Comments on: Andrew Lloyd Webber: Going Galt in Britain?

By: The Lioness

The Lioness — Fri, 22 May 2009 14:27:17 +0000

Updated: Cogs Won’t Work in Galt’s America…

“We the People” aren’t cogs in a machine, even a great machine, that Our Dear Leader can fit to his purposes. We the People began this experiment of nationhood in revolution due to unresponsive tyranny: “In every stage of these Oppressions We …

By: Cogs Won’t Work in Galt’s America Obama « The Lioness

Cogs Won’t Work in Galt’s America Obama « The Lioness — Fri, 15 May 2009 02:26:10 +0000

[...] across the Pond, taxes bring fresh tears, and snears, and have the talented crying foul. Malkin quotes the manifesto of renowned composed Andrew Lloyd Webber, who fearing a talent exodus, writes of the [...]

By: The Sham of Socialism: Save America While There’s Still Time « Frugal Café Blog Zone

Fri, 08 May 2009 19:03:41 +0000

[...] budget-cutting tools and The “Going Galt” phenom spreads; Whoopi goes on anti-tax rant and Andrew Lloyd Webber: Going Galt in Britain? Don’t Get Me Started…: Obama Supports Socialism – More Proof! Frugal Café Blog Zone: [...]

By: dadinseattle

dadinseattle — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 20:53:07 +0000

It is time to Turn up the Heat on the Elite before our country becomes a third world has been.

By: Economic Signs Of Trouble « Tai-Chi Policy

Economic Signs Of Trouble « Tai-Chi Policy — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 14:57:51 +0000

[...] even without Obama. The economic data is there: higher taxes kill the incentives of productivity. Even Andrew Lloyd Weber agrees. Oh, and the latest example of liberal fascism: Government is going to own 89% of GM. Yes, fascism [...]

By: The New Crusades: Fighting for Employees « Finding Ponies in Piles of Poop

The New Crusades: Fighting for Employees « Finding Ponies in Piles of Poop — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 04:12:45 +0000

[...] Fister on April 27, 2009 A Finding Ponies Blog first… we’re quoting a knight! Via Michelle Malkin, by the way. Here’s the link to the Daily Mail article. I believe that this new top rate of [...]

By: Papa Louie

Papa Louie — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 04:02:55 +0000

Andrew Lloyd Webber, meet Abraham Lincoln and Frederic Bastiat:

That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.
— Abraham Lincoln

When a portion of wealth passes out of the hands of him who has acquired it, without his consent, and without compensation, to him who has not created it, whether by force or by artifice, I say that property is violated, that plunder is perpetrated. I say that this is exactly what the law ought to repress always and everywhere.

Legal plunder has two roots: one of them… is in human greed; the other is in misconceived philanthropy.
— Frederic Bastiat, The Law

By: Laree

Laree — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 03:05:46 +0000

Imagine tea drinkers endorsing tea partys

By: cheapseat

cheapseat — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 23:05:27 +0000

no wonder that there are so few companies in the u.k. with employees. the employee pays 1.5% of his universal health care, and the employer pays 13.5% of that fee. makes you want to run out and hire illegals by the boatload doesn’t it. and the illegal immigrant population in the u.k. is what?

By: Ragspierre

Ragspierre — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 19:39:34 +0000

Thank you.

Watch for this. It is going to take some careful, deliberate planning.

I would very much like your critical thinking on this. Join me, and give it place in your thinking.

By: flmom

flmom — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 19:34:59 +0000

Thanks CiE and Rags, you’ve given me some fine education. And Rags, btw, been reading your theory of starving the beast and agree. Though I see that it is a natural progression as businesses close and more people are out of work. A bad economy takes a while to trickle up to the wealthy, but I am seeing the effects, over the past 3 months, that it is definitely starting to affect the spending behavior of the very wealthy.

By: conservative in europe

conservative in europe — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 19:31:02 +0000

Yep, what I know about finances was pretty much spent in my tyrade. I lived in Nassau a while back and remember the flood of guys coming from the US and Canada during the Clinton years to set ‘em up.

Never had a Panamanian cigar. I have, however, smoked a boatload of “counterfeit” Cuban cigars and they can range from pretty good to “worse than backwoods”. I will give credit to the Dominicans, Hondurans and Nicaraguans. The quality control these guys put out is a million times better than the Cubans’. Cuba never seemed to recover from the hurricanes of the ’90′s. They tend to rush production.

I am with you on the pricing. A cheap Cuban over here is 10 Euro ($13). Not worth bothering with when I can mail order from J+R.

I’m out. Have a good night.

By: Ragspierre

Ragspierre — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 19:21:24 +0000

I have to work hard to get a non-Cuban here. I used to smoke them but, after Blue Lips kissed Castro’s butt, I refuse. I got boxes of Punch and Partagas Torpedoes in last week.

Lucky dog!!! I don’t know if I’d regularly smoke Cubans even if I could get them. Too pricy…

I have smoked Panamanians, though. You can tell they were made from Panamanian leaf because they stick “Panama” stickers over the “Cuban” stamps….

I like them, too…

By: Ragspierre

Ragspierre — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 19:18:12 +0000

CiE

some of what you say about trusts is true.

They can be wonderfully customized to do what their grantor (the person with the gift…whatever it is) wishes. They beat a will all to hell, generally.

You generally refer to an irrevocable trust. There are other types.

They are taxed in the US, however, to at least some degree.

You can, as grantor, give yourself a “life interest” in a trust, allowing you to benefit from the corpus (the goodies) of the trust during your lifetime. That benefit, however, can be awarded to a judgment creditor from a law suit.

We could chat for many happy hours on the wonderfulness of trusts…

By: conservative in europe

conservative in europe — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 19:12:13 +0000

Rags,

I have to work hard to get a non-Cuban here. I used to smoke them but, after Blue Lips kissed Castro’s butt, I refuse. I got boxes of Punch and Partagas Torpedoes in last week.

Opening the Balvenie as we speak..