{"id":46165,"date":"2021-07-04T01:00:17","date_gmt":"2021-07-04T05:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=46165"},"modified":"2021-10-03T10:14:51","modified_gmt":"2021-10-03T14:14:51","slug":"qotd-its-not-your-money-its-the-governments-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2021\/07\/04\/qotd-its-not-your-money-its-the-governments-money\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: It&#8217;s not <em>your<\/em> money &#8230; it&#8217;s the <em>GOVERNMENT&#8217;S<\/em> money"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; padding: 0px 15px 10px 0px\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-48672\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png 400w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-50x50.png 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>To the left any money earned anywhere in the country automatically belongs to the government. This confirms my suspicion that at heart, deep inside, they think of the normal form of government as feudalism. This is because I&#8217;ve seen very old land deeds and other documents from when Portugal was a monarchy and it read something like &#8220;His Majesty, graciously allows his subject so and so to exert ownership over this parcel of land&#8221; the underlying conceit being that the whole land of the whole country belonged to the king, and it was in his purview to hand it out to whomever he pleased for as long as he pleased, while it still belonged to him. (The documents I saw were for things like house plots, not fiefdoms, incidentally.)<\/p>\n<p>The left seems to be going off the same book when they say things like &#8220;How will you pay for the tax cuts?&#8221; as if the government is OF COURSE entitled to all your money, and if you&#8217;re getting some back, that part must be compensated for.<\/p>\n<p>Sarah Hoyt, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncc-1776.org\/tle2018\/tle1000-20181216-03.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;The Tragedy of the Squid Farms on Mars&#8221;, <em>Libertarian Enterprise<\/em><\/a>, 2018-12-05.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To the left any money earned anywhere in the country automatically belongs to the government. This confirms my suspicion that at heart, deep inside, they think of the normal form of government as feudalism. This is because I&#8217;ve seen very old land deeds and other documents from when Portugal was a monarchy and it read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,62,84,10,41],"tags":[1272,396,557,1444,118],"class_list":["post-46165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-europe","category-government","category-liberty","category-quotations","tag-feudalism","tag-monarchy","tag-portugal","tag-sarahhoyt","tag-taxes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-c0B","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46165"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66874,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46165\/revisions\/66874"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}