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Michael Henshaw

Male. Born on January 16, 1954.

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June 24, 2021 6:10 pm

I grew up believing in the American principles: self governance, treating others with dignity and respecting their rights, exercising your own rights, reaping the fruits of your own labors, taking ris... View MoreI grew up believing in the American principles: self governance, treating others with dignity and respecting their rights, exercising your own rights, reaping the fruits of your own labors, taking risks and failing, taking irsks until you learned how to succeed. Slowly, I realized that America never existed, at least not while I have been alive. Those principles are believed in by many, and the ideal is alive (but on life support) under the surface. But we owe government for land we own, we owe government for cars, trucks, motorcycles, and boats we own. We owe government for the profits from the labor we do, and all the labor we will ever do in the future. We need permits to use the commons: to drive, to protest, etc. We need permits to use our own land: to build a home, a business, a shed, a pond, to collect rainwater, or to hunt or fish our own land. To own effective tools to defend your own right to life: guns. You need a permit. Your own means to protect your most precious of rights: life, is permitted by government if and only if you pay a toll. We are not the men we dreamt of becoming. We are serfs, toiling on a taxation farm. The more we allow socialism the more true that becomes. You take the risks, and if you profit government takes "it's cut". But if you lose it all, well too bad because you were self employed you get no welfare, unemployment, nor help. "You should have had a desk job working for a corporation, just as bureaucratic as the worst of governments." That is not American, that is European or Canadian at best. Get your house in order. Square your shoulders. Build from what you have earned, and not from what others have earned which has been stolen for you by corrupt politicians. Tell your local town and county governments to stop taking money from the state and the federal government. It is time individuals earned their own keep. It is time towns and counties earned their own keep. Then, when we are functioning fine (and much better) without their "help", we can turn to large governments and say you supply us with nothing, no services, and no benefits, so we refuse to pay. It is time we use our own currencies: gold, silver, other metals, bitcoin, ethereum, other cryptos, stocks, sugars, spices, tools, food, guns, amnunition, crystals, rocks, buttons, soda bottle caps, whatever. I don't care what you use, just make sure it has a finite quantity and is subject to supply and demand. Make sure a governments and private banks cannot print you into poverty. It is time we build our own solar, wind, hydroelectric, and hell even trash incinerators to power our homes, and disconnect from the grid. It is time we dug our own wells and cut off the water utilities. It is time to shrink governments to a reasonable scope and demand that government simply act to protect our fellow citizens' rights, secure our borders, and ensure government never prohibits our rights to sell them back to us with permits. You own yourself. No one else does. You are responsible for only yourself and the contracts you consent to. You own the song you wrote. You own the book you wrote. You own your thoughts, your ideas, your body, and your property. You do not owe anyone for anything which you have bought outright, built from your property, or earned from your labor. Similarly, only you own your debts; do not rely on government (fellow non consenting taxpayers) to bail your sorry ass out. It is time to give American principles to future generations again. Let those childish dreams seem possible again. End the cycle of optimistic youths becoming crushed adults toiling to earn enough so maybe the taxes won't hurt so much. Bring back the frontier. #Frontier #Freedom #USA #America #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #GodBlessAmerica #GodSaveTheAmericanStates #IndividualLiberty #SelfGovernance #FreeMarket #Rights #Responsibilities

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