Dirt poor?

[jaguar]

Inflation is caused by an increase in the quantity of money and by NOTHING...I REPEAT.....N-O-T-H-I-N-G ELSE!!! If Mr. Friedman is saying the target has not been a success, it only means that he has not been successful in convincing people, not that he was incorrect about the relationship.

You idiot. See the following article for detailed information on Friedman's retraction.

The Guardian

It may be from the guardian but it quotes the Financial Times, where the quote and article was origionally published, but I can't access that without paying a heck of a lot of money.

Friedman admitted monetarism was a failure. A tried and tested failure. A failure in the US and a failure in the UK. Period. It was not a success, it did not work. Get the hell over it.

When government takes the fruits of my labor, they are turning me into a slave. It's not like slavery or theft, it IS slavery and theft.

Goddamn. I wish I knew a few ex-slaves right now, I'm sure they'd be lining up to kick you ass for equating income tax to slavery.

The limited powers of government are derived from the consent of the individuals who grant it power. As an individual you have no claim to the fruits of another persons labor therefore neither do 10 people, or 100 people, or 100 million people. You can't give a power to government that you do not have in the first place.

Ok. I see your logic now, it wasn't very clear before.
But surely then if say, one person doesn't agree murder should be illegal, the government has no right to make murder illegal and under the same arguement as you has some kind of moral 'right' to take up armed resistance because he didn't give his concent?