{"id":24864,"date":"2015-06-11T01:52:38","date_gmt":"2015-06-11T08:52:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/?p=24864"},"modified":"2015-06-11T01:52:38","modified_gmt":"2015-06-11T08:52:38","slug":"being-poor-shouldnt-be-a-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/being-poor-shouldnt-be-a-crime\/","title":{"rendered":"Being Poor Shouldn&#8217;t Be A Crime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.kentforliberty.com\/2015\/06\/being-poor-shouldnt-be-crime.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/images\/Permit.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" align=\"left\" alt=\"\" \/>KentForLiberty.com<\/a> | One of my earliest anti-government\/pro-liberty thoughts, back when I was a kid, was the realization that government made it basically illegal to be poor. Which was sort of bad news to me, because making money wasn&#8217;t high on my list of priorities.<\/p>\n<p>I was thinking of all the things I wanted to do with my life which didn&#8217;t really require money&#8230; until you got &#8220;laws&#8221; involved.<\/p>\n<p>You couldn&#8217;t &#8220;legally&#8221; just make a life for yourself on some unowned land- because if it wasn&#8217;t individually owned, some government pretended to own it and would kick you off and destroy your house and all your work if they caught you living there.<\/p>\n<p>Even if you had enough money to otherwise survive in town, &#8220;taxes&#8221; would increase your costs, and if you couldn&#8217;t pay, you&#8217;d be jailed, again losing all you had worked for. Silly property codes often make gardens and affordable houses &#8220;illegal&#8221;, and of course, transportation is a big problem.<\/p>\n<p>If you don&#8217;t have the money to do certain things for your kids- things beyond what is needed for a good life- they&#8217;ll be kidnapped by employees of the State, claiming &#8220;neglect and abuse&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>If you can&#8217;t afford certain bribes (&#8220;licenses&#8221;, &#8220;permits&#8221;) you&#8217;ll be forbidden to start a business- at least openly- to improve your circumstances. And even if you somehow manage, the theft-by-government has only just begun.<\/p>\n<p>And, really, if you think about it, the list of potential &#8220;infractions&#8221; goes on and on. All due to a lack of money to keep &#8220;government&#8221; thugs off your back.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t resent money, or those who have a lot. I resent those who make sure to punish those who choose to not spend our lives in pursuit of money, in order to pay their bribes and extortion.<\/p>\n<p>By Kent McManigal<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KentForLiberty.com | One of my earliest anti-government\/pro-liberty thoughts, back when I was a kid, was the realization that government made it basically illegal to be poor. Which was sort of bad news to me, because making money wasn&#8217;t high on my list of priorities. I was thinking of all the things I wanted to do [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[294],"tags":[758,610,1037,627,250,11,395],"class_list":["post-24864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-government","tag-homeless","tag-legal-plunder","tag-license","tag-permitting","tag-tax","tag-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24864\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}