The Unpopular 15% Social Security Tax

There are obvious reasons for young people to oppose the social security tax.  #1 in line is that the U.S. Treasury spends your tax payments on projects other than social security.

Not one dollar of your S.S. taxes are saved for you in any way, shape or form.

Harry Browne explains there is also reason for retirees to feel uncertain about collecting future social security taxes....

To find out more about where your social security taxes have gone check out "The Largest Lender to the U.S. May Surprise You".

Cliven Bundy Standoff: Wounded Knee Revisited?

Check out Will Grigg's post on Pro Libertate: The Cliven Bundy Standoff: Wounded Knee Revisited?

Highlights from Grigg:

The land on which the Bundy family raised cattle was “owned” by the government, and the Bundys were required to pay rent – in the form of grazing fees – for the “privilege” of making productive use of it. 

The public-land grazing system has been described as “the nation’s most conspicuous and extensive flirtation with socialism” – except, perhaps, for the Indian Reservation System.