A Non-Violent Protest Against Involuntary Charity and Political Corruption
Channel: Roddy Stegemann
Date: 2016-08-15

This is the fifth live video-event in a series of video-events documenting my hunger strike against involuntary charity and the unAmerican spoils system.  Involuntary charity occurs when a government takes by force, in the form of taxation, and gives to others in the form of:  one, entitlements (social welfare) that privilege one social group over another; two, direct subsidies to firms, industries, and other special interest groups that favor the few over the many, or alternatively, the many over the few; and three,  regulations that similarly privilege specific firms, industries, and special interest groups and thus destroy market competition.  Price fixing in the form of minimum wage laws and manipulation of interest rates by the FED through the control of the money supply are typical examples of this latter form of involuntary charity.
    
    The net effect of involuntary charity is social divisiveness.  In effect, free market competition that rewards winners and punishes losers and thereby increases the economic pie for everyone else is replaced with political competition that diverts scarce resources away from the production of real goods and services and into endless legal and political squabbles that consume the very goods and services produced by everyone else.  In effect, the economic pie is made smaller and social strife is made larger by this system of charity by compulsion.
    
    The entire concept of involuntary charity goes against both the church and the principles upon which our nation was founded -- the notion of a free and sovereign people.  For, a free and sovereign people cannot confer rights to its own government that the people themselves do not have.  It is a crime for you or me to create counterfeit money; it is crime for you or me to engage in theft; and it is a crime for you or me to extort from others with the threat of punishment.  We cannot take from others by force in order to give to others, and neither should our own government.  This is unAmerican, and we should not permit it any longer!  This is my line in the sand.