where he stepped out of fear of running into a violent gang of thugs.

If it was not for .gov, water would be cleaner....

The biggest polluter in the world, is the US government. But try telling that to a dupe like Mattieboy...and watch his little head explode. The truth for some is just to hard to accept.

The dirtiest sites in America are US government properties. Research DOD and DOE locations for just five minutes...but this is ignored by statist dupes.

Link?

Google "world's biggest polluter" and you will find the US government prominently listed.

Here is but one....
The US Department of Defense Is One of the World's Biggest Polluters

 

[gipper]

The following are the words of a politician. Do you know who and when he said it?

“The real menace of our Republic is the invisible government, which like a giant octopus sprawls its slimy legs over our cities, states and nation … The little coterie of powerful international bankers virtually run the United States government for their own selfish purposes. They practically control both parties … [and] control the majority of the newspapers and magazines in this country. They use the columns of these papers to club into submission or drive out of office public officials who refuse to do the bidding of the powerful corrupt cliques which compose the invisible government. It operates under cover of a self-created screen [and] seizes our executive officers, legislative bodies, schools, courts, newspapers and every agency created for the public protection.”

Very true...No?

 

[gipper]

Yeah it always come back to government.


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