Now let's get serious...!!

In the 2 previous articles I proposed a 3 part means of unleashing liberty and human creativity like we haven't seen in 200 years. The 3 components were:

1. Reduce the federal tax code to a one page document, easily understandabe, and applicable to all.

2. Eliminate ALL federal programs presumably designed to help certain "needy" groups of voters at the expense of the productive class. Replace this conflicting, incredibly costly morass of corruption and waste with a GUARANTEED INCOME for everyone. No variations, no exceptions. Let independent charity address the folks who aren't adequately covered (families of disabled and deceased veterans of foreign wars, for example).

3. Sell off the half of the US real estate and resources kept inert and useless by the Feds and pay off all, or most, of the national debt and bankrupt social programs.

At first blush, this seems like a tall, and perhaps questionable, order. That's why I asked that the 'how-to' part of the equation be set side, along with the other 'yahbutts.' No human endeavor is completed unless it's first envisioned and WANTED. Did WE know 'how' to invent a light bulb? A vaccine for polio? A telephone?

This blog assumes a certain level and intelligence on the part of its participants. To wit, we understand the free market and the stifling deficiencies of state coercion in any realm. We can't recite Economics in One Lesson, Human Action or Atlas Shrugged here. For the majority of current citizens, therefore, this conversation won't make sense. This, folks, is, for now, between US!

That having been said, we visionaries need to plug our imagination in and WANT what we're talking about. First things first. If we get entangled in the 'yahbutt thickets' we'll never achieve our goal.

I'm not going to do it here, because WE don't need me to explain what would happen if...

---billions of man-hours, trillions of dollars, currently spent by public and private institutions to implement, enforce, interpret and adjudicate the labynthine federal tax code were instead freed up for productive human ventures.

---the same can be said of all government transfer payment, welfare, and social programs.

---we weren't saddling ourselves and future generations with obscenely impossible future debt, in oder to buy a grandiose lifestyle for today's politicians, union leaders, State funded academicians, and corporate welfarists.

The results defy imagination!!

For today's conversation, a few gritty observations:

1. WE understand the government can't provide something it didn't first plunder from someone else. I marvel at the current bromide that 'Republican's have no ideas' (wish that were true) and we need Harvard-trained socialists to solve our problems for us. What WE need is to let the people who know how to get things done in their fields of endeavor provide the new ideas. And test them at their expense, learning and, yes, PROFITING therefrom.

2. Our 'job', thinking-wise, is profoundly simple: get out of the way of people who create!! And keep the gnarly hands of government out of their pockets, sapping their resources and energy for the aggrandizement of a sub-class of mediocrities whose 'entitlement' to impose their rules on the rest of us is certified by a phony college diploma from a phony educational institution.

3. 'Yahbutt', how do we persuade the sheep that the good news is they're really responsible for themselves? Best way to start is by example. Remember when it went without saying that America is the place to be if you wanted, freedom, independence and a shot at life? This time it has to start in our own backyards. More on that later.

4. 'Yahbutt,' what about all the entrenched special interests that will assemble to oppose making America 'America' again? Step One: let them finish killing the goose that laid the Golden Egg. They are well on their way. The parasite cannot survive if its host dies. Step Two: What we're really talking about here is a national Second Coming. What, think we can't do it?

5. 'Yahbutt,' what if I find taxes of any kind, never mind a GUARANTEED INCOME, morally reprehensible? I understand. I find voting morally reprehensible and, for many years did not participate because that would be 'sanctioning the system.' How did that strategy work?

6. Let's face it, civilization is a Team Sport. And continuing the metaphor, we must keep our eye on the ball. We are drowning in red tape, entitocrats, lawyerfare becuse we 'need' them to 'manage' the mess they are creating. Stop it!! Imagine none of that stuff---but a simple one-payment floor connected to the federal tax code. to which everyone is entitled. If your imagination is operating full speed, you'll understand why this concept was abandoned by the Progressives who first advocated it. The saw their own immediate demise. They saw relase of human energy to pursue happiness (which is their greatest anathema). I posit, through these rose-colored glasses, when there would ultimately be a time when NO federal guaranteed income was required, or desired by those pure of intent. Regardless---the resultant benefits of freeing up those resources of time and energy, and putting folks to work in real occupations, would make our First National Coming insiginificant by comparison.

7. 'Yahbutt, the devil is in the details.' Let's all open our eyes and see: we are "in the details NOW". It's time to get rid of the details. And please remember, this IS a Team Sport. You don't have to have all the answers. You just have to decide your team is gonna win!!

Now let's get serious!!