Allowing the old parties to extort trillions of dollars gives them a signal that our protection against people who might harm us is our paramount preoccupation. The only way to stop this obsession with security is to stop the money. The fact that few people are involved in hurting others, and that we are more than capable of defending ourselves, makes the role of government still important in matters of contract adjudication, and much less important in defending our persons.
Thanks for your efforts to defend my freedom. After contacting our hundreds of federal candidates, I am now corresponding with our thousand or so other candidates—hoping some will move to fill our national ranks. We have told our politicians that they cannot take our books, guns nor liquors . . . now we just need an amendment saying they cannot take our money.
1. How can a government operate without taxation?
Before people unite to form something, such as a marriage or corporation, they usually create an image of what their relationship will be like. If this image differs greatly from what they experience, they usually separate.
Problems may arise if any property was created during their
union, such as a house or factory.
Whatever caused their separation also may cause disagreements in
dividing their united property.
Ingeniously, many people solve this problem by writing a contract before
they get together, stating how any property should be divided.
Problems may still exist if people do not honor their
contracts. To solve this, governments
step in and divide any disputed property.
If governments would charge for this valuable service, they could make
the money to operate—without taxation.
When people draw up a contract, they could purchase a
contract insurance policy from their government. This would insure that all the partners would
get what they deserve from their relationship.
If someone did not follow the terms of the agreement, the government
would have permission to distribute any common property according to the
contract.
Of course, no one would have to buy this insurance. People should be free to resolve any
disagreements by talking with their partners.
But if partners began taking from each other, this would be robbery, and
the government should stop them. All
uninsured partners would lose the use of their common property if they could
not agree with each other.
Today, most people buy fire and medical insurance to protect
them against a major loss. Most people
would buy contract insurance for the same reason. With all the contracts that are signed each
day, our government could earn the money to maintain the best military, police,
court and prison system in the world.
This would protect all the people in our nation—without robbing us to do
it.
With this system, for the first time in history, people
could live in peace. Our government
would continue to defend each person’s home and business against
criminals. The big improvement would be
that the no-tax restriction added to our constitution would defend each
person’s property against our government.
With the elimination of robbery in our nation, we would find
that we could satisfy all our other needs with much less effort. When people can keep what they earn, it does
not take long for them to trade with each other and acquire what they need to
live well. Peace and prosperity are
possible for those who are willing to think about how to achieve them. http://www.LP4.org