We all want freedom and justice. The U.S. Constitution, as envisioned by our founders, allowed a framework for a free market economy.
“Freedom" as a dictionary definition “is the power or right to act, speak, or think as one wants without restraint or impediment, an absence of subjection to despotic government, not being enslaved”.
Justice is a system based on fairness (moral rightness) in which every person receives their equal treatment from the system, including all rights, both natural and legal, i.e. rules to play by.
Free markets operate on some very basic but fundamental rules. They are based on private property (the dream of all citizens), unimpeded economic exchange, competitive markets, and limited government intervention.
A free market operates on the following specific rules:
- The markets set prices through exchanges processed according to the laws of supply and demand;
- Business and the risk-taker receive product protection and independence of operation through Contract Law and Tort Law;
- Government provides steady economic growth conditions, maintains a stable currency, citizen safety, enforces and defends property rights;
- Government provides sufficient, not invasive, oversight to assure citizens that transactions within markets are held accountable through a responsive and responsible justice system that eliminates corruption and sustains just, legal arrangements.
What about the collectivist world of socialism and communism? Free markets do not exist, nor are governments resistant to corrupting influences.
They manage humans through these rules:
- Absolutely controlled central banking system;
- Government control of citizen education, labor, transportation, and communication;
- Government ownership and management of agricultural means and factories;
- Total abolition of private property and property rights confiscation;
- Heavy income tax on every citizen;
- Elimination of rights of inheritance;
- Centralized planning via regional planning entities (One Bay Area/9 North Bay Counties).
Socialism is not encouraging your sustainable friends as responsible citizens to join you to collect trash from your favorite beach on the seashore. It is government that runs the citizens' lives 24/7. The collectivist conceit is that politicians and bureaucrats presume to make decisions for the larger population.
That is central planning, which is not a voter-friendly process. They don't ask for permission. They define industry location, goods selection for manufacture, quantities, job requirements, who consumes and how much, and exclude personal desire. The public good isn’t a consideration--only their self-righteous whims.
The expansion of repressive/control technologies using cameras, facial recognition, sensors, micro-targeting, Artificial Intelligence tools, bot attacks, and speech synthesis, to mention but a few, become unrestricted. Absolute control will be the standard in a collectivist government.
Without a Convention of States and return to the constitutional form of our republic, there is little to stop the federal government from adopting such controls.
What can one do?
What happens to your home and property if future tax levels of Proposition 13 become subject to a simple majority by California sanctioned laws?
What happens when business is assessed annually for property values and is taxed accordingly, the reverse under 2019's Proposition 13 where re-assessment is permitted only when property is sold?
There are free Constitution and Government courses available at land grant colleges in Michigan which illuminate the dysfunctional governance system we face today. There is the Convention of States, an Article V movement that can restore self-governance.
Stay alert to the ever-increasing regulation pouring out of California government which has become a central planning agency to effect tax increases and regulatory oversight.
Join with the thousands of Californians who have signed the Convention of States petition. Put the Assembly and Senate on notice you are not happy being a “French Jacobin,” one-party state.
Do not allow a mob-majority to crush your voice. The nine states that have signed-on to a "winner takes all" in Presidential elections (California leads the way) have no understanding that five or six states with large populations would elect the President, and the other 45 states would have no input. That is tyranny with no representation in its worst political form.
“When the law no longer protects you from the corrupt, but protects the corrupt from you, you know your nation is doomed.” -Ayn Rand
