Americans Going GALT! (Black Markets are JUST AROUND THE CORNER…)

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Awful Tax System Causing a Growing Number of Americans to “Go Galt”

“Being an American citizen is an honor in many ways, but it is a huge millstone around the neck for highly successful investors and entrepreneurs because of an oppressive and complex tax system. This is particularly true for those based in and/or competing in global markets. Indeed, because the tax system (and regulatory system) is so onerous and because it is expected to get far worse in the future, a growing number of Americans are actually giving up citizenship and “voting with their feet.” The politicians view these people as “tax traitors” and are trying to erect higher barriers to hinder economic migration, particularly in the form of confiscatory “exit taxes” that are disturbingly reminiscent of the totalitarian practices of some of the world’s most unsavory regimes.”

More on “Going Galt” here

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Time to “Go Galt” with your health care

Last year at the first Colorado Teaparty in february of 2009 I gave the opening remarks.

Reporter Wendy Norris chased me down after my remarks for a quick interview before Benjamin and I left for home because we were FREEZING cold.  Here is her take on my speech:

“One hundred enthusiastic Atlas Shrugged fans braved chilly temperatures on the east steps of the Colorado capitol Friday as part of a nationwide “tea party” protest to rail against the federal stimulus package and the government, in general.

Beyond the typical conservative-Libertarian rhetoric was some practical advice on how to “shrug these parasites off our backs” like opening a black market in your own garage.

Jenny Hatch of Louisville kicked off the event with a reading from the fictional anti-government manifesto Atlas Shrugged by libertarian darling Ayn Rand.

Hatch implored the crowd of mainly middle-aged white folk to shrug off medical care, run a subsistence farm with a garden, cows and chickens, and create a black market barter-and-trade system with like-minded neighbors. Presumably all in an effort to block government interference in one’s life from the ills of federally-monitored health care, food inspection, trade regulation and monetary systems.

Flanked by hand-made Obama-is-a-socialist signs in the crowd, the Louisville mom of five thanked the smattering of Republicans, conservatives, Libertarians, one self-disclosed Democrat and “creme de la creme Constitutionalists” for helping to drive out the “Marxist moonbats in Washington, DC.”

I said it then and I’ll say it again today in this post on health care.  The most important thing you can as a citizen of America is to “Go Galt” with your health care.  Take personal responsibility for your own health and if you have children, take more responsibility for the health of your family.  The number one thing that happens in American Hospitals is Childbirth.  Sixty One percent of all hospitalizations are in one way or another related to birth, and so I would challenge the Mothers of America to learn the skills of natural mothering and start planning now to give birth quietly at home.

The second principle I outlined in that speech in order to live “under the radar” of the Marxists, was to grow as much of your own food as possible.  By growing your own vegetables, fruits, nuts, and perhaps even your own grains, potatoes, and beans, individual citizens could easily live on a subsistence farm completely self reliant from commercial food sources.  This is a dream that Paul and I have.  And I look forward to someday owning some property where we could grow our own food and live completely off the grid.

The third way I challenged citizens to “Go Galt” was to prepare now to barter and trade with neighbors.  Bartering takes citizens out of the tax loop and allows for “free” trade without the sticky fingers of government tax collectors to step in and and steal the fruits of your labors.  Running a Barter Based black market out of your basement or garage could be the way to circumvent taxes and the inherent “pooling” of resources that will be used to prop up the various socialistic parasitic government plans that are now being prepared to soak the American Producers at the expense of the American Parasites.

An example of this type of living would be a mother who has the skills of teaching music, cutting hair, or tutoring in math trading her skill or service in exchange for a bushel of apples, a couple pounds of home made soap, or some home baked bread.  Instead of a cash transaction being conducted, a barter or trade could easily replace the money, and nobody in government would ever be able to steal anything from the trade.  If a huge number of American Citizens started to live this way overnight…  it would lead to the inevitable collapse of the American Socialistic State that much more quickly.

I would challenge anyone who would like to understand these principles more fully to take the time to read Atlas Shrugged and study the philosophy of Objectivism.

Americans are intelligent and innovative people and if you are someone who feels as strongly as I do that your tax dollars not be used to pay for Abortions, learning this new way of living and thinking will enable all of us to participate in the American Economy without propping up those systems that are revolting to our morality.

Jenny Hatch

Teapartiers have vowed to keep fighting this system of health care, on the streets and in the courts, but I believe the best way to “fight” is just to shrug and Go GALT! And then let it melt into the vast, behemoth of nothingness that it is…

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Be careful how you vote in 2010

THE ANT AND THE GRASSHOPPER
 
 This one is a little different…
 Two Versions…
 Two Different Morals
 
 OLD VERSION
 
 The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his
 house and laying up supplies for the winter.
 
 The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and
plays the summer away..
 
Come winter, the ant is warm and well fed. The grasshopper has no food
or shelter, so he dies out in the cold.
 
 MORAL OF THE STORY:
 Be responsible for yourself!
 
 
 MODERN VERSION
 
 The ant works hard in the withering heat and the rain all summer
 long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter.
 
 The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and
dances and plays the summer away.
 
 Come winter, the shivering grasshopper calls a press conference
and demands to know why the ant should be allowed to be warm
and well fed while he is cold and starving.
 
 CBS, NBC , PBS, CNN, and ABC show up to provide pictures of the shivering
 grasshopper next to a video of the ant in his comfortable home with a table filled with food.
 
 America is stunned by the sharp contrast. How can this be, that in a country of
such wealth, this poor grasshopper is allowed to suffer so?
 
 Kermit the Frog appears on Oprah with the grasshopper and everybody
cries when they sing, ‘It’s Not Easy Being Green.’
 
 ACORN stages a demonstration in front of the ant’s house where the news
stations film the group singing, “We shall overcome.” Then Rev. Jeremiah Wright has
the group kneel down to pray to God for the grasshopper’s sake.  
 
 President Obama condemns the ant and blames President Bush for
 the grasshopper’s plight. Nancy Pelosi & Harry Reid exclaim in an interview
with Larry King that the ant has gotten rich off the back of the grasshopper, and
both call for an immediate tax hike on the ant to make him pay his fair share.
 
 Finally, the EEOC drafts the Economic Equity & Anti-Grasshopper Act
 retroactive to the beginning of the summer. The ant is fined for failing to
hire a proportionate number of green bugs and, having nothing left to pay
his retroactive taxes, his home is confiscated by the Government Green Czar and
 given to the grasshopper.
 
 The story ends as we see the grasshopper and his free-loading friends finishing
up the last bits of the ant’s food while the government house he is in, which, as you recall,
 just happens to be the ant’s old house, crumbles around them because the grasshopper
 doesn’t maintain it. 
 
 The ant has disappeared in the snow, never to be seen again. The grasshopper is found
dead in a drug related incident, and the house, now abandoned, is taken over by a gang
of spiders who terrorize the ramshackle, once prosperous and once peaceful, neighborhood..
 
 The entire Nation collapses bringing the rest of the free world with it.
 
 MORAL OF THE STORY:
  Be careful how you vote in 2010.

Ben Williams at the Examiner: Ron Pauls Audit the Fed bill is a no brainer

“Representative Ron Paul has got some momentum behind his ‘audit the Fed’ bill. On both sides of the aisle. And for good cause: Why shouldn’t the people have access to the records of this secretive bank, the very bank with a monopoly to mint US coin?

Trillions of dollars of stimulus funds were routed to the Fed where, ultimately, they disappeared. No one knows where they went. Apparently, not even upper Fed management. This should be troubling, especially since during just one month (March, 2009) the Fed increased its System liquidity $2.2 trillion.

See the Fed’s minutes here:

They’ve also been using the money, allegedly, to not buy up toxic assets as they had promised, but to buy banks! The Fed is increasing its holdings while people like you and me are losing our homes!

Rather than giving all this money to a private bank, which has no obligation to disclose its operations to anyone – not even Congress – wouldn’t it make more sense to give funds directly to US Citizens? After all, these are our tax dollars. It’s our money to begin with. This enormous pile of cash could help struggling homeowners, buoy up new green energy businesses, and bring a revolution of real change (not merely turning the dollar into change) to bring economic stability to the world. Your share of the stimulus is well over $20,000. What would you do with that?

These are great questions…
AUDIT THE FED!!!
Jenny Hatch