"The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to procure the largest quantity of feathers with the least possible amount of hissing."
Jean-Baptiste Colbert (1619–1683)
Jean-Baptiste Colbert was a powerful French statesman who served as the First Minister of State and Comptroller-General of Finances under King Louis XIV.
The only moral and effective vote is the vote to financially exit the satanic warmongering fiat currency system.
And the only moral and effective way to do that is through owning your Bitcoin in your self-custody.
Imagine working 9-5 for 50 years then The Fed prints 40% of the total money supply and inflates away 20 years of your work.
- You: "Who does the government borrow from?"
- Government: "The central bank."
- You: "Where does the central bank get money?"
- Government: "It creates it."
- You: "And the government pays interest on that?"
- Government: "Of course. Debt is debt."
- You: "Interest... on money created from nothing... paid by my taxes?"
- Government: "You're not an economist."
Some humans are productive. They just want to work honestly, save, voluntarily exchange, and be peaceful. That's godly.
Other humans are parasitic. They just want to deceive, live off of the labor of others, create fiat money, and charge infinite usury interest on it. That's satanic.
Bitcoin ends fiat money.
Bitcoin is godly.
“When coins were first made, they were just discs of gold or silver without any ridges.
The value of the coins was simply defined by how much gold or silver was in it.
Sneaky, greedy people though exploited this to make an illegal profit.
They would shave the edges off the coins and then use the slightly smaller coins for their full value.
They’d then compile all the shavings and make a tidy profit.
The smaller-sized coin often went unnoticed, but this dishonest practice decreased the value of the original gold or silver coin.
To prevent this, the government began milling, or grooving, the edges so a coin could easily be identified if it was trimmed.
This means back then people could just make the coin smaller, keep the gold they took off the coin, and still use the coin as usual, so they put grooves on it. So it would be a lot harder to do that.”
https://www.iheart.com/content/2024-09-10-the-real-reason-coins-have-ridges-on-their-edges/
This brilliant quote describes the fiat financial system perfectly.
“The few who understand the system will either be so interested in its profits,
or so dependent upon its favors,
that there will be no opposition from that class,
while, on the other hand,
the great body of people, mentally incapable of comprehending...
will bear its burdens without complaint.”