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What happens when unemployment hits, say, 12%?

Do all the folks getting by on unemployment insurance count as some sort of “Galt-by-proxy” ?

Mew

* for the record, this cat is employed and aims to remain so – but I’m a contractor, so I can nudge my income down by reducing my hours worked… which equates to more time sleeping.

As to Rand’s style of writing and so forth; for me it was all about pondering what could be possible if the government became what it has become. Who better to see the psychological and physical ramifications than a former Russian, and someone who observed moves made in Europe both during Hitler and post Hitler? To me most of her books were about alerting the reader to what will happen if they no longer have freedoms. Plus, “Atlas” to me was the ultimate key to how she saw man/Self, and the men/Self most like the character, Howard Roark. And as to being wordy, Steinbeck’s, “Grapes of Wrath” was not exactly short, very wordy, and much more of a torture for me to read versus “Atlas”. If I remember correctly it took Steinbeck four pages to describe a turtle crossing the road. UGH!

That note at the bottom of the post was a pre-emptive shush – last time I posted something like this on my personal blog, I got a lot of comments and link-backs from people who made those arguments.

Trade services with your neighbors. Cut the grass of a plumber in exchange for him fixing that leaky toilet. Tune up carpenters car, in exchange for some roof work.

Since neither of you earn cash, there are no taxes to pay.

Yes, I’m aware that Atlas Shrugged is poorly written.

Have you ever read the communist manifesto? Have you ever read anything by Gore Vidal? That junk is poorly written. Ayn’s mission was to use allegory to make her philosophy accessable to the average, educated reader, not just students of philosophy, and she succeeds brilliantly.

“Going Galt” is nothing more than verbal shorthand for suggesting that the productive people on whom society depends deprive government of tax revenue in order to starve it.

Yes, definitely! I would add that the whole point of Atlas, is not that we should interprit it literally and go disappear into a gulch. Rather, capitalism is the only moral economic system and socialism can and should be resisted with peaceful protest. To borrow a term the left has been so fond of for the last 8 years, “Going Galt” is a call for direct action against an oppressive government and economic system.

Jeff – you’re referring to what would happen if people start evading taxes, right? Not what would happen if they go Galt?

Laura on May 30, 2009 at 7:31 PM

Yes.

I can’t imagine prosecuting someone for voluntarily dropping out.

But having said that, if someone had told me one year ago that within a year, government will have seized control over the financial services and auto industries, I’d have laughed.

-Captain Malcolm Reynolds, Serenity

Jeff – you’re referring to what would happen if people start evading taxes, right? Not what would happen if they go Galt?

Democrats will use the lawlessness as a pretext to fling open the prison doors, empty the prisons of the millions doing time for drug offenses (how could libertarian repubolicans criticize that?) and they will prosecute every one of those million taxpayers.

And so we’ll have a bunch of wealth producers in jail and a bunch of slackers on the streets.

Bad move.