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Lakota Trying to Run Out the Clock on Darbi Boddy: The revelation of wealth confiscation and business terrorism behind a vile plot of judicial activism

This is an important story because it’s essentially the same playbook happening nationally regarding politics and legal gymnastics.  Now that we’re in a new year, the Darbi Boddy case at Lakota schools is an interesting discussion because it involves local issues that are precisely the same as those being applied to President Trump, revealing a game plan that wasn’t so obvious.  That information is valuable for understanding all the various characters and what they are up to, which we would never have learned anything about if not for the election of Darbi Boddy.  But to catch everyone up, the media has gone cold on the story since the glitter has worn off over the last several weeks.  All through December of 2023, the thoughts were that Darbi Boddy, the Lakota school board member, was going to be thrown in jail for violating a court order to stay away from another Lakota school board member, Isaac Adi, who ran with her in a recent election with a GOP endorsement.  A lot has occurred since then to show lots of political tides and community sentiment that essentially had those two in conflict, resulting in a court action that required Darbi to stay 500 feet away from Isaac at all times, including school board meetings.  This left everyone scratching their heads as to what the motive was, and to fulfill her role as a school board member, Darbi has been fighting for her right to attend the meetings as she was elected to do, which has now caused a violation of this court order, which has attached to it jail time and all kinds of penalties.  Then, after an arraignment on December 18th, the plot became much more straightforward as to what everyone was after, which is where it stands going into January of 2024, where her next court date isn’t until the 29th.  The goal has been to keep Darbi out of school board meetings so that they can then enact a 90 day penalty applied to school board members who vacate their post and can then be removed from the board.  This court case has been a plan to do what they couldn’t do any other way, to try and remove Darbi from the school board by running out the 90-day clock with stalled court dates and judicial activism. 

This is the same method that the Secretary of State has been using in Maine, Sheena Bellows, with her case to attempt to keep Trump off the primary ballot there using the 14th amendment.  We’re seeing in 2024 a plan we long suspected, but now under pressure is being revealed in truly audacious ways, especially in the Lakota case.  The use that government unions have baked into the system to appoint judicial activism manipulations as a means to protect their confiscation of wealth from taxpayers.  After all, if you get to the actual reason that there is so much hatred of Trump, it all points back to a radicalism of government unions, which touch just about everything that flows from tax money, everything from the FBI to teacher unions.  They don’t want a Trump negotiating anything regarding their wages and benefits, and their goal is to put the dumbest people possible into positions to rubber-stamp their renegotiated contracts.  Trump has shown that he is perfectly willing to work with unions, and many union members have crossed over from Democrats to support Republican positions because the President has been very reasonable in working with them.  But the labor union leaders attached to government unions want only one thing: weak community representation that is easy to control so that the best labor contracts are possible, which benefits them.  They don’t like Trump because they don’t want to negotiate, so we see this level of radicalism applied to him using legal gymnastics to protect their stranglehold over taxpayer wealth confiscation.  And the media plays along because most are involved in organized labor in some form or other.  We can talk about the Deep State and the conspiracies of the World Economic Forum.  But once the rubber hits the road, it all comes down to controlling the people who decide how government money is spent.  And they don’t want a Trump or a Darbi Boddy representing taxpayers standing in the way. 

I knew it would be a tough job when Darbi was elected.  She was tough and persistent, but I wasn’t sure how it would go because we had never seen anything like it at Lakota.  Lynda O’Conner asked me for help, so I went to help her get two more votes on the school board to represent a conservative point of view, and Darbi was one of them.  With three votes, I thought seeing what would happen next would be interesting.  And what we learned was that the only conservative was Darbi, who represented a kind of Tea Party approach to school board management.  The hatred applied to her was unreasonable and about much more than personal ideological differences.  So, the government school forces on all political sides showed their cards and went after Darbi with such an unreasonable hatred that has been beneficial in pointing out what I have been saying about the public schools for several decades.  And we have learned a lot of valuable lessons.  In the Lakota case, of course, there is a lot more to the legal case between Isaac and Darbi, where third-party members have been blowing on the actions against Darbi, hoping to start a fire that would burn her role on the school board down, and one of the surprising directions has come from the legal firm of Frost Brown and Todd ahead of the upcoming teacher union contract negotiations.  Once you trace the origins of the legal case against Darbi, it runs right into their door because they work on behalf of the school board to negotiate with the teacher’s union.  It has been revealed that they have been behind the strategy to play this legal game in attempting to destroy Darbi’s life just because she is in the way of those 2024 labor negotiations.  Darbi asks lots of questions that many of them do not want on any public record.  This is all based on what multiple people who know the situation have told me and is well more than rumor.  Not the opinions of slack-jawed losers, but thoughtful people well-positioned who are deeply concerned by what they have been seeing. 

For those concerned, Darbi Boddy has a new lawyer and is fighting these charges in a way that should clear her completely.  The charges against her are made-up nonsense on the back of a wet napkin in a Waffle House at 2 AM and don’t carry much weight, which is why they have been stalling with all these hearings.  Their primary goal is to hope to kick Darbi off the school board using that 90-day clause.  Then they can appoint some liberal to replace her position.  Attempts at being reasonable by having Darbi attend school board meetings and still satisfying the distance requirements with Isaac have been avoided because Lakota does not want to work to find a solution to accommodate Darbi Boddy as a school board member.  They want to get rid of her.  The revelation there is that the teachers’ union wants to assert the level of control they have over the entire situation.  This is how they ultimately get inflated contracts with astronomical benefits; they remove people in management who might resist their demands and put in place a bunch of powder puffs who are happy to give out awards to kids and do all the cosmetic stuff that makes community pride seem alive and well, while in the background this sinister progressivism of wealth confiscation turns the whole ordeal into significant business terrorism.  With Darbi’s continued legal fights, she intends to return to school board meetings and finish her term over the next two years.  But regardless of all that, the revelation of these legal games has been very educational.  It has taken some of these beliefs about how taxpayer money is spent out of conspiracy theory territory and placed them into political strategy on both a national scale and a local one.  It’s all the same game plan, and in knowing that, the weaknesses in their progressive positions are apparent.  And something we are far better off knowing than we were before.

Rich Hoffman

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The New War in the World: Bioweapons, corrupt governments and health care tryanny

War is no longer what we thought it was.  We have always thought of war as tanks, troops, and aircraft with arrangements on a battlefield to suppress an enemy into capitulation.  But a new kind of war is upon us, and we all knew it was coming since 2010 when Obamacare was seeking to take over 1/5 of the American economy and control whether people lived or died by a new Administrative State of mindless government pinheads.  Just like in war, the goal is to make enough people die to cause their opposition to lose the will to fight.  And that is precisely what we are dealing with now with health care.  By controlling whether or not people live or die, these modern attackers gain control over human behavior and can then get them to do political actions they otherwise wouldn’t consider.  This presents us with the biggest threat to modern society, the Healthcare Alliance, and the prevalence of bioweapons that are now part of joint globalist efforts at creating weapons of terror that kill more efficiently than a bullet or a bomb.  We are dealing with a new kind of enemy here, fighting over government funding and allocation rather than governments against other governments.  Our biggest enemies are not China, Iran, or South Korea.  They are the various biolabs who are making weapons of war that destroy a person from the inside out without them even knowing that they are sick.  And to live, then you will have to take the medicine they make to keep you alive.  Once that relationship is established, people are conquered in ways they never previously thought possible. What would people be willing to do to live life?  Would they give up all their freedoms and independence?  Of course, they will, and we certainly saw that strategy play out during the most recent Covid outbreak. 

The first thing that people need to realize is that Covid-19, as we saw it unleashed on the world from a Wuhan lab in China, was not an act of nature.  It was manufactured through gain-of-function research, of which Dr. Fauci was fully aware, along with many others, and the battleground was about funding.  Dr. Fauci gained power as the government bureaucrat who could distribute the government’s funds for research.  And once those researchers knew who was paying them, their loyalties were driven in that direction.  Our first mistake was thinking that all these government scientists would behave ethically.  That there would be checks and balances on ethics.  But, unfortunately, there are research whores who are every bit as unethical as a street walker, and they will do just about anything for a new condo in Florida or a boat.  To have easy money for their bank account, even if that means killing off a large portion of the population.  And that is what Covid was: a bioweapon designed to control behavior, and it was a test run.  Some people would be driven toward government compliance and would take the government medicine to stay alive, and some wouldn’t, and those people would be quickly eliminated once the manufactured virus strain was released to the public.  For Covid, also chronicled in The Wuhan Cover-up by Robert F. Kennedy, the Department of Defense was very interested in bioweapons to control nations.  It didn’t take long for the Administrative State to realize that an unelected Deep State could gain power over governments, which then controls funding stolen legally from taxpayers, and then distributed to this new threat in the world, the white-coat tyrants who run the Administrative State through the unique power of government health care. 

It started in America at Fort Dietrick under American efforts but quickly jumped into an international partnership with China once it was realized that there was too much regulatory burden in the States.  China had their hand up, and Dr. Fauci and the gang set up shop there knowing exactly what they were doing, even purposely misleading presidents of the United States to build their bioweapon, with the intent to control the world and, in that effort, to gain control of the funding streams provided by governments.  In the past, there were always fights over natural resources, such as oil, gold, or access to a harbor.  This new war doesn’t care about things like that.  The latest fight is over government funding; the money governments take from their people under great power is allocated to these various forms of government healthcare.  Of course, someone, or in the case of Covid, many people were going to figure out that the best way to secure all this government funding was to make people terrified of death, then all the money these research groups could ever hope to get would be easy.  Because governments were pretty dumb by themselves, they had the power of taxation, so they could easily be made to throw massive amounts of money at health care, even though those same researchers were making the most significant threats in the world.  It is all about terrorizing the public into throwing money through their governments at health care, which they are always motivated to do to avoid dying.  The attack zone, even for the media manipulations that took place during the COVID crisis, is that significant advertisers spend money on their reputation, which is more accessible for all involved to build up brand recognition as a savior for the viruses that are being created as bioweapons.  Without the bioweapons and the threat of doom that comes from them, nobody cares about vaccines and big pharma companies. 

In war, everyone always thinks their side is justified in what it does.  And that is the case of this new warfare as well.  People like Dr. Fauci and Bill Gates think they are interceding into people’s lives who will be better off if only they are forced to listen to them.  The money spent on research will ultimately improve science, from their perspective.  So, if many people are harmed along the way, the ends justify the means.  From their point of view.  The greatest danger, however, is no matter how maddening such a thought is, when they gain leverage of mass society to enforce their view of the world with dollars confiscated by governments and then allocated to research whores, scientists who will do anything for money, who will say anything in a report, make any bioweapon, and is willing to lie about it to get more money than they’d ever get through legitimate means.  Our mistake was assuming that these people had our best intentions in mind.  Just as the error of forming the CIA has turned out to be one of the greatest threats in the world.  We always assumed they had our best interests in mind and were passionate about defending American sovereignty.  But what we learn, as a secretive organization filled with globalist sympathizers, they work aggressively to undermine America altogether, including their associations with the COVID-19 virus, President Trump’s overthrow, and election fraud in 2020.  The danger is when these people who have way too much power think they know better than the rest of us, and they have access to money that only governments can take from people, to be used against them as weapons of war in the form of bioweapons, which Covid-19 certainly was.  What might be considered madness that market competition will sort out, now we have artificially empowered forces who can unleash their insanity on mass populations that they wouldn’t otherwise have.  And it’s the most dangerous thing in the world and is undoubtedly the new kind of war on the world stage. 

Rich Hoffman

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Taxation is No Different from Human Sacrifice: Governments desire more than anything to be worshipped like gods from the past

There is a good reason that taxes should be viewed as evil.  We’re not talking about the maintenance of a government to do the work of its people that it represents. Instead, modern taxation has more in common with religious practices and pagan rituals than it does the practicality of a healthy society which should concern everyone.  When a government demands that you pay your fair share, they are demanding sacrifice to them in the ways that people sacrificed to the gods, hoping to win them over in some primitive way.  Because the government wants to be your god, they are jealous of the other gods you may worship because they desire to be all-powerful as a collective entity.  In that way, a government is not unlike the cells of a body that serve a single entity, working together without concern for individual input so that the collection is then worshiped as its god.  And the taxes you pay to it are like the goats and humans that societies would kill with blood offerings to appease the insatiable hunger of that god and its evil intentions.   The concept of taxation came from the same minds that used to sacrifice their first-born son to the alters of Moloch and Baal.  Or the farmer who would hire a prostitute in front of his wife to appease the sexual perversions of Ishtar, hoping that it might rain and that he could bring in his crops.  Taxation in the modern sense is no different, and it’s just as effective.  The progressive tax act of 1913 was a compulsory evil that forced all people to sacrifice their income to the gods of government or be punished, and it set America off in a disastrous direction.  It took several years for that disaster to be fully known, but the modern result has been nothing short of a destructive society that is no different from the superstitious stupidity of the Aztecs, or the Maya, cutting out the hearts of their victims to appease the god, Huitzilopochtli, the hummingbird god of Aztec culture.

We tend to think of the people of the world who built exotic temples for their gods only to kill their people in dedication to the gods’ hunger for blood and death as primitive.  And we might snicker at their ignorance just as we pay extraordinary amounts of our income to the taxation of our governments.  And the result is just as stupid.  In our modern sense, we have transferred the concept of god to government, and tax replaces human sacrifice for appeasement.  And just as Aztec culture in the reasonably recent past would sacrifice thousands of people to Huitzilopochtli in a single night to the point where the temple steps were slippery with blood, and the people being killed would mindlessly follow the obedience of the god’s desires, we pay taxes to the god of government with the same mind numb ambition.  And it wasn’t just pagan gods, but Yahweh himself who demanded quite sophisticated sacrifices, whether it was the firstborn son of a real wife in Isaac by Abraham, or the design of King Soloman’s temple to be oriented to the east, and the high priest would kill a well-prepared goat then carry it into the Holy of Holies to sprinkle it upon the Ark of the Covenant where the laws of Israel were placed to appease God in ways we might find barbaric today.  Yet when we receive communion, we receive at church the body and blood of Christ as offered at the Last Supper and before the son of God was killed in a crucifixion.  The idea of sacrifice to the gods is hard-wired into us, and the government has grown to exploit it and become a new evil. 

China certainly sees itself as a god; its government wants to be worshipped as the collective incarnation of a deity where all the people are to serve it.  It’s to the point where they don’t even want to acknowledge the gods of any previous civilization.  There is quite an effort by the Chinese government to deny its history and prevent people from reporting on it because it wants to be the exclusive god of modern people.  And like most gods, it’s a hungry one that demands the sacrifice of the things they value to appease its insatiable appetite.  And in many ways, the World Economic Forum has adopted this position as a modern manifestation of the ancient gods of Mesopotamia.  The gods of the cosmos and the worship of planets, such as Venus, have changed names and removed the face of identity to make the worship seem less barbaric.  But instead of the blood cults of Kali in India, or the perversions dedicated to Baal in the Middle East, or the ripping out of hearts at Chichen Itza in the Yucatan peninsula, the human mind has never overcome this desire to appease some deity that it considers superior.  And the World Economic Forum wants to be worshipped in its way as a government of governments.  A god that unites them all, the world’s nations, to the same spiritual sacrifices that gave power to the gods in the past.  Taxation is just another form of human sacrifice, a recognition of supremacy for the sake of devastating power.  If a person wants to continue breathing, they will do what must be done to appease that power for the sake of sheer evil. 

I recently provided a definition of evil appropriate to the modern mind.  Evil is the destruction of something that is created.  So, of course, any form of human sacrifice to a deity is evil because it destroys what is designed to appease a god’s desire to abuse and consume.  And as mindless as most people in government are as to their role, they act by this ancient desire for appeasement with the same moral conviction.  God is hungry and wants to consume, making us all part of a vast evil.  By confiscating the wealth of culture toward the sacrifice of its value to some mindless concept of god is to play in the same destructive elements that drive the Vico Cycle worldwide, the eventual collapse of all civilization into that endless wheel of time that causes the rise and fall of all societies, of known history, theocracy, aristocracy, democracy, and anarchy.  The cause of social failure always points to the consumption of its value in the form of sacrifice to a deity that never appreciates it because the belief of its appeasement is considered the act beneficial in some way that has never been defined.  The ultimate seduction of power is that government be treated with such reverence that its people would sacrifice to it everything they value.  And in such a way, people would recognize the power of government and those who make it be.  Progressive taxation was one of the evillest concepts ever to be introduced to a society of any kind and is just as sophisticated as having a policy of killing humans and ripping their hearts out to appease a deity who otherwise could care less and can never be made happy.  So it is also of taxation and the things that can be done with that confiscated wealth that solidifies the government’s ego toward global domination. 

Rich Hoffman

Why Property Values in Butler County Could Go Up By 42%: And What Nancy Nix and many others are doing to Protect taxpayers

It was a very beautiful day looking out the windows of the Office of Nancy Nix as the Great Miami River gently rolled by as it has for many thousands of years. I looked down from the third-floor vantage point into the park that used to be the movie theater in Hamilton, where I first saw Sleeping Beauty and reflected on good memories from childhood. The weather outside was perfect for a day in May of 2023, so it was an excellent reflection of the long history of Butler County, Ohio, where the city of Hamilton had seen so much history, lots of good days and rough times to say the least and of course, the river flows by regardless of what human beings cause themselves by way of trouble. And the topic that Nancy and I were set to talk about, captured well in the video above, was historic trouble. The short story was that Butler County and nearby Clermont County were being penalized for being affluent areas that had recently enjoyed dramatic economic growth. It made an easy target for the new Ohio Tax Commissioner, Patricia Harris, in trying to correct the many sins of the past, where the government had kicked the can down the road over a long period of time. She had decided that there was nowhere left to kick it. So this wasn’t something that just happened well before Nancy Nix took over in Butler County in the very important auditor position, this crisis was brewing, and now it was splashed all over headlines from a recent I-Team report that indicated property values in Butler County were going to go up by a recommended 42%. That meant that property values for a $250,000 house were suddenly going to be at $355,000, an increase of $105,000. And people were not happy about it.

At Thanksgiving Dinner, such news might sound great; people might even open a bottle of wine at the success of their investments in real estate. Suddenly things on paper looked much better, and their homes were worth a lot more. But in Butler County, regarding 8 of the ten school districts, there would be tax increases proportional to that value increase which was going to impact homeowners negatively. For instance, the school district of Ross, right across the river from Nancy’s office, as we spoke about this matter and looked in that direction, they just had a vote to defeat a tax increase for that school. The levy had failed for the third time. But now, because of this news from the Ohio Department of Taxation, Ross is holding off on trying for another levy because they will gain a lot of new revenue from the new tax rates of these inflated property values. That’s the kind of thing that has people so upset, and for good reason. In a lot of ways, the recommendation from the state is taking away a fundamental right of property owners to manage their local governments by essentially taking extra tax money without a vote, with just a decision by the state to calculate these varying percentages based on sales data recorded during a very turbulent time that does not represent the norm.   According to the state, which then imposes the percentage rate onto auditors like Nancy Nix, they take a three-year sales reflection of what they think is market value during their state-mandated triennial update. But for this one, that analysis period was one of the worst in the history of the world. Looking at sales from 2019, where America had one of the best economies in human history, then the following year with Covid lockdowns, then the volatility of runaway interest rates resulting from the Biden presidency and the economic tampering of several government controls, the data collected is far from the norm, and has resulted in these crazy recommendations which Nancy Nix and other auditors are questioning, aggressively. 

And as bad as all that news was, it was still a good day from the vantage point of Nancy’s office as we talked about the many proactive measures that she and area legislators were doing to help solve the problem. Regarding that, a new Fox 19 article had hit, and I was talking to Senator George Lang about it, where he is proposing a way to change how Ohio’s property values are reassessed, which is obviously needed. Politics aside, Patricia Harris, the Ohio Tax Commissioner, had just been appointed in January of 2023 and obviously could use more time on the job before destroying everyone’s tax bills based on some bad data compiled during her first few months on the job. And George’s proposal as a legislative solution would definitely help her and the people connected to her decision. But the Ohio Department of Taxation itself, according to the spokesman Gary Gudmondson was already headed down the wrong road by digging in with obviously flawed data by saying, “We don’t change our recommendations in response to a county complaint.” What he means is that the Ohio Department of Taxation doesn’t listen to people like Nancy Nix, professionals who have been doing this kind of work for most of their adult lives. Instead, her job was to listen to what they recommended and live with it because they held all the cards. 

Yet, there is optimism on the legislative front; in addition to the good work that George Lang is leading, there have been further meetings involving Sara Carruthers, Rodney Creech, Jennifer Gross, and Thomas Hall. Treasurer Mike McNamara, Clerk of Courts Mary Swain, and Recorder Danny Crank are working aggressively to propose short-term and long-term solutions. Some of them are legislative, such as what George is working on. Some would involve amendments to the State Constitution, which are obviously long overdue. Others are things that Nancy Nix and the names mentioned can do as proactive measures. It’s not all bad news. But ultimately, these rate hikes are the result of years of government mismanagement from the state level imposed on regional government, where the most accountability to the voting public is supposed to be the key to all decision-making. But in this case, stuck against the cost of volatile bad decisions, especially during the Covid period, the impact of those decisions is not flowing into people’s property value assessments which are being penalized because they live in areas that were disproportionately well off in relation to other parts of the state that didn’t do so well. And now, we must sort it all out in a way that makes Ohio an attractive place to continue investing in. Otherwise, people might leave for destinations without these kinds of problems. The burden falls on the Ohio Tax Commissioner to develop better strategies for recovering costs from kicking the can down the road for so long and analyzing the market temperament correctly with a better sampling than what the last three years have shown, as they were the worst three years in the history of life on planet earth. And that isn’t the fault of innocent people who have lived in their homes for a long time and plan to stay in their homes. This is the task that I think Nancy Nix is doing a great job of representing Butler County under very turbulent times. But like the history of Hamilton itself and the Great Miami River that flows past her office, we are living history that will be remembered for a long time to come, and that history is made better by some of the great people who are tackling this problem aggressively in defense of the innocent who might otherwise be victims of bad government, such as we are seeing now with the Ohio Department of Taxation in its first few months of a new commissioner. 

Rich Hoffman

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Self Government Starts by Being a Good Person: Politicians are not leaders as Tucker Carlson says, they are representatives

You Need to Be a Good Person to Have a Good Government

It’s not enough to just talk about it or make names for it.  The real problem is a fundamental one of philosophy and not recognizing the basics of human nature.  What is self-government?  Then, how do you fund it, this something that nobody really understands?  For me, it’s about the difference between a republic and a democracy.  It’s about breaking the Vico Cycle.  In a republic, our politicians are our representatives, extensions of ourselves that buy us time to do other productive things in the world. At the same time, they manage the affairs of our country, states, and counties.  We do need government, but what does that mean for people.  Some, especially those who aren’t so bright and are timid about spiders and other bugs, don’t want the responsibility of self-government. They’d rather have a “leader” running things so they can complain about the results, one way or another.  For self-government to work, all individuals must be empowered to understand how to maintain a republic as opposed to democracy and to spend their lives productively, not worshipping others in the process because they fear personal responsibility.  So the key to everything past and future, including the present, is to define responsible living and how that translates into responsible government.  You can’t expect politicians to behave if the people who put them in decision-making positions truly represent the people who voted for them.  If you want a good government, you first need to be a good person. 

These are the thoughts I had while watching a local school board meeting.  I don’t mean to pick on Brad Lovell, whom I have covered in other articles about the politics of changing our school board from a liberal body of government to a more conservative one. He’s a local guy; every school district has its own version of him.  There are many people like Brad Lovell in government at all levels most of the time.  They are little power-hungry attention seekers and are easily corruptible.  Electing people like that and turning them loose, thinking they are leaders, is one of the most dangerous things society could do to itself.  To be mad at Brad for being what he is isn’t really fair.  We elected him at some point in time because we were suckered as a society into what he said he would do, which was bring big government to our community by wasting endless amounts of money in the process.  When I heard Brad talk this past week, it was just as dumb as what we hear from our own congress over budget considerations revolving around Build Back Better.  This article is not the one to talk about the communist intentions of Build Back Better.  It’s about how weak people spend money and are lazy and too unmotivated to manage money given to them as taxpayers properly. They essentially don’t understand their roles as politicians, and the people who voted for them don’t either.  Even Tucker Carlson gets it wrong all the time.   We do not elect our “leaders,” we elect our “representatives.” No politician is a god to be worshipped.  None of them can be elected and turned loose to do all the hard work while we sit around watching reality television. 

Based on my experience in life, especially in a corporate setting, I would say that half the money we spend on taxes at the federal, state, and local level could be cut in half right now.   If we use the same methods used to approve basic overtime in a corporation, we could reduce the tax burden by at least half by asking our political class basic questions.  Now, where I live, and this is not by accident.  People call me the Tax Killer for a reason.  I would say that I’m a pretty nice guy.   My family loves me.  I think people respect me tremendously.  But when I walk into a room, I would not say that people like it.  Everywhere I go, I am called the “tax killer,” which is a nickname that people who don’t like what I do have persisted to call me because I do question our taxes, especially at the local level.  I think everyone should do what I do; it is the primary responsibility of self-government to elect representatives and ask those reps to be responsible in the same way I would.   When I get mad at Brad Lovell, the local school board tax and spend liberal, it’s not that I don’t like the guy as a person. I’m sure his wife loves him and his kids, and that’s fine.  People care about him out in the world, but we are talking about management here, and being liked is not a value; it’s a lazy retreat and a shift of responsibility for those afraid of it.  I would say that I am known as the tax killer locally because I ask questions the same way I would in a business.  I don’t get invited to many Christmas parties because the goal is to get drunk and act like idiots, and I am also known as a buzz kill.  Sometimes you have to pick being liked to being right, and to my mind, being right is all that matters.  If many managers brought me the overtime needs for over 100 employees who needed to work 10 hour days and 8 hours on a Saturday, I would challenge them.  I would ask them why they weren’t getting the production they needed in an 8-hour day.  Are you short headcount?  I would then ask why Saturday was necessary because it’s a lot more expensive to operate on a weekend than during the week.  Now everyone who knows me understands that productivity always trumps comfort.  I expect people to do whatever they must do in life to be productive, even crawling through broken glass naked.  I ask people to do what I would do in life, and it’s my job to set the parameters to define success.  Most of the time, those managers retreat from their overtime requests and figure out how to get the work done without overtime.  Why? Because the overtime requests were lazy and driven by chaos, not logic. 

I could write books and books and books on this topic of self-management and the values of a republic, and over time, I just may do that.  But for now, understand that the areas I live in, the school district, the townships, and my county all are operating at a surplus, meaning they take in more money than they spend because the money they spend is challenged.  Just think of what a nice world it would be if people everywhere challenged their politicians in such a similar way.  The goal is not to elect a leader then go to sleep playing video games.  It’s also not to be liked. “Oh, here comes that person who will ask us all kinds of uncomfortable questions.” But once we manage to understand our role in a republic and not a democracy, we can begin to improve lots of things for the better.  I don’t think it’s difficult at all, but people go wrong in the world when they’d rather be liked than to be respected.  And in that basic function, so many evils in the world are conducted.  What needs to happen often doesn’t because people, including voters, would rather be loved than to be right.  It doesn’t matter if we have term limits or an R next to a name or a D.  If we elected idiots to office, then stop asking them to represent us, allowing them just to lead us, no wonder costs run out of control, and a government develops a bottomless pit attitude about taxation and its worth to society.  The way to fix it isn’t to complain; it’s to demand answers for the spending, then to watch them flail when they can’t explain it, and in that way, the conditions of our republic improve dramatically, and for a fraction of the cost. 

Rich Hoffman

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The Original Sin of Taxation: Getting rid of the Revenue Act of 1913

Taxation is Legalized Theft

Based on the behavior of the Biden administration and the reckless antics of Congress and the senate over the Build Back Better Green New Deal’s massive taxation they are working on to satisfy their masters in Glasgow, the only conclusion that can be made is that the government is guilty of tax abuse.  Given what we’ve witnessed under this Congress and this presidential administration, it’s clear that we will have out-of-control spending problems like this in the future unless we take some drastic measures.  And one of those measures needs to be the elimination of the Revenue Act of 1913, which was the start of progressive taxation in the United States.  After more than a century of observing the behavior of government and its desire to grow continuously, we have more than enough history to make arguments that more free-market applications need to be applied to the government, instead of giving them the ability to legally steal our money all in service to a more bloated government that seeks evermore to grow well beyond what can be regulated with logic.  I understand that this is an issue that few are prepared to deal with, and it will take time to let it sink into the population in general.  Too many people have just accepted that this level of taxation is just the way things are.  But, we are at a point where we must ask, why have we let them become that way without debate and a proper understanding of what the government objectives are. 

One of the key reasons I set many arguments for American economic exceptionalism during the great gunfighter’s era of the Gilded Age of western expansion is that we have clear evidence that many of the progressive experiments have proven to be socialist failures.  For much of the last century, we have been living off the greatness passed down to us from the economic expansion of the Gilded Age.  Soon after 1913, specifically with the creation of the Federal Reserve and the implementation of the Revenue Act, America had let socialism into the door to get warm at our fires out of compassion.  But the bastards have been seeking to poison America as we slept and loot our country for all they could while we facilitated their comfort.  Until recently, we dared not show a lack of hospitality toward all thoughts of the world so that we might not be called capitalist pigs or tyrants of imperialism.  But really, all that America was ever guilty of was sharing the great benefits of capitalism with the world, and this jostled the feathers of globalists who did not want to be shown up by the young, agile country.  And since the explosion of economic growth that we have all enjoyed for many decades started during that gunfighter era, we have taken the power of our economy for granted.  This is most obvious in how the Democrats have pushed for all-out socialism in 2021 under the flag of Covid-19 and a stolen election by Big Tech, inserting a reckless insurgent of progressive thought and erasing the vote of millions across the country. They’ve always looked for this opportunity, and we should take them very seriously in the future.  We are no longer talking about conspiracy theories among Democrats.  They have shown their intentions to crush capitalism and rebuild our American society as a socialist state, and their method of achieving their evil has been taxation.

We should have never let the government set its level of tax rates they desire.  I first noticed this ridiculous notion while fighting school levies in my local school district.  It was clear to me that the labor unions ran the schools, and they controlled the school boards as to what their expenses would be.  All government school budgets were then runaway trains of big government spending that the taxpayers were always expected to bail out the stupidity of government.  But it was never just the schools; it was all government, from the military to the losers in Congress.  Are we getting value for what we pay?  No.  If we applied the same market conditions that McDonald’s must deal with while competing with Burger King, the government would fail 100%.  It’s kind of a running joke with everyone, even liberals; government is ineffective and never good at what they do.  Yet, we spend fortunes on the government to manage our affairs. When we continuously give them a blank check, they perpetually provide us with chaos and power grabs funded by the money they legalize themselves to steal from us with various methods. 

Hidden in these massive multi-trillion-dollar infrastructure plans are all kinds of tax increases, and with each, we should be asking the question, what value are we getting for the money spent.  Do we like our government, and do we feel that it’s worth the money?  We ask that question from our fast food to our hardware stores with all other things in life.  In a capitalist economy, we have options, and those options drive down prices.  But when the government can steal the money, they can’t manage it the first time around; why are we standing for any of it?  Well, part of the problem is the payroll taxes that started due to the 1913 Revenue Act.  People paid the tax before it ever hit their pocket, so it was hidden between an employer and the worker, which was a mistake.  Just as we now must look at the John Dewey-designed public education system and admit that it was a mistake from the beginning, we must do the same with the way we are taxed.  The government ultimately is our government.  The people of the United States own it, but they have allowed themselves to forget that they are in fact in charge.  The government has shown that it is power hungry and must be defunded to a minimal level to keep its influence in check. To do that, the burden of value must be shifted from how it is now, hidden in paychecks, and revealed in the light of day, so people consciously see how much money the government steals from them each year. 

If all taxes paid are considered by the average taxpayer, the use taxes on bullets, on soda, on beer, on gas, then with all the local, state, and federal taxes, if people could see like they do the ingredients of a can of food how much they spend on government, they would be shocked and forced to place a more wary eye on what the money is spent on.  The Biden administration’s current government has no care or respect for how much money they steal from hard-working Americans. Otherwise, they would not seek high taxes from the new infrastructure bill and more IRS agents to enforce their authoritarian theft.  Rather than looking at the money the government steals as their property, too many people assume that a portion of all their work will always be stolen by a greedy, bully government.  They have grown to accept this as a fact.  When all along, it should have been heavily scrutinized.  Yet that was always the intention of the Revenue Act of 1913, to pay for a government that didn’t deserve the money and progressively increase the cost of that government through legalized theft over a long period.  The government does not respect us because of it. Before we can change anything, we must go to the source of the problem, 1913, when the government made it so that taxes were stolen from everyday people and that they could take the money without earning it, at whatever rate they decided was appropriate. 

Rich Hoffman

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Taxation is Theft: Today’s Democrats are no different than the robber outlaws Jesse James and Al Capone

The tax push by Joe Biden is such an insult, to demand that we pay more money for the terrible services that the government provides displays so arrogantly what the system intends.  It’s robbery and nothing less.  And to review the history of Democrats, this is how they’ve done it for years.  A simple study of history will show that most of the biggest criminals in history were Democrats, most notably, Jesse James who used to hold up banks and trains and justifying the action as activism against post-Civil War reconstruction.  Only now, they don’t even do the work of actually robbing us with gunpoint.  They just use the IRS and the power of the military to conduct their theft of those who work, and create value in society so that they can give that wealth to the degenerates of liberalism to spend on their vast evils in the world.  It’s the same game that Jesse James played only now Stacy Abrams and others have learned to rob everyone legally, by stealing votes through Covid inspired voting law changes so that any voice that people did have to control how tax money was spent could be eliminated. 

Notice how in the Trump election of 2020 that even Republicans wanted to move on from any discussion of voter fraud.  That is because they understood the theft game that was at play.  If people didn’t believe that they could control their government through a vote, then they might get mad.  Yet we learned in 2020 that Democrats just like any bank robber or train hold up will do what they want regardless of who opposes them.  And Republicans didn’t have the guts to stand up to the robbers.  They couldn’t admit to themselves that what was happening with the voting cheats was the ultimate insult so they chose not to look at it so that they could continue the illusion that government is good and their role in it worthwhile.  But early in the Biden presidency, we are all seeing precisely what we expected, an out-of-control political party that is intent to raise taxes which is essentially legalized theft.  The money isn’t going to our use of government services, but for the insatiable hunger that government has for spending and acquiring power with the money they have confiscated from the voting public.  So long as Democrats control the vote through early voting, mail-in voting, and signature ID, no matter how many Republicans vote for the restraint on tax money, Democrats will always be able to override the opposition by making up votes.  It’s no different than when Jesse James and his brother and various gangs with the Youngers would rob trains all for the righteous purpose of fighting Republican radicalism that was forcing the South to give up their slaves and turn them to free people. 

Democrats and some Republicans in on the theft game expect the IRS to replace Jesse James and the concept of law to replace the gun in our faces, but what they intend to do with the money is the same.  The stolen money will be spent on indulgence, whores, and luxury for the criminals at the expense of the honorable and noteworthy.  Just as in the days of the Old West, we are expected to put up our hands and give over our gold watches, our homes, even our very children for the offerings of peace that the robbers will give us if only we just cooperate.  The taxes that the Biden administration is demanding are for things no sane person would want, especially funding abortions, drug migrations into our country poisoning our youth by border crossings, and funding communist efforts around the world.  But we aren’t supposed to ask those questions.  We are supposed to participate in a vote to feel like we have some say in the matter, but the Democrat machines run by activists like Stacy Abrams in Georgia will produce the election results that are needed to set up the train robbery so that Democrats stay in power and can loot off the rest of us unchecked and without recourse. 

That is what Joe Biden is saying to us when he says he wants to raise taxes on the “rich” and corporations.  Any money wasted by the government for actions that people don’t support through honest elections is no different than a train robbery by Jesse James or any other outlaw in history. Another Democrat, Al Capone of Chicago is still followed today and through the works of Saul Alinsky have made up the essence of the modern Democrat Party.  So, the Jesse James example isn’t unusual.  Sometimes it makes things clearer to strip away all the modern trappings and view things for how they are, which is what we have here.  Open theft by criminals using political activism to hide their true intentions—theft from those who work hard and have money.  The Democrats want the same thing Jesse James wanted, a compliant bunch to rob so he wouldn’t have to kill them for noncompliance.  But that is the message to us now, to comply with the orders of the robbers only this time the thieves are an established government who now make up the rules we all are expected to live by.   The reason Democrats want to measure history only back to the Civil Rights era of the 60s is clearly to hide their criminal past where their roots were in the KKK and criminal outlaws like Jesse James and Al Capone.  Their strategy started with hijacking the Civil Rights movement so they could completely undo reconstruction and become government to protect their desires to rob society of everything they took a notion to utilize.

Someone told me the other day that going back that far in history to measure and reference modern behavior was not practical.  I argue otherwise.  We still refer to our American Revolution and use a Supreme Court to interpret the laws made up by our Constitution, written during that period.  For the same reason that Jesse James tried to cut off the Pinkerton’s from investigating their robberies and for all the hostilities that the law represented to their actions, modern Democrats are no different and their goals are just the same—to undo law and order, to gain power through chaos and to enrich themselves by their activist actions.  Republicans play their part as the bank manager who simply does what they are told and hold up their hands to avoid being killed.  It’s not guns anymore that they use to hold up the banks and trains, now it’s cancel culture.  But the intent is no different.  The motivations to confiscate wealth from the rich and give to the poor are no different than the outlaws of the Old West or the evolution of those criminals into the mobs of Chicago and most every other blue-run city. And eventually, over time, the criminals sought to commit their crimes by becoming the government and thus writing the laws that they controlled so that they no longer had to do the work of holding up banks at gunpoint.  They simply now use the IRS to demand the money be sent straight into their pockets.  And that is the cold hard truth of taxation in America and the motivations for doing so.  It’s not a patriotic duty to pay taxes, it’s just submission to a criminal enterprise. 

Cliffhanger the Overmanwarrior


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