The life and times.

hipsterlibertarian: The woman above is Connecticut...

Mon, 15 Apr 2013 18:02:27 -0400

The woman above is Connecticut industrialist Vivien Kellems, who in 1948 refused to withhold income taxes from her 100-odd employees, saying if the government wanted her to be a tax collecter, they would “have to pay me, and I want a badge.”

She dared the IRS to file suit against her to test the constitutionality of the income tax, but they never did. Despite the fact that her employees were paying their taxes anyway, IRS agents went to her bank and confiscated $6,100. She sued, and though she wasn’t allowed to argue constitutional grounds, was granted a full refund by a district court.

I’d never heard of Kellems before today (perhaps she ought to be added to the Rand/Paterson/Wilder/Hurston bunch of libertarian “founding mothers”?), but she was evidently an author, was among one of the very first women to be featured on Meet the Press, debated Eleanor Roosevelt on taxes, and climbed into a manhole to inspect it while wearing a mink coat.

She also had this to say on the income tax:

The most un-American phrase in our modern vocabulary is “take home pay.” What do we mean, “take home pay”? When I hire a man to work for me we discuss three things: the job to be done, the hours he shall work, and the wages he shall receive. And on Friday when he receives that pay envelope, we have both fulfilled our contract for that week.

There is no further obligation on either side. The money in that envelope belongs to him. He has worked for it and he has earned it. No one, not even the United States Government, has the right to touch it. Who dares to lay profane hands upon that money, to rudely filch from that free man the fruits of his labor, even before the money is in his own hands.

This is a monstrous invasion of the rights of a free people and an outrageous perversion of the spirit of the Constitution.

Well, look who it is…

Sat, 13 Apr 2013 20:15:16 -0400

Well, look who it is…

prettygirlsmakinguglyfaces: AMAZEBALLS! lololololol

Sat, 13 Apr 2013 20:13:08 -0400

prettygirlsmakinguglyfaces:

AMAZEBALLS!

lololololol

Photo

Mon, 08 Apr 2013 21:49:31 -0400

All You Who Sleep Tonight

Thu, 07 Mar 2013 00:02:30 -0500

eating-poetry:

All you who sleep tonight
Far from the ones you love,
No hand to left or right
And emptiness above -

Know that you aren’t alone.
The whole world shares your tears,
Some for two nights or one,
And some for all their years.

By Vikram Seth

writing a paper on this book. love his poetry.

How I feel about my BFF sometimes

Sun, 03 Mar 2013 20:19:14 -0500

How I feel about my BFF sometimes

fuckyeahtattoos: chapter art from prisoner of azkaban done by...

Sun, 03 Mar 2013 18:34:30 -0500

fuckyeahtattoos:

chapter art from prisoner of azkaban done by dj at blind faith tattoo, bangor ME

frame work done by jeremiah at iron works tattoo, portsmouth NH

Siiiiick.

When I text my crush and he doesn't respond

Sun, 03 Mar 2013 18:21:43 -0500

whatshouldwecallme:

Ugh.

hiddleswiggles: historynerdhetalia: did-you-kno: Source New...

Tue, 26 Feb 2013 13:07:26 -0500

hiddleswiggles:

historynerdhetalia:

did-you-kno:

Source

New favourite superheroes.

will reblog every time. So badass.

Wow:

Sat, 16 Feb 2013 16:21:46 -0500

Wow::

hipsterlibertarian:

tumbleweeddreams:

hipsterlibertarian:

Through the government of Switzerland, Iran’s government made an overture to the Bush administration in 2003, in which it asked the Bush administration to meet Iranian officials to discuss ending the sanctions and bringing Iran back into the community of nations in return for Iran’s forswearing any attempt to build nuclear weapons. According to Parsi, the Bush administration, at the behest of Vice President Cheney and Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld, rebuffed them.

File under “greatest opportunities missed due to hawkish hubris,” I guess.

gosh, libertarians love propaganda as much as Statists. It just depends on who’s propaganda we want to believe. This post is rubbish. Hipsters: Like all the world needs is another clueless hipster. How do you get 1,000 libertarians to defend an Islamic fascist theocracy? criticize Iran.

Provide me with a credible link showing the information in this post is inaccurate and I will gladly update it with a correction. Until then, don’t mistake opposition to needless and unconstitutional war with support for an oppressive government.

<3<3<3

Sat, 16 Feb 2013 16:12:40 -0500

<3<3<3

When my best friend & I are trying to push our way toward the bar

Sat, 16 Feb 2013 14:19:05 -0500

whatshouldwecallme:

Photo

Sat, 16 Feb 2013 14:15:50 -0500

dangernips: Made this little gem real quick. Prog life

Wed, 06 Feb 2013 01:06:50 -0500

dangernips:

Made this little gem real quick.

Prog life

Gotta love bears… (;

Wed, 06 Feb 2013 01:03:06 -0500

Gotta love bears… (;

peetaslongbun: NO. BEYONCE DID NOT JUST QUOTE SWEET BROWN. SHE...

Wed, 06 Feb 2013 01:00:34 -0500

peetaslongbun:

NO. BEYONCE DID NOT JUST QUOTE SWEET BROWN. SHE DIDN’T.

THIS IS THE GREATEST MOMENT OF MY LIFE.

THE GODDAMN QUEEN

fuckyeahtattoos: I love Harry Potter and even though this quote...

Sat, 02 Feb 2013 19:41:44 -0500

fuckyeahtattoos:

I love Harry Potter and even though this quote is only in one of the movies and not in the books I still love it! It has personal meaning to me as well. It was done at Ancient Arteffex tattoo in Syracuse NY by Erik he does great work.

If/when I ever start getting tattooes (because I won’t stop at just one haha), I know it will be HP themed.

howdoiputthisgently: My new line for when people ask me what ethnicity I am, which happens often,...

Sat, 02 Feb 2013 19:36:40 -0500

howdoiputthisgently:

My new line for when people ask me what ethnicity I am, which happens often, being half-Lebanese and all.

Beautiful.

Sat, 02 Feb 2013 19:23:38 -0500

Beautiful.

Check out that smolder. Damn.

Sat, 02 Feb 2013 19:03:53 -0500

Check out that smolder. Damn.