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<p>“Marriage penalty” is the colloquial term given to the addition in taxes that married people have to pay compared to if they had stayed single. Over the decades, the marriage penalty has come and gone depending on which voting block was most powerful; single people or married people. Though the Trump tax changes have reduced it, there is still a marriage penalty on Federal Income taxes fo...

<p>Families are the fundamental building blocks of society. Single Millennials may think they're the center-of-the-universe but without kids, single people, even childless couples, are little more than drones, ignored in their old age, and completely invisible to history. That's a hard fact for narcissists to hear, but the ultimate goal of everyone should be to be part of a family. Fortunate...

<p>Discipline is one of a parent's primary responsibilities, yet many parents have neither the aptitude, knowledge, experience, nor inclination to complete this role. Discipline curtails future behavioral problems. Many parents have become so lenient and narcissistic that unruly children are enabled; that can't possibly end well; in fact, an undisciplined child is forgiven blaming their pare...

<p>Children are resilient: it makes little or no difference to a child how it comes into the world, in/out of wedlock, wanted/unwanted, poor/rich; children don't know and don't care; luckily for the human race which has spent the vast majority of its history raising children mostly in those conditions. The one statistic that is worrisome, however, is that children raised on Welfare, tend to...

<p>The stereotypical Single Mom has a child out of wedlock then is supported by the State; or the divorced mother of 3 clinging to alimony and child support from a begrudging Ex. Then there are moms who want the kid but don't want the partner, instead using a sperm-donor, who parade around like they're something special, and need elite treatment, proud that they are manipulating the future o...

<p>Times have changed in the past century, people are mobile; new parents don't live close to extended family to help take care of children any longer. Worse, child care is victim to the weaknesses of Market solutions, and has become way too expensive for young families just starting out. Tax deductions for children don't make sense because most of the people who really need daycare don't pa...

<p>The #1 goal of any society is to perpetuate itself, and that means having children. That's why Reproductive Rights are strongly supported in U.S. jurisprudence: no forced contraception, no child-bearing licenses, parents decides for the child, and legal abortion. Unfortunately, there is a self-loathing component promoted by the Identity Politics Left that explicitly demands no more White...

<p>There's a 70% chance that marriages can stay together for a decade before they divorce, and an even chance that they can stay together for 20 years. Those would be pretty good odds in Vegas but somehow expectations, probably religious indoctrination, there's the idea that people would stay married for their whole lives. That's unrealistic. People change, and multiple decades is a lot of c...

<p>Marriage is like a starting gun; until people get married, their lives are on hold. Marriage is where maturity comes from because it's when everything stops being only about you. Even bad marriages are better than never, and even divorce is better than never growing up. Marriage means making a commitment: marriage is buying a house, marriage is changing your friends, marriage is having a...

<p>Trade seems to be a reoccurring topic, let's review:</p> <ol> <li> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Increasing productivity is good but that doesn't justify all forms of trade.</p> </li> <li> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><a name="page-body8"></a>"Free" Trade is the darling of Collectivists...

<p>When trade increases productivity, it's a good thing, but when trade is used to bypass U.S. regulations, or undercut American workers, it's a bad thing. That's where the term “Fair trade” came from, as a means to discourage exploitation. Unfortunately, in the public's mind, trade is trade is trade, and trying to promote only Fair Trade or Balanced Trade, is ignored. The unfortunate fact i...

<p>The TransPacific Partnership (TPP) was put on hiatus by the election of Donald Trump, but it still has relevance because the next president may be a Globalist rather than a Nationalist. The most noteworthy part of TPP was that it was a secret agreement. As odd as that sounds, its proponents seem to find no problem with America signing something that only a couple dozen business executives...

<p>Globalists want a One World Government and Open Borders, Collectivism on a grand scale. They use as justification their claim of less violence and longer lifespans that comes from doing what is best for everybody. The obvious problem with Globalization is that everyone has to have the same goals – worldwide. The opposite of Globalism is Nationalism, the attempt by a country to retain its...

<p>The concept of “Free” Trade was formalized in the 1990s by economist John Williamson; the neoliberal policies of "stabilize, privatize, and liberalize trade." It was adopted by Washington, D.C.-based institutions; the IMF, World Bank, and U.S. Treasury, so it became known as the “Washington Consensus,” and was immediately contentious. For example, the policy's emphasis on penetr...

<p>Another nation cannot exchange their currency for U.S. Treasuries, otherwise they would simply print their way into having America's taxpayers be their slaves. No, they've got to use U.S. dollars, and they've got to get those dollars from someplace. Congo and Kyrgyzstan don't have a lot of U.S. Treasuries but China does: why is that? When Apple builds a factory in China, it has to convert...

<p>When the word “progressive” is used in economic terms, it means the transfer of wealth downward, rich to poor. Conversely, “regressive” means the opposite, wealth goes upward; poor to rich. Free trade is regressive because it transfers wealth from the 99% to The 1%. How it does that has been obscured by the proselytizing that free trade provides cheaper goods for everyone, and that “a ris...

<p>Though the media tends to focus on the Trade Deficit, there are many other ways that foreign nations can receive U.S. dollars that they then send back to the U.S., which finances our National Debt, and often causes bubbles. Balance of Payments is the economic term that encompasses everything; it includes Foreign Aid America makes to other countries, that's about $40 billion a year; immigr...

<p>For the past decade, the U.S. has been running a three-quarters of a $trillion Trade Deficit, the largest trade imbalance of any nation by far, over $10 trillion so far just this century, but “Free” Trade advocates insist this is not inherently a problem. They claim that in a fast-growing economy, trade provides the needed jump in productivity required to prevent inflation, and a rising t...

<p>“Free” Trade is essentially the exploitation of destitute labor in other countries, only to impoverish our own, for the benefit of a small Nouveau Aristocracy. Worse, it cedes our national sovereignty to international courts, trade tribunals, and military pacts, which is extremely anti-democratic and certainly not in the best interests of our nation's citizens, violating the very essence...

<p>The U.S. is a large enough nation that it could theoretically supply anything it needed from within its own borders, but in the essential economic equation: consumption = production, trade can play an important part by increasing productivity. There are Capitalism reasons for trade with other countries but the increase in productivity it provides is the most important; some countries have...

<p>The whole concept of a corporation is confused, let's review:</p> <ol> <li> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Business has no ethics, which leads to unethical behavior.</p> </li> <li> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">A Liberty society relies of contracts to exist.</p> </li> <li> <p style="margin-botto...

<p>People don't use the word “oligopoly” much anymore, except to describe Russian billionaires; we now use the word “Elites” to describe power concentrated into a small inner-circle of Deep State and monied interests that control the country. Oligopolies inevitably develop over time, a side effect of democracy. Indications of oligopoly are elected leaders who are related to each other, like...

<p><font color="#333333">There's no ethics in business. In fact, business has no goal but to make a profit, and no rules but those established by government; why should it be any different for their customers? People have to voluntarily obey the law, and since in many cases regular people don't know what the law is, they follow the ethics ingrained in them by society. Often,...

<p>After that first bit of necessary consumption: food, shelter, protection; being a consumer is actually empowering. Buying things puts control into the hands of the purchaser. For some people, this is a proactive way they can position themselves in the dominance hierarchy, which is why the thing they buy is not nearly as important as being the one making decisions and ordering around the s...

<p>Isn't the goal for everybody to live like the Jetsons, working 3 hours per week, and spending the rest of the time pursuing your own muse. There's only one way to get there and that's through an economic system that increases productivity, specifically a Market-based system that relies on greed for motivation. No one makes a new machine that replaces hundreds of jobs out of altruism; they...