OneLawThoughts 2005-03-04

The US Congress should pass a very simple Social Security Reform bill that every citizen can understand. Allow every worker the option to re-direct 4% of their income, out of the 12.4% payroll tax, to their 401K plan and in return except a 33% reduction in retirement benefits. This would be a cost neutral solution that will shift money out of the control of the government and into the control of the private citizen.
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If you see someone that you know hurt someone, sooner or later they will hurt you as well and you know it. It will make your life better and easier if you just do not associate with people that hurt others.
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Liberals would have better lives if they would just learn to expect others not to harm instead of coming up with myriad excuses for them to justify why they did harm someone.
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I would only stop supporting the War in Iraq if the United States kills more civilians than Sadaam did. The peace is almost secured and the US has killed less than a tenth of the people that Sadaam killed and population of Iraq is living a better life and has a great future.
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A foreign trade deficit is just another way of measuring the economic charity that the United States is giving the rest of the world.
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Anyone that lives in a high crime neighborhood but believes in the One Law principle should convince their neighbors to defend themselves, with the help of the local police, or move to a better neighborhood where people do believe in the One Law.
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Your expectations are the most important aspect of your life because your path through life will be determined by these expectations. If you expect that your life will suck and that others will hurt you then I guarantee that your life will suck and others will hurt you. Expect others not to harm you and if they do then get them out of your life.
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I do not want to have to worry about what others are doing to me to hurt me. I make my life easier by only associating with people that want to help me and not associating with those that want to harm me.
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“Innocent until proven guilty” is also a very good rule to use in everyday life when you are trying to find new friends.
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A national consumption tax would:
- Punish opulence and excessive spending.
- Promote productivity.
- Promote conservation of resources and recycling by taxing only new products.
- Tax black market and other undocumented income.
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People who believe in the One Law should takeover every level of government. There is a majority of people who believe in the One Law in almost every community. Is yours One of them?
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Help your neighbors and expect them to help you in return.
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Government taxes consume a great portion of the compensation for the work that I do for others and I do not think I am getting my money’s worth.
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If my community demands very little from government we should be allowed to pay very little for that government.
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If you really want what is best for others, you would want them to learn the One Law and then live by it.
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Quit bitching and propose a solution.
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Only One Law communities should be allowed to have a net positive tax flow (more tax money going into the community than is coming out) as an investment in the future.
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Require the federal and state governments to provide each local community with simple accounting of all services provided to the community and the costs associated with those services. The federal and state governments should also provide the total amount of tax revenues received from each locality.
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Why are the stock market and other financial markets limited only to day trading? With current technology trading could be done 24 hours a day 365 days a year with no increased costs. The day trading limitation only benefits the professional traders at the expense of everyone else.
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If you consider yourself to be a good person:
- Presume others to be good people until they prove you wrong.
- Defend yourself from others who are not good people.
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There are only two personality types: independent or co-dependent.
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- If you expect others to hurt you I am sure that they will meet your expectations.
- If you expect the government to give you free stuff then you are a leech and you should expect others to treat you as a leech.
- If you expect others not to hurt you and you help those that help you, then your life will be filled with good people and happiness.
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The One Law is the best cure for co-dependency. You must expect more from yourself than you do from others.
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The best contribution you can give to society is to just take care of your own needs and never harm others. In return the society will reward you with a simpler, happier, and better life.
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If you do not think the One Law idea can work then you must not believe that it is possible for the people around you to be capable of not hurting you. Your life must suck, why not embrace the One Law and change your life for the better.
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I am a recovering co-dependent that cured myself, with the help of my friends and family, in December of 1993. I think that the One Law idea was born at that point; I just didn’t realize it yet.
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One Law version – Don’t hurt me and I won’t hurt you. If you help me I will be happy to help you.
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Whatever happened to the “Sticks and Stones” rule? These days, if someone is offended by another person’s comment they treat it as a death penalty offense.
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If you have never felt that you are paying too much in taxes then you must be stupid or a tax evader. Progressive taxation accomplishes exactly what its name implies; it taxes progress and limits growth.
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“Everybody else does it” is always used as an excuse by someone who knows what they are doing is wrong but they are going to do it anyway.
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Moderate – I define the political term moderate as being: someone who believes that the right politics for one person may not be the right politics another person and as long as no one is being harmed, then what makes them happy is fine. Non-moderates force their solutions to a problem on someone else even though that may not be the best solution for them.
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The Constitutional right to secession does not need to be an entire state leaving the union. The right to secession can be demonstrated by a local government taking over a service that is provided by a higher level of government and providing better service at a lower cost to the taxpayer.
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It is your responsibility to get the greatest value for each dollar that you spend either in the private sector or in government taxes. If you do not feel that you are not getting your money’s worth in the private sector you can shop somewhere else. If you do not feel that you are getting your money’s worth out of government then demand tax cuts and a more localized government.
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Eliminate government regulation that attempts to show people the best way to do something and make all of those laws advisory only. You cannot force someone to do what you think is best for them if they do not agree, you can only show them the best way and hope they follow. Simplify and strengthen all laws that define punishment of one person that hurts another person.
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If a community makes bad decisions then that community should bear the costs of those bad decisions or that community will never have the incentive to learn how to make better decisions.
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Do not confuse the society by passing laws that purport to tell them how to be better people or to make their life better. Laws should tell people what the punishment will be if they hurt another.
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The more hurtful your intentions are, the worse your life should and will be.