Hello, and welcome to another episode of the Mark Mos Show, where of course we talk about each and every week the way the world is changing through what I call the decentralized revolution.
Of course, we're talking about a.
World of centralization, central control, central planning into a decentralized world, a multipolar world, if you want to call it. That from like a geopolitical picture. And really the thing that we like to look at is the intersection of politics, finance,
and technology. Of course, it's always technology that changes the world, that changes the way we communicate, organize, and of course today we are seeing this change of technology and that is the decentralized technology of bitcoin that's changing every aspect of the world. I want to have a big show today, as always, I have a very ambitious schedule, see how which I can get through.
And I want to talk about how they stole your.
Life and you didn't even notice. Now what does that even mean? Well, it means a lot of things. We're going to talk about how your life has actually been stolen. We're going to talk about your freedoms, how they've been stolen, your freedom of expression, your property, you know, the freedom of expression, the ability to trains, act and whole private property. We're going to talk about legalization questions and so much more. There's lots of covers we're going to get into this.
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greatly appreciated. So we talk about stealing your life. I know that sounds like a really big thing, and it is. And I want to go just philosophical with you for a second and then we'll get a little bit more tactical. But you have to understand that the law of energy states that energy can't be created, energy can only be transferred, all right, So in order for you and I to stay alive, we must consume calories. Calories are a unit of energy, right, So I need food, which gives me energy.
That energy allows me to think and work to do more things. Now that energy that I got in those calories wasn't created. It came from the from what I ate, Like the animal, the cow. I like to eat steak, So that cow, I like to say that I'm a you know, I'm not gonna say it, but the cow eats grass, right, So I'm a plant based I'm on a plant based diet. My cows eat plants. I eat the cows. But you know, you have soil on the earth. The plant grows up. There's energy in that. The cow
eats that. There's proteins in the grass. The cow goes big.
I eat the steak.
I get the proteins from the steak the calories, and then I have calories units of energy that I can now think to talk to you about subjects like this, or I can go work, build a fence, or dig a hole, whatever that may be. Now, if you understand that core premise that, then my life I need calories. I need energy to come into them in order to
stay alive. Now let's say that I have to dig a hole for four hours a day to earn enough for me to live those four hours that I work provides me with enough food and supplies where I can get shelter for the day. But let's say that I decide to work an extra four hours that day, so I work eight hours. Well, those extra four hours I don't need that today. I don't need that food.
So what do I do. Well?
I can store that wealth in money, and then tomorrow I could choose not to work or expend energy, and I could then use that money to then provide me sustenance for that day, So that money becomes like a battery for me. It's like a life battery, just like fat on your body as a life battery.
Let's say if you had.
Like a real rare form of like diabetes, where you couldn't keep fat on, but then you have to be eating constantly to keep calories coming in, otherwise you die. But we store fat on our bodies which allows us to live for weeks or over a month without eating because we can tap into that. That fat on your body is like a battery for your life.
If you don't eat, you can continue to run.
But again, if I have money, that money is also an extension of my life. I expended energy and now that what I buy with that, that extra food or whatever is like a battery for me. Let's say that I save up enough and I buy a goat. Well, now that goat is like a battery. If I don't work for a few weeks, I could kill the goat.
I could eat it.
So's it's like an extension. You know, I buy a piece of land, I start growing crops, I have a garden.
A field, whatever.
That's a battery for me and I can live off of that, and so all of that becomes an extension of my life. And the reason why I want to break it down to the philosophical level is because what we're talking about today where they're stealing your life, and I don't mean like you know, putting you in prison, but literally as they steal your property or your ability to earn property, or literally steal the value from what you've created, that's literally still in your life. So I'm
going to break that down for you. So let's talk about this. So you know, if we start again staying high sort of high level on this sort of philosophical level, if we think about it from a multiple levels, we can think about it just as my life as a human being. One thing that separates human beings from animals is that we can communicate, we can speak, we can think, we can ide eight, we can speak, and so that is something that's super important.
It's unique to us as humans.
That's a characteristic of it, and it's our life to be able to do that. If they want to restrict your ability to speak or your ability to express yourself, then they're stealing that from you. I know that's a little bit philosophical, but that's the way it Lerk works. Now. We know, you know, we have famous quotes from our founding fathers. These guys were so smart. The Founding fathers were so smart for a number of reasons, and I think we probably won't ever have people as smart as
them because we have TikTok now. But you know, they sat around and just read books and they studied history. They read the books and they discuss these ideas. One of my favorite authors f A. Hayek. It's a Nobel Prize winner in economics. He wrote a bunch of great books, one of which is a highly highly highly recommend everybody put on your list, which is the road to serf him. If you haven't read that book, don't pass. Go open up Amazon on your app and buy that book right now.
Road to serf him his seminal book, which is called The Constitution of Liberty. And in that book it had I believe, nineteen hundred citations in nine different languages.
Like whoa, nineteen hundred citations.
It's amazing, Like nobody's ever going to be that smart again, because now we're distracted by all these things. Anyway, final fathers are very smart, and they gave us a lot of warnings. And if you read these warnings you can see how relative they are for today. So for example, Benjamin Franklin, it's attributed to him or Jefferson, We're not quite sure, but he says, those who give up essential liberty in exchange for a little bit of temporary safety
deserve neither deserve neither liberty or safety. And we see that all all the time, Right, everybody is giving up liberty. Fine, I'll accept the lockdown.
If you keep me safe. Right, we see that all the time.
So we've been given all types of warnings like that, But what does that mean?
Like what is freedom? Well, you can define it different ways.
I've asked a lot of people these questions and I get a lot of different answers to me. I would like to go back to Fai x book The Constitution of Liberty, and I think about liberty because freedom is typically free from something. So I like to think about liberty, which could be kind of interchangeable. But I think about freedom being the freedom from coercion. And coercion is when
somebody forces me to take one of their options. So you believe you have the option to choose, but the reality is either choice that you make leads to their end.
So, for example, take the job or lose your job. Well, I have a choice.
I can lose my job or take the jab. But either way, either one of those options that I am choosing now lead to your ends. See, I want to be freedom. I want to be free to choose the option that leads to my own ends, free from coercion. So that's how we define that. Now, when you understand how freedom works, ability to be free from coercion, freedom isn't anything. Freedom isn't I can't just go slap you
in the face, and I can't harm another person. I should just be free from coercion so I could direct my life as I see fit. So I can choose what I want to do, and really, at the end of the day, it's always your choices.
That's why you see.
Twins born in the same family, the same neighborhood, same economics, same school, same friends, same parents, same gene, same everything, end up in two different places because along the way they made different choices. Now it's pretty interesting today they want to talk about how we all need to be equal, not equal as opportunity, but equal on outcome. How can we be equal on outcome if we can have different choices, And there you have it. If we can just limit everyone's choices, then maybe.
We can get everybody to an equal outcome.
If you're just tune in, you're listening to the Mark Ma Show, we're talking about the decentralized Revolution. We're talking about how they stole your life. Start from a philosophical level, we're going to take it down into something more, much more tactical, so you can understand how this is impacting your life and of course, what we can do about it.
I got to take a quick break though, we're gone just for a second. Don't go away.
I'll be right back, all right, Welcome back. If you're just tune in, you're listening to the Mark Mas Show and we are talking about how they stole your life. And again we tarted from a very philosophical level. We're diving down.
In deep to practical applications.
You can understand we're talking about we start talking about taking away your freedom, which is part of your human ability to express express yourself. Now, the one thing I want to draw back to is that we have the ability uniquely as humans to communicate. And so if you pass laws that prevent me from communicating, that's taking away part of my life. Now I can't think properly, or
I can't speak properly, I can't express myself properly. I'd like to add that, you know, Benjamin Franklin said that the freedom of speech, freedom of communication, freedom of speech is the foundation upon all other freedoms are built. I would actually say that I believe that the freedom to transact is the foundation of all others. Now, you could say that communication is a transaction, right, we're communicating value to each other. But I would say, specifically, the freedom
to transact is the foundation of all others. So, for example, the First Amendment in the Constitution guarantees us the freedom of speech guarantees. Is that, however, if I don't have money to buy a phone to go on social media, or a computer to go on social media, or to print flyers, or to build a website or write a blog,
do I really have the ability to speak? We're guaranteed the freedom of assembly, But if I can't pay to put gas in my truck to drive to the assembly, or I can't pay for food when I get there, I can't pay to get a hotel room, then do I really have the freedom to assemble? Right? And so without the freedom to transact, all of that falls apart.
You know, we've seen this been infringed in the number of ways, and these things do get messy, and freedom is messy, you know where we see cases like so for example, where the Supreme Court ruled about this Colorado case where they didn't want to bake a cake. They don't want to make a cake for a certain group of people. Now you could look at that and say that they were the company that refused to bake the cake was infringing on the other people's rights to receive
a cake. But the problem is, in my opinion, and I believe this to be a priori truth, not just an opinion, but you can decide for yourself. Is that we have in a label of rights that have been given to us by our creator. The Constitution has protected those rights, but those rights can't infringe on your rights. So I have a right to pursue my life as I see fit, as I told you, free from coercion. But I don't have a right to health care. I have a right to free.
Speech, that's my right.
I don't have a right to healthcare. And the reason why I don't have a right to healthcare is because that means a doctor has to provide that to me. But how can I have a right to your labor?
I can't. I can't have a right.
And so in this case, for example, if they said that this cake shop must make a cake for this couple, how can this couple have a right to those people's labor. If someone has a right to my labor, if I have to somehow the court forces me to work for free, to provide health care or to make a cake or whatever for you, then I'm a slave. Now my freedoms have now been taken away. And so that's where the
line is drawn in my opinion. Now you could argue that, well, you have to make the cake because those people have a right to receive a cake.
Well they don't.
You can't have a right to receive a cake because that requires someone else's labor. Now you should have the right to bake a cake if you see fit, certainly, but you can't have a right to have someone else make a cake for you. But I'd love to hear what your thought on that. Feel free hit me up on social media at one Mark Moss let me know what you think. I'd love to get some feedback from you on that. We can see numerous examples of this
freedom of expression. So, for example, we've seen schools like in New Jersey ban the use of religious clothing and things like that. They've banned, you know, wearing Maga hats for example. They've banned you know, American flags in some cases. So where do those rights infringe on other people's You know, I would argue that hanging a flag doesn't necessarily infringe on my right. You might hang something that I don't
agree with. As a matter of fact, to one of my properties I own in Texas, the neighbors hang some flags that I don't agree with. Out there but that's their right to hang them. It's also my right to not to look at them if I don't want to. But then you know, in you know, let's say gated neighborhoods like homewords associations, for example, they could of course pass rules of the Homewaners Association that.
You're not allowed to hang flags.
But that's not infringing to my right because I could leave that neighborhood. I used to live in a gated neighborhood and they did things that I felt I didn't agree with, and so I left and I moved to a neighborhood without an association, and now I can do those things. Other examples of this, you know, freedom of speech that we see or freedom of expression that we see all the time. We could see many examples. So for example, Jason al Dean recently, he's been sort of well,
depends on which side of the al you're on. He's either been demonized or he's been celebrated for making a song talking about like try that in a small town. And you know, he talks about this song like you wouldn't be able to get away with these types of things in a small town. And he was basically saying,
what's been going on in the big cities. You couldn't do that in a small town because the small town has culture and has a community, and people have duties and responsibilities to that community, and they value that community, and they wouldn't allow you to get away.
With those types of things that you see in these big cities.
Somehow that became a big problem, and now cancel culture has come out in full force to try to cancel him for that song. Now, never mind all these other songs you hear about, you know, killing people and robbing people and selling drugs to people. Never Mind all those songs. Those are all okay. But if you talk about community and sense of duty and responsibility, that's the problem. So he got canceled for that. But that takes away his freedom of expression, but also it takes away my ability.
To hear.
Interesting. So these are things, you know. Of course, we see this happening through the Twitter files. It's been exposed pretty well now that Elon must bought that and kind of exposed it. They don't want you to see that that they're doing that, and so they've been now trying to.
Get that hit in. They've deleted some records.
A judge basically said the Biden administration can no longer reach out and use Twitter coerce Twitter to change that. And of course the Bide administration doesn't like that, and so they've even filed an appeal. Wait a minute, court would a minute, No, no, no, you can't take away right.
You have to allow us to do that.
And so again they want to continue to take away that right. Now, what about your property? As I kind of set up before the commercial break, I was talking about how really all property comes from our labor, which is my life, meaning I have to expend my life force, my life energy and the time. Time is the most scarce ass that we have. I have to expend those
two resources my life in order to gain property. John Locke he says that the right to property is the most sacred of all rights of man, the right to own property. Man owns property. That's the way it works in the Bible. In the Ten Commandments, the eighth commandment is that thou shalt not steal. Well, by saying thou shalt not steal, that means that I can't steal, which means I can't take away someone else's property, which means that those property rights are given in the Bible.
By that.
Now, it's interesting to look at the opposite of this, where Karl Marx wrote in the Communist Manifesto to summarize communism in one statement, is the abolition.
Of private property. It's the exact opposite.
So you got thinkers like John Locke, you got the Bible talking about having strong property rights and the problems that break down in society when people steal that property from you. And then of course you have Karl Marx and communism over here saying no, it's all about abolishing private property.
Let's get rid of that.
Now. We can talk about that from a many different reasons of why that is a bad thing in my mind. We'll come back to that in a little bit. But if you're just tune in you're listening to the Mark Maus show, we're talking about how they are still in your life. Things in your life, like your freedoms, things like freedom of expression, things like your property, which is I said, is an extension of your life.
And it gets worse. Don't worry.
We're gonna get into the tactics here coming up next, and of course, things that you could do to protect yourself against that, So don't go away, because I'm going to be right back. All right, welcome back if you're just tuning any listening to the Mark Maus Show. We're talking about how they are still in your life, which sounds like a big title and it is. We started from the philosophical level of how your private property is your life now that it's.
Being taken from you in a number of ways.
Of course, we talked about like sort of like the most direct way, which is you know, taking your private property. And we see that, you know, we actually really saw that happen throughout the pandemic when we start having massive protests all over the world, or really all over the world, but yes in the United States. And what you saw which was very disturbing to me, was that when anybody would try to defend their private property, they became like a target. So you saw a couple examples of this.
So for example, you'd see people mobbing down the street, and if a shopkeeper was out there trying to like stand there so their windows wouldn't get broken, then they became the target. We saw this in Missouri. A couple, an elderly couple walked out on their porch and they held guns because the mob had not only come into the neighborhood, had gone onto their private property. They came out and stood on a porch with guns trying to
defend their property, and they were criminalized. Not the people that had trespassed threatening to whatever, do whoever they can to do their house, but the people that protected it, just like the houses armside the business try to protect it. Even Kay, what was the case where the kid shot had the gun and he shot those people? Writtenhouse, Kyle rittenhouse, right. I mean they were there to protect he had been asked by somebody, his neighbor, to help protect that piece of property.
I think it was like a car dealership. I forget the details. That wasn't the details.
But then they got singled out and they got attacked, so over and over and over we can see trying to defend your property becomes a problem. And of course then you start running this whole campaign about defunding the police, which strangely enough, I've sort of agreed with, but not
for maybe the reasons why you think so. You know, this whole campaign that ran off of that of defunding the police really was about, in my opinion, shutting the police down and like lowering, you know, charges against crimes and things like that. I haven't been a fan of the police budgets blowing up because they've been militarizing, which
has been a really big problem. As a matter of fact, we can see from nineteen seventy seven to twenty nineteen police budgets grew from forty four billion to one hundred and twenty three billion. You know, I believe in the rule of law. I believe that we need a strong rule of law. Nobody wants to be terrorized in their house. And we can see over and over and over examples of countries, but even the United States cities where the rule of law falls down, where crimes aren't you know,
disciplined and enforced. When when laws aren't enforced, the town breaks down. A good example of that, if you ever want to give a good read, I've talked about it here on the show before, is in Detroit.
It was named as a.
Model city, and the more they did to try to make that a model city, the more it broke down, and part of it was not really cracking down on crime. Nobody wants to live in an area with high crime, doesn't matter what level of socioeconomic status you're at. Doesn't matter what race or gender you are. Nobody wants to
live in terror. And so while I don't want to get rid of the police, because that is a problem there, but I also don't want the police to become militarized because I don't believe the best way to handle those types of conflicts is through escalation.
It's really through de escalation.
And so anyway, that's a whole another topic. But we can see that one hundred and eighteen billion was spent funding police forces in the US in twenty eighteen, and just to put that number into perspective for you what that means. We can see American police forces have the world's third most expensive military organization, American police forces. Now America, you know, three hundred and thirty ish million people, small country,
but it's also not the biggest. But yet we have the third most expensive military organization in the police, after of course the US's official armed forces, and then China, so China has four times the amount of people, but yet we spend more money. So I respect our police officers. I certainly don't want to get rid of the police officers. I'm not a big fan of them driving tanks and
shooting first, I'm not a fan of that. What else some other things that we can see though, is that when they did run these you know, defund the police campaigns in some of the big cities like New York City, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, things like that, it's sort of backfired and we saw crimes starting to explode in those areas. And again because without the threat of jail, without the
enforcement of that, then people do more of it. So, for example, I'm in California here, and of course I'm sure you're well aware of the story of how San Francisco basically fell into the pit of despair, really led by Gascon who was the district attorney there. Well, then LA thought that San Francisco fell so hard that why
wouldn't LA want to do it? So they brought gas Gone down to be the District attorney of Los Angeles, and he came in and put all kinds of crazy policies in place, including deciding to not criminalize and not punish certain types of crimes, crimes like, for example, underage drinking. So if you don't punish that, do you think more underage kids drink? Things like driving without a license. Well, if that's not a crime, do you think more people
without a license drive things like resisting arrest? If you don't punish people resisting arrest, don't you think people would resist arrest? I mean, why would I want to get arrested if I could just resist it and not be punished.
But yet that we did.
And I advise you not to go to downtown LA and take a look, but if you do, you'll see exactly what happens from that. But it's also led to massive amounts of polarization. Now, of course, in some schools, even running the blue line flag, which is like the I support the police, has become like a symbol of hate. It's really created this massive amount of polarization. A lot of it's driven by the media, of course. It's almost like it's almost like you're living in two different worlds
depending on which new source you're living in. If you're watching Fox, you're hearing all about the Biden crime family. If you're watching CNN, you're hearing about all the charges being brought against Trump. Now, both of those things are happening at the same time, but one side is continued to pound the table on one the other side is talking about the other, but they're also talking about it
from different angles. So, for like example, during the pandemic, CNN was like literally running their pandemic ticker at the bottom showing how many people were getting affected and how many people were dying like.
Fear fear, fear, fear, fear, fear of fear.
And so when they ran all types of polls, it was no wonder that the typical base of CNN, the left or the liberals or whatever you want to call it, pulled way differently on how they viewed the pandemic and what they thought the response should.
Then the side that watched other news sources.
Now this is not an advocate for censoring what we see, but it is showing how these types of things lead to massive amounts of a loss of freedom expression when they start to control that. Now, a lot of it was because people that tried to speak out and provide alternative viewpoints were censored, and so while mainstream media pushed one narrative, you couldn't really get.
Both sides of the of the aisle. You couldn't get both sides of the to understand the issue on both sides. Now, as that was happening.
We saw, like I said, not just the media becoming polarized, but we also see politics being polarized. One thing that you know, I wrote a book called The Uncommunist Manifesto.
Just shout out plug.
That if you haven't read it yet, you should just go to Amazon and search the Uncommunist Manifesto.
It's like a booklet.
It's about an hour read, hour and a half readepending how fast you read. And it was written sort of as a counter to the original book, The Commontist Manifesto, which is written by Carl Marx in the late eighteen hunds i think eighteen sixty three, which has become one of the number one books in both political science and economics, which is actually really scary. When I read the book for the first time, it was after the twenty twenty, you know, when we had the twenty twenty riots going on.
I remember the leaders of BLM they said that they were trained Marxist, and so I'm like, well, I believe in going back to the source. Let me read directly from the source material. So their trained Marxist, what does that mean. Let me go back and read Carl Marx. And so I read quite a bit of the work about him, as well as the work he produced, including the Communist Manifesto, And when I read it, I was like,
has anybody even read this book? Because I can't believe people would be okay with this if they did so. For example, talking about property, as I already referenced, he writes in the book that to summarize communism in one statement is the abolition.
Of private property.
Well, I suppose if you don't have any private property, you might think that's a good idea. But really what the book highlighted was the struggle between two arbitrary classes, the rich versus the poor. Now I say arbitrary, because what makes you rich in what makes you poor? Is it one hundred thousand? Is it two hundred thousands, five hundred thousand, and five hundred million? And he says that the rich are the oppressors and the poor are the oppressed.
So if I make an extra dollar, now I'm rich, and so I'm automatically an oppressor.
Now, like, how do you divide that up? Right?
But yet that's what he did. But really it was about pitting two groups of people against each other. And that's the same playbook that they still do today, which is taking any underserved section of the population and trying to make them victims. Which that way, of course, you need the government to help you. Just tune you're listening to the Mark Maus Show. I got to take a very quick break and I'll be right back. Don't go away, bear back, all right, welcome back. If you're just tune in,
you're listening to the Mark mash Show. We're talking about how they are stealing your life. Now, we've talked about it from a very high philosophical level, We've gotten down into a little bit more of the tactics. We talked about it from a perspective of they're stealing your life, such as in your ability or your freedoms. We talked about how they're taking away your rights of human expression,
which are obviously innately unique to humans. And now I want to talk about it to a little bit more of a tactical way, and we'll talk about it from an economic standpoint or your money.
Now, when you think about.
It, as I kind of set up in the very beginning from a philosophical level, that I have to expend my life's my life source, my life's energy in order to acquire the property.
Money.
Money is where I could store that energy so I could use it later. So let's say that I work those extra four hours digging that hole, I get the money. I can save that money so tomorrow I don't have to work four hours. I can then deploy that money to get the resources that I need. And so that's the way that you can look at money like a
storage source of value, a storage source of energy. But what happens is, as you're probably well aware, at least if you tune into my show on a regular basis, is that when they inflate the money supply, when they increase more money, that means the existing money buys less
goods and services. So when you see prices going up, it's not that prices are going up, it's that the value the purchasing power of the dollars have gone down, so it takes more dollars to buy those So the reason why it's important to understand is because if I put one hundred thousand dollars in the bank account ten years ago, I was going to buy a house ten years ago, but I thought the market's going to crash, so I'll put one hundred thousand dollars in the bank,
and now ten years later, I want to deploy those hundred thousand buy a house. But the problem is it will buy me about half of the house that would have bought me before. I still have the same one hundred thousand currency units, but the value of those currency units have been stolen away, stolen away by the money printer, which is theft. So when you think about that, through inflation, through money printing, they're stealing the value directly from my
bank without taking my currency units. They just take the value away. But it's a way that they actually steal my life. So for example, you hear about inflation, it's come back down and a little bit.
It's down to about I.
Think the latest reading shows three point two percent, up a little bit from the last reading. Put this into perspective, what does that mean. That means they want to steal only three percent of your life per year. Now the Fed's target is two percent, so they only want to steal two percent of your life per year, So you know,
only ten percent of your life over five years. No big deal, right, Well, if we put that into some calculations, think about it at eight percent inflation, this is the last time I ran the calculations, but just for illustrations purposes, at eight percent inflation, that puts the average income earner in the United States, that puts that increases their cost by about three hundred and twenty four dollars a month just to have the same quality of life that before.
So with the quality of life you.
Had today, how many times you got to eat, how much clothes you buy, you know, if you're eating steak or whatever it is to maintain that same quality of life, it went up by three hundred and twenty four dollars. Well, if you make thirty two dollars an hour, that means you now have to work ten hours more just to have the exact same quality.
Of life that you had the month before.
Now, when I talk about stealing your life, if it's because that's ten extra hours you have to live, I'm sorry it worked to have that same quality of life. That's ten extra hours of your life that you could spend in a way that you see fit, to learn a new skill, to start a new business, to spend time with your wife so you have a good relationship, or with your kids so you have a good relationship, or in the gym for your own health or whatever it may be.
It's your life.
You should be able to spend it as you see fit. But now the government has stolen that from you, because now you're forced to work those extra hours just to maintain the life. Now you could not work those extra hours, and then you could just have a lower quality of life. Either way, your life has been stolen. I don't have
the data in front of me. I've used it many, many, many times, but you can see, like the average hours of work it required to buy the median home in nineteen seventy versus the average hours of work it takes to buy the meeting home today, the car et cetera, one share of the Dow et cetera, and over and over and over. You can see that your life is literally being stolen.
Now.
It hasn't always been the case. As a matter of fact, these taxes aren't aren't super new now. Of course, if you understand how America was founded, you know that, of course, taxes have always been part of the rub.
Right.
There's the Great Boston Tea Party, where the United States revolted against paying taxes to Britain. Didn't want to pay tax, no taxation without representation. The amount of taxes they paid were minuscule compared to what we paid today. But really where taxes really got their hold, We saw them in the Civil War in the eighteen sixties. They imposed a at tax, a three percent income tax for the war, and then.
After the war was over they dropped it.
But really where the income taxes got ratified where it was in nineteen thirteen. And what's important to understand about nineteen thirteen is why what else happened in nineteen thirteen. Well, we saw the creation of both the IRS and the Federal Reserve. So the Federal Reserve gold had been money for all of history, and now the Federal Reserve went to create fake paper counterfeit money out of thin air. But why the heck would anybody want to use fake
paper money? Like imagine today someone says, hey, you should start using this monopoly money here. You're like, no, why would I use monopoly money. I'm not going to do that. And that's exactly what happened. The Federal Reserve said, hey, we printed this fake monopoly money, everyone should use it.
And everyone's like, well, we ain't going to use that. So of course they had to come up with a reason.
How could we get people to use it. Someone had a bright idea, here's what we're going to do. We're going to create the Federal Reserve and we're also going to create the IRS at the same time.
And here's what we'll do.
Since nobody wants to use this fake, counterfeit paper money, monopoly money, what we'll do is we'll create the IRS. And now you have to work all year collecting that fake money so you can send it back to us at the end of the year.
Ah, that's a good idea.
So we saw the IRS and the FED put in to act at the same time. Now, this is why you hear a lot of times something like with bitcoin where they're like, well, you know, bitcoin's not note ever going to make it because we can't pay taxes in bitcoin. And that's where that's where it goes back to really creation of that. Now I have seen a few states, I believe Colorado, I want to say, maybe Arizona. There's a handful of states that are now allowing you to
pay your taxes in bitcoin. Anyway, I don't want to go down that path, but we can see over and over this is happening. And of course this is part of what's known as Kensian economics, and really more today is more pervasive in what's known as the modern monetary theory and modern monetary theory theor risk believe they could just print an unlimited amount of money, which to most of us go but wouldn't that create a lot of inflation?
And they look at it sort of like think about the money supply as like a bathtub where they could print as much money as they want, and if the water level, or if the monetary level starts getting too high, then they pull the plug at the bottom, which is the taxes, and then they can just tax the money out of the system, and they can fill it back up,
and they can tax it back out. And somehow they think they can control the entire economy by printing as much money as they want and then just imposing taxes arbitrarily. Of course, we have hundreds of years of facts that show that that doesn't work. As a matter of fact, there's been studies that show that regardless of what the tax rate is, whether it's two percent, five percent, or fifty percent, the percentage of revenue compared to GDP that
the government receives is always about the same. The reason why is because incentives. Here in California, we have legalized marijuana, and they thought it would be a good idea to legalize it, and we'll just tax it and that way will be a massive extra revenue source for the government. The problem is that they got greedy and they put
a massive tax on it. Now I don't work in that industry, so I don't have the exact data, but they have put a very very very large tax on it, so large in fact, that most of the people involved in the legal marijuana trade business can't make a profit. So something like sixty percent of the marijuana in California
is still being sold black market. So if the state would have said, hey, we'll just give like a more modest tax rate of whatever, five or ten percent, they would probably take a much larger share of the revenue coming in because everybody would gladly pay five or ten percent to be perfectly legal.
But at sixty.
Percent, I'll take my chances, I'll just go black market. And so we can see over and over and over again. The more that they do that, the more that they try to steal your life, either through money printing or through taxation. The more people revolt and how much it backfires on them. Of course, it depends I guess on which side of the al you're on, whether you're looking at inflation good or bad. At the end of the day,
what is good or bad? Unfortunately, I think most people today look at good as something that helps them personally, as opposed to like the greater good. I like to think of good or bad as good being something that takes me closer to my goals, and bad being something that takes me further away from my goals. But again, when we think about it from the world, it shouldn't be your personal goals.
It should be a global goal.
And we can see that if we allowed people to have more of their life, we allowed them to build into their own life, their families, their relationships, their health, the world will be a better place. So I don't support the government steal in our lives. But what do you think I'd love to hear from you? Hit me up on social media at one Mark Moss, let me know, leave a comment of if you're listening to the podcast, let me know what you think. So I cantinue to
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