Category: Cartels vs. liberty

The inverted pyramid: How state uses consent to operate driver license scheme

Hispanic immigrants such as the Alfredo and Sylvia Perez family in Morristown, Tenn., are subject to harassment for using their cars without driver licenses. (Photo Southern Spaces) The Legislature shall have no power to suspend any general law for the benefit of any particular individual, nor to pass any law for the benefit of individuals […]

Fed-led brave new national economy: All propeller, no charts

The Zimbabwe dollar, late bastard brother to the American Federal Reserve dollar, suffers a like congenital deformation. Here, a 100 trillion dollar bill The greatest poison in your local economy and mine is the fluctuating medium of exchange known as the paper dollar and the excesses it engenders, starting with the greatest one of all, […]

What it means to divest nationally, invest locally

Work proceeds at my radio station’s tower in Soddy-Daisy. Hot News Talk Radio is offering local investors a chance to profitably bring our free market perspective to a broader audience. (Photo David Tulis) By David Tulis Our argument to reduce exposure to national economy and the vagaries of credit creation, central banks and Uncle Sam […]

City’s debt approaches F$1 billion

By David Tulis / Chattanoogan.com City government’s debt is close to F$1 billion, with its obligations over the next 19 years supporting operation of a variety of governmental and commercial enterprises. The “total government primary debt” is F$977.64 million, with about a fourth of it — F$278.99 million — being interest. Interest is the charge […]

Driver license system voluntary, Gnome of Strawberry Plains says amid new prosecution

The Gnome of Strawberry Plains, Tenn., explains the fresh air found in Tennessee’s driver license statute, one he says that is 100 percent premised on consent, on application, despite a court of criminal appeals opinion against him and in light of a new prosecution against him for driving without a valid license. Interview with John […]

Doctors with cash practices find way into local economy

Dr. David Redd of Chattanooga Two tenets of local economy are “Near is better than far” and “small is better than big.” Doctors are rediscovering the beauty of local economy by holding to these two concepts in either cash businesses or concierge practices. They are rediscovering a lost joy: “Personal is better than corporate” — […]

County’s biggest business: School system with $416 million budget

Battle Academy and other schools cost Hamilton County half of its public spending. By David Tulis Even though the Hamilton County Department of Education is a separate entity from Hamilton County, it is a major financial drain on the county. With 6,265 employees and 42,837 students, the department of education’s operating budget for fiscal year […]

Easter aerial visitation outside purview of U.S. Form 17-4

The U.S. government’s war on climate change escalates across Tennessee on Easter Sunday, as here in Antioch. (Photo Brian Mac) Easter Sunday begins bright and blue, but aggressive sky striping casts virtually every quadrant of the sky over Soddy-Daisy, Tenn., and Chattanooga under a gray murk. (Photo David Tulis) Like Chattanooga, Knoxville is given a […]

Exposure of sky striping program will come through local economy

Bill Binney in his interview with TragedyandHope.com says phone and Internet surveillance is a project of totalitarian government and that it insulates the state from having its illegal acts revealed by whistleblowers and men of conscience. https://vimeo.com/117440574 By David Tulis The disk from the federal government contains two files. The data covers two days in […]