Thought for the Day:
"Meantime the producers, receiving less and less in exchange for their products, were impoverished and discouraged. Naturally they tended to produce less, since they would get no fair return; in fact, effort from which there is no net return automatically must cease. They consumed their own products instead of putting them into exchange. With that the taxes began to dry up. Taxes must come from surplus. The bureaucrats inevitably came down on the producers, with the object of sequestrating the energy directly at the source, by a planned economy. Farmers were bound to the soil; craftsmen to their workbenches; tradesmen were ordered to continue in business although the taxes and regulations did not permit them to make a living. No one could change his residence or occupation without permission. The currency was debased. Prices and wages were fixed until there was nothing to sell and no work to be had. "The reforms of Diocletian, A.D. 260-268, made still heavier the already unendurable load of citizenship."Men who had formerly been productive escaped to the woods and mountains as outlaws, because they must starve if they went on working."
― Isabel Paterson, The God of the Machine
FOCUSED PROTECTION: The Great Barrington Declaration
SCIENCE, ETHICS, AND THE NUREMBERG CODE: Declaration of Canadian Physicians for Science and Truth
RELATED: Collateral Global
Birthdays:
1475 Michelangelo
1710 Giuseppe Antonio Paganelli: Sonata in A minor (Baroque Cello, Portative Organ)
1806 Elizabeth Barrett Browning
1852 Josef Bayer: The Puppet Fairy
1926 Alan Greenspan
