The Road From Serfdom -back to sovereignty-sovereign rights

The Road From Serfdom -back to sovereignty-sovereign rights

We hold these truths to be self-evident

, that all men are created equal
, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights
, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
That ...to secure these rights
, governments are instituted among men
, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.
That whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends
, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it
, and to institute new government
, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form
, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness.
The Declaration of Independence, Philadelphia, 1776

Introduction

Are these words of the Declaration of Independence still true? Do the just powers of government come from the consent of the governed, and, if so, how? Do we still have the right to alter or abolish government, to institute new government? I believe the answer to all these questions is yes, an emphatic yes. I am equally certain that the governments we now live under exist with or without our consent, and that we are not as free as we like to think we are.

what a serf is, and why we are all serfs - i would say a modern serf is a corporate paper person

Not very long ago I came to the uncomfortable conclusion, after a great deal of reflection on these matters, that I am a serf. When I moved a few years ago, I was expected to pay taxes to the township, the public school system, and the fire district. I wasnt invited to, or asked to. As a resident of the township, I was expected to, no questions asked, or else (and the consequences of the or else�were clearly not pleasant). In return, I was provided services of various types from the town and the fire district, and I got to pay for the education of other peoples children. Some of these services I was happy to pay for, others I would gladly do without. But, because of where I lived, I had to pay for all of them with my taxes, because someone somewhere said so.

I also got to vote for members of the town council, and to vote on tax increases for the schools and fire district. Not once did anyone I voted for make it to town council. Not once did the vote for school budgets go the way I desired. But, because we live there, we must work to pay the property taxes, some of the highest in the country. This is modern serfdom.

I am speaking to you today as one serf to another.

We are all serfs because we are forced to pay taxes to the government because of where we live. A serf is a kind of slave. Serfdom, as with every form of slavery, is an affront to human dignity; it cannot be allowed to stand.

We cannot fix a problem until we face the problem in all its painful reality. We need to understand that we are not free as long as we are compelled to pay taxes for things we neither need nor desire. Thomas Jefferson said, To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical. We are serfs. We need to admit it to ourselves. Only then can we find a way to end serfdom.

why political action never yields the desired results

So, how do we end serfdom? Is there a political way to stop being a serf? Will voting for the right people help? The short answer is no.

Politics is all about making friends for yourself with other peoples money. Politicians do this in a number of ways. One way is to please a lobbyist representing some important business, either directly by sending business their way, or by creating regulations that will benefit the business by hampering competition, which can be done either by making smaller competitors comply with costly regulations (ones the already large business can better afford due to economies of scale), or by discouraging any new competitors by creating obstacles to startup too great for them to hurdle. If you have believed the lie that big business is against regulation, understand that they welcome the right regulation, if it hampers their competition and allows them to create and sell a defective product with impunity. Just think of health insurance, one of the most highly regulated industries, with some of the most flawed products. Do you think they want to open the market up to competition by complete deregulation?

A second way politicians make friends with other peoples money is to create new programs which benefit some important voting bloc. Regulation bureaucracies and new programs both increase the cost and size of governments, to the detriment of the taxpayers. When a politician must spend most of his time raising money for his next campaign, and making certain that his base of voters remains with him, the temptation to spend more and more money provided by the taxpayers (both present and, increasingly, future taxpayers in the form of debt) becomes an insurmountable obstacle to any inclination the politician may have to keep government small. He is far more likely to do what all his predecessors did before him: when things get tough, kick the can to the next generation, and hope you are out of office when things become completely unsustainable.

The very nature of politics leads to ever-expanding government, both in the level of oversight of more and more of our activities by government bureaucrats, and higher and higher taxes to pay for all the oversight and the program giveaways. Trying to bring taxes down by electing different people is a formula for ultimate frustration. As Einstein said, insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. We cannot make any real progress in society merely by making the pendulum swing back and forth.

the best form of government works by cooperation, not coercion

We have, to a very great extent, come to believe the lie that we need government to force us to be better people. Without government, so the lie goes, people would not do what is right by their neighbors. So we allow a subset of humanity, politicians, to behave in ways that other ordinary people could not act. We allow them, for example, to take part of our hard-earned money, calling it taxes instead of theft. We make taxpaying a virtue, saying that, when everyone pays his fair share, the whole community benefits. We look down on those who grumble about paying their taxes as scofflaws and scoundrels who are without a spirit of solidarity with their fellow citizens and taxpayers.

The truth is that we are better than that. We do not need to be forced to be better people. On the contrary, the use of force in this way turns virtue on its head, and kills both generosity and creativity. Far better than the outright coercion that is the hallmark of government-as-we-know-it, persuasion and, yes, perhaps a little shame, would produce better social results in the long term. If we truly want to move society beyond serfdom, we need to be more tolerant of differences, more respectful of people, more ready to raise rather than lower our expectations, and encourage true generosity and creativity.

We need to understand the human person as it really is, and not as we would wish it to be. We have to understand that when people are forced to do the right thing, they naturally push back, both directly (by aggression against society) and indirectly (by disengagement from society). It is not hard to recognize both of these responses to coercion in society today.

So if we cannot build a healthy society by force, can we really build it by cooperation? If we can create a society where force is limited to restraining those who use force against the persons and property of others, and for the enforcement of contracts, we can use our creativity and the natural inclination to social engagement to build a government based on cooperation rather than coercion. .....

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