Scientsts Being Pushed Out of the GOP

The Salt Lake Tribune reports that GOP representation in the ranks of scientists has dwindled to just 6 percent.

In some ways this is surprising.

The actual positions held by the Right are more reasonable than the left. The reasoning behind most Conservative positions is far stronger than the reasoning behind left wing positions.

So, why is the GOP driving away scientists?

Please note. I am not a member of GOP. The Utah GOP has made it abundantly clear that me and my kind are not welcome in the Republican Party. (I am not Mormon).


I happen to be a computer programmer with an interest in the foundations of mathematics and logic.

I've been called "satan" for holding rationality and the scientific method in high esteem.

Again. I live in Utah. Utah is different. I figured that the wholesale rejection of rationality among the GOP was just the peculiar nature of Utah politics.


The article has me worried. Is the national GOP actively driving out scientists as well?

If so; Is there anyone in the GOP who is concerned about this trend?

My family moved into Utah in 1976. They lived in other states. They would tell me stories of far off lands in which members of the Republican Party were open to engaging in Sound Rational discourse about the US Founders and the foundations of a free society.

I always held this fantasy that there were people on the right who were actively interested in things like the foundations of freedom. If I could just get away from the Utah GOP, I might find people who held reason higher than the social order?

My favorite book is Radical Son by David Horowitz. Mr. Horowitz was a left wing propagandist who realized the inherent irrational nature of his positions and who then found people on the Right who were actively promoting civil discourse and who engaged in rational thought.

Now, I personally have never met anyone on the right who has any interest beyond grubbing power for the partisan cause. But I've only met a few thousand people in my life.

I really love the fantasy that there are people on the right who are interested in rational discourse.

From a hypothetical stand point. If there were people in the GOP who were interested in advancing the cause of liberty, it seems to me that the way to proceed would be to have meetings in which people talked with each other about how to solve the problems of this world with free market principles.

For example, I think it would be highly entertaining for a group of people to sit down and discuss the mathematics of financing health care. The discussion would entail creating mathematical models of health care expenses and include open discourse about different ways to finance care.

I believe that if such a group got together and actually spoke about the mathematics of financing health care the group would be able to find alternatives to the problems created by PPACA.

Again. I admit. The idea of a half dozen people sitting in a room discussing free market approaches to funding health care is a fantasy.

Having accepted the reality that it is impossible to find a full half dozen conservatives (a half dozen is six) with enough interested in preserving liberty to spend an afternoon discussing ways to save freedom, I admit I find myself despairing about all aspects of the freedom movement.

I've despaired about the GOP.

Reading an article claiming that the GOP has driven out all the scientists is just increasing my despair.

The dictionary definition of "Conservative" is one of people who closed to rational discourse. Conservatives might use free market rhetoric to grub power, but then slam the door and lock out the people.

I guess I understand the conservative desire to lock people out. But if Conservatives lock out everyone, then the cause of liberty, which I care about, is lost forever.

If the GOP has locked out everyone interested in pursuing science, then the cause for liberty will be lost for the foreseeable future.

A Challenge Repeated

The last thing America needs is an attempt to radically change America through a disruptive Tax Reform Proposal. The US government has a problem with irresponsible spending and not one with taxation.

Unfortunately, there is a loud and well funded group pushing a radical tax reform proposal called the Fair Tax. This tax is based upon a fundamentally flawed understanding of economics. History shows that loud people can do great harm to the nation.

Last Month I challenged the Fair Tax supporters to a debate.

The challenge went unanswered. I will repeat the challenge.

I live in Salt Lake, I will be happy to drive to Denver, Phoenix, Cheyenne, Boise, or Las Vegas for a debate. I would like to stay within one day's drive of Utah to keep costs down.

The debate would be a simple format in which both sides present an argument to a group and the group voted on the path they find most promising.

The FairTax speaker would present the idea of replacing the income tax with a sales tax.

I would present the idea of creating an alternative to the withholding system that uses Tax Aware Accounts.

The audience would vote on the idea they like better. I contend that most crowd would prefer the path that empowers people and requires the least disruption. The FairTax disenfranchises workers and will result in massive disruption. I repeat the challenge I made last month.

Any group interested in hosting such a meeting could contact me.

A Personal Covenant with Christ

I wrote several articles critical of "Covenant Theory." Covenant Theory presents history as a series in which chosen groups have had covenants with God against evil masses of gentiles and servants of Satan. This approach to The Covenant is a form of radicalized religion and it leads to a closed society.

In contrast, when people seek a Personal Covenant with Christ, they tend to become open, honest and valuable members of society. A society in which a large number of people are seeking a Personal Covenant with Christ tends to be a robust, open and welcoming society.

The difference between a society in which individuals are seeking a Personal Covenant with Christ and a society in which political leaders claim a Collective Covenant with God is the difference between individual rationality and group think.

The problem is not religion. The problem is with group think.

The history of radicalized anti-religion shows that group think is as dangerous in anti-religion (if not more so) as it is with religion.

Anti-religious group think is usually worse than pro-religious group think because it denies people their natural impulse to seek peace with their maker.


The politically ambitious seek power by dividing and conquering. The politically ambitious love promoting the angle that their group is either more righteous or more intelligent than the opposition on which the leaders project false images.

The politically ambitious love radical divisions because the division justifies a politics of rewarding friends and punishing enemies.

The politically ambitious simply religion (or anti-religion) as a path to power. Remember, Machiavelli taught the prince that he must appear religious while not being religious.

The paradoxical aspect of using religion to grub power is that the rogues who use religion to create division and gain power end up becoming the very image of evil that they project on the people they oppress.

The leader who claims a Collective Covenant with God in a quest for power often undermines the aspirations of the followers seeking a personal covenant.

While seeking a personal Covenant with Christ or speaking of a Global covenant with God is often beneficial, people should be wary of anyone claiming that their group has a Covenant with God and that they are in conflict with the evil outsiders who do not. More often then not, the political rogues taking this tact are using religion for personal ends. Their efforts often result in the very evils they claim to stand against.

It is group think that kills, not individual spirituality.

Centralization and Wealth Disparity

Apparently it is fun to condemn the motivations of others, because a lot of people do it.

One of the most common accusations is one of greed. Workers accuse management of being greedy and giving stingy paychecks while management accuses workers for being lazy and greedy for not having the company's best interest at heart.

Unfortunately, I was not born with the ability to see the motivations of others. I do not have the magic ability to see if a person is motivated by greed or something else.

Anyway, social progressives make claims to altruism as they demand ever greater economic and political centralization. Small business owners openly admit to self-motivation as they build and defend their small businesses.

Bush, Clinton, Bush and Obama were social progressives. Each administration made big claims to altruistic motives.

As I cannot see inside their minds, I simply have to take these administrations at their word.

During each of these administrations we saw altruistic people who favored economic and political centralization over freedom. The result is an ever larger gap between rich and poor.

So, I will make a bold statement. The problem is not greed v. altruism. The problem is economic centralization.

Economic centralization will concentrate wealth and power even if the group promoting the centralization feigns altruism.

Conversely, economic decentralization does a better job creating and distributing wealth, even if the people involve admit to self-motivation.

If the freedom movement wants to turn around the ever increasing economic and political centralization, people in the movement need to start talking about economic decentralization.

Creating a Better Tax Reform Proposal

It is likely that Tax Reform will be the driving issue of 2014.

Unfortunately, there is not a good tax reform proposal on the table. If there is not a decent plan on the table, we will be stuck with bad approaches to reform such as the Fair Tax.

I contend that, if a small group of patriots got together, the group could create a much better tax reform proposal that will bring people into the freedom movement.

Decades ago, when I was studying object oriented programming, I came up with a fun approach to reform that I took to calling "The Object Tax."

The reform uses ideas from the computer industry to replace the tax withholding system with Tax Aware Accounts.

A Tax Aware Account is a smart account. You put money in the account. You pay a progressive tax to get the money out. If your employer put $1000 in your account and your tax rate was 20%; you would get $800 in cash and pay a $200 tax when you withdraw the funds.

Smart accounts can accurately apply taxes throughout the year, ending the need to file an annual return.

Implementing the tax is not disruptive. The program starts by creating an object-model of the current tax code that can be implemented either as the current withholding system or through the system of tax aware accounts.

Accountants and financial institutions would create implementations of the object-model. Once tested these third party would present Tax Aware Accounts as a product.

People would switch to the Tax Aware Accounts at their discretion.

Employers wishing to reduce compliance costs are likely to change. Employees who wish to eliminate the hassles of filing taxes will appreciate the change.

Tax reform experts will notice that the Object Tax combines the best of a progressive income tax with a consumption tax.

For that matter, unlike the FairTax which is a business tax, the Object Tax is a true consumption tax. The money flows from the consumer at the point when consumers transfer money from their accounts for spending.

The really important part of the Object Tax is that it empowers individuals to take greater control over their personal finances. The programs that host the tax will give clients a full accounting of their personal spending and taxes paid. While the tax reform itself will not decrease government spending, an empowered electorate is likely to demand spending reductions.

The rogues in power fear an educated public.

Moving the Object Tax from conception to consideration as a viable alternative to the Fair Tax requires just a few people meeting and hashing out the plan. I started the Object Tax blog to start the process of developing the concept.

Another Debate Stifled by an Oppressive Culture

I've followed the Fair Tax since its inception in the 1990s. I believe the Fair Tax is a bad approach to reform. Even worse, I fear that the loud Fair Tax campaign will hurt the freedom movement as the loud shouts for the Fair Tax will drown out other issues.

This is my belief and I may be wrong.

I believe that the best way to defeat the Fair Tax would be for the Freedom Movement to come up with a less disruptive tax reform proposal.

A long time ago, while studying Object Oriented Programming, I asked myself the question: "Would it be possible to use the system design techniques from the computer industry to streamline the tax collection process?"

In engaged in a thought experiment in which I used Object Technology to rework tax collection. I came up with the following idea which I called the Object Tax.

The first step is to create an abstract model of the current tax code that could be implemented as the current tax with-holding system or as a system of Tax Aware Accounts.

In computer jingo, a Tax Aware Account is an object. It is a smart account. You put money in the account and have to pay a tax to get the money out. You would have your whole paycheck (nothing withheld) put into an account. When you withdraw funds, the account would calculate and pay your taxes. If done correctly, the program would end the need for withholdings and filing an annual return.

With the Tax Aware Account, taxes are collected when a person withdraws money for consumption. It is a personal consumption tax with a progressive tax rate. According to the Fair Tax literature, this is the best structure for a tax code.

The Object Tax defines the behavior of a Tax Aware Account. We would then ask third party providers to implement the design. Implementation would include a rigorous system of testing and certification.

The Tax Aware Accounts would be hosted by local accountants and financial institutions. Banks could extend the Tax Aware Accounts by adding budgeting and financial management tools.

The Object Tax is not disruptive. We use principles from system design to create an alternative to the withholding system that is implemented by third party providers.

It is a fun idea.

In my opinion, this idea is worth exploring.

Now for the big hang up.

I live in Utah. The body politic in this state bought into the Covenant America argument.

Covenant America holds that the Constitution was revealed by the Heavenly Father to usher in his new church in the Latter Days.

Proponents of the Fair Tax claim that the Sixteenth Amendment that created the income tax is Unconstitutional and that the Fair Tax will restore the Constitution as it was reveal by the Heavenly Father.

This idea that the Sixteenth Amendment is Unconstitutional is complete and utter nonsense. Yes, the Founder sought to limit the Federal Government by barring the Federal Government from direct taxation. We had a foolish system in which the Federal Government taxed the states based on the census.

This is exactly like the system devised by Emperor Augustus in year zero. The Census of Quirinius had ordered everyone to return to their place of birth to be counted. Christ was born in a manager for tax compliance. Taxing the states based on the census data was stupid in year zero. It also proved stupid in the 19th century.

The Fair Tax actually is direct taxation and is as dependent on the sixteenth amendment as is the income tax. The Fair Tax is a tax set by the Federal Government and mandated to the states. It does not restore Constitutional balance. But that is a different story. The people who hold that the sixteenth amendment is unconstitutional don't exactly apply logic to their thinking.

In my opinion, the tax reform debate should be about the best way to proceed with the painful issue of tax reform.

I believe that the best approach is to use system design techniques to transition from the current withholding system to one based on Tax Aware Accounts administered by third parties.

I have all sorts of reasons why this would improve both the tax system and citizen involvement in their governance.

I have strong arguments that this is a better approach to reform. Unfortunately, I will never have a chance to argue these ideas because the argument is based on the idea that the Sixteenth Amendment is Constitutional.

I live in a state where I lose the argument that Constitutional Amendments are Constitutional.

The one and only way that I could work on developing the ideas I worked on is if someone outside of Utah invited me to a meeting. I don't see that happening.

The Framers of the Constitution did not claim that it was revealed by a divine authority. They did not claim it was a covenant to establish a new church. They actually said the opposite. They did not want the government to be in the business of establishing religions.

The Tax Reform Debate should be about finding the best way to engage in reform taxes. But that debate cannot happen because a powerful local church holds the notion that the Constitution was Revealed by God and that amendments are Apocrypha.

To me, this is pure insanity. So, I wrote a few posts critical of Covenant Theory held by the powers that control Utah.

The Covenant and a Closed Society

Glenn Beck is actively promoting a theory called Covenant America.

The Covenant Theory holds that the US Revolution was staged by God. The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution were revealed by God to create the conditions necessary for the restoration of the church in the Latter Days. The Restoration of the Church occurred when God revealed to Joseph Smith the Golden Tablets that contained the Book of Mormon. Joseph Smith was instructed by God to establish a church. Revelations continue to flow through the Church and are written in the Doctrine and Covenants.

In the Covenant Theory, The Constitution was revealed to give rise to the Mormon Church. A goal of the Constitution was to give free agency.

Free agency is best understood as a test. Free agency gives people a choice of accepting their position in the hierarchy of the Church and following the doctrine or of being cast out.

Those who follow the Doctrine and Convents are the righteous. Those not in the Covenant are called gentiles.

The Book of Mormon tells of millennial old conflict with the righteous pitted in struggle against the gentiles.

(I am one of those evil gentiles).

The Covenant reaches back to the beginning of time in the Garden of Eden. Adam ate the apple, which is why men have Adams Apples. Cain killed Abel. The descendants of Cain were smitten and turned dark skin. The Covenant theory holds that the proof of the Covenant can be seen in the color of one's skin.

Africans are the descendants of Cain and have dark skin. Europeans are the descendants of Abel. They are whitesome and delightsome. This pattern repeated with the Native Americans who are descendants of an evil group called Lamanites, which is why Native Americans are savage and red.

(Personally, I reject these arguments as false. But what is truth?)

A covenant can only be seen by revelation. The epistemology of the Covenant Theory starts with the idea that The Covenant is the highest of all truths. Unfortunately attempts to say that the covenant is reveal to each person individually fails because we would all fantasize different covenants. The Covenant requires a central political hierarchy. Thus Covenant Theory holds that truth flows through the political hierarchy to the people; So, the higher you are in the political hierarchy, the closer you are to truth.

Since truth flows through the political hierarchy created by the Covenant with God, you can judge the truth of a statement by one's position in the political hierarchy. The higher one's position in the hierarchy, the greater one's authority. As you work your way up the rungs, you gain authority.  (Pretty sweet, eh?)

Jumping back to free agency: The theory of free agency means that people are given the choice of accepting their position in the hierarchy or of being cast out. Satan works to cloud people's mind to make the truth appear false.

For example, Satan might compel an evil gentile so say something like "The idea that Africans bear the Mark of Cain is racist nonsense." Adherents to the Covenant are trained (indoctrinated) to see such statements as the work of Satan.


I happen to be one of those gentiles. From my perspective, the Covenant Theory ends up creating a closed society that is subject to group delusions.  Even worse, Covenant Theory leads to a deeply fractured society with a closed group claiming they are the holders of the truth and shutting the rest of the world out of political discourse.

Covenant Theory divides people and creates a cultural climate in which is it nearly impossible to engage in discourse.

Readers of this blog will notice that I spent five years with the goal of holding a meeting about free market health care reform.

My goal was to present the idea that insurance is the problem and that to restore liberty, we need to restore a system in which most health care is self-funded and provided on a fee-for-service basis.

I know enough about the nature of logic and ideas to understand that my position might be wrong. My goal has been to find a group of people who are open to free market reform to listen to the idea. I believe strongly in the scientific method. Peer review is a cornerstone of this method.

The idea I wanted to present is that the insurance mandate is the weakest part of PPACA (ObamaCare). The Insurance Mandate is premised on the assumption that insurance (group funding of individual care) is the only possible way to fund health care.

If a group developed a mathematically viable alternative in which the majority of care is self-funded and delivered as fee-for-service medicine, that group would attack PPACA at its weakest link.

 I live in Salt Lake City which is controlled by the LDS Church. The LDS Church suppresses open discourse. Because I live in Salt Lake City, I am unable to find people who would review the idea. So, I am stuck having to look outside of the state.

The only hope I have is that someone within driving distance (700 miles) of Salt Lake is willing to host a meeting.

People keep asking. Why is it that no-one in Utah is willing to discuss free market health care reform. The reason is that the leadership of this state believes in Covenant Theory. The leaders of this state believe that truth flows through the political hierarchy of the Church and that people not in this hierarchy are all evil. servants of Satan.

I've crashed local political groups. When I brought up the idea that insurance is the problem, people have looked directly at me and called me Satan.

That is just pure nonsense. In my opinion, anyone who believes in an ideology that automatically rejects all arguments outside that ideology is on the wrong path.

I have spoken with local Democrats and progressives about my thoughts. They reject the idea of self-financed care outright and will not consider any arguments in favor of self-funded health care.

I believe the Founders of the United States fought for liberty because they saw liberty being a good thing in and of itself. They fought for liberty and not free agency. I believe the Founders sought to protect freedom of speech because they believe that a system with healthy discourse spoken by people with different perspectives would lead to more fruitful results than ideas imposed by a top-down hierarchy.

I believe that the Covenant Theory (at least as it is practiced in Utah) is against the ideals of the Founders.

I enjoyed the Glenn Beck show. I am deeply disappointed to see Glenn Beck putting on a circus called Covenant America in Branson, Mo.

Likewise, I loved the book "The Open Society and It's Enemies" by Karl Popper. But I really dislike the direction of the Open Society Institute which I see as an enemy of freedom.

As for these last three posts. I am trying to explain why people in Utah are unwilling to discuss such as health care freedom. People in Utah believe that their group has a Covenant with God. Those who are not in their group need to be isolated and cut out.

I know, I've gone five years trying to find a group to discuss free market health care reform. I would still love to discuss that topic. I also would love to talk about tax reform. But I have to travel out of state and the only way I could ever have a chance to discuss these topics is if someone helped organize a meeting.

The picture below shows attendance of the 2012 Stand Up For Religious Freedom Rally. This was the largest anti-PPACA rally of the last four years. From a population of 2M, the well promoted rally attracted about 200 people. About half of the crowd was composed of speakers, the media and direct family of the speakers.

Covenants and Radical Religion

Radical religion existed well before radical anti-religion.

For example, the monarchy had used a radicalized form of Christianity (the Divine Right of Kings) to claim that kings drew their authority from an ancient covenant with God.  The monarchs of old presented a conflict driven view of history in which the monarchs were the righteous rulers in eternal conflict against tyrants and other rogues.

The Islamic jihad is a radicalized approach to religion that has been around for millennia.

By the time of the US Revolution, radicalized religion had lost much of its appeal. The groups that had used radical religion sought other paths to power.

The Hanoverian Kings of England were German. The Hanoverian Kings funded the Germany Universities and sponsored work to reframe the message of the monarchy as progressive. This effort spawned most of the "isms" of the modern age including progressivism, liberalism and (yes) conservatism.

The best example of this new thought was Hegel's Philosophy of History. Hegel was a royalist (a conservative). He presented a conflict driven version of history which staged the Germanic people as the up and coming nation on the world stage. Hegel was created pseudo-philosophical race-based religion. The Nazis were direct descendants of this chain of thought.

A central feature of Hegel's philosophy is a redefinition of freedom in which freedom is slavery and slavery freedom. This ideal continues today with people who seek freedom by creating ever greater dependency on the state.

Hegel was part of a royalist reactionary movement. His ideal was the restoration of central monarchy. The next generation (the Young Hegelians) produced a radical left wing philosophy.

Famous Young Hegelians include Feuerbach. Feuerbach realized that radical anti-religion could be as affective in consolidating power as radical religion. This was especially true in an age when people were tired of religious war.

Marx perfected the radicalization process and created a radical philosophy that was far more virulent then Hegelianism.

It is important to remember that Modern Radicalism took place on both the right and left. Many people hold up Naziism and Fascism as right-wing radicalism and Communism as left-wing radicalism.

The radical philosophies that led to genocide in the twentieth century were produced by the reactionary and radicalization process of the nineteenth century.

These reactionary movements trace back to the ideas of the Divine Right of Kings and the tradition of supporting secular authorities with fantastical conflict driven versions of history to support claims to secular authority.

For this reason, I am not happy to see Glenn Beck pursuing the ideas of Covenant America. The idea that one group has a direct Covenant with God which justifies its hegemony over others is the heart of the radicalization process.

The American Covenant theory holds that the American Revolution was run by God as part of a master plan. In this master plan, both the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States were revealed by God to establish the conditions necessary for the restoration of God's true church in the Latter Days.

The restoration of the church, of course, happened with the revelation of the Book of Mormon which taught man the true history of the planet. The specifics of the new covenant came with revelation of the Doctrine and the Covenants.

The D&C has many exciting revelations such as the restoration of polygamy for members of the patriarchy and the revelation that the Heavenly Father is not one God but one god in a political hierarchy of gods.

I agree that it is compelling to think that the Constitution was revealed by God as part of a greater revelation. It is compelling to believe that the words of the original constitution are scriptural and are equivalent to the Bible, The BoM and D&C. (NOTE: Amendments with numbers greater than ten are apocrypha).

The theory that the Consitution is of divine origins is truly compelling, but if the theory is not correct, then American Convenant Theory is a theory that might undermine and not strenghten the Constitution.

The idea that the words in the Constitution were revealed by God and are on par with other revelations of the Seer, Relevator and Prophet add religious authority to the Constitution, but what if the Seer, Relevator and Prophet is just a politically ambitious partisan, then our attempts to build a religion around the American Covenant has reduced the American Experiment in self rule to the long line of other false prophecies.


In practice, these theories in which one group of righteous people claim a special covenant with God have led to division. The righteous are thrown into conflict with those outside the covenant (the evil gentiles). Deep structural divisions tend to end poorly.

In WWII, the Nazis held that the Aryan Race was chosen by the world spirit as the master race that would rise to hegemony. In order for this stage in the evolution of man to reach fruition, they had to kill everybody from the previous stage of development.

Now, it is true that, throughout history, scholars have come up with all sorts of reasons to claim that their group is the chosen group and is empowered by providence to oppress the villainous others. This type of divisive thinking is at the root of much of the radicalization of the last two centuries.

I am really sad to see Glenn Beck pushing a type of thinking that led previous generations astray. By pushing the idea that there are righteous Americans who are part of the covenant with God and evil gentiles who need to be repressed, Glenn Beck is just making the world worse.

This type of divisive thinking undermines society as whole.

For example, I happen to agree with the idea that America could benefit with a widespread religious revival. However, if the revival revives radical religion, the radicalization will lead to an ugly end. Radicalized religion does not bring people along a road to enlightenment. Radicalized religion brings people along a dark road of division, dispair and increased conflict.

The American Covenant

Glenn Beck's next infotainment event is called Covenant America [Site no longer active]. It will take place in Branson, Missouri September 13th - 15th, 2013.

Many readers are new to the idea that the Declaration of Independence and Constitution were revealed by the Heavenly Father as part of a covenant for the Latter Days.

As one who live "behind the Zion Curtain" in Salt Lake City, the covenant is well known and is a driving force in local and now national politics.

So, please, sit back and I will tell you the story of the American Covenant.

The Covenant reaches back 6000 years ago to the Garden of Eden when God established the first covenant with Adam and Eve.

Eve ate and apple and they were driven from the Garden of Eden. To make things worse, their elder son Cain killed their younger son Abel. God was unhappy and smited the descendants of Cain with the "Mark of Cain." (For those of you who are ignorant of the covenant, the Mark of Cain is dark skin).

Noah had a covenant involving an ark and flood. Abraham had a covenant. The sons messed that one up and his descendants became slaves in Egypt. Moses had a covenant after freeing slaves from Egypt.

This is all well known. But what isn't known is that several tribes of Israel (The Lost Tribes of Israel, aka The Nephites) built a submarine and traveled to the Americas where they had a new covenant.

The Nephites had a thriving cultural until one day King Benjamin granted the people a Democracy. An evil group of people called Lamanites had a conspiracy in which they won the election. They took control and were evil. There was a big war between the righteous Nephites and the evil Lamanites. God was so upset with this turn of events that he smited the people in the New World and turned them into savages with red skin.


Back to the old world. Jesus established a new covenant with the crucifixion  and resurrection.

Sadly, evil popes conspired with evil kings to mess up that covenant.
 
BTW, you may have heard of the "Divine Right of Kings." The monarchs in Europe claimed that that monarchy stretched back to an ancient covenant with the Patriarchs of Israel. People who believed in the Divine Right of Kings believed that the American Revolution was a sin against God.

But the monarchs didn't know the designs of the Heavenly Father. The Heavenly Father had plans to establish a newer covenant in the new world.

The monarchs of Europe colonized the new world, but it was in the designs of the Heavenly Father that the colonies would rise against the monarchs.

Today we admire the US Founders as great visionaries. In Utah, we are taught that the Founders were really just a big joke.. The US Founders were rabble of the worst sort who could barely tie their shoes let alone win a revolution.

It was the Heavenly Father who led the Revolution. The Heavenly Father had to resort to multiple outright miracles to make the war a success.

The divine plan of the Heavenly Father was to use the US Founders to create the conditions necessary to establish his new church.

The Heavenly Father revealed unto the Founders the Declaration of Independence. The Heavenly Father then won the Revolution through miracles. After The Revolution, The Heavenly Father gathered the Founders at the Constitutional Convention, where-in the Heavenly Father revealed unto the Founders the Constitution and a Bill of Rights. These documents were revealed to create the conditions necessary for the Restoration of The Church in the Latter Days.

Secular scholars (ie liberals) misunderstand the Constitution. These evil liberals believe the revolution was about fighting for freedom which they wrongfully believe is good unto itself.

The American Covenant holds that the Declaration of Independence and Constitution are scripture revealed by the Heavenly Father to create the conditions for the restoration of His Church in the Latter Days.

Evil liberals says the Constitution was about freedom. The Covenant holds that The Constitution was revealed to establish "free agency." Free agency simply means that people are given the choice of accepting the Covenant and following the dictates of the true church in the Latter Days or being evil gentiles to be cast aside on judgment day.

The Heavenly Father revealed the true history of the covenant with the revelation of the Book of Mormon.

After publishing The Book of Mormon in 1830, Joseph Smith hooked up with Sydney Rigdon and Oliver Cowdery who had been interested in establishing a utopian society.

Thus the promise of the American Revolution was fulfilled by the re-establishment of the true church on earth.

The Heavenly Father then revealed through his church the details of the American Covenant in the Doctrine and Covenants.The D&C reveal many wondrous things such as a command that the leaders of the church take on multiple-wives. It was revealed that there is not just one God but a multiplicity of Gods in a political hierarchy.

Of course, the story does not end with the re-establishment of the church.

As you see, man is locked in an endless struggle between the righteous and the evil servants of Satan.

Evil liberals pretend the Declaration of Independence and Constitution were products of reason, not revelation. Evil liberals attempt to lead people away from the American Covenant and the Restoration of the Church.

Evil liberals pretend freedom is something good unto itself.

They fail to realize that the free agency given in the American Covenant is a choice to become a member in the body of the Heavenly Father's true church in the Latter Days or being servants of Satan.


The nature of free agency means there is eternal struggle between the righteous who follow the Doctrine and Covenants and the Servants of Satan. These servants include evil popes, evil kings, evil gentiles, evil liberals, evil secular progressives, evil this and evil that.

The restoration of the church in the latter days is but one step in the great chain of covenants and struggles that have existed since the Garden of Eden.

Speaking of the Garden of Eden. It was revealed that the original location of the Garden of Eden was in Missouri. The founders of the church were instructed to establish a settlement in Missouri.

Southern Plantation owners hoped to establish Missouri as a slave state. So there was a lot of tension in the territory and open hostility between groups seeking dominance.

In one rather incendiary sermon, Sidney Rigdon (who was the president of the LDS Church at the time) declared a war of extermination against the other settlers in the state.

The evil gentiles (people who are not LDS are called gentiles) took this news to the Missouri Governor.Lilburn Boggs (1796-1860). On hearing that the Mormon settlers had declared an extermination war against other  settlers, Governor Boggs had a George Zimmerman moment. He issued declaration that stated "... having made war upon the people of this State [...] the Mormons must be treated as enemies, and must be exterminated or driven from the State if necessary for the public peace..."

Can you believe this?

This was the single greatest act of persecution in the whole history of mankind! The evil Governor of Missouri ordered the extermination of an entire church!


So, just as Adam and Eve were driven from the Garden of Eden, the True Church was driven from Missouri (did I mention that Missouri was the original location of the Garden of Eden?). The new settlement was in Navou, Illinois.

The history of the covenant is one of eternal struggle between the righteous (those who have accepted the covenant) and the forces of Satan (those who have not).

God gave man free agency as a test to see if we will do as we are told or if we are evil servants of Satan.

Examples of the evils of man include evil apostates who built presses out Navou that printed grievances against Joseph Smith and the restored church. The heavenly father burned the presses.

Evil gentiles who believe that the freedom of the press extends to those who commit blasphemy were enraged at the burning of presses.

One day it was revealed by the Heavenly Father that the evil Governor of Missouri would be smited. On May 6, 1842 a shot gun fired through a window severely injuring former Governor Boggs (you know, the servant of Satan who issued the Extermination Order)..

Evil gentiles hold that the gun was aimed by Porter Rockwell and that the revelation that Governor Boggs was to be shot was an order to shoot the former Governor.

Anyway, the forces of Satan put together a bunch of trumped up charges against Joseph Smith and hauled him off to Carthage, Illinois. Joseph Smith was martyred after being arrest but before being put on trial.

Tension continued after the martyrdom of Joseph Smith. The keepers of the American Covenant were forced into exile.

The American Exodus was an event of Biblical promotions. In this event, the keepers of the American Covenant fled the United States into the Mexican Territories.

Brigham Young sought to establish the Empire of Deseret which was to include most of the land from Colorado to San Diego.

The United State purchased this territory from Mexico in the Treatises of Guadaloupe Hildago after the Mexican War. The US army marched into the Empire. Skillful diplomacy prevented a major war.

The keepers of the American Covenant slaughtered on wagon train of settlers at Mountain Meadows, but that was pretty much it for the violence.

The United States forced monogamy onto the restored church despite the fact that the Doctrines and Covenant clearly reveals the restoration of polygamy as a righteous and holy lifestyle and pruned the Empire of Deseret to a lowly state without a sea port.

Fortunately, for Native Americans and blacks, the American Covenant is a living covenant. Native Americans have become "whitesome and delightsome" after their contact with the renewed covenant. It was revealed in 1970s that Blacks can receive the priesthood.

Anyway, it is really exciting that Glenn Beck is bringing an infotainment event in Branson about the American Covenant.

Missouri was the original location of the Garden of Eden and the very first covenant between the Heavenly Father and the righteous.

Oh, I probably should have mentioned. I am one of those evil gentiles.

As an evil gentile living behind the Zion Curtain (a non-Mormon in Utah). I look at the idea that the Declaration of Independence and Constitution were revealed to usher in the rise of the LDS Church with a great deal of suspicion. If Joseph Smith made up the Book of Mormon, then the theory of free agency and the belief that the Doctrine and Covenants is the full restoration of the Church are negative and divisive developments.

Direct Taxation

Man is the creation of God. The State and Corporation are creations of man.

Man is a natural being. The State and Corporations are artificial beings.

The economy exists only in the minds of human. Where there are no human minds, there is no economy.

The human mind is the source of the economy. As the source of the economy, individual minds should be the heart of the tax system.

The Fair Tax cuts people out of the taxation system. It replaces direct tax on people with a massive tax on retailers and service providers.

The Fair Tax buys support by giving people a prebate. The prebate is a new entitlement funded by a massive tax on business.

The Fair Tax creates a structure in which the wealth of the nation flows from big business to big government. People are shut in a gilded cage lined with entitlements, but not free.

Tax reform needs to place people at the center of the economic universe.

This can be come by replacing the withholding system with an account based collection system.

The withholding system was designed for a different age. It was designed for an age when accounting was done by hand in ledgers.

Today we have computer to maintain accounts.

I would not trust the Federal Government to create an accounting system. A better approach is as follows. The government would define a model for the accounting system that includes rigorous testing and auditing features. Private enterprise would then implement the design and host the accounts.

(This is how Object Oriented Design works).

Object Technology allows different systems to co-exist. We could start a reform by defining an object model that can be implemented as the current withholding interface or as a system of tax aware accounts.

The Treasury Department would define the object model along with testing, auditing, and certification procedures for the accounts.

Private businesses would design accounts. We would run the accounts through a rigorous testing protocol to assure that they calculate taxes correctly and that the tax is roughly equivalent to what people would pay in the withholding system.

The Object Tax can be rolled out in beta tests with a limited audience to prove the concept.

People are resistant to change. Once the system is in production, people would only change to the new system if they see a benefit. Since we have rigorously tested the new tax system to assure that it collects the same tax, the only benefit people would perceive is one of efficiency.

People would switch to the Tax Aware Accounts created by the Object Tax if they see a benefit, such as a reduction in compliance costs or greater ability to manage personal finance.

The Object Tax is not disruptive. The program simply creates an alternative interface for the existing income tax.

A Tax Aware Account works as follows: Workers get their whole paycheck (nothing withheld). They must pay a progressive tax when they withdraw money.

Hey, wait a second. This Object Tax magically transitioned our income tax into a consumption tax without the disruption of the FairTax. Go Figure?!

More importantly, this approach to tax reform places the individual mind at the center of the tax universe.

People will pay their taxes directly. Their accounts will maintain a complete and accurate accounting of their income, their taxes and other expenses giving the individual greater control over personal finances.

I say we scrap the FairTax, which cuts people out of the taxation equation, and work on a reform that re-establishes the individual as the heart of the economy.