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The Future of Freedom Foundation The mission of http://fff.org is to advance freedom by providing an uncompromising moral and economic
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Our nation was founded on the principles of individual freedom, free markets, private property, and limited government. As the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution reflect, people have the natural and God-given rights to live their lives any way they choose, so long as their conduct is peaceful. It is the duty of government to protect, not destroy or infringe upon, these inherent and i

nalienable rights. For well over a century, the American people said “no” to such things as income taxation, Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, welfare, public schooling, economic regulations, immigration controls, drug laws, gun control, paper money, the Federal Reserve, overseas empire, militarism, entangling alliances, and foreign wars. Despite the tragic exception of slavery, the result was the most

prosperous, healthy, literate, and compassionate society in history. In the 20th century, however, America moved in the opposite direction—in the direction of socialism, interventionism, and imperialism. The result has been massive infringements on our economic liberty, civil liberties, gun rights, and privacy, along with out-of-control federal spending, debt, and inflation, all of which have reduced our prosperity, damaged our families, and weakened our sense of morality, self-reliance, and voluntary charity. The time has come for the American people to lead the world out of the statist morass in which it has plunged. The time has come to restore libertarian principles to our land. It is to that end that The Future of Freedom Foundation is dedicated.

Tonight at 7 p.m., listen to professor Peter Boettke describe how Austrian Economics impacted his life.Registration is F...
10/26/2023

Tonight at 7 p.m., listen to professor Peter Boettke describe how Austrian Economics impacted his life.
Registration is FREE.

Join us every Thursday evening at 7 p.m. Eastern time for our upcoming live Zoom conference entitled “How Austrian Economics Impacted My Life.” Each week will feature one of the premier Austrian economists in the world telling his personal story of how he discovered Austrian economics, the impac...

"How Austrian Economics Impacted My Life" continues this Thursday with professor Peter Boettke. Registration is FREE.
10/26/2023

"How Austrian Economics Impacted My Life" continues this Thursday with professor Peter Boettke. Registration is FREE.

Join us every Thursday evening at 7 p.m. Eastern time for our upcoming live Zoom conference entitled “How Austrian Economics Impacted My Life.” Each week will feature one of the premier Austrian economists in the world telling his personal story of how he discovered Austrian economics, the impac...

In this week’s Libertarian Angle, Jacob Hornberger and Richard Ebeling discuss the foundational philosophy and ideas tha...
10/26/2023

In this week’s Libertarian Angle, Jacob Hornberger and Richard Ebeling discuss the foundational philosophy and ideas that led up to the classical economists of the 19th century.

In this week's Libertarian Angle, Jacob and Richard discuss the foundational philosophy and ideas that led up to the classical economists of the 19th century...

"Though the intricacy of the price system, the free market is self-regulating. This free-market process brings about har...
10/26/2023

"Though the intricacy of the price system, the free market is self-regulating. This free-market process brings about harmony, prosperity, and liberty." -- Jacob G. Hornberger

REMINDER: THIS EVENING! Thursday, October 26, at 7 p.m. Eastern. Austrian economics star Pete Boettke will be our third presenter in our online Austrian conference: “How Austrian Economics Impacted My Life.” Register here to receive your Zoom link. I hope to see you there! ****** One of the argu...

"All the trappings of the American police state are now in plain sight." -- John W. Whitehead
10/25/2023

"All the trappings of the American police state are now in plain sight." -- John W. Whitehead

“But these weren’t the kind of monsters that had tentacles and rotting skin, the kind a seven-year-old might be able to wrap his mind around—they were monsters with human faces, in crisp uniforms, marching in lockstep, so banal you don’t recognize them for what they are until it’s too late...

"There is no innocent explanation for a secretly produced altered, fraudulent copy of a film of the assassination." -- J...
10/25/2023

"There is no innocent explanation for a secretly produced altered, fraudulent copy of a film of the assassination." -- Jacob G. Hornberger

REMINDER: Tomorrow, Thursday, October 26, at 7 p.m. Eastern. Austrian economics star Pete Boettke will be our third presenter in our online Austrian conference: “How Austrian Economics Impacted My Life.” Register here to receive your Zoom link. ****** In the run-up to the 60th anniversary of the...

"No one should ever be sentenced to prison for violating a federal drug-crime law." -- Laurence M. Vance
10/24/2023

"No one should ever be sentenced to prison for violating a federal drug-crime law." -- Laurence M. Vance

The first Monday of October is the beginning of the new term of the U.S. Supreme Court, which then runs until June or July of the following year. The first case (22-340) up before the court this term concerns the meaning of the word “and” in a federal law regarding prison terms for drug dealers....

"The Pentagon’s objective in invading Iraq was the same as it is with its many other violent regime-change operations — ...
10/24/2023

"The Pentagon’s objective in invading Iraq was the same as it is with its many other violent regime-change operations — to oust the Iraqi rulers and replace them with U.S. stooges..." -- Jacob G. Hornberger

REMINDER: This Thursday, October 26, at 7 p.m. Eastern. Austrian economics star Pete Boettke will be our third presenter in our online Austrian conference: “How Austrian Economics Impacted My Life.” Register here to receive your Zoom link. ****** As a consequence of the war between Israel and th...

Professor Lawrence H. White tells his personal story of how he discovered Austrian economics and how it has guided his a...
10/23/2023

Professor Lawrence H. White tells his personal story of how he discovered Austrian economics and how it has guided his academic career, studying free market banking, monetary policy, and finance.

Professor Lawrence H. White tells his personal story of how he discovered Austrian economics and how it his guided his academic career, studying free market ...

"The only genuine system of care and compassion is one in which people voluntarily help others out of the goodness of th...
10/23/2023

"The only genuine system of care and compassion is one in which people voluntarily help others out of the goodness of their individual hearts." -- Jacob G. Hornberger

NOTICE: This Thursday, October 26, at 7 p.m. Eastern. Austrian economics star Pete Boettke will be our third presenter in our online Austrian conference: “How Austrian Economics Impacted My Life.” Register here to receive your Zoom link. ****** When referring to military aid to the Israeli gover...

We get going with professor Lawrence H. White in 15 minutes. Registration is FREE.GMU Economics Society George Mason Uni...
10/19/2023

We get going with professor Lawrence H. White in 15 minutes. Registration is FREE.
GMU Economics Society George Mason University Center for Economic Education

Join us every Thursday evening at 7 p.m. Eastern time for our upcoming live Zoom conference entitled “How Austrian Economics Impacted My Life.” Each week will feature one of the premier Austrian economists in the world telling his personal story of how he discovered Austrian economics, the impac...

Join us tonight at 7 p.m. to hear how Austrian Economics has impacted the life of Lawrence H. White. Registration is FRE...
10/19/2023

Join us tonight at 7 p.m. to hear how Austrian Economics has impacted the life of Lawrence H. White. Registration is FREE.

Join us every Thursday evening at 7 p.m. Eastern time for our upcoming live Zoom conference entitled “How Austrian Economics Impacted My Life.” Each week will feature one of the premier Austrian economists in the world telling his personal story of how he discovered Austrian economics, the impac...

"How Austrian Economics Impacted My Life" continues tonight at 7 p.m. with professor Lawrence H. White. Registration is ...
10/19/2023

"How Austrian Economics Impacted My Life" continues tonight at 7 p.m. with professor Lawrence H. White. Registration is FREE.

Join us every Thursday evening at 7 p.m. Eastern time for our upcoming live Zoom conference entitled “How Austrian Economics Impacted My Life.” Each week will feature one of the premier Austrian economists in the world telling his personal story of how he discovered Austrian economics, the impac...

"How Austrian Economics Impacted My Life" continues this Thursday with professorLaterence H. White. Registration is FREE...
10/18/2023

"How Austrian Economics Impacted My Life" continues this Thursday with professor
Laterence H. White. Registration is FREE.

Join us every Thursday evening at 7 p.m. Eastern time for our upcoming live Zoom conference entitled “How Austrian Economics Impacted My Life.” Each week will feature one of the premier Austrian economists in the world telling his personal story of how he discovered Austrian economics, the impac...

"How Austrian Economics Impacted My Life" continues this Thursday with professor Lawrence H. White . Registration is FRE...
10/17/2023

"How Austrian Economics Impacted My Life" continues this Thursday with professor Lawrence H. White . Registration is FREE.

GMU Economics Society

Join us every Thursday evening at 7 p.m. Eastern time for our upcoming live Zoom conference entitled “How Austrian Economics Impacted My Life.” Each week will feature one of the premier Austrian economists in the world telling his personal story of how he discovered Austrian economics, the impac...

We get under way in less than an hour. Join FFF and Mark Skousen at 7 pm eastern. Registration is FREE.
10/12/2023

We get under way in less than an hour. Join FFF and Mark Skousen at 7 pm eastern. Registration is FREE.

Join us every Thursday evening at 7 p.m. Eastern time for our upcoming live Zoom conference entitled “How I Discovered Austrian Economics.” Each week will feature one of the premier Austrian economists in the world telling his personal story of how he discovered Austrian economics, the impact th...

"How Austrian Economics Impacted My Life" continues tonight at 7 p.m. with Mark Skousen. Registration is FREE.
10/12/2023

"How Austrian Economics Impacted My Life" continues tonight at 7 p.m. with Mark Skousen. Registration is FREE.

Join us every Thursday evening at 7 p.m. Eastern time for our upcoming live Zoom conference entitled “How I Discovered Austrian Economics.” Each week will feature one of the premier Austrian economists in the world telling his personal story of how he discovered Austrian economics, the impact th...

In this week’s Libertarian Angle, Jacob Hornberger and Richard Ebeling discuss price controls, which government official...
10/12/2023

In this week’s Libertarian Angle, Jacob Hornberger and Richard Ebeling discuss price controls, which government officials have historically used to combat the government’s inflationary debasement of the currency.

In this week's Libertarian Angle, Jacob and Richard discuss price controls, which government officials have historically used to combat the government's infl...

"The free market harmonizes people’s interests. It brings peace and tranquility to people’s interactions. It doesn’t pro...
10/12/2023

"The free market harmonizes people’s interests. It brings peace and tranquility to people’s interactions. It doesn’t produce death, suffering, crisis, chaos, and violence, as America’s socialist system of immigration controls does." -- Jacob G. Hornberger

NOTICE: TONIGHT, Thursday, October 12, at 7 p.m. Eastern. Mark Skousen is the presenter in our online Austrian conference: “How Austrian Economics Impacted My Life.” Register here to receive your Zoom link for an intellectually fun and enlightening session! ****** Sometimes I just can’t help b...

Join FFF and Mark Skousen tonight at 7 p.m. eastern. Registration is FREE.
10/12/2023

Join FFF and Mark Skousen tonight at 7 p.m. eastern. Registration is FREE.

Join us every Thursday evening at 7 p.m. Eastern time for our upcoming live Zoom conference entitled “How Austrian Economics Impacted My Life.” Each week wil...

"The greater the intrusiveness of government over people’s lives, the smaller the areas of life left to people for freed...
10/11/2023

"The greater the intrusiveness of government over people’s lives, the smaller the areas of life left to people for freedom of choice and self-responsibility." -- Richard Ebeling

It is almost 100 years since the libertarian essayist and social critic Albert Jay Nock (1870–1945) published his essay “On Doing the Right Thing” in the pages of the American Mercury (November 1924). Nowadays, the very title of the essay may seem strange to many modern American readers. The ....

Tomorrow! Live! Via Zoom. The great Mark Skousenappearing in our new Austrian economics lecture series "How Austrian Eco...
10/11/2023

Tomorrow! Live! Via Zoom. The great Mark Skousenappearing in our new Austrian economics lecture series "How Austrian Economics Impacted My Life." 7 pm Eastern. Register to receive your Zoom link.

Tomorrow, Thursday, October 12, at 7 p.m., we continue our new Austrian lecture series entitled “How Austrian Economics Impacted My Life.” Our speaker: Mark Skousen, the greatest libertarian philosophical entrepreneur in history — and one of the most renowned Austrian scholars in the world. Ma...

"How Austrian Economics Impacted My Life" continues this Thursday with FreedomFest organizer Mark Skousen. Registration ...
10/10/2023

"How Austrian Economics Impacted My Life" continues this Thursday with FreedomFest organizer Mark Skousen. Registration is FREE!

Join us every Thursday evening at 7 p.m. Eastern time for our upcoming live Zoom conference entitled “How I Discovered Austrian Economics.” Each week will feature one of the premier Austrian economists in the world telling his personal story of how he discovered Austrian economics, the impact th...

Professor Ben Powell tells his personal story of how he discovered Austrian economics, the impact that it has had on his...
10/10/2023

Professor Ben Powell tells his personal story of how he discovered Austrian economics, the impact that it has had on his life, and what he considers to be the most important principles of Austrian economics.

Professor Benjamin Powell tells his personal story of how he discovered Austrian economics, the impact that it has had on his life, and what he considers to ...

10/10/2023

"Care and compassion do not come from the coercive apparatus of the IRS and the faceless bureaucracy of the welfare state. They come only from the willing heart of the individual, who demonstrates such care and compassion by voluntarily helping others." -- Jacob G. Hornberger

"As far as the national-security establishment was — and is — concerned, it must wield the omnipotent power to do whatev...
10/06/2023

"As far as the national-security establishment was — and is — concerned, it must wield the omnipotent power to do whatever it deems necessary to protect “national security” and to keep its dark-side activities secret." -- Jacob G. Hornberger

Ever since it became clear that the U.S. invasions and occupations of Afghanistan and Iraq were turning into disasters, a common refrain has been to end America’s “forever wars.” Politicians of all political stripes, commentators in the mainstream press, and various conservative and libertaria...

"People in the borderlands could teach immigration-control advocates a lot about such things as tolerance, culture, kind...
10/06/2023

"People in the borderlands could teach immigration-control advocates a lot about such things as tolerance, culture, kindness, and patriotism." -- Jacob G. Hornberger

NOTE: We kicked off our new Austrian economics conference last night with Ben Powell, the executive director of the Free Market Institute at Texas Tech University, where he teaches economics. Ben’s talk was just what we wanted — a fun, entertaining, and enlightening talk on how he discovered Aus...

We are under way in ten minutes! Come and ask Ben Powell about his journey with Austrian Economics. Registration is FREE...
10/05/2023

We are under way in ten minutes! Come and ask Ben Powell about his journey with Austrian Economics. Registration is FREE.

Join us every Thursday evening at 7 p.m. Eastern time for our upcoming live Zoom conference entitled “How I Discovered Austrian Economics.” Each week will feature one of the premier Austrian economists in the world telling his personal story of how he discovered Austrian economics, the impact th...

We are under way in less than hour. Come and ask Ben Powell about his journey with Austrian Economics.Registration is FR...
10/05/2023

We are under way in less than hour. Come and ask Ben Powell about his journey with Austrian Economics.
Registration is FREE.

Join us every Thursday evening at 7 p.m. Eastern time for our upcoming live Zoom conference entitled “How I Discovered Austrian Economics.” Each week will feature one of the premier Austrian economists in the world telling his personal story of how he discovered Austrian economics, the impact th...

"How Austrian Economics Impacted My Life" starts tonight at 7 p.m. eastern. Grab a beer with Ben Powell as he talks abou...
10/05/2023

"How Austrian Economics Impacted My Life" starts tonight at 7 p.m. eastern. Grab a beer with Ben Powell as he talks about how he was introduced to Austrian Economics and the road it has taken him on. Registration is FREE.

Join us every Thursday evening at 7 p.m. Eastern time for our upcoming live Zoom conference entitled “How I Discovered Austrian Economics.” Each week will feature one of the premier Austrian economists in the world telling his personal story of how he discovered Austrian economics, the impact th...

Join is this Thursday as Benjamin Powell tells us how Austrian Economics has impacted his life. Registration is FREE.
10/03/2023

Join is this Thursday as Benjamin Powell tells us how Austrian Economics has impacted his life. Registration is FREE.

Join us every Thursday evening at 7 p.m. Eastern time for our upcoming live Zoom conference entitled “How I Discovered Austrian Economics.” Each week will feature one of the premier Austrian economists in the world telling his personal story of how he discovered Austrian economics, the impact th...

"In a free society, there might be unions, collective bargaining, and strikes, but there would be no NLRA, no NLRB, or D...
10/03/2023

"In a free society, there might be unions, collective bargaining, and strikes, but there would be no NLRA, no NLRB, or Department of Labor." -- Laurence M. Vance

At the end of every episode of “The Apprentice,” Donald Trump’s reality TV show, he would utter his signature catchphrase “You’re Fired!” Yet, it came as no surprise that Trump, when speaking recently in Michigan, where the United Auto Workers (UAW) recently went on strike, didn’t dare...

"It is the genuine libertarian concept of open borders that is the only solution to the decades-long failure of America’...
10/03/2023

"It is the genuine libertarian concept of open borders that is the only solution to the decades-long failure of America’s socialist system of immigration controls and the liberty-destroying immigration police state that accompanies it." -- Jacob G. Hornberger

NOTICE: Mark your calendar! Thursday, October 5, at 7 p.m. Eastern. Benjamin Power is our first presenter in our upcoming online Austrian conference: “How Austrian Economics Impacted My Life.” Register here to receive your Zoom link. ***** During my entire life I have watched immigration-control...

"The national-security establishment is, in reality, not a supporter and defender of the Constitution but rather a destr...
10/02/2023

"The national-security establishment is, in reality, not a supporter and defender of the Constitution but rather a destroyer of the Constitution." -- Jacob G. Hornberger

NOTICE: Mark your calendar! Thursday, October 5, at 7 p.m. Eastern. Benjamin Power is 0ur first presenter in our upcoming online Austrian conference: “How Austrian Economics Impacted My Life.” Register here to receive your Zoom link. ***** In a farewell talk, Gen. Mark Milley, the chairman of th...

"Why should citizens intellectually disarm themselves in the face of political aggressors? Why should they accept the pa...
10/02/2023

"Why should citizens intellectually disarm themselves in the face of political aggressors? Why should they accept the passive obedience that was preached for centuries to the politically downtrodden?" -- Jim Bovard

Part 1 | Part 2Why should citizens intellectually disarm themselves in the face of political aggressors? Why should they accept the passive obedience that was preached for centuries to the politically downtrodden?[Click to Tweet] Reposing with a favorite author in the Virginia Tech library in 1976,....

"Allowing Washington to provide a foreign client with the means to kill or maim innocent civilians, including children, ...
09/29/2023

"Allowing Washington to provide a foreign client with the means to kill or maim innocent civilians, including children, is not — or at least should not be — an acceptable American value." -- Ted Galen Carpenter

The U.S. elite’s alleged commitment to human rights and opposition to war crimes was just put to the test in an especially clear fashion. Not surprisingly, both Congress and the American news media failed that test. On September 27, 2023, the U.S. House of Representatives voted down an amendment t...

"Let’s focus on freedom and figure out how we can achieve it here at home." -- Jacob G. Hornberger
09/29/2023

"Let’s focus on freedom and figure out how we can achieve it here at home." -- Jacob G. Hornberger

U.S. officials and statists in the private sector incessantly sing the praises of democracy. They even invade and wage wars of aggression against countries that lack democracy. But what really is so great about democracy? Actually, only one thing. And, no, it’s not freedom. After all, if democracy...

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https://www.fff.org/2022/12/09/what-a-bunch-of-hooey-about-viktor-bout/

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"Unsaid in all this is that the U.S. government, like the Russian government, makes it a criminal offense to possess and distribute ma*****na. Defenders of the U.S. drug war can say that the federal penalty for ma*****na possession is lower in the U.S. than in Russia, but isn’t that a distinction without a difference? Moreover, let’s not forget that in the long, sordid history of America’s drug war, countless Americans have been forced to served much longer jail sentences for ma*****na possession than Griner."

"The mainstream press continues to emphasize that Bout is an 'international arms dealer,' which apparently makes him an extremely evil person. Well, if that’s true, then how about we focus on the world’s biggest international arms dealer. That would be the U.S. government! Yes, the pious, innocent U.S. government, the same government that prosecuted Bout and sentenced him to 25 years in jail."

"The mainstream press says that Bout was selling arms to terrorist groups. Well, notice on that list that the U.S. government knowingly sells arms to Saudi Arabia, a regime that most everyone in the world, including the family and former fiancé of Jamal Ahmad Khashoggi and even the CIA, knows is one of the most murderous regimes in the world. Is there really any difference in principle between selling arms to a terrorist group and selling arms to a murderous regime?"

"The mainstream press continually claims that Bout was accused of selling arms to al Qaeda. But U.S. officials never charged him with that. Lacking the evidence to convict him of that offense, U.S. officials simply decided to make up a crime and convict him of the made-up crime instead. That’s what goes for 'justice' in the federal criminal-justice system."

"Unfortunately for Bout, the jury in his case was not so inclined. They obviously felt that a made-up crime was just as good as a real crime. However, the federal judge who sentenced Bout apparently didn’t feel totally comfortable with what the DEA had done. The judge sentenced Bout to the minimum amount of time possible, which was nonetheless 25 years.

"There is something else worth noting about the Bout conviction. Bout never committed any offense within the United States. The fake negotiations took place entirely outside the United States. In fact, Bout was arrested while engaging in the fake negotiations in Thailand and then was extradited to the United States to stand trial on a fake made-up crime that never took place anywhere in the United States.

"It is also worth asking: What business does the DEA have in setting up an international arms dealer on a fake weapons charge? I thought DEA stood for Drug Enforcement Administration, not Weapons Enforcement Administration."
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WATCH | AIER Senior Researcher Phillip W. Magness joined the The Future of Freedom Foundation's 'End Inflation and End the Fed' conference to speak about 'A Public Choice Examination of the Inflationary Crisis.'
'The Federal Reserve (“the Fed”) began operations in 1914. Thus, many find it difficult to fathom an America without it. Yet as it conducts its own major framework review, everyone, including the Federal Reserve itself, knows that the Fed is unnecessary. Congress could abolish the institution and restore monetary matters to the free market.

But should we end the Fed? In a word, yes. What would replace it? You! And me. And every other person, negotiating through markets, just like the Founders wanted.'

AIER Senior Researcher Robert E. Wright features at The Future of Freedom Foundation.
stop using the word freedom---you have no regard for freedom --you want the dictator wannabe don the con to be back in office to run the country into the ground---where are you getting your financing---from russia---you and this page are so obviously unamerican------
sure---make so easy for a traitor like trump to sell out the country to putin---you have no freedom in mind--just tyranny--
What are some good objective American history books? Older books seem to gloss over the negatives of American history while more recent ones seem to point out only the negatives.
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Abolish the FBI. Now.

Scott McPherson, January 21, 2022

https://www.fff.org/explore-freedom/article/abolish-the-fbi-now/
What has been the intent of 'government' during this colonial time period? It seems that despite proclamations and declarations to the contrary the real intent has been anything but the concerns and desires of The People to engage in their own freely chosen enterprise. Colonial systems, including especially the imposed colonial system of money, have been intent on controlling and directing the labor and resources of the colonized to the whim of the top 1% of the colonizers.

Here is what I am talking about:
https://modernmoneynetwork.org/sites/default/files/biblio/RiPE%20Forstater.pdf
The world wide export of imperial colonial control over what shall be money and then demanding that taxes be paid in that money is the present operating system of the non-working class and is one of the critical means by which sovereignty and liberty are destroyed, along with community cooperation, and labor stolen.
From the abstract:
“In the European colonies, land expropriation and forced labor were used, but another important means of forcing indigenous populations to work as wage-laborers or produce cash crops was taxation and the requirement that taxes be paid in colonial currency. This paper provides an overview of this method, and documents its historical importance, concentrating on Africa. Taxation also played an important role in the monetization and commoditization of African economies, and in the rise of a peripheral capitalism. As the paper demonstrates, Marx [and lots of others] was not unaware of money taxes functioning in this manner, and the phenomenon was in no way limited to Africa.” - Matthew Forstater

From the above paper by Forstater: ".... The problem was that if the subsistence base was capable of supporting the population entirely, colonial subjects would not be compelled to offer their labor-power for sale. Colonial governments thus required alternative means for compelling the population to work for wages. The historical record is clear that one very important method for accomplishing this was to impose a tax and require that the tax obligation be settled in colonial currency.
This method had the benefit of not only forcing people to work for wages, but also of creating a value for the colonial currency and monetizing the colony. In addition, this method could be used to force the population to produce cash crops for sale. What the population had to do to obtain the currency was entirely at the discretion of the colonial government, since it was the sole source of the colonial currency. This method was widespread and important enough to be called “a secret of colonial capitalist primitive accumulation” (since it was not the only method, it must be called “a” secret). This practice is extremely well documented, yet it has hardly ever been mentioned as an important method of primitive accumulation."
"......Several points concerning the role of direct taxation in colonial capitalist primitive accumulation need to be made. First, direct taxation means that the tax cannot be, e.g. an income tax. An income tax cannot assure that a population that possesses the means of production to produce their own subsistence will enter wage labor or grow cash crops. If they simply continue to engage in subsistence production, they can avoid the cash economy and thus escape the income tax and any need for colonial currency. The tax must therefore be a direct tax, such as the poll tax, hut tax, head tax, wife tax, and land tax. Second, although taxation was often imposed in the name of securing revenue for the colonial coffers, and the tax was justified in the name of Africans bearing some of the financial burden of running the colonial state, in fact the colonial government did not need the colonial currency held by Africans."

How can any one of us talk about "Free" Enterprise while still using the colonial systems of money that we are All Using Today?
You shouldn’t lie about other candidates! Kari Lake has found out how awful the MSM are!best candidate for governor. So sad the only thing you can do is say mistruths about people Tells me you must be on the cabal’s side!!!
Last week, Ron Paul joined the Restoring Our Civil Liberties webinar put on by The Future of Freedom Foundation . He presented an examination of how efforts to bring about equality and safety via government dictate threaten liberty and property rights.
Colin Powell, Iraq, and the “Good War”

Jacob G. Hornberger, October 20, 2021 The Future of Freedom Foundation

https://www.fff.org/2021/10/20/colin-powell-iraq-and-the-good-war/
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