How To Not Be A Debt Slave

How much does it cost you to drive down the road?

I'm not talking gas prices.  Or car prices.  Or even how much it costs to build and maintain the roads.

I'm asking, how much does the government charge you for using its roads.

Everything.  All the wealth that you have, or ever will have, according to one bureaucrat.

Elizabeth Warren, a woman running for Senate, recently said:

"There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own. Nobody. You built a factory out there? Good for you. But I want to be clear: you moved your goods to market on the roads the rest of us paid for; you hired workers the rest of us paid to educate; you were safe in your factory because of police forces and fire forces that the rest of us paid for. You didn’t have to worry that marauding bands would come and seize everything at your factory, and hire someone to protect against this, because of the work the rest of us did. Now look, you built a factory and it turned into something terrific, or a great idea? God bless. Keep a big hunk of it. But part of the underlying social contract is you take a hunk of that and pay forward for the next kid who comes along."

There are two problems with government service.

1. They are monopolies.
This means you can't go to a competitor.  You are forced to use their product.  Monopolies also tend to give crappier products at higher prices.  And they have no incentive to innovate.

2.  You can never pay them off.
Could you imagine your OB/GYN calling you thirty years after you were born, demanding more money.  "If it wasn't for me," he'd yell, "you wouldn't effin' be alive."

Fortunately hospital bills can be paid off.  Even life-saving operations have a bill that you can finally pay off.  Once you've paid the bill, you no longer owe the doctor anything.  You may be grateful.  But he doesn't have the right to reach into your wallet any time he wants to.

Which is the problem with government services.  You can NEVER pay them off.  They assume that since you used one of their services, that they have the right to take as much of your money as they want to.  It's a debt that you can never pay off.  And another word for a never-ending debt?  Bondage.

They rig the system so that you can't pay as you go.  They never set a price of how much their services cost.  They charge you, not according to how good their product is, but on how much money you have.

Slavery has not ended.  We may not be chaining up and whipping black people (now it's Muslims) anymore.  But there is still a class of people that assumes ownership of you, and all of your work. Washington D.C., the home of unproductive and meddling bureaucrats, is now the richest sector of our society.  They are the 1%.

They think they own you.  If you cast your eyes to the dirt and go along with it, they are right.

Abraham in the Bible set the standard of how to avoid this kind of bondage.
In Genesis chapter 14, a Sodomite king offers Abraham treasure.  Abraham responds:

"I have lift up mine hand unto the Lord, the most high God, the possessor of heaven and earth, That I will not take from a thread even to a shoelatchet, and that I will not take any thing that is thine, lest thou shouldest say, I have made Abram rich."

Abraham was able to avoid this trap by refusing to take from a king, who would then assume ownership of any wealth Abraham made thereafter.

Abraham acknowledged that his wealth came from God, the "possessor" of heaven and earth.  Our government attempts to usurp God's authority with its pretense of benevolence.  But it is no better than the kings of Sodom.

We, unfortunately, can't opt out of the system.  We are forced to use government services.  But we don't have to submit mentally.  Our minds are our own.  We might have to play the slave to get by, but we need not ever believe the rhetoric of our masters.  We can think like free men, and work towards a better day.