This has nothing to do with money Six months ago we began hearing about an exciting new virus, with symptoms "like the common cold". Today, local town leaders are worrying about declining tax revenues due to massive business slowdowns and closures. And these slowdowns actually do affect local governmens (sic) because the tax revenue from …
starving the beast
News that commercial morel-pickers need state approval in the yukon, travelers being told to pass through the territory as quickly as possible, forced closures of restaurants and bars. What do these three share in common? They are all a reflection of an attitude. And that attitude is anti-business. Is it just an unusual outlier that …
love or fear: pick one
It's 05:49 and i'm heading off shortly to fulfill a contract, and i know that does sound bad, but there it is. Whilst waiting for my coffee to appear, i thought i'd dash something off for my dear readership of one. And yes, you may very well be the only one reading this article, now …
radio silence
Radio silence. With the millions of news items documenting the latest death rates, would you not imagine there would be some small discussion here and there on what the worldwide lockdowns are doing to tax bases? You know, that little thingy which provides the income which authorities require to rule over us all, provide a …
get your covidy hands off my mcfries!
We all know the costs of the coronaclypse well enough by now. So what are the hidden benefits we may glean from this alleged pandemic? At least, perhaps we can add a few items to our future vocabularies, if that is not asking too much? And it is along this line in which I feel …
balance o’ power y’all
The despicable Mao Tse Tung, who killed tens of millions of his own people during peacetimes is quoted as having said, "political power comes from the barrel of a gun". He understood how this works. And today, what do we have but a certain class of politicians who are quite eager to wrest our firearms …
the suits that be
The suits that be have decided, based on some sort of self-assessed entitlement, that they alone have the intellect necessary to guide the brainwashed masses through the latest media-induced panic-orgy and have succeeded this time in doing the impossible: namely the shuttering of the vast majority of small and medium-sized businesses all over the planet …
you could learn a lot from starvation; i did
I learned some excellent lessons back in 1980 which have made a big difference in my decision-making ability, and even though i have made a lot of terrible decisions in the intervening years, there are still a few lessons i have not forgotten, and doubt i ever will… The winter of 1980 was a bad …
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“the beatings will continue until morale improves.”
"the beatings will continue until morale improves" is actually one of my all time favorite quotes and I have no idea whom i should thank for it. Sad really. Have you got the covids yet? Neither have I and it is slowly, slowly becoming more apparent that we are all the victims of a massive …
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brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!
In the foreground, a demic, in the background slowly, slowly starting to take over the whole grand show, an economic restructuring of epic proportions as central banks all over the world quietly weaken their currencies by printing trillions brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr. Of course, they are doing this out of necessity. There really is no other way to …
