All of you racist sexist homophobes that have been sneering at Seattle's head-tax-to-feed-the-homeless just had your wish.
Our tender-hearted super-woke super-activist City Council has decided to have an emergency session to repeal the tax. I guess that when over 40,000 people (in a city of 700,000) signed a petition for a referendum to repeal the tax the politicians finally got their necessary rendezvous with reality.
I coulda told them two weeks ago when I was signing the petition outside a Fred Meyer store in northwest Seattle. I was surprised by the ordinary people coming up to sign the petition, like the 30-ish woman saying "my dad has his own business." Who knew that there was anyone in Seattle that wasn't a fully woke good little liberal girl that had learned her racism-sexism-homophobia studies classes well at her $60,000 a year super-woke college?
How could this have happened? How could the Seattle ruling class so completely have misunderstood what is going on? I will tell you.
You can understand the whole thing from my maxim: "There is no such thing as justice, only injustice."
Of course, the homelessness crisis is nothing new. It tends to happen in the wake of any generational credit crash. After the Crash of 1929 there were Hoovervilles. After the big recession of 1980-81 our liberal friends loved to blame President Reagan for the homeless crisis. And now, unsurprisingly, we have a ton of people cast adrift by the Great Recession that began in the Crash of 2008.
Hey ruling class! Stop mucking about with the credit system!
But then, of course, in the aftermath of the crash, we have to Do Something to help the victims of the recession. It matters not, of course, that almost all crashes are due to government incompetence in running the credit system in the three centuries since the Dutch invented central banking.
The problem is this. Right now, the government in Seattle allows the homeless to break the law by camping under bridges and living in campers and motor homes on public streets. And it allows them to leave garbage around.
This is unjust. The City of Seattle does not allow me to camp on the streets or to leave trash out on the sidewalk. Oh no. The Trash Nazis and the #WeBelieve ladies will see to that!
Why on Earth doesn't the city government arrest the homeless and send them on their way? I'm glad you asked. It's because the courts and the federal government have decided that the homeless have rights. Wrote the Obama Justice Department:
This is unjust. It means that some people are going to be forced to help the homeless while other people get off scot-free.
And thus the whirligig of liberalism brings in xir revenges.
Here is my idea of rights:
Hey, I know. Why don't the Seattle liberals declare themselves a Homeless-free City and defy the federal courts and the Justice Department. I mean. If it's OK to defy the federal government and refuse to hand over arrested illegal aliens to the feds, how come it's not OK to kick the homeless out of town, whatever the feds say?
That is why I say "there is no such thing as justice, only injustice." Because the only way you get to declaring that some liberal little darling has rights is by trampling over the rights of somebody else.
This is not rocket science.
Now I believe that just as Harry Truman had a sign on his desk: "the buck stops here," every politician and activist should have my maxim tattooed on their forearms for easy reference.
Government is force, and as soon as you start executing on any government program, or glorious human right, then someone else is going to have to pay for it.
That is why, in The Calculus of Consent James Buchanan and Gordon Tullock, a Yank and a Brit, determined that the only just way for a legislature to vote a new program is by unanimous consent. Because unanimous consent forces the victorious majority to pay the costs of their glorious program that are imposed upon the reluctant minority. You might call justice. Or at least the absence of injustice.
Our tender-hearted super-woke super-activist City Council has decided to have an emergency session to repeal the tax. I guess that when over 40,000 people (in a city of 700,000) signed a petition for a referendum to repeal the tax the politicians finally got their necessary rendezvous with reality.
I coulda told them two weeks ago when I was signing the petition outside a Fred Meyer store in northwest Seattle. I was surprised by the ordinary people coming up to sign the petition, like the 30-ish woman saying "my dad has his own business." Who knew that there was anyone in Seattle that wasn't a fully woke good little liberal girl that had learned her racism-sexism-homophobia studies classes well at her $60,000 a year super-woke college?
How could this have happened? How could the Seattle ruling class so completely have misunderstood what is going on? I will tell you.
You can understand the whole thing from my maxim: "There is no such thing as justice, only injustice."
Of course, the homelessness crisis is nothing new. It tends to happen in the wake of any generational credit crash. After the Crash of 1929 there were Hoovervilles. After the big recession of 1980-81 our liberal friends loved to blame President Reagan for the homeless crisis. And now, unsurprisingly, we have a ton of people cast adrift by the Great Recession that began in the Crash of 2008.
Hey ruling class! Stop mucking about with the credit system!
But then, of course, in the aftermath of the crash, we have to Do Something to help the victims of the recession. It matters not, of course, that almost all crashes are due to government incompetence in running the credit system in the three centuries since the Dutch invented central banking.
The problem is this. Right now, the government in Seattle allows the homeless to break the law by camping under bridges and living in campers and motor homes on public streets. And it allows them to leave garbage around.
This is unjust. The City of Seattle does not allow me to camp on the streets or to leave trash out on the sidewalk. Oh no. The Trash Nazis and the #WeBelieve ladies will see to that!
Why on Earth doesn't the city government arrest the homeless and send them on their way? I'm glad you asked. It's because the courts and the federal government have decided that the homeless have rights. Wrote the Obama Justice Department:
When adequate shelter space exists, individuals have a choice about whether or not to sleep in public. However, when adequate shelter space does not exist, there is no meaningful distinction between the status of being homeless and the conduct of sleeping in public. Sleeping is a life-sustaining activity — i.e., it must occur at some time in some place. If a person literally has nowhere else to go, then enforcement of the anti-camping ordinance against that person criminalizes her for being homeless.So there. And so the government of Seattle determined that some businesses in Seattle should be forced to pay for the costs of letting the homeless have their rights.
This is unjust. It means that some people are going to be forced to help the homeless while other people get off scot-free.
And thus the whirligig of liberalism brings in xir revenges.
Here is my idea of rights:
When an adequate bank balance exists, individuals have a choice about whether or not to pay their taxes. However when adequate funds do not exist...It's pretty cute, isn't it. First the courts and the feds say that the homeless got their rights. Then the local governments are forced to let the homeless break the law. Then the local government feels itself obliged to tax the people to pay for the costs forced on them by their lordly masters in the federal courts and the federal government. Only of course they are bound to obey the First Law of Taxation:
Don't tax me,Notice that when liberals don't like what the feds are doing then they have the right to peacefully protest and form a #Resistance and Sanctuary Cities and I know not what and all the Fake News media supports them.
Don't tax thee.
Tax that fellow behind the tree!
Hey, I know. Why don't the Seattle liberals declare themselves a Homeless-free City and defy the federal courts and the Justice Department. I mean. If it's OK to defy the federal government and refuse to hand over arrested illegal aliens to the feds, how come it's not OK to kick the homeless out of town, whatever the feds say?
That is why I say "there is no such thing as justice, only injustice." Because the only way you get to declaring that some liberal little darling has rights is by trampling over the rights of somebody else.
This is not rocket science.
Now I believe that just as Harry Truman had a sign on his desk: "the buck stops here," every politician and activist should have my maxim tattooed on their forearms for easy reference.
Government is force, and as soon as you start executing on any government program, or glorious human right, then someone else is going to have to pay for it.
That is why, in The Calculus of Consent James Buchanan and Gordon Tullock, a Yank and a Brit, determined that the only just way for a legislature to vote a new program is by unanimous consent. Because unanimous consent forces the victorious majority to pay the costs of their glorious program that are imposed upon the reluctant minority. You might call justice. Or at least the absence of injustice.
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