An Ownership Society Fosters Responsibility, Liberty, Prosperity

Jul 20, 2010 by Debra Medina | Posted in: Blog, Private Property

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by Tom G. Palmer
Senior Fellow
Cato Institute

January 2004

As the American Founders knew and as generations of serious students of society have long known, an ownership society is a society of responsibility, liberty, and prosperity…

Responsibility

Ownership induces people to act responsibly. In The Politics, Aristotle noted that “What belongs in common to the most people is accorded the least care: they take thought for their own things above all, and less about things common, or only so much as falls to each individually.” (Book 2, chapter 3, 1262b32, Carnes Lord, trans.) Thomas Aquinas observed in theSumma Theologica that property “is necessary to human life,” “First because every man is more careful to procure what is for himself alone than that which is common to many or to all: since each would shirk the labor and leave to another that which concerns the community, as happens where there is a great number of servants. Secondly, because human affairs are conducted in more orderly fashion if each man is charged with taking care of some particular thing himself, whereas there would be confusion if everyone had to look after any one thing indeterminately. Thirdly, because a more peaceful state is ensured to man if each one is contented with his own. Hence it is to be observed that quarrels arise more frequently where there is no division of the things possessed.” (Iia, IIae, Q. 66, Fathers of the English Dominican Province, trans.) In short, people take care of what is their own.

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  • John Clark

    The Texas legislature knew that the Federal government would never let them print their own money so they did the next best thing which was to create great wealth for the counties, cities and school districts through a vague, nebulous bureaucracy known as property taxation. Except for the Federal Reserve and the IRS it is without peer as an instrument of plunder and and confiscation.

  • Darold Reimer

    The only real way for Texas to have her own sovereignty is to disavow (secede) from the tyranny of the United States Federal Government. Thus affording the citizens of the Great State of Texas to genuinely prosper by outright owning the property the citizens have bought and paid for as well as relieving her citizens of the illegal taxation of the fraudulent over reaching arms of an extremely corrupt United States Federal Government and its theft bureaucracy called the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). All States that make up the United States have all followed suit with the tyrannical ways of the United States Government by imposing fraudulent forms of taxation against the citizens of the states primarily to subsidize or fund those that are unable to or just will work to sustain themselves.

    Property taxation is illegal whether at the state level or federal level. To put taxation in the proper perspective taxation should be as the original United States Constitution states, an apportioned tax placed on business rather than the progressive taxation the fraudulent 16th amendment of the United States Constitution (never lawfully or Constitutionally ratified by the 3/4 (75%) majority governor vote of the respective states as required by the original United States Constitution) fraudulently allows to be imposed against the people. Taxes are to be levied by the individual states that comprise the United States of America not the Federal Governemnt.

    As originally intended by the United States of America Constitution each Independent Free Nation State having its own Constitution, laws and monetary systems (coins or paper money) as each state Congress and Senate houses may see fit to issue to each states respective citizenry with taxes being levied by each individual Independent Free Nation State to provide for the services each state may provide to her citizens. That taxation was intended to be taxes levied on the goods and services purchased or used by the citizens of each Independent Free Nation State not by the continued illegal taxation of property that is owned (bought and paid for by a citizen).

    The Fraudulent and Illegal Property Taxes levied by the States of Texas on Texas property owners MUST BE REPEALED in order for the citizens of Texas to grow and genuinely prosper. By eliminating these Fraudulent and Illegal property taxes levied by the State of Texas and the respective counties within the State of Texas jurisdiction charged with the reponsibility of collecting the fraudulent and illegal taxes on the property owning citizens of Texas an enviroment of true economic growth and prosperity would be created.

    By eliminating the Fraudulent and Illegal Property Taxes levied by the States of Texas on Texas property owners an enviroment of prosperity could be genuinely created by simply implementing a small tax for all citizens to pay on the goods and services each citizen participated in purchasing thereby increasing the revenues to the state coffers by not less than 30% and perhaps as much as 50% not mentioning the hundreds of thousands of opportunities (jobs) that would be afforded to the citizens of the State of Texas. REPEAL Texas PROPERTY TAXES NOW!!!

  • Darold Reimer

    The only real way for Texas to have her own sovereignty is to disavow (secede) from the tyranny of the United States Federal Government. Thus affording the citizens of the Great State of Texas to genuinely prosper by outright owning the property the citizens have bought and paid for as well as relieving her citizens of the illegal taxation of the fraudulent over reaching arms of an extremely corrupt United States Federal Government and its theft bureaucracy called the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). All States that make up the United States have all followed suit with the tyrannical ways of the United States Government by imposing fraudulent forms of taxation against the citizens of the states primarily to subsidize or fund those that are unable to or just will not work to sustain themselves.

    Property taxation is illegal whether at the state level or federal level. To put taxation in the proper perspective taxation should be as the original United States Constitution states, an apportioned tax placed on business rather than the progressive taxation the fraudulent 16th amendment of the United States Constitution (never lawfully or Constitutionally ratified by the 3/4 (75%) majority governor vote of the respective states as required by the original United States Constitution) fraudulently allows to be imposed against the people. Taxes are to be levied by the individual states that comprise the United States of America not the Federal Governemnt.

    As originally intended by the United States of America Constitution each Independent Free Nation State having its own Constitution, laws and monetary systems (coins or paper money) as each state Congress and Senate houses may see fit to issue to each states respective citizenry with taxes being levied by each individual Independent Free Nation State to provide for the services each state may provide to her citizens. That taxation was intended to be taxes levied on the goods and services purchased or used by the citizens of each Independent Free Nation State not by the continued illegal taxation of property that is owned (bought and paid for by a citizen).

    The Fraudulent and Illegal Property Taxes levied by the States of Texas on Texas property owners MUST BE REPEALED in order for the citizens of Texas to grow and genuinely prosper. By eliminating these Fraudulent and Illegal property taxes levied by the State of Texas and the respective counties within the State of Texas jurisdiction charged with the reponsibility of collecting the fraudulent and illegal taxes on the property owning citizens of Texas an enviroment of true economic growth and prosperity would be created.

    By eliminating the Fraudulent and Illegal Property Taxes levied by the States of Texas on Texas property owners an enviroment of prosperity could be genuinely created by simply implementing a small tax for all citizens to pay on the goods and services each citizen participated in purchasing thereby increasing the revenues to the state coffers by not less than 30% and perhaps as much as 50% not mentioning the hundreds of thousands of opportunities (jobs) that would be afforded to the citizens of the State of Texas. REPEAL Texas PROPERTY TAXES NOW!!!

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