Liam Sheppard

[Dave Hughes @DHughesy]

This man is ruining Australia. The family of the man who the ATO are chasing for 275 million dollars, have given @AlboMP a one million dollar donation to turn up to their mansion. The ATO will most likely never get the 275 million desperately need dollars but Albo will most likely make sure @australianlabor get the million bucks. He is for the billionaires, not the battlers, he can’t make it any clearer.

[Topher Field @TopherField]

Taking 100% of someone's productive capacity is rightly called slavery, and it remains slavery even if you house, clothe, feed, and provide the slaves with healthcare.

The fact that you spend some of the money you stole from them keeping them alive so they can keep working in slavery doesn't make you less of a slave owner.

Everyone agrees on that.

So at what % is it no longer slavery?

Is taking 80% 'not slavery' as long as you spend it on the slaves?

What about 'only' taking 50%?

Historically 10% has been defined as 'slavery', see 1 Samuel 8 for one such example, although there are many more.

And revolutions have been started by taxes far lower than 10%.

Today, WE are the outliers, the anomalies. We accept as normal what our ancestors would have found absolutely outrageous.

Today a median Australian full time salary earner will fork out 55%-60% in taxes and government charges when you take EVERYTHING into account, meaning they only get the benefit of 40%-45% of their productivity.

It's not a whole lot better in the USA, and it's actually even worse in many parts of Europe.

I'm not impressed by the argument that 'they spend it on things we need'.

I would have done the same only I'm better and knowing what I need and far better at making sure my money is being well used.

Not everyone is ready to talk about full voluntaryism and getting the government completely out of our lives, but can we all agree that anything above 10% taxation is a form of slavery and work together to end slavery for good?

[Crypto Tice @CryptoTice_]

BREAKING:

Poland just told the EU to go to hell.
President Nawrocki vetoed the Digital Services Act.

"The state is supposed to guarantee freedom. Not restrict it."

One man. One veto.

The EU spent years building the most sophisticated censorship framework in the Western world.

- Governments deciding what you can post.
- Governments deciding what you can share.
- Governments deciding what is true.

Poland said no.

While Germany complied.
While France complied.
While every other EU member rolled over.

Poland stood up.

The same Poland that buys more gold than the ECB.
The same Poland that surpassed European Central Bank reserves.
The same Poland that has been right about everything.

Is now the last wall standing between European citizens and state-controlled speech.

The EU doesn't want free citizens.
It wants manageable ones.

Poland just reminded the entire continent what freedom actually looks like.

Every European should be paying attention.

[Drew Pavlou 🇦🇺🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @DrewPavlou]

ABC News: If a majority of voters freely elect a One Nation MP in open democratic elections, will that create a DANGEROUS permission structure for Australian voters to democratically elect right wing candidates?

Australia’s national broadcaster

[Matt Barrie @matt_barrie]

Want to know the real reason Australia risks runaway inflation?

[Brivael Le Pogam @brivael]

Elon Musk avait dit un truc qui m'avait marqué sur l'allocation de ressources. En substance : passé un certain niveau de richesse, l'argent n'est plus de la consommation, c'est de l'allocation de capital.

Cette phrase change tout.

L'économie, dans le fond, c'est juste un problème d'allocation. Tu as des ressources finies et des usages infinis. Qui décide où va quoi ?

Imagine une cour de récré. 100 enfants, des paquets de cartes Pokémon distribués au hasard. Tu laisses faire. Très vite, un ordre émerge. Les bons joueurs accumulent les cartes rares, les collectionneurs trient, les négociateurs trouvent des deals. Personne n'a planifié. Et pourtant chaque carte finit dans les mains de celui qui en tire le plus de valeur. Le système maximise le bonheur total de la cour. C'est ça, la main invisible.

Maintenant fais entrer la maîtresse. Elle trouve ça injuste. Léo a 50 cartes, Tom en a 3. Elle confisque, redistribue, impose l'égalité. Trois effets immédiats. Les bons joueurs arrêtent de jouer, à quoi bon. Les mauvais n'ont plus de raison de progresser, ils auront leur part. Les échanges s'effondrent. La cour est égale, et morte. Elle a maximisé l'égalité, elle a détruit le bonheur.

Le problème de la maîtresse, c'est qu'elle ne peut pas avoir l'information que la cour avait collectivement. C'est le problème du calcul économique de Mises, formulé en 1920. L'URSS a essayé de le résoudre pendant 70 ans avec le Gosplan. Résultat : pénuries, queues, effondrement. Pas parce que les Soviétiques étaient bêtes, parce que le problème est mathématiquement insoluble en mode centralisé.

Quand Musk a 200 milliards, il ne les consomme pas, il les alloue. SpaceX, Starlink, Neuralink, xAI. Chaque dollar est un pari sur le futur. Et lui a un track record. PayPal, Tesla, SpaceX. Il a démontré qu'il sait identifier des problèmes immenses et y allouer des ressources avec un rendement spectaculaire.

L'État aussi a un track record. Hôpitaux qui s'effondrent, éducation qui décline, dette qui explose, services publics qui se dégradent malgré des budgets en hausse constante. Le marché identifie les bons allocateurs, la politique identifie les bons communicants.

Le profit n'est pas une finalité, c'est un signal. Il dit : tu as alloué des ressources rares vers un usage que les gens valorisent suffisamment pour payer. Plus le profit est gros, plus la création de valeur est grande. Quand Starlink est rentable, ça veut dire que des millions de gens dans des zones rurales ont enfin internet. Quand un ministère est en déficit, ça veut dire qu'il consomme plus qu'il ne produit. L'un crée, l'autre détruit, et on appelle ça redistribution.

Dans nos sociétés il y a deux catégories d'acteurs. Les entrepreneurs et les bureaucrates. L'entrepreneur prend un risque personnel pour identifier un problème, mobiliser des ressources, créer une solution. S'il se trompe il perd. S'il a raison, ses clients gagnent, ses employés gagnent, ses fournisseurs gagnent, l'État collecte des impôts. Il est la cellule de base du progrès humain.

Le bureaucrate ne prend aucun risque personnel. Son salaire est garanti. Au mieux il maintient une rente existante. Au pire il la détruit par excès de réglementation, mauvaise allocation forcée, incitations perverses qui découragent ceux qui produisent. Mais dans aucun cas il ne crée.

Regarde les 50 dernières années. iPhone, internet civil, SpaceX, Tesla, Google, Amazon, Stripe, mRNA, ChatGPT. Toutes des inventions privées, portées par des entrepreneurs, financées par du capital risque. Pas un seul ministère n'a inventé quoi que ce soit qui ait changé ta vie au quotidien.

La France est devenue le laboratoire mondial de la dérive bureaucratique. 57% du PIB en dépenses publiques, record absolu. Une administration tentaculaire, une fiscalité qui pénalise la création de richesse. Résultat : décrochage face aux États-Unis, à l'Allemagne, à la Suisse. Fuite des cerveaux. Désindustrialisation. Dette qui explose.

Et le pire c'est que la mauvaise allocation s'auto-renforce. Plus l'État prélève, moins les entrepreneurs créent. Moins ils créent, moins il y a de base fiscale. Plus l'État s'endette et taxe. Boucle de rétroaction négative parfaite. La maîtresse pense qu'elle aide, et chaque année la cour produit moins.

Dans nos sociétés, ce sont les entrepreneurs, toujours, qui font avancer la civilisation. Les bureaucrates au mieux maintiennent une rente, au pire la détruisent. Aucune société n'a jamais progressé en taxant ses créateurs pour subventionner ses gestionnaires.

La question n'est jamais qui a combien. C'est qui alloue le mieux la prochaine unité de ressource pour maximiser le futur de l'humanité. La réponse depuis 200 ans n'a jamais changé. Ce ne sont pas les fonctionnaires.

[Liam Sheppard @this_is_liams]

@PatrickGormanMP 41k seems low

[Topher Field @TopherField]

The lesson is clear: Governments cannot be trusted to manage... anything.

Not our energy sector
Not our farming
Not our industry
Not our utilities
Not even our money.

Nothing that matters should ever be entrusted to something as feckless as government.

Government worshippers insist we 'need' Government to do things that are 'too important' for the private sector, but the truth is the opposite...

...if it's important, keep the government WAY away from it.

If we can learn that lesson then the pain will have been worthwhile.

[Ryan Dally @Ryandally08]

Anthony Albanese calls Elon Musk “so out of touch with what Australians want” for refusing Albanese’s request to censor news regarding violent attacks by Muslims on these shores.

He then accuses Musk of “sowing division”

This blokes kidding isn’t he?

[Aus Integrity @QBCCIntegrity]

Are you ready for this Australia?

Would you support @SenatorAntic coming into the Lower House to run as PM in One Nation?

[Senator Matt Canavan @mattjcan]

Today I called on Jim Chalmers, the nation's Treasurer, to resign because he has overseen the biggest blowout in Australian Government spending on record and it is not even close.

The Government's latest budget data shows that in just 6 months, spending blew out by an unbelievable $50 billion. That is a cost blowout rate of more than $200 million per day.

This crazy level of government spending is why interest rates have gone up today.

Not only is this the biggest cost blowout on record. It follows previous records under Jim last financial year. There has never been a period of economic mismanagement like this. It is off the charts.

If Jim Chalmers had presided over $100 billion in cost blowouts in a private company he would be sacked. Why aren't the same standards applied to the people we pay for in the public sector?

(Chart thanks to the @FinancialReview)

[Craig Kelly:🇦🇺Foundation for Economic Education @craigkellyAFEE]

The legislation is dystopian madness.

12 years imprisonment for someone that gives secular pastoral care if they criticise Albanese’s migration policies.

Everyone involved in this legislation needs to be resign in disgrace.

[Craig Kelly:🇦🇺Foundation for Economic Education @craigkellyAFEE]

🔥🔥VICTORY !! 🔥🔥

Both the Coalition and the Greens have stated they will vote down Albanese’s disgraceful "hate speech" Bill.

Albanese doesn’t have the numbers to get it through the Senate. He’s lost.

And we have X and Elon Musk to thank.

Without the online debate on X, the Coalition would not have changed their position.

Thank you to everyone who shared, commented, and liked my posts (and those of a few other commentators) over the past few days. We did it.

X led the debate.

If it had been left up to the ABC and the legacy media, the public wouldn’t have been fully informed of the huge flaws in Albanese’s Bill—and how Albanese was lying to the public about the Bill—and Albanese would have pulled off this disgrace.

Albanese is again left with egg all over his face. He should consider his position and resign.

And for the Attorney-General, the first law officer of the country—Michelle Rowland (who recently was caught rorting her travel allowance and was forced to repay money she had claimed from taxpayers)—this is her second major failure, following the defeat of her “Mis- and Disinformation Bill”.

She is not up to the job. With her repeated failures and shocking legislative proposals, she should be cleaning out her desk right now and resigning by 9 am tomorrow.

[Senator Alex Antic @SenatorAntic]

This so called “Combatting Antisemitism, Hate and Extremism Bill” is the worst assault on freedom this Parliament has ever seen.

Australians already face far too much regulation of free speech at both state and federal levels.

Law-abiding gun owners don’t need further restrictions either.

I will be voting AGAINST the Bill in its entirety, and I strongly urge all my parliamentary colleagues to do the same.

To hear more from me and stay up to date, signup to my email newsletter here:

https://t.co/Y0LPwr8Tgp

[2 Worlds Collide Podcast @2worldsPodcast]

“No Accountability: War Zones to Bondi Beach”

[Matthew Camenzuli @Matt_Camenzuli]

I have never been more embarrassed to be Australian.

Albanese is attempting to lead the world in government overreach.

He's leading the world in infantilising adults.

He is a victory for stupidity.

[The White Rabbit Podcast @AllBiteNoBark88]

The PM spends over $10,000 A DAY on the company credit card. As well as Salary of over $600k a year + $400k a year Super. You would think for that Rock Star lifestyle on Australians money he could stop destroying the lives of those funding it.
But yeah....Nah

[Senator Matt Canavan @mattjcan]

The PM's main argument against dropping net zero this morning was that, if we did, other countries would not be happy with us.

Shouldn't we make decisions based on what is good for the Australian people?

[Liam Sheppard @this_is_liams]

@senatorbabet 5-10%

[Liam Sheppard @this_is_liams]

@senatorbabet Without the economy