The History of Monopoly

To settle an argument while on vacation, we had to look up the history of the board game Monopoly. This is quite a fascinating history, dating back to the early 1900's. The game was designed to illustrate the negative effects of rent and taxation, specifically to promote Georgism. I'm not sure it had much effect on public opinion, but it makes me want to create a game to highlight the benefits of the FairTax. ;-)

The Creator's Culture

I ran across a very insightful blog posting today that I have to share.

In this community, production is valued. Members celebrate other individual’s hard work, congratulating them when they release their new products.
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Hard work, creativity, passion, production — that is what is rewarded and celebrated.

This is what our country (heck -- the world!) needs more of.

As we celebrate the those that do not produce, we ourselves question the value of hard work, and it leads to nasty things like dependency on government and apathy for our purpose in life. If we're not careful, we'll end up like the humans in Wall-E.

So, without further ado, go out there and make something!

FairTax Special Order

This is long (an hour), but goes over most of the arguments for FairTax.

http://www.fairtaxnation.com/.

Rah! Rah! Rah!

Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.

- Yoda

It's time to stop fearing "the economy".