Money

Gold coins, bars of silver, sheets of painted linen, plastic cards with magnetic strips. Money has changed forms over the years, but one thing is always the same. Money is a way of replacing the direct barter system that dominated human commerce for centuries with a way of choosing what YOU need later on.

When we first started trading, it was conducted on a basis of reciprocity. You help pick the bugs out of my hair, and I will do the same for you. Then, as we began to develop tools and settle down to till the fruits of the land it was make me tools and I will give you food, or make me a weapon and I will give you meat.

Then, we began to adorn our bodies with the tears of the sun, and those who could work the most precious of metals where in high demand. Soon, people began to look on that shiny yellow metal as having value in and of itself.

Gold was joined with silver and copper and soon, we began to trade small metal disks of these precious metals for services, instead of direct reciprocity. Why did we change away from simple bartering systems to this more complex system?

Simple, because it allowed you to trade your service for what you needed. Paint a guy's fence? He would pay you in money, and you could spend that on food somewhere else. It was a way of allowing people to earn the purchase of those goods by workign for someone else.

Money is all about convenience. The convenience of trading your time to one person in work, and then taking the fruits of that labor to another location to obtain food and shelter and transportation.

So when you are "Redistributing Wealth" you are stealing away the fruits of their labor. It is as if you where to go to a person and order them, gun against their head, to go paint someone else's house.

Now, taxes are a necessary evil. They are our way of trading our time to someone else so that WE don't have to go out and pave those roads. They allow us to trade our time so that someone else can defend us.

However, stealing the time and efforts from one person, and giving them to someone else is just wrong.

It is one thing for a person to reach into his own wallet and give of his own will to the person in need. It is another to have a figure of authority place a gun against your head and order you to give to that person, confiscating eight dollars out of ten for that person's own need, and giving two dollars to the person in need.