How did she know THIS in 1959?! 

John Galt is an infant's idea of what a Businessman looks like.

A rapist

most important book to freedom ever written

i think its Elon possibly trump or vivek

@@Epicurwat how do you figure?

That’s the most egregious part of this. God forbid your tax returns are off by a slight margin the IRS comes after you. But trillions of our money is unaccounted for with no explanation.

Unbelievable. You are so correct. Work hard to pay off your house and have some very bad circumstances beyond your control happen and you can’t pay your taxes, guess who now owns your house? I would never let that happen however. By the time I was finished, my land would be uninhabitable. Stay well everyone!

Remember the Day before 911?? They announced 3 Billion was missing from the Pentagon!! 911 was an inside job. The Truth is out there. The Bush's are EVIL. AND WHO ARE THEY REALLY??

@@backagain5216 I would own it , because I will pay someone’s taxes and the house is mine until they pay me back.

It was $2.3 trillion and had gone unaccounted for since 2000. It was last mentioned by Donald Rumsfeld on Sept. 10th, 2001. You know what happened next.

Ok what happens when the government does so well that no politician has anything they could offer you to get you to vote for them? Failure is reward with bigger budgets and more power to "Fix" the problems round and round till the wheels come off in a revolution or collapse.

@@Barskor1 You have to be incredibly stupid to think that what you said made any sense lol... What would they offer to get elected if they started using tax dollars to actually solve problems? First off, there will always be problems to solve or things to improve upon, so this line of thinking immediately falls apart as soon as you think about it for more than 2 seconds. But even if they did somehow create a utopia we would elect leaders based on their leadership capabilities and not false promises... It's not exactly rocket science.

Maintain instead of fix. innovate, create efficiency. these things become the new points people can run on. @@Barskor1

@@Barskor1 this has always been a problem but money and taxes isn't the only thing they can run on because things like crime and such other issue that have nothing to do with taxation exist they can run on cleaning up that stuff and or some other issue people think is a problem. the government the federal government was meant to be small and do next to nothing in our day to day lives and it worked that way for about 75 years once they start trying to control everything in our life is when shit went down hill.

Worse, used against us.

There is no hole in her argument. Only in your

Thank you! How many of you see an Amazon delivery truck at least once a day. Now, contrast that with how often you see me driving each day? One of us pays taxes and it's not the one that uses the infrastructure disproportionately for their own gain. TAX THE RICH and PAY YOUR WORKERS BETTER!!!

Amen!! We own a small business and it is successful BECAUSE of infrastructure. We have customers who regularly drive an hour or more to our store to purchase our products. We regularly ship items all over the U.S. Our business could not have existed in the 1920s or 30s (for example) before we had our highway system.

@@BeatlesFan1975nice argument !! You almost completed a 3rd grade playground rebuttal .

​​@@BeatlesFan1975 I understand. The Beatles also hated the Taxman

she died leaving an estate valued between $500K and $1M. She was not anything you claim she was.

And addicted to drugs.

@@HeinzGuderian_ is it a surprise that someone who used the screen name of a Nazi also doesn't understand the estimated failure value of her book sales and that money she had on hand. Kinda makes sense though. Followers always defer to their feelings.

She was collecting Social Security benefits and was enrolled in Medicare. She was a fraud and a hypocrite.

Don't work the CIA -- they will betray you as they did with Rand

No one who works for the government should have a pension funded by tax dollars.

Amen.

THAT NEEDS TO CHANGE THEY THINK GOD DOESN'T SEE THAT!!!!!

"A pension is available to members of congress 62 years of age with 5 years of service; 50 years or older with 20 years of service; or 25 years of service at any age." That seems alright to me. I too get a pension in my job with similar rules.

@@henrychurch6062 that’s different

our tax money makes all of them possible!

Value for money is what people should demand.

Truth is, the rich take more in subsidies than this "social engineering". However, they want you to look at a food stamp and THINK that's the problem.

Or sending billions to Ukraine from our tax-money and think that they can beat the Russians?

correct @@erah4994

And where does the corruption come from? Duh.

show me a fair tax system! I've never seen one

Over 1 million Calif. residents signed to put a tax relief bill on November ballot. But, Newsom and his Democrat Supreme Court removed it.

What's a fair tax system ,by paying taxes on the same money over and over , we get money we pay taxes on it ,we spend it back and pay taxes again on it ,we pay bills etc and pay taxes again on it ,give it and pay etc pay taxes again on it , receive another check and pay taxes again and again and over and over

Yeah for reals, if I see my roads are being kept maintained so I can’t get more flat tires on potholes I had no idea were coming on the freeway, then tax dollars well spent. But when it disappears and when we’re being taxed on literally EVERYTHING and rising, with no receipts to prove where any of it even is going, more homeless showing up, more drugs flooding, then there’s where the problems start coming

Average conservative logic. This video isn't meant to convince anyone with functioning logical reasoning, it's to keep their constituency feeling comfortable with their worldview.

What did she predict?

These right wing, click-bait, "own the libs" videos are fucking off the wall lol

It's funny because she's not cool with the government taking the capitalist's money... But she's ok with the capitalist taking the worker's money. It's also logically inconsistent... If we want the money we can only use it by their voluntary consent. We literally do! These projects are funded by voter approved ballot measures. Fuck these people lol. Also, we can't stand her books because she is an objectively terrible writer.

nah we only think that you're the stupiesd person in this world. Thats it just so simple :)

Taxation is theft and slavery.

"It would be thought a hard government, that should tax its people one-tenth part of their time, to be employed in its service..." --Ben Franklin

Yes it is taxation. Geez, bet you think you should ask "the kings" permission to do anything as well

😮❤

What I'm seeing is examples of Stockholm syndrome

that is a really brilliant idea, let the morons have more power!

I certainly wouldn't choose warfare!

Not a secret agenda/project burried in over 800 pages when voting is in an hr.

Hehehe

I agree 👍

I'm glad someone is keeping this real. Thank you!

First off your wrong, that's not true. Secondly, what is your point? Did she pay into the system more than she took out? Taxation is theft whether you like it or not fool. You're a thief and theives are evil. Stop stealing what isn't your idiot!

Karma

Rand dying poor is fake news, she had assets worth up to 600k at the time of her death. She paid a lot of money into social security(by force of course) for years, so she was entitled to collect.

Ironic, isn't it. She makes me sick.

10% for the Big Guy 😂

Politicians after all "need" money to pay people off. Such dirty politicians they are!! Trump 2024!

Only 3% of the money donated to the American Red Cross goes to charity. The other 97% stays in the American Red Cross for their services. Most the management makes over 1 million in salary. My wife’s friend pays herself $75,000 yr salary to run her own non-profit organization that buys books for local libraries. I heard a woman refer to her as a “saint” The politicians in my state claim 50.4% of our income goes to taxation by the time the last penny of the dollar is spent. It’s captivating…

How much is going overseas?…we are paying the salaries of people in Ukraine right now not only the w@r. And I bet Americans don’t even know about that part of the ‘aid’ money paying them salaries because they can’t work right now…..wow!

68¢ of every welfare dollar goes to the government bureaucracy that collects and distributes the remaining 32¢ to the welfare recipient . Never in the history of the world has a society ever taxed itself into prosperity !

I ask that all the time..

Never. United we stand divided we fall.

That'd be communism

Our freedom is an illusion, and nowadays the veil that used to protect the illusion is crumbling away.

When we go back to 1776!!! All aboard!!!

Towards the end of her life, miss Rand became a drug addict and applied for welfare after she ran out of money. Kind of negates everything she said back when she had money.

The rich no longer pay any taxes

The planet is fine, the people are fvck3d. George Carlin

As her toadies have captured more and more of government over the years, as OP said it’s proving true. Alan Greenspan is just one of them. The corporate media always spoke in reverence of him as he allowed more and more corruption and bubbles. Kept trying to convince us he was the Messiah, until 2008 blatantly exposed the idiocy of Randian economics. But just as Jim Kramer still finds an audience, Ayn Rand still fools people.

The money is spent on infrastructure and schools, hospitals and such. Your not driving on dirt roads. You clowns think the money goes nowhere, problem is the goverment is taking to much and siphoning the money to things we don't need or want

Moron. If it doesn't go to any of those places, how do you think they get built? Magic?

Then how are they built?

​@Cabbagehead25 With the least amount of money. Contracts goes to the cheapest bids and built like 💩 look at all the pot holes for example. Don't worry Ukraine loves your labor.

Yeah and that's not even a liberal or conservative thing either because both sides are guilty of it. Democrat or Republican doesn't matter. Neither party wants to spend the taxes on anything that benefits the public that they extract their taxes from. So I'm not sure how that makes liberals more mad than conservatives. Neither side wants to be heavily taxed with no benefit from it or say so in how the money is spent. Liberals and conservatives agree when it's them being taxed. But when it's everyone else then they have different opinions on who and how much should be taxed. So they both agree on the basic position of "tax anyone you want except me." They both think that way. When it's your taxes they could care less. When it's their taxes it's the end of the world.

The problem with that is when the country and bureaucrats and money grabbers are the ones choosing the definition of health care. In those programs, the program defines how you're allowed to manage and pay for your health. I want to choose for myself, and don't want them dictating how I do it.

@@Vic-Meowsame way for your corporate healthcare. You dont get a choice and it’s costing more money from you and/or your employer Affordable basic care should be a basic right. Affordable! Not free

Unlike zionist states of america

It’s all used by the politicians for their own agenda. Scum who won’t and never have worked, and illegals are getting my disability while I rot. They refused to repay , not “give” actually because I’m a tax payer! I also get no help with healthcare at all yet I’m disabled with no income. If it weren’t for my boyfriend I would be homeless and die. SERIOUS. They are STEALING OUR $ for sht!

​@@Vic-Meow in Cyprus we have a national health insurance that covers almost everything but the dentist's only chose to offer a free dental clean once a year doctors can choose to be part of it and we get a pay deduction depending on your income and how many children you have, they give mother's of four a monthly benefit and a tax free low emission car (we prefer hybrids as fuel consumption is lower and road taxes are dirt cheap but it must be brand new, not used, car's here ain't cheap and the wages need some work for the blue collar industry, i know because I am married to a blue collar man and i am proud of him for being such a hard worker and still doing his body building, ladies trust me if you come across a good and decent blue collar man maybe you should give him a chance. Not all gentlemen wear suits, and not all men that wear suits are gentlemen. Sadly our stupid politicians are taking sides in both wars, and Hezbollah has been hurling threats of strikes against us, Beirut is a half an hour flight from where I live. So yes our politicians now feeling uneasy after the European union elections ended and a 24 year old tiktoker beat them to the pole and popped the floor with their stupid excuses, we don't buy a word they said so we punished them in the most legal nonviolent and democratic way, even the msm is telling them they have failed, trust me we the unvaccinated people and more and more of the vaccinated people are coming to our side after the side effects kicked in, some feel guilt for telling their family to get vaccinated and now are left to mourn them. Our health system was really pushy about the vaccines so both msm and the ministry of health have hurt people, gladly we had some awesome doctors on our side but they got so badly slandered. No system is perfect but if we as citizens can put our pride, ego, personal problems aside for a moment and Start making suggestions of how to get something done nothing can stop you! You vote so you hire that means your politicians are there to serve YOU, remind them that! For the safety of humanity worldwide don't vote Biden. I'm not a trumpie but the more i hear what he says the more i respect him. Better trust the village jester than the suited con.

Exactly! I don't know what the point of this short is!!? Is it to say that people should "choose" to pay taxation because of what Ayn Rand says? I hate tax like the next person but I do also need government services to be provided.

The point is that everyone is used to stealing money from others and living off of the productive efforts of other people. It's morally wrong. This is the most basic childlike level of right and wrong. Kindergarten stuff. Like "Don't steal other kids' toys".

😂 WOW! 👌 Guess you can't realize something as basic as taxation is theft. ✌️

@@andiharp9275 It’s only theft if you didn’t benefit at all from society. So if you don’t use roads, schools, the police, the fire department or any other service the taxes paid for, then you can argue that. But until then, not paying your taxes is being a selfish child who doesn’t understand how much they rely on the world around them

@@kylebarbre4421 That's not true at all. Taxation is theft regardless of who benefits from it. Here's an example....if you steal money from someone, but you benefit from the money you stole, it's still theft. If someone steals money from someone else and you benefit from it, it's STILL theft.

She'd prefer that rich people would just build public infrastructures by themselves but only if it suits them. That's naive and horrible.

That's because you a a retrd in the brain haha

It sure doesn’t when the guy said the title I thought she was gunna be a fortune teller 😂

People with her mind frame Rarely do

Oh yes it Does

100% asking the rich for 0 and demanding the poor make up for it is probably why our govt is underfunded and ineffective . I call the dmv effect, my whole life ive never been to one that was fully staffed and operational. The reason it takes so long isnt because theyre slow or dumb or inefficient its because 5 people have to serve 500 not 25 people serving 500 .

Think that was an accident?

@@James_36 take money and disinformation out of politics now is impossible . They won a long time ago

Due to all the govt taxpayer grants the govt hands out to private corporations (big campaign donors). .

The real problem is THEIR BOTTOMLESS POCKETS! 🤣❤️ They need to sew them pockets up… Stop sending money to other countries… Money that will never come back to this one! Stop handing out freebies to ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS! STOP TAX HEIGHTS AND INFLATION! ❤️

Surely some must.

-ikr ... !-

The thing libertarians prefer to not understand is that money is a socially mediated representative of value, not a sacred value-thing in itself that emerges from some innate grandiose productivity, as Rand's entrepreneurial protagonists pretend to possess. Money is literally "produced", i.e. coined and printed by the state. It can't be privately owned as such, only in its capacity to function as exchange value under certain conditions that are guaranteed by the state. Rand sidesteps this problem by fetishizing gold, as many value essentialists resort to doing. But that just means replacing a later version of the fetish with an earlier one.

Exactly!!

So, anyone with wealth is a thief?

She paid into Social Security why shouldn't she cash those checks that was for money they took money out of every paycheck she earned her whole entire life why isn't she entitled to get it back

So....??????

Don't get your point,,,, that's her money 💰.

Wtf are you spewing ??

Ok. And? You force her to play a game at gun point and then you think it's some "gotcha" when she plays the game ? Now tell me to call a crack head when there's been a theft, rape, or murder.

@@luanawilchek644 ikr🤦

Every humongous CF created by gov't is remedied by more and bigger government. The Left.

If anything, they find loopholes to not have to pay taxes

US is unusual. Most die from eating too much. Canadians who can afford a private operation, don't wait 8 months in Canada. They fly to Florida. Pay for it.

Look at the donation lists of every hospital, foundation, etc. then tell me rich people don't donate. And why is it someone else's responsibility to build your town a free clinic. Go to where they already are. First you want people to buy it, now you want it delivered?

Taxation theft is just one small part of the bigger problem which is capitalism and trade itself. There are alternatives which are neglected such as RBE.

The whole system is schizophrenic, we selected politicians who were supposed to represent us and pay them for bringing laws that screw us?!?!? Ridiculous

You are not making sense. Do you know what capitalism is? It is private control of business. You are saying that taxes are robbery then proceed to say we need to tax businesses. You want to control business through government but don't want government in control. That's just weird. We could just flatten taxes and only ask for them in one place, like at point of sale only. This way you free up money in the economy and you force government to reduce its size and scope down to actual necessities. Letting the people control how they want their money spent.

Well, the way this can corrected, reversed or changed is citizens VOTING for better governance and less spending. But so many people don't care and just let it go - and the government power grows and cannot stop becoming more possessive of our lives and hard=earned property and income. I always vote even though it doesn't seem to matter, and I keep hoping enough of my compatriots vote for true Conservatives to stop the nonsense. But alas....

you must pay for transgender surgeries of the poor!

Not as much as you are. God bless you with your logic.

​@@miroslavradic8632, your reply makes no sense.

We can print money out of thin air to support wars and give forgien aid to s holes who hate us.. but we need to tax people out of their income ??... that makes no sense

So how did we manage before 1939 before income taxes? Tariffs on foreign goods was enough. Greed perpetuates income taxes. Haven't you noticed the taxes that were to go to school supplies, sports, books, etc. are now an additional burden on top of the parents along with their income taxes? When there is an abundance of tax money at the end of the fiscal year does anyone get a check refund? No, it's quickly wasted on something not necessary when it could be used for something like school supplies! There are so many other examples.

@faithm9284 What country survives solely on tariffs? The problem is not to tax too much and not to waste the revenues. Freedom is a dynamic process. Throwing out the system rather than just constantly tweaking it is nihilism. The US regulates the waterways of the world, which, in turn, allows us to keep producing wealth. Of course, the rest of the world could contribute more. And we could wield our power to better effect. Btw, how do you propose we pay the army, police force, courts, judges, bureaucrats like DMV clerks, road crews, DOT crews, pay for street lights, feed the poor, go to Mars, and fight wars? On tariffs?

Exactly. There are answers to that question, but this is incomplete at best. Also I don't think she understood ultra-wealth, beyond which can be truly earned.

@faithm9284 But I can't believe that the US relied only on tariffs on foreign goods to finance the federal government, including the military. In your scenario, we must have had immense reserves of tariff money by 39 to be able to fund WWII, including defeating Germany and Japan simultaneously and financing the development of the A bomb. Also, we have a lot more international competition now. If we tax China too much, they'll look for other markets. Plus, they can out wait us since they're a totalitarian society which government doesn't care if it sacrifices millions of its citizens in order to starve us out of our bargaining position. Eighty five years later, the world's a far different place now than at the start of WWII.

You're brainwashed. There has not always been income tax. We used to be able to keep all the money we made and there were still wealthy people. Government is TOO big that's why they steal our money.

That's a cool idea, but how do you choose which people deserve the money and which don't? And what could you choose when what's the best for one group is bad for another? And who would be in charge of making those decisions? And would this person require vetting in some way to avoid favoritism and if so what qualifiers would be used to appoint them and who would get to decide those qualifiers and..... (endless loop) TLDR - Humans are really bad at agreeing on things.

@@henrychurch6062 What l meant was the money should never leave the country, i.e., billions for other countries' wars, or promoting gender studies in different countries (propaganda). In other words Americans should not be told they have to wait longer, or they may never get pensions in the future, while the President promises Ukrainians pensions. That is the AMERICAN PEOPLE'S money and should be SPENT on IMPROVING the LIVES of AMERICANS. Before a President is sworn in he should have to complete a checklist of tasks he will fulfill and not being wasteful with the people's money should be at the top of the list. If he fails in these basic tasks he should be recalled.

@@heidibee501 I think gender studies is a vastly misunderstood field. For example: How do we advertise this Gillette razor to men, and what color can we change it to so we can get women to also buy it at a higher price? How does the army craft recruitment pitches to attract female soldiers? What kinds of images make men want to smoke your brand of cigarettes? If you remember the early 90's girls had Polly Pocket, and following it's success boys had the almost identical but far more masculine Mighty Max. All examples of gender studies in action: It's not voodoo, it's just a natural extension of capitalism. Does it have some funny and weird applications too? Of course, but most of it is very based in reality. But further - how do you choose what is in the best interests of Americans? The Americans themselves are very different people with very different goals. Should we build a library or a sports center? A food pantry, a block of low income housing or a homeless shelter? Is this wetland that prevents floods worth draining for a highway that saves millions in travel costs? Would this savings be of any comfort to the people who's homes are now in a flood plain? Should schools teach science? is science too dangerous? Should a minority demanding creationism taught instead of evolution be approved? What if they want to teach Hinduism or Shinto creationism? And even further - How would you choose which goals a president meets or doesn't meet? And which lives of which Americans get to be improved and which don't? Andrew Jackson improved lots of lives pushing west, but also authored the trail of tears genocide for example. Also our country is our country because of foreign aid. We defeated England in the revolutionary war with an army bankrolled by the French and the Dutch, and with the support of soldiers from France and Spain sent to die in a foreign war halfway across the world. We only captured and defeated General Cornwallace because the French Navy prevented him from evacuating Yorktown and gathering reinforcements.

@@henrychurch6062 easy, if the money is not spent for an American 🇺🇸 citizen, then it is illegal. That would solve all of our problems. There is enough money, but it gets spent on foreigners because our politicians are on the take. Only spend taxes on Americans for America. Foreigners can be handed a bill for their own deportation.

The entire tax code should b re-written by the people.

You do realize there are a LOT of conservatives who are atheist, right? 😅

@@bluesageful The core of conservative support is from the evangelicals however.

@bluesageful there are definitely some, saying there are ALOT of conservative atheists is a gross overstatement

@@bluesageful Not a lot relative to the majority of conservatives in the US.

As a conservative southern Baptist I can honestly say that I don't hold any prejudices against anyone for their personal beliefs. Whether it be religious or political. I like most conservative Christians I know hold a strict live and left live attitude. That is why I believe in limited government. I also believe in government accountability. Because without oversight and accountability, we have a dictatory government made up of the "ruling class" which is no different than a tyranny. I'm also one of thoae crazy people who believe that direct taxes on citizens personal income is unconstitutional. Taxes were designed to be levied on transactions and other forms of "indirect" means. The direct tax on our income is what started this country's government bloat and the only way to get our federal government back in check is to remove the majority of its funding. But like I said earlier, I'm crazy, lol 🤪

But then how will people like Biden get their kick back? I think we need to audit every politician that has become wealthy and find out how they did it.

Actually you might be surprised how much US wealth flows from cheap access to those foreign nations surpressing the people of those countries building up industries and taxing raw matetials used in US goods because of the money the US gives that are pocketed by those corrupt leaders, also most of the US companies now exploit that cheap foreign labour to keep your prices down.

America's wealth is made from these countries.

Imagine if the wealthy paid taxes like we do. Imagine the money we could generate

Yeah.. and the rich blue states taxes propping up and subsidising the .... the poor red states!

And that's just the tip of the iceberg lol....

Great response!

we are taxed for the air that we breath.

Would really like you to be in charge of the UK! We need people like you!

And now that I think about it we’re are paying for them to pay other countries for their people to come here and it is in the millions, but we pay taxes for you not to help the homeless, our desolate communities, this is so cruel and disgusting. We have no choice to pay, but it doesn’t even help the people, communities or our roads, schools anything very sad. We are prisoners, and they are taking most of our hard earned money.

Yeah, no one is haves a free choise, u ha e to eat sleep and shit every day, have to hunt or get a imagination thing called money to have this freedom, free is a fucking made up word doesn't really exist

But i was toldthat there was a vote of whether to use german or english as the 1st language, 💯% of the votes went to english. Wise choice, let me tell you as someone, who has german as 1st language.

The government's give us a false sense of freedom of choice witches to essentially obey them or give you consequences such as ruining your credit and even going to jail where you are basically blacklisted from a lot of jobs because they don't want somebody that went to jail. I don't think people should go to jail for not paying their taxes if they don't consent to that. That should be a personal choice. I can understand going to jail for murder, stealing, abuse or SA. But not if you want to pay your taxes. I voted a couple years ago because at the end of the day they work for the same agent just different side of the coin.

That’s why we have a two party system if we the people stop voting in the same crooked people over and over again we might stand a chance

@@tyronejohnson4746How’s that working out? All that happens is that one governing party is cycled out and another corrupt one elected.

How much did the Pentagon lose around 9/11?

@@ELSHELL that's his point..... TRILLIONS of dollars were "lost" in the accounting, because a plane crashed into the accounting wing of the building..... how convenient, right.... G.W. Bush and Dick Cheney were two sneaky foxes, weren't they :D

@@LukasMatejka-du5hb Are you actually suggesting that 9/11 was a scam? Are you kidding me right now?

​@@ELSHELL 2.3 trillion, to be exact.

@@lancefurcinite6518 ty

The perfect world in her books exists in a vacuum of childless, brilliant, healthy adults all in their 20s to 50s. No one is old, infirm, mentally ill, handicapped or needing extensive medical care. It’s a fantasy world that in reality doesn’t exist.

Ayn Rand incorrectly assumes there is such a thing as a free market within a capitalist economic system. There is not.

I’m glad I didn’t have to scroll down very far to find a sensible comment.

Extreme views of the world don't work . Why is the clip edited so poorly?💩

I’d rather live in her world then Mao China

A very large, misguided portion of society is in love with the Idea that whoever controls the paper is special. They aren't and the reason poor people are poor right now is simply because the wealth has been allowed to move through their hands before anyone else's. Fuck whatever moral failing any of these shysters, and heartless gargoyles want to try and pin it on.

Think about it when grud goes down nome of these things will help, people need to b more self sufficient.

Correct, dear god give this guy a billion views

We have more than enough contributions if we had a 20% flat scale & the rich wouldn't care the problem is that's not enough for the govt theift, waste & corruption. Slush fund its a fucking Joke!

😂 how ? Wall Street guy provides more than the plumber

explain how the USA existed and built infrastructure and maintained a military (even fought wars) for over 130 years without an income tax. It was done through tariffs on imported goods.

​@@HeinzGuderian_ In the US, slavery was legal from the time of its founding in 1776 to 1865. For 90 years, you had people building your country for free. On top of that, while no income tax existed, there were numerous excise taxes and, for a time, US citizens were taxed directly. It wasn't just tariffs. As early as 1862, while the Civil War was going on, the precursor to the IRS was founded (at that time called the Office of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue) and an income tax was established, though it didn't take its modern form. Income Tax lasted for 10 years, until 1872, when it was rescinded. It only took 37 years until, in 1909, Federal Corporate Income Tax was established, with Federal Income Tax for the general citizens coming into existence in 1913. Also, the post war, 1950's economic boom that all you conservatives idolise had the highest income tax rate of US history at 90%.

@@georgepantzikis7988 lol. None of what you posted is true, save for the part about tariffs and excise taxes and the North's income tax. Nothing was built for free. Nobody paid 90% tax rates. JFK got Congress to lower the rates and that created the economic boom. It was the 1960s. The 1950s is easily explained for economic prosperity...when you're the only country with industry, you tend to do better than those that were destroyed.

Explain how? 🤔

Ok Karen!! You obviously have zero clue how government actually works. Bless your BLACK HEART 🖤

Philosophically speaking, morality precedes politics. Plus, all those commodities mentioned in the question existed before income taxes existed in the US. If people value something, they will invest in it. The government gun isn’t needed if people value something.

No, she literally said NOTHING beyond "Taxation equals theft!" She never once addressed a practical concern.

@@Ian_sothejokeworksyour responses show just how out of touch you are you are the definition of listening to respond and not to understand 😂😂 pathetic

People give her far too much credit for what amounts to a philosophy of selfishness.

​@@DrFunk-rk6yl To be selfish, one must first have a self.

Are u talking about the Ukraine? Because if u do, than u clearly don't understand that us fighting putin rn with Ukrainian hands. And if they don't, putin will take advantage and fight Nato countries which close to Russia. And, if it happens, America have to not just write a check, but send actual soldiers there and it will cost many us citizens lifes.

@@111Sunshine No one cares. Ukraine can get bent. Americans are suffering and your response "but but what about bad man Putin". Want to send more money to Ukraine, then answer this: Why is it that Russia only invades Ukraine when Democrats are in charge and why do we have to send money each time?

​@@111SunshineYou don't know that

​@@111Sunshineu should have that same energy for Israel

Ya know, the problem with being king of the mountain is there's always someone trying to knock you off. The US is the king of the Mt, do you agree? Would you have that any other way?

She did answer

This IS just a short, though, so it wouldn’t be fair to conclude that.

The man who accrued the wealth did not do it by himself. He had the help of a nation’s resources to rear a child into an adulthood laborer, and then oppressed the value of the worker’s labor not paying him his true value. The margin of suppressed wages with no benefits, combined with the top price he can collect on the service or product (causing inflation) is what enabled his success, all sacrificed by the country who provided him the opportunity for that success in the first place. The _very least thing he owes_ in gratitude to that country, is taxes

@@Cometcast12 Roads, primary school and military. What other resources are you talking about? The nation didn't provide the seed money, the assets or the know how to build a business. The worker needed a job and gets experience to then seek more compensation. The worker isn't risking anything by working for a business owner. The business owner is risking capital. The worker didn't innovate, invent, become a subject matter expert or provide any service above performing a job. If the worker has more value that the worth of the work, the worker should find a better job. The money that the business spends on workers and other services reenters the local market and drives the economy. Most people work for a business to make ends meet. When the government raises taxes on business, employment and wages decrease. Taxes are funding several failed programs. Less money is actually going into infrastructure than social programs like pay off student debt.

@@Cometcast12 How much of my salary do you need to be happy?

The military is the worst about wasting your tax dollars. During the 80’s they would literally shove helicopters off the decks of carriers along with tools because at the end of the year. October rolls around everyone was clamoring for more money and had to show a need. I was a dental assistant and we literally threw instruments and supplies out in order to get more money and purchase new equipment. So wasteful.

Individual integrity matters. Or the whole thing falls apart. Hence here we are.

And you choose to work for them?!?!??

you should tell the public about it or you are bullshit

Please continue, it is very interesting.

The issue is the government squanderers a majority of it and also finds ways to funnel tax payers funds into their accounts! If you think they are maximising tax payers funds for infrastructure means you’ve never traveled to other developed countries like Japan where you couldn’t find one road or sidewalk with any uneven pavement plus high speed rail and internet quality that is far superior than the US! China has better infrastructure than the US with 40,000 km of high speed rail with incredible infrastructure as well. US is 3rd world compared to many other countries!

And military, law enforcement, fire department, regulations that prevent manufacturing from poisoning the environment, and the list goes on. Her views were incredibly simplistic and irrational.

Not really, the US is way way more corrupted compared to the countries it accuses like a Karen projecting and slandering everything she is on you. That means Russia and China are actually way better managed and you can actually go there and witness first hand how bad are the lies told about them.

🎯🎯🎯exactly 💯

They feign outrage at each other but it’s all to con the taxpayer. You are correct.

No lie detected.

The Rothschilds. Yeah I said it!

Do a little bit of basic research before commenting nonsense. Ayn Rand did not die penniless. Her estate was estimated to be worth somewhere between $500k and $1 million when she died which in 1982 was a decent sum. She did get social security, but so what. She paid into it. Against her will, but she had to do it, so it was hers to take out after retirement. As far as your statement about throwing excrement at nurses, if you are going to completely fabricate something at least make it believable.

Wow. Sounds like karma to me.

I have not read the book but it's still I am shocked to learn that she passed away in a public hospital!!!

Yup

The elderly, poor and disabled are the ones we all should be learning from. When people are faced with difficulties and death, they usually realize the truth of life.

When they drop an infant off on the Moon, and that baby creates a billion dollars in wealth THEN I will use the term "self-made". Until then...

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All of Rand's work is narcissistic hypocrisy, as is that of all her followers. In addition to the entire "philosophy" behind it being "ummm greed and selfishness is good, ackchually" it's also quite possibly the most logically incoherent school of thought out there.

Exactly. How anyone imagine Rand is some sort of genius when she cannot grasp such basic indisputable facts is beyond me. She's full of it.

"Every "self-made" person owes their success to the society that makes it possible." To a point. But do not downplay the businessman's hard work. Without businesspeople, there wouldn't be anyone to provide adequate and easily accessible supply of things everybody wants to buy.

Are you being sarcastic or is this valid to you? I'm not a supporter of hers, but your comment is hilarious

@@carlystuart4403 People that lived in the former USSR had a very diluted view on life based off circumstances.

Not income taxes. You kept what you EARNED!

wasnt alot prior to early 1900s in context to the tax machine,wasnt paved roadways for automotive travel,wasnt electrical grid, national parks,or fed schools

@@nickzalucha218 Illiteracy at that time was just as demonstrable as your reply.

Corporations paid Taxes, but have been working on shifting the burden of Tax to the Workers making Labor tax the primary source whereas Labor Tax was previously seen as Slavery and Abhorrent. Corporations pay tax (tribute) because they have entered into an agreement with the Government, previously the Crown, to annex X natural resource in return for Z. The thing I dont understand is how the American People fought a War with England so the English Crown didnt Tax the Trading Companies operating out of the 13 Colonies they were bequeathed. The Trading Companies literally convinced the average man to get up and fight a War that had nothing to do with them and would actually be fighting for their own enslavement to those Trading Companies

We’ve done a hell of a good job erasing everything before the New Deal in this country. People will tell you there’d be no roads, post offices, electricity etc without government. Meanwhile the government has created monopolies where many of these things can only be done through them.

Trump created 8 trillion with a Republican majority just saying

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F the Federal Government- all criminals

No, the government doesn’t care about your credit score, but companies do.

​@@TStLou1Corporate America is full of criminals and the Capitalist system has enabled those criminals to take control of the federal government!

Ikr. It’s 100% robbery!! And, who decides how much these crooks make?! Their salary should be around ours! Our politicians are millionaires, for doing nothing, except for making us harder working slaves!! Ridiculous!

Not all good sameritans would give money to anything that is not going to make them money.

I don’t like being “robbed” by anyone (so I stay heavy)+IDC who it is you can get it too! You’ll need to pry it from the vice-like grip of my cold dead hands man bc I’m no punk+hate a bully. Fight the fair one son!

I don't think trickle-down infrastructuring would be effective.

Demonstrably false. These videos get attention not because of the rarity of the event itself, but the rarity of the people who step up to help. If everyone went around giving the homeless money, firstly they would not be so many homeless and secondly we would not watch the videos, because they would not be interesting since everyone would be giving them money. The Bystander Effect is a perfect example of the broken human psychology that we need certain structures to help fix, including government and policing.

War profiteers.

Trumps indicated tax cut will save 3m annually for a billionaire and it will be paid for by working class.

a strong military is what keeps us free and the rich have 0 obligation to the poor however many of them help because they want to. Freedom not Taxes!!!

@@greenwave819Who do you think allow the rich to make money? Their workers. Low wages make bosses rich. And they also need all the pieces of our government to work. Workers who can read (public schools), infrastructure to move goods around the country (road maintenance, stoplights, etc) hospitals to treat their workers so they can go back to work after an injury or illness. And so many other examples. If you take away the things that allow our country to work, the rich would lose all their money

​@@greenwave819so the rich are free to exploit the labor of the poor, but the poor have no rights at all? After you finish middle school you'll realize the problem with that.

The reality is taxation is a farce! We pay taxes only to uphold the illusion that you’re funding the government WHICH YOU ARE NOT! It’s SHOCKING but it’s TRUE! The government is funded by money printing! Treasury bonds. Paper backed with paper! A bubble that will inevitably/eventually burst. The situation is even worse than it seems/looks. Because if most people be it Australians, Americans and the rest of the world were to become aware of this farce, confidence in the/our currency would be lost! The dollar would FALL & the western civilisation with it! Henry Ford said it well a century ago: “It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.”

You didn't explain ANYTHING about why your "liberal" sister was annoyed.

@@TheFergyme Because the system worked you nitwit. Having a “system” that failed several generations over, and ended MILLIONS OF LIVES for the “system.” Communism has failed at life and equally meant death to millions.

@@TheFergymeMaybe you should rewatch the video and listen to what she said. Forcing money out of my pocket through legislation is legal theft, in the name of “taxation.” I have no choice as an individual to approve or disapprove that pound of flesh torn from me. Who’s “oppressed?” The people who produce a wage, or the government who just strong arms people out of their money?

Look for this headline: Not A Single American Has Received Biden's High-Speed Internet Despite $42.5 Billion Funding In 2021 Pretty much explains everything in real time!🤪

SHE DIED ON WELFARE.

Because libertarians don’t care. They are just greedy people

Because there are no alternatives, "taxation if theft" until the rich don't have a road to drive their cars. :P

... "Atlas Shrugged" was her 645,000-word essay on how to accomplish... just that. I don't need to remind you of the enormous operational-efficiencies achieved when federal-goverments and bloated bureaucracies are formally "castrated" and removed from non-provisional spending; or... perhaps I do.

I thought I was the only one.

Nice try...lol

Yes, and that's what today's libertarians believe to, the most selfish people in the country. The MAGAt cult are the looniest though.

No, it's not complete individualism. She acknowledges that services you cannot provide yourself must come from others and that no one person can know all. She just believes that people must learn to cooperate and enter into negotiations voluntarily and openly for goods and services and that no government should be able to tell you how to operate your business or run your life by force. I have never heard Rand say, for example, you should break the law or run your business in a crooked way. If you are doing business correctly, it should seem as if a government does not exist. Another interesting point is that collusion has never occurred without the 'cover' of the government. Businesses merge and break apart constantly. True collusion cannot occur without the support of the government. Note: It will help to understand Ayn Rand if you look into her earlier years. She came from Russia and saw with her own eyes what communism did to her people and country.

I read Atlas Shrugged in high school (required reading). I didn't find it to be a particularly intelligent, evidence based argument for absolute property rights and laissez-faire economics.

@@CambriaCandiceMaria. The Soviet Union never achieved socialism. It started as a communist society, but devolved into authoritarianism. Nobody I know wants pure socialism. We want more social programs in a social democracy. Like in Scandinavia

Tell me one government that doesn't mismanage the money?

Facts... because good people don't mind contributing to those things and helping our children and elderly and veterans. But I'm not willing to help those who are using our money for their own personal gains.

When in office Obama doubled the National Debt to over 8 Trillion. Biden added another 23 Trillion. Another 2 Trillion went up when Trump was in office. We need to Starve the Government into reasonableness. Vote for Fiscal Conservitives only, & hold them to their task or replace them.

​@@matiyev Poland

Any government that has a military is mismanaging funds. Governments that prop up corporations are mismanaging funds. The problem is capitalism

She certainly was!!

How? I don't know anything about her.

She took welfare payments.

No...she wasn't. If you mean her taking Social security at the end of her life she had always said that it was moral to regain the money stolen from you in taxes.

@@Uncle_Jacob ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-5KmPLkiqnO8.htmlsi=roC2AhPO9FItyAQV ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-4wYR6e9Z6es.htmlsi=7V-PaKxKywFdcz2m

You are definitely telling the truth. I-20 in Shreveport is so bad that you can’t even get up to speed without messing up your ride. It’s just littered with car and big rig spent tires. And it’s not only the interstate but it’s every single road in Caddo Parish unless rich people have to drive it home.

Republicans are terrible at utilizing tax dollars.

Slaves came in on ships there!! No white rich man wants to help African people

Stop electing idiots.

​@mikemossa9640 pick up your trash

The Pentagon is criminal. 9/11 occurred to eliminate the records and be perceived that we were under attack.

60 billion went to Ukraine and a bunch of billions went to enemy Iran

In other words, we need to wipe out our records before they start an investigation into where we used that money for and for who. Typical.

Don't forget about Lucky Larry!

​@@justinmanson2793Is that the "Pull it" guy?

This was the case right up till Regan. After that, we see a very clear decline in the wellbeing of everyone who couldn't drown politicians in money

This is complete BS. People would still bitch about taxes if it were used to save their own life.

​@@aarongray7861 They were mostly all bad, but Reagan was the worst.

If billionaire spending raised the quality of life for everyone then no one would force taxes.

@@h.a.l.3980 Hi, I'm from denmark, notoriously taxed. low corruption high welfare, never heard anyone complain.

Huge hypocrite, indeed.

Sorry, bankers were behind the income tax and it began in 1913, not 1939.

From 1887 to 1932 we had how many roads and how many cars driving on them? Oh not that many , right? 😅 Oh yea, that's why it worked way back then. You want it all but you want it the same as it was 162 years ago? Great plan🙄

Odd because it was in 1973 that PedoPeter became US senator for Delaware.

No, that’s not how it worked. Go to real school. Prager U lies. Income tax started in 1913 to curb the inequalities wrought by the Robber Barons.

​@@c.a.3358 income tax doesn't pay for the roads; the gas tax per gallon does. Same thing with schools, parks, etc, except those are from property tax (ie land)

Possibly only Switzerland. Direct voting and citizen armies in the cantons.

​@@elcarajo66 Direct voting, but on what themes? All? I highly doubt it. Citizen armies in the cantons? There are no citizen "armies" in canton. There is only one army: the Swiss Army, with cantonal garrisons. And with a mandatory national service and reserve time (from 20 to 58 years old, or something along those lines), with a core of professional soldiers.

@@BriselanceSwiss army not a profesional but armed to the roof

Iceland

Do you all know the difference between a Democracy and a Republic? Do any of you know Americans are not a Democracy but, a Republic?

Intentionally

Yeah, and I'm sure Trump's first priority is to fix those problems!!!

Leave America. You hate it.

@@andrewrollason4963 Why should they leave? Just because you aren't happy with the way things are being handled, doesn't mean you should leave and abandon your home!! I'm sure you complain sometimes??

You want to see abject poverty and homelessness? Make poor people pay for their children’s education. Make them pay to use roads. They can’t and they won’t. Ever see the slums in India? That’s what America will look like.

You sound like a critical thinking Ayn Rand type Objectivist and that is wonderful !

Heck. Find some volunteers. Raise the funds. Thang won't cost that much. And build ur community. If u all want it bad enuf.

Set up a pickleball court in a parking lot, abandoned lot or park. Problem solved.......for those who actually want it. But that's not usually the case.

Anything with a name as silly as pickleball gets a downvote from me, just on principle.

Lol, I'm sure that we live in the same town!....The money would be better spent on the lack of affordable housing issues!