Ch 14.6 - Licenses/Permits/Regulation
"A permit from government to be free? It would be unconstitutional." - Unknown
Narrative: Government permits and licenses are necessary to protect the public.
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a. Licensing
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"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it." - Upton Sinclair.
The system we live in is rigged against you. You’ve always known this. Experts are paid hefty salaries to push narratives. They tell you things you can’t observe yourself, and you're expected to believe them. If you don't, then you're ridiculed. Continued disbelief makes you an outcast.
"Journalists legitimize the media
Traders legitimize finance
Generals legitimize war" - Unknown
“The circular validation makes the programming nearly impenetrable:
Media cites “experts” -> Experts cite peer-reviewed studies ->
Studies are funded by industry -> Industry shapes media coverage ->
“Fact-checkers” cite media consensus -> Academia enforces approved conclusions ->
Repeat” - Unknown
Many occupations need a license or obtain the bulk of their funding from the powers that be. When earning your livelihood depends on being in the good graces of someone else, you must align with their point of view. That makes it easy to keep the experts on point with the latest narrative. Supporters are rewarded with promotions, book deals, and lucrative contracts. Opponents are punished by having their funding pulled, licenses revoked, and jobs terminated.
"The system ensures compliance through economic capture: your mortgage becomes your leash, your professional status your prison guard." - Unknown
"The massive proliferation of “professional” licensing destroys capital and enterprise. License to give a massage. License to handle a plate of food. Government permit to put a window in your house, or cut down a tree- your own tree in your own yard! But the horrid truth is that much of this comes at the state and local level- even CCRs are rules, refs, fines, micro-managing. I have concluded that Smericans love rules and conformity more than freedom, and I largely blame public education, which is mostly indoctrinating children to learn, obey, and collectively enforce rules in ever classroom, every day." - Unknown
"Like the elite professions of doctors and lawyers the 'more professional' the expert the less their profession achieves. The:
- more doctors, the less the health
- more psychologists, the less the sanity of their madmen
- more genders, the less the birthrate
- more auditors, the less the corporate veracity
- more lawyers, the less the equity
- more politicians, the less the human freedom
- more policemen, the less the safety
- more soldiers, the less the peace" - Unknown, on the proliferation of licensing and the lack of progress
It’s like the movie 300 when the potter or the carpenter calls himself a soldier just because he carries a sword.
“Since its rule is exploitative and parasitic, the State must purchase the alliance of a group of ‘Court Intellectuals,’ whose task is to bamboozle the public into accepting and celebrating the rule of its particular State. In exchange for their continuing work of apologetics and bamboozlement, the Court Intellectuals win their place as junior partners in the power, prestige, and loot extracted by the State apparatus from the deluded public.” - Murray Rothbard
"To be clear… the experts weren’t wrong. They lied. There’s a big difference!" - Unknown
b. Permits
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"If you go buy some 2x4's and concrete you need to get permission to build a house. If you somehow get permission and build shelter for you and your family you will then pay tax on that house the rest of your life. If that isn't slavery I don't know what is..." - SouthernPrepper1
c. Regulation
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"Everything has two purposes. One is the ostensible purpose which will make it acceptable to the people and second is the real purpose which would further the goals of establishing the new system and having it control everything." - Unknown
"They’ve introduced something that isn’t ready, doesn’t work, and does more harm than good. Sounds familiar?" - Unknown on speed limiting camera technology, but could apply to lots of other things
"The CIA works for military contractors, providing a steady pipeline of forever wars. The health agencies are controlled by the pharmaceutical industry, which profits from chronic disease. The Fed, held captive by big banks, floods the canyons of Wall Street with money. The agencies that are supposed to be stewards of American security, prosperity, and health are no longer working on behalf of you and me. They’ve become sock puppets for the industries they are supposed to regulate." - RFK Jr
"Fantasy: agencies bring special scientific or technical expertise to bear in interpreting statutes.
Reality: no agency head is parsing statutory text. They come to office with policy goals and ask agency attorneys to justify those goals under the statute." - Unknown
"Oh man...you have NO IDEA just how GOOD I'm going to be at making money for this agency...I am going to be just AWESOME at leading to the writing of new rules/laws/regulations that will allow us to extract MAXIMUM CASH from any Americans we target with our fines!" - Unknown, on how bureaucrats react when appointed to a new position
"Do you want to understand the significance of Chevron in as concise a manner as possible? Here it is: Nobody ever elected Fauci or Birx. And for every Fauci or Birx you know, there are a thousand just like them that you don't know lurking in every nook and cranny of your over-regulated life. That. That's it. That's why it was essential to overturn Chevron." - Unknown
"Chevron Deference put bureaucrats in charge of the country:
- It's how the OHSA was able to decide that everyone who worked for a large company had to get the jab, or be fired. No law gave them that authority, they just made it up.
- It's how the ATF was able to decide a piece of plastic was a "machine gun".
- It's how the NCRS was able to decide that a small puddle was a "protected wetlands".
- It's how out-of-control agencies have been able to create rules out of thin air, and force you to comply, and the courts had to simply defer to them, because they were the "experts". Imagine if your local police could just arrest you, for any reason, and no judge or jury was allowed to determine if you'd actually committed a crime or not. Just off to jail you go.
That's what Chevron Deference was. It was not only blatantly unconstitutional, it caused immeasurable harm to everyone. Thankfully, it's now gone." - Unknown
"We haven't even begun to feel the effects of this decision in the courts. It will be used, for years to come, to roll back federal agencies, and we'll all be better of for it. And that's why politicians and corporate media are freaking out about it." - Unknown