At least according to this site it is. http://www.governmentisgood.com I admit i didn't read all the wealth of information on the website because my sides were hurting too much from all my laughter but I thought some of you might enjoy.
"It is easy to be conspicuously 'compassionate' if others are being forced to pay the cost." - Murray N. Rothbard.
It's one big 'the seen and the unseen', denying the law of unintended consequence and attributing wrong causal connections.
The state is not the enemy. The idea of the state is.
Crazy keynsian fascists.
I went to that site years ago and e-mailed the author a rather serious question (I can't remember what it was, though). Needless to say, he never replied -- which seems to speak volumes about his intellectual honesty.
The keyboard is mightier than the gun.
Non parit potestas ipsius auctoritatem.
Voluntaryism Forum
The "Big Government Is Not Your Enemy" graphic on the right-hand side gave me chills, literally.
They also seem to think that anti-statism is right-wing and that Reagan, Tea Partiers etc. are anti-statist. Worst of all: it's "A web project of Douglas J. Amy, Professor of Politics at Mount Holyoke College".
Fuck, man. To think this guy's a professor... we're in deep shit.
"In fact, we should feel good about all the good our tax dollars are doing – just as we feel good about the all the good our religious donations do. Of course it could be argued that there is a big difference here – that giving money to churches is voluntary and we are required to pay taxes. But in practice, many religious organizations require members who can afford it to contribute regularly – payments that are really more like mandatory dues than purely voluntary donations. In any case, the point is that contributing toward an organization that is promoting the public good should not be seen as a bad thing."
Yeah, will churches hunt a person down if they didn't put a $20 bill in the collection plate?
If you think most college (especially poli-sci) professors aren't at least as pro-government as this guy... you are fooling yourself. IMO.
Hey, churches need that $20 to maintain their predator drones.
Nico, I never claimed that most professors aren't pro-government. I just was expressing that it's fucking scary that these kind of views are academically sanctioned.
Also, it's alot easier to just leave a church which "requires members who can afford it to contribute" then up and leave the State. Where am i going to go, a State that robs me of less of my money. Yipee. If i don't like donating to a church, i don't go to church, that doesn't stop me from worshipping whatever it is I worship. Stop paying the State however....
Is it a poe website? It must be.
(english is not my native language, sorry for grammar.)