12/27/2005

Spirit Preaches "The Gospel of Greed"

The prophets of the Gospel of Greed are out street preaching again over at ontheborderline.com. In a long-winded article typical of the bdanielson "raging philoshopical debate" school of economics, spiritofnarcissis, (aka, spiritofpublicus,bildanielson,donttreadonme, and junkyarddog) cloaks himself in his religion of "Classical Liberalism" and invokes the Creator and Ten Commandments to implicitly justify his extremist views, or as he puts it "The Principles of Liberty".
In his unfathomable parable of the dairy farmer, viewed by the "countless individuals, who are readers of (his) website", spiritofnarcissis takes over 700 words and 3 paragraphs to expound upon the same message he always preaches. It can be summerized in 3 words...."Taxes are immoral".

BTW, The next time you're at the grocery store, see if you can negotiate a lower price for milk from the dairy farmer, or for that matter a cheaper gallon of gas from Exxon-Mobile.
(I would create link #252 here to Spirit's article, but if I did it would be redirected to pop-up about Socialists being insects and most likely plant a virus or worm on your computer, thanks to the internet trickery of the ontheborderline Admin.)

So in a nutshell, Spirit's argument is the typical Calvinist one.
The pecking order is God, me then the government. God gave me my money. Therefore, if the government taxes me, that's immoral.
(As an aside, just think of the implications of this "philosophy". We drink "government
( inspected and monitored)water. If you don't want to get dysentery from what you drink we'd all be buying bottled water )
and be driving on toll roads to get to the Wal-Mart Company Store to purchase it).

I'm not one run around quoting the Bible, chapter and verse .
However, since Spirit invoked the Creator and the Ten Commandments, let's do a little more investigation into the realm of religion to debunk the Gospel of Greed.

In Matthew 22:15 The Pharisees ask Jesus, "Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar, or not?".
Does Jesus say "Go forth thou home and guard thoust gallon of milk from Ceasar and the Romans"? Duh, no!!!!
He says, "Render therefore to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's."
Clearly he's telling the faithful, "All taxation is immoral". Yeah, Right!
This voluminous little thesis of the Spirit is of course only Part I.
Perhaps in Part II, spiritofnarcissis could expound on this verse to justify the Gospel of Greed.

Matthew 16:24-26 24 26 For what doth it profit a man, if he gain the whole world and suffer the loss of his own soul? Or what exchange shall a man give for his soul?

Oh please Spirit, tell us the secret of life from the fountain of Ayn Rand and John Locke.





3 comments:

Sunny Badger said...

Dr. Phil...
You seem to know a great deal about Dr. Bill. It seems I've read that same post with a different title once a month for the last year.

Do I have deja view or alzhimers?

Anonymous said...

Yo Triple-6;

He could just be trying to sell the same bitter pill of goods, with all the after Christmas sales going on.

Andy Rand said...

Tres seis,
Even though I've never met him I think of Dr.Bil as my anti freind. What I find
most entertaining is how he seems to see the world upside down and thinks everyone else should too. Do you think he's been meditating on he brainium a bit too long.