Bartering will be a Real Economic Option

Don't think that bartering is not going to take root as the Government's taxation system becomes more and more burdensome. This is something interesting that I came across today. I have believed for some time that we are going to have to find ways to stretch the value of our assets. I decided to look up some interesting facts on bartering and I came upon this website.

This is a quote from the front page of a Bartering site (IRTA):

The International Reciprocal Trade Association, IRTA, is a non-profit organization committed to promoting just and equitable standards of practice and operation within the modern trade and barter and alternative capital systems Industry and raising the awareness and value of these processes to the entire Worldwide Community.

The mission of IRTA is to provide to all Industry Members with an ethically based global organization dedicated to the advancement of Modern Trade and Barter and other alternative capital systems, through the use of education, self regulation, high standards and government relations.

Following the links I found a local North Carolina Bartering association located in Cary, NC. Bartering Business Exchange, Inc. states that it has over 700 participating businesses in North Carolina. BBE can help you trade nationally and internationally through a network of more than 300 independent barter exchanges.

The Hound is not endorsing these sites. You need to research them yourself and decide if they or others fit your lifestyle and personal economic plans. I do believe that the time has come when market forces should determine trade and Common Units of Exchange (the Monetary System - the dollar) should not be forced upon us.

Our Monetary system, the dollar, is only useful for our governmental bureaucracy, because it makes it easier for taxes to be levied upon the public. The public only uses the monetary units of measure, because of convenience; but dollars are becoming more and more inconvenient with the passing of virtually every day.

If one looks at Shadowstats.com, which is Economist John Williams' thorough site that shows how the government has cooked the books, then one will see that actual inflation has been a lot higher than what has been reported through the Consumer Price Index. Even using the official Government inflation statistics we see that $100 of today's money is only worth $77.87 of January 2000's money. You have lost over 22% of the value of your money, if it has just stood still, over the last 10 years. I was born in 1966, today's money is worth $14.99 of the money from when I was born. That means what I could buy for $14.99 in 1966 would cost $100 today. The Federal Reserve came into existence in 1913. Today's money is worth $4.52 of 1913's money. Therefore, do you not see that the dollar has not been a good store of value over the last century. Our economy has been totally mismanaged by our Government and their accomplices at the Federal Reserve.

I believe what Jesus said in the Bible verse from Mark 12:17, “Render unto Caesar the things which are Caesar’s, and unto God the things that are God’s.” The Government can have the money, but why do they deserve a portion of my labor or other property? If I can barter my labor for other goods and/or services without currency being involved, does the government deserve to place a value on that exchange and assess a tax related to that?

The Government was meant to be subservient to the people, but the whole system has been flipped upside down. The Government is supposed to be the people. Have the leaders actually ever read the Declaration of Independence or the Constitution -- I don't think they have. They are all supposed to be protecting and defending those documents, but they break the law of the land by continuously usurping those documents.

It is time that people stop participating in this hornswoggled, convoluted economic structure that has been tyrannically imposed on the good citizens of this nation. Can someone give me a good reason why we should play the game the way the bureaucrats and elected leaders mandate. They keep passing layer after layer of laws upon us. I guarantee there isn't a citizen of this country that doesn't break a law every day of their life. Even the comatose are probably breaking some obscure code. Just look at the Federal Income Tax Code which now has over 60,000 pages of rules.

I think that bartering and trading goods and services will become more prevalent in the near future. The dollar will accelerate its loss of purchasing power, as inflation hits from the printing of all of this paper and it also loses value versus foreign currencies. The dollar's demise can be directly traced back to the second Bretton-Woods agreement in 1971 and completely depegging it from a tangible store of value (Gold). Now the dollar is irrelevant as a measurement of your labor and your personal property. It is time that we all personally demonetize (get rid of dollars) and demand tangible commodities for the exchange of tangible commodities -- Physical Assets, Labor, Goods, and Services.

The government is going to try to control and curtail natural market forces, because they want to tyrannically impose their convoluted tax based schemes upon us. But when these schemes break down, will it not be their own fault? If they had not hijacked our monetary system for their own personal aggrandizement, then it would never have to come to this; which, unless something is done very soon, will be the demise of our entire monetary system.

June 30, 2008