Government in Business

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Government in Business - Murray Rothbard
2013 01 31

Murray Newton Rothbard (March 2, 1926 – January 7, 1995) was an American economist, historian, and political theorist. His work, which refers extensively to Austrian School economist Ludwig von Mises, has profoundly influenced the American libertarian movement by formulating a body of thought Rothbard called "anarcho-capitalism" or free-market anarchism. Rothbard wrote more than twenty books and is considered a central figure in the American libertarian movement.

Rothbard cited certain Austrian School economists’ concept of spontaneous order, advocacy of free banking, and rejection of central planning to advocate abolition of all coercive government control of society and the economy. He viewed the monopoly power of government as greatest danger to the liberty and the long-term well-being of the populace, labeling the state as "the organization of robbery systematized and writ large" and the locus of the most immoral, grasping, and unscrupulous individuals in any society.

Government in Business

April 15, 2013 Congress Quietly Repeals Congressional Insider Trading Ban

Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge (STOCK) Act, a law passed last year designed to prevent insider trading among lawmakers and government officials by requiring them to post disclosures of their financial transactions online. Both parties and both houses of Congress hated the disclosure portion of the law so much that it was repealed on Friday without debate—the measure was sent to the president by unanimous consent. The ordeal took about 10 seconds in the Senate and 14 seconds in the House, according to official records. http://nyulocal.com/national/2013/04...r-trading-ban/

Government in Business

IRS Defends Giving Refunds to Illegal Immigrants.

In a letter to Congress, IRS Commissioner John Koskinen defended the decision to allow illegal immigrants to get refunds from the agency.

“John Koskinen’s got a lot of explaining to do,” (If his collection agency the IRS does not honor the law)

IRS Defends Giving Refunds to Illegal Immigrants In a letter to Congress, IRS Commissioner John Koskinen defended the decision to allow illegal immigrants to get refunds from the agency. http://insider.foxnews.com/2015/03/0...gal-immigrants

18 U.S. Code § 504 - Printing and filming of United States and foreign obligations and securities. https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/504

Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, the following are permitted:
(1) The printing, publishing, or importation, or the making or importation of the necessary plates for such printing or publishing, of illustrations of—
(A) postage stamps of the United States,
(B) revenue stamps of the United States,
(C) any other obligation or other security of the United States, and
(D) postage stamps, revenue stamps, notes, bonds, and any other obligation or other security of any foreign government, bank, or corporation.

(B) revenue stamps of the United States, is this what there talking about?

As for Government in business: governments running and profiting from Prisons (manufacturing and various services), Schools, Banking, Media and Security Services (police, etc.) what's left for anyone else to do? Could the problem with the economy be that Government being in business puts so many out of business and out of jobs as to promote poverty and economic dry spells? Oh wait, didn't the Communists in the Soviet Union pretty much run every 'business' in town?

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Nobody has combatted State Socialism more than we German Socialists; nobody has shown more distinctively than I, that State Socialism is really State capitalism! (Wilhelm Liebknecht - 1896)

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From the horses mouth? Capitalism is Socialism. Socialism ~= Communism. Freedom of trade and exchange is none of the above. The idea of Capitalism being "freedom of exchange and trade" in a society is one of the biggest deceptions. Capitalism, Socialism and Communism (i.e. Materialism or Resource Control-Ism) all deal with placing control over resources in the hands of a few rather than keeping Government to the business of governing or keeping things lawful and equitable. Free trade and exchange in a society is about fundamental right. Capitalism, Socialism and Communism have the majority going "ooh and ahh" while a minority hijack, rape and pillage their society, landscape and resources.

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The term {State Capitalism} is not used by the classical liberals to describe the public ownership of the means of production. The Austrian School economist Ludwig von Mises explained the reason: "The socialist movement takes great pains to circulate frequently new labels for its ideally constructed state. Each worn-out label is replaced by another which raises hopes of an ultimate solution of the insoluble basic problem of Socialism—until it becomes obvious that nothing has been changed but the name. The most recent slogan is "State Capitalism." It is not commonly realized that this covers nothing more than what used to be called Planned Economy and State Socialism, and that State Capitalism, Planned Economy, and State Socialism diverge only in non-essentials from ... Socialism.

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Government, itself, is a corporation.

Government is also a Multi-Family Office (MFO).
I would urge looking at it from an MFO perspective more.

In essence, it is all economic.