Twelve revolutionary acts that’ll make Donald Trump the greatest president in history and will make America truly great and free again UPDATED

1. Selling off all federally owned land which includes national parks and reserves. Currently the federal government owned 640 million acres of land which is 28% of all of land in the United States. I start out with this cause this is an issue that literally almost nobody talks about. NOBODY. The federal government has constitutional obligation or authority to own any land other than say District of Columbia or any plots federal buildings sit on top of. National parks were first started by Teddy Roosevelt by executive order without any say from the states. Trump should simply give it back to states and private landowners, ranchers and contracters. If he were to sell off $50 an acre take that number multiple it with 640 million; that makes 32 billion dollars. A lost part of federalism would be restored overnight.
2. Cut spending – BY A LOT. Cut spending where it isn’t needed or re-appropriate it to different areas. Cut the education department, cut the EPA, cut the DEA, cut the FDA, the education department, the NSA, the CIA, the FBI, HUD, the Pentagon. Any kind of spending that isn’t needed in those departments (waste, fraud, abuse etc) needs to go.
3. Eliminate unconstitutional departments. This is an extension of no.2. Departments that must go immediately; Education, EPA, DEA, FDA, HUD all gotta go. Give education and environmental issues fully back to the states. Same with drug issues and that means ending the War on Drugs and War on Poverty once in for all.
4. Completely clean house of the neocons in the State Department and cut it. They’re bent on trying to make Russia heal and push on for endless wars in the Middle East. Fire them all and replace them with more rationally minded people on foreign policy.
5. Bring home troops and shut down military bases overseas. We have total of 700 bases beyond our borders. Contrast to the supposedly evil Russia which has a grand total of TWO bases outside her borders. Should start with pulling back from eastern Europe and that further extends to NATO.
6. Pull out of NATO and the UN. These two institutions have long outlived their purposes and only cause more wars and more destruction. In addition dismantle UN headquarters in New York.
7. After repealing Obamacare, go even further in withdrawing the federal government from healthcare. Give it back to the states and let the free market thrive again. The free market hasn’t been in healthcare for 4-5 decades since Medicaid and massive regulations of healthcare were passed. Repeal and dismantle federal regulations on healthcare. Free up and liberalize the market so there’s real competition with big pharma companies like Aetna, Blue Cross among others. Let more laissez faire health centers like the Oklahoma Surgery Center. Open up competition. Lower costs of care. The healthcare industry will thrive like it hasn’t ever before.
8. Repeal the Patriot Act, reign in the surveillance state and resurrect the 4th amendment. Admittedly on this one Trump has been a bit weak or hasn’t taken a strong position on it. But I think after all the espionage shit the CIA and neocons have doing with him there’s a decent chance he could become a strong advocate for civil liberties given time. He should be listening to Ron and Rand Paul with this.
9. Decentralize and shrink the federal government. Further empower the states and federalism.
10. Repeal the 16th amendment. This is part of what I like to call the God awful trio *get to the other two in a moment* that which has greatly empowered and grown the federal government way beyond constitutional boundaries in the past 100+ years. Initially the income tax was only 1% aimed only at the rich which back then was considered anyone making 25,000 (603.58 thousand in today’s cash) or more per a year. The progressives back then including Woodrow Wilson promised the rate wouldn’t go beyond that. And like all promises from progressive elitists that promise was quickly broken dramatically increasing the highest tax bracket from 1% to 70% in just a few years. That rate was lowered to 25% under Harding-Coolidge resulting in the Roaring 20s. Then was dramatically increased again under Hoover to 63% and then further to over 90% under FDR. Currently the highest bracket stands at 40% for those making 250 thousand or more annually. Trump’s current proposal to bring the tax brackets down from 7 to just 3 is pretty damn good, but he could go much further than that by proposing a 10% flat tax rate similar to what Rand Paul proposed during his run for the Republican nomination a year ago. That should mean eliminating the corporate income tax altogether as well as the payroll and Medicare taxes which are the only two federal taxes that affect most of the population. Eventually he should propose to repeal the 16th amendment via a constitutional convention.
11. Repeal the 17th amendment. The Senate was never meant to be popularly elected. The people’s house is the House of Representatives which is why all 435 members are up every two years so the public can clean house entirely if they so wanted *though that hasn’t really happened in the modern era thanks to gerrymandering, the power of incumbency and lack of term limits*. The House is proportionally represented by population of every state with California having a hefty 53 congressional districts contrasted with Wyoming which just has one. It’s fairly democratic in a sense. The Senate though is deliberately anti-democratic so as to give all states an equal voice. Back in early American history if New York was in huge favor of a bill, but Delaware and Rhode Island were strongly opposed, it could easily pass the House but stopped in the Senate where each of those states have equal voices. Today the same is true where California lopsidedly outvotes Wyoming in the House, but each have two equal voices in the Senate. To that extent it was decided since that the House was elected by the people, Senators would be appointed by state legislatures. That remained so up until 1914 when the 17th amendment went into effect establishing direct popular elections for all Senators. Previously a number of states had already approved popular vote elections such as Oregon. Where previously Senators served their states, now they were at service of Washington cronies and lobbyists. Since that time federalism and the 10th amendment have been severely weakened and the federal government grown stronger. It’s been suggested that if this horrific amendment wasn’t passed then Obamacare wouldn’t of become reality. If you look at the make of states during the 111th Congress, some states such as North Dakota which had two Democratic Senators vote for Obamacare had a Republican governor and state legislature which staunchly opposed Obamacare’s passage. In a scenario where states still appointed Senators, a lot of Senators who unhesitatingly voted for Obamacare wouldn’t of done so as even a lot of state level Democrats didn’t like how it was originally passed. If you repeal the 17th amendment you restore the states’ proper role and voice in the Congress.
12. Eliminate the Federal Reserve. Ever since it’s creation the free market has been increasingly watered down to the point where it’s no longer a true free market. You can’t have true free market capitalism while the money supply is controlled by a central banking system. After the Fed’s introduction other western countries adopted the model and now virtually every country in the world has a central bank of some sorts. The Fed has been at cause of every economic crash and depression since it’s creation via the supply of cheap money and cheap credit. The worst of what it’s done though has been since Alan Greenspan was appointed Fed chairman *a supposed gold nik libertarian who went to the Dark Side* who paved the way for the modern era of cheap easy money and full implementation of Keynesian model of economics. Since his appointment in August of 1987 close to 30 years ago, the value of the dollar has plummeted so far so fast down and real wealth has declined in Middle America which as David Stockman points out in his new book Trumped! led to the rise of Donald Trump. Eliminating the Federal Reserve will be a long and hard task to accomplish but certainly a great start is to audit the Fed which Rand Paul has picked up where his father left off with his exit from Congress in 2013 and Trump has said he’ll legislation to audit it. He should go even further and suggest the Fed’s power should be far more limited which could pave the way to its eventual phasing out. If that were to be accomplished then a true free market could return.

If Trump can do all or just some of these revolutionary act then he’d be the greatest President in the modern era and America would be at its freest and most prosperous in more than a century.

 

Several reasons why the Libertarian Party has become anti-open borders and semi-nationalist

1. The welfare state. Almost half of all immigrants are on welfare and 62% of the illegal immigrants are on welfare compared to only 30% of American natives. Those numbers are not sustainable in the long run as it means more printing from the Fed, more votes for the Democrat Party to become even more electorally supreme.
2. Immigrants at large will vote for the leftist party (the Democrats in this case) as it means increased welfare benefits. Libertarians claim that if you’re for open borders then you’ll attract immigrants over. Well that’s not exactly true. The overall voter electorate is 75% white European or Caucasian. The Libertarian Party’s ethnic makeup is 85% white European. At large almost a third of all Anglo-Saxon whites identify or lean libertarian. Only 12% of Latinos identify or lean libertarian and 6% of black Americans say so as well according Pew Research polling. Latinos who make up most of the immigrants legal or not want larger government. And yet the Libertarian Party (as well as think tanks like the Reason Foundation which otherwise does excellent work on pointing the follies of big government) think it’s a good idea to have open borders inviting in more people who are ideologically opposed to you. That’d be like the NBA firing all of their black players for Chinese people. There are of course tall Chinese people, but on average they’re much shorter than blacks and therefore aren’t gonna be able to dunk as easily as Lebron James. Just not gonna work.
3. Open borders can invite terrorism in. All you have to do is look at Germany now having invited in over a million unvetted migrants. One of the San Bernardino shooters was from Saudi Arabia and supposedly passed security measures with “flying colors”. Omar Mateen’s family originally came from Afghanistan. Since 9/11 we’ve ratchet up the number of immigrants we get from the Arab world. And we’re starting to see the effects of it now. The refugee crisis which is really an invasion is what is fueling the rise of European right-wing parties from the French National Front party led by Marine Le Pen along with her niece Marion Marechal-Le Pen to UKIP under Nigel Farage up until recently and the Dutch Party of Freedom under Geert Wilders. And of course Donald Trump here as well as the Republican nominee. The Libertarian Party needs to become more nationalist in order to attract more voters over. Open borders as a concept is intriguing and has worked in the past when there was no welfare/warfare state present. But this isn’t the right age for it with the rise of Islam and the massive welfare state.
4. Speaking of Islam, some aspects of the Libertarian Party has become to close with Islam which inherently is viciously anti-libertarian and anti-western. Not saying they need to become more hawkish as of course the wars in the Middle East in the past 15 years after 9/11 have been disasters. And I myself believe in the principles of the framers of non-aggression in foreign affairs. However that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t actively oppose ideologies that literally want to destroy the West.

There’s unfortunately other issues with the Libertarian Party such as embracing Black Lives Matters which has warped into racial supremacist group not unlike the KKK. And there’s things about Gary Johnson that has me entirely turned off from voting Libertarian this year such as again his embrace of BLM, his unsurprising favor of open borders and justifying state sanctioned force against business owners who don’t wanna provide for same-sex weddings as matter of conscience. And his choosing of former Massachusetts governor Bill Weld as his VP who’s no libertarian whatsoever who’s backed the Iraq War, eminent domain, gun control and even recently said consider appointing justices like Breyer or Ginsburg.

Throughout the summer the Libertarian Party has been doing well in polling data getting as much as 10 to 13 percent of the vote and may get into the debates with Trump and Hillary. In the end though, I suspect Gary Johnson will at best get 4 or 5 percent of the national popular vote. Probably will only get 2 or 3 percent in the end which will equally take votes from Trump and Hillary. Bottom line if the Libertarian Party wants to do well in the future and broaden its appeal, it must adopt an anti-open borders platform and seriously discuss the disturbing aspects of Islam among other things. That includes adopting more pro-life friendly language. Let me know what you think.

Why I think we as libertarians and individualists should say free markets instead of ‘capitalism’

According to recent polls taken, millennials reject capitalism and embrace socialism. Now while that may look as though we individualists have lost millennials (I myself am one), below the surface is a different story. They reject capitalism in name, but socialism in practice as well. It’s not surprising that young people view word socialism in a positive manner and capitalism in a negative one as they’ve both been misappropriated. The word ‘capitalist’ has been used to describe the US economy over the past 50 or so years when in fact it hasn’t been truly capitalist for decades with it gradually being merged into a corporatist, semi-fascist nightmare of high taxation, ridiculous red tape and regulations and handouts and laws favoring big corporations over smaller and startup businesses.

Socialism (or ‘Democratic Socialism’) by contrast has been used to describe the Scandinavia countries which have had generous welfare states that leftists and socialists have claimed to have work. Except that they haven’t and these countries have in fact scaled back their welfare states. In fact, the Prime Minister of Denmark blasted Bernie Sanders for describing the country as ‘socialist’. The reason why these countries are as well off as they are has nothing to do with the hybrid socialism they embraced in the late 60s to early 70s, but rather the laissez faire free market capitalism they had for about a century. In the 1950s, Sweden was among the wealthiest countries in the world.

Their government was incredibly small and almost never intervened in economic matters. In fact, during the start of the Great Depression while Hoover and FDR were making things worse in the US with passing higher taxation, higher tariffs and new welfare programs, Sweden the Nordic countries did nothing and they recovered within several years. In the Great Britain under Neville Chamberlain (who all he’s remembered for is “Peace in our time”) and a conservative government cut spending dramatically and they recovered within a few years. The US by contrast took over a decade to truly get out of the Depression under FDR.

The word capitalism has been misappropriated so many times now that young people think it’s responsible for many economic downturns due to too little government regulation when in fact there was too much government involved with handouts to corporations and the forcing of banks to give out loans to people who couldn’t ever pay them back which led to the ’07-’08 financial crisis (which has its roots in the Clinton years with the Federal Reserve under Alan Greenspan and was tolerated during the Bush years). And now we’re on the verge of an even bigger crisis than the one at the end of the Bush presidency thanks to Obama policies and the Federal Reserve keeping interest rates at or near 0% first under Bernanke and now more so with Janet Yellen.

The term free markets isn’t actually used as often and therefore doesn’t get so bad a rap from people who aren’t so fluent in economics. In free markets, there’s no crony capitalism or corporate handouts (that includes green energy subsidies). There’s no government involvement in daily economic matters. There’s even no Federal Reserve as currency is subject to the free market just like anything else. And while it isn’t perfect, it’s one of the best things to have come out of humanity. Socialism by contrast is among the worst (as demonstrated with the total collapse of Venezuela). The word capitalism may well be lost so free markets may well be the way to go.

Why should there be a 435 seat cap in the House of Representatives?

This is something I never really thought about until I recently watched Tom Woods speaking at the Mises Institute in which he was making the case for secession and decentralization. He also talked about the structure of the House of Representatives which is caped at 435 members regardless the population changes. This got my thought process going. Why is it the House of Representatives needs to be capped at 435 members? As of 2014, average pop. per congressional House district is 713,000. Under that model, cities like LA or NYC have lots of representatives with the size of the district being very small.

To contrast that, a state like Kansas where it’s 1st congressional House district (represented by Tim Huelskamp) covers at least two-thirds of the entire state. Under this setup, entire rural communities can be ignored in favor of the urban areas. Tom Woods said in the video if this system were applied in the 1790s, then there’d be total of 4 members of the House. In reverse, under the old system there’d be over 10,000 members of the House of Representatives with each district made up of roughly 32,000 people.

Now a lot of people would probably be hesitant to endorse a 10,000 member body so I’ll be modest and say maybe 80,000 people per district. That’d be 4,000 members in total. Point is that there should at least some consideration for reform in how House congressional districts are shaped. Because under this current where there’s on average of 713,000, some people particularly in rural areas can be left behind and ignored by their Representative. If the average pop. per district were let’s say 55,000, then here in Oklahoma my town of Bartlesville and the surrounding areas of Dewey and Copan would be eligible for their own Representative in Congress. Whereas now we’re currently part of the 1st district that includes Tulsa.

Not saying the House has to be made up of 10,000 Reps, rather membership doesn’t have to be limited to 435 members. Something like 1,000 would be better and represent areas that would otherwise be ignored by politicians. Maybe more liberty lovers could be elected a bigger difference could be made in restraining spending and the size, scope of govt. Just saying

What do you think? Anything I need to improve upon? Let me know in the comments section below. Have a great day and God bless!

Crosspost from Liberty.me.

The Top Ten Goals for the next President (and Congress)

As this president continually implodes and our liberties shrink and shrink and shrink along with the economy in favor of the state’s increasing size, the next president whoever is it (preferably Rand Paul) has a lot on the plate in terms of reigning in govt spending, growth, taxes, civil liberties violations, overseas interventions etc. Here’s my top ten goals for what the president must do.

1. Repeal Obamacare and revitalize free market healthcare

Wherever socialized medicine has been tried whether it’s the UK or Canada, it has been disaster and Obamacare is turning out that way. It must be repealed and make way for genuine healthcare reforms such as insurance across state lines, tort reform etc in order for the free market to be viable in the healthcare sector again which really hasn’t been for at least 5 decades. A real free market in healthcare (for as much as the left will pout otherwise) will push costs down and quality of care will go up. Places such as the Surgery Center in my own Oklahoma are thriving outside the govt monopolized healthcare system.

2. Repeal Dodd-Frank

The love child of former Sen. Chris Dodd of CT and former Rep. Barney Frank of MA, while it makes sense on the surface, once you dig in it’s total blabber. It intends to stop the kind of risky behavior that the govt has been threatening banks and loaners to do for the past decade thanks to Barney Frank and Chris Dodd. Must be repealed and then govt must completely withdraw from the financial sector.

3. Eliminate the Federal Reserve

As a starting point, Sen. Rand Paul has been pushing to audit it though any bill of such has been blocked by Dipshit Harry when he was in charge (despite that every bill passing the House did so with broad support from both parties; then this). Though now that the GOP has control it seems more than likely to pass the Senate chamber at last and there’s similar legislation in the House introduced by Thomas Massie of KY. But ultimately the goal should be eliminating the Fed outright. Since its inception, it’s been nothing but disaster after disaster. Let there be a competition of currencies as there once was.

4. A Seriously Reformed Foreign Policy Direction

The past two presidents have been intervening in one foreign conflict after another. From the Iraq War, to the Libyan war (without congressional approval and made Benghazi possible), to (almost) going into Syria without congressional approval. The Iraq War made the rise of barbaric ISIS possible which admittedly I’m unenthusiastically in favor of bombing the hell out of them while letting the Iraqi and Kurdish forces take care of them on the ground. One of the things I’m most disgusted by this president is his snubbing of the only true ally in the Middle East Israel. Admittedly this is a subject that’s of hot debate in libertarian circles so I’ll write a whole column on that another time. Another matter is Cuba where I’m split on Obama’s ending of the embargo. I am fully in favor of lifting it, though the way Obama is going about it without any serious demands for reform has me with distaste. Next president’s job is to go for a true reform route with Cuba.

5. Eliminate the FAILED Drug War

The ideal outcome of the drug war was that drug use would go down. But the complete opposite happened as always does when you ban something. Drug use and drug trafficking has gone up. In states like CO which have legalized recreational marijuana, crime has since gone down along with drug use. Though the DEA is interested still interested intervening with states that want to allow medical marijuana and more so under this administration than the last despite Obama’s promise deescalate the drug war. Thankfully the House last year passed a bill for the first time that would prohibit the Justice Department and the DEA from interfering with states wanting allow medical or recreational marijuana with 49 Republicans voting with a vast majority of Democrats. Rand Paul too has been spouting that dialogue in the Senate and along with Cory Booker has introduced legislation that would dramatically reform mandatory minimums which is an essential element to the drug war. The next president should take the opportunity to eliminate the drug war outright and the DEA.

6. Eliminate the Department of Education

Seriously, why do we have a federal education department? What good has it done? All it’s done is shit. Since its inception in the late 70s, scores among students nationwide have remained flat despite more and more spending. And then was NCLB and Common Core which have convoluted matters further. Eliminate any federal law having to do with education. Leave it to the states!

7. Eliminate the EPA

Unlike other useless departments, the EPA did come into existence for a legitimate reason. When it did, pollution was horrible. Rivers constantly caught on fire and sewage wasn’t properly handled. Though since everything has improved. No major river has caught fire for over 45 years now and the water from your faucet drinkable in most parts of the country. In a sane world, EPA would’ve stuck a fork in it and declared its job done. But bureaucracies once they come into existence never go away or stop what they’re doing. And like almost everything in this administration it’s only gotten worse. EPA has actually tried to force families off their properties because they have what looks like a wetland. Your job has been way past done. Time for you to go.

8. Eliminate the NSA (or at least the spy data collecting program)

The intelligence community has actually admitted that they don’t need data collection to prevent terrorist attacks. So why’s there need of it? Govt bureaucrats gotta have something to do I guess. Why not spy on hundreds of millions of people? One of the big promises of ’07-08 Obama was to reign in the NSA’s spying program and was quite prolific in his criticisms of George W. Bush. But to the contrary it’s gotten WORSE. The spy program is on steroids compared to the Bush years. And we only know now thanks to Edward Snowden. Time to eliminate the whole NSA department (or at least the spy program).

9. Repeal the Patriot Act

Like the NSA, it’s only a mass violation of our 4th amendment protections. Recently it was renewed, though there was a (failed) proposal to reign in the spying program introduced by Sens. Mike Lee (R-UT) and Pat Leahy (D-VT). The most vocal opponents of it were Sens. Marco Rubio and Rand Paul though for starkly different reasons. Rubio said it would “jeopardize” our national security while Paul said it didn’t go far enough wanted the whole act repealed. Next time it comes up for approval, the liberty movement needs to make a serious effort for its permanent end which will probably be under a new president.

10. Eliminate the IRS (along with that repeal of the 16th)

The more scandals coming out of the IRS, the more reason to eliminate this corrupt agency. Admittedly the hardest of the ten goals listed, but it’s too important to pass over. The income tax is essentially legal theft. A way for the govt to use your money for nefarious purposes it desires. The best way to go about this is through constitutional convention. And with that the 17th amendment too (direct election of Senators). If both were repealed then the federal govt would almost overnight go back within the confines of the constitution.

It’s essential that we tackle these challenges to advance liberty and the constitution once again. Electing a president who champions liberty would be a huge start.

What did you think? Is there anything to improve upon? Let me know in the comments below. Have a great day and God bless!

Crosspost from Liberty.me.

Marriage privatization: My case to the traditional right

Why is it that we continue this worthless debate over what marriage should be as defined by the state? Whether gays should be allowed or just straight traditional couples, seems as though most people just except that the state has the last say on marriage. By that logic, shouldn’t they have the last say on political speech? Should you have a govt paper that authorizes your freedom of speech? Should you be required to have license to own property or a business? To own a house?

Most people don’t submit to those types of logic cause they know it’s total foul hardy. Seriously who would agree to a license requirement for free speech aside from tyrannical statists? Under that, it wouldn’t freedom of speech anymore since the state controls who says what. And yet most on the right and the left submit perfectly to a govt paper that says your married which is essentially no different than single-payer govt healthcare. The state officially owns you, your spouse and your bedroom.

As I’m writing this, SCOTUS is bound to take up same-sex marriage cases from KY, OH, MI & TN which the circuit court there upheld their bans. As is, 36 or 37 states recognize same-sex marriages (some AL counties are refusing to grant govt papers to gay couples). Many are predicting the Supreme Court will go full equal protection clause and declare same-sex marriage a constitutional right. But regardless what actually happens, I think it time the traditional right and the gay left should consider an alternative route. Privatizing marriage. Give a legitimate reason why the state has to be involved in everybody’s marriages gay or straight.

The marriage state is among the biggest scams ever pulled off by the govt meant to outlaw interracial marriages between blacks and whites. The concept itself actually goes back to the French Revolution. Initially marriage was mainly done by the church, but socialist revolutionaries decided it was the state’s responsibility and cities started issuing civil licenses. The US eventually adopted that system in the early 20th century as means like I said previously to outlaw interracial marriages. Then ultimately became commonly used to penetrate everybody’s bedrooms.

By this point, the traditional right is fighting a losing battle by the strategy they’re pursuing. The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again expecting a different result each time. That’s what traditional conservatives are doing in essence. They make the claim redefining marriage means a radical shift in society. I say it doesn’t matter what happens since marriage has been gang banged and mutilated more times by the state than a Game of Thrones character. It would do the traditional right good to actually reconsider what strategy they go for. Going for a federal marriage amendment won’t be any progress as it has a slightly better chance of passage than resurrecting Michael Jackson.

Some states like my own Oklahoma have already introduced marriage privatization measures, though unfortunately didn’t advance far since its author Mike Turner of Edmund ran for the 5th congressional district and lost and left office last year. But this shouldn’t stop other states from considering similar measures. Marriage privatization has long been flung around in libertarian circles (David Boaz of the Cato Institute wrote a column about that back in the late 90s). Though the traditional right has a tremendous opportunity to jump in the wagon on advancing marriage privatization. Govt intervention of any sort inevitably ends in total disaster and this is no exception. I should also note that govt marriage hasn’t done well in protecting religious liberty such as the bakeries in CO and OR or the florist in WA or the photographer in NM. I ask the traditional right to consider this proposal.

What do you think? Is there anything I should improve upon? Let me know. Have a great day and God bless!