The Free Market Manifesto!

By Kareim A. Haqq.

The “Free Market Manifesto” presents a counterrevolutionary struggle against all unnatural maladjustments that lead to special privileges, injustices, and corruption. Its goal is to restore freedom and prosperity to humanity. It highlights the twenty Economic Bill of Rights that, if implemented, will stop the spread of Socialism/Communism in any country. It will transform Socialists/Communists nations into free-market economies with limited government, individual freedom, and improved standards of living for all its inhabitants. It will establish freedom, justice, and equal opportunity for all - Peace, Happiness, and Prosperity!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Dec 14, 2022
• ISBN: 9781669858805

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Contents

Dedication

Greed vs Covetousness

Introduction

The Free Market Manifesto!

Twenty Economic Bill of Rights

1. Abolish all Legal Tender Laws:

2. Allow only wealth mediums of exchange to circulate among the citizenry:

3. Abolish all Income Tax, including Earnings Tax or Wages Tax

4. When Government defers a debt it defers a Tax.

5. Private Education:

6. State Legislatures must elect or select Senators for their particular states:

7. Private property ownership:

8. Replace compulsory Social Security:

9. Private charities:

10. The free-market forces should determine all prices, wages, and rents:

11. Tariffs:

12. Subsidies are not a feature of a free market:

13. Celebrate Freedom! Not just Independence:

14. Limited U.S. Constitutional government:

15. Establish free-market economics in the land:

16. No mercantilist economics should be allowed:

17. Compulsory Unions:

18. Border Control:

19. Outlaw Discrimination:

20. No Redistribution of Wealth:

Summary

The Freedom Formula

The Freedom Formula Long Version

The Slavery Formula

The Slavery Formula Long Version

Appendix I

Important Amendments to Remember

Appendix II

Coinage Act of April 2, 1792

Appendix III

Books by Monetary Realists

Another Great Book by the Author

The 13th Amendment Freedom Week Manual

The Relationship Between Government, Economics, and Freedom!

About the Author

Dedication

This book is dedicated to Merrill Jenkins Sr., Founder of the Monetary Realist Society and author of Money the Greatest Hoax on Earth (1971). It is also dedicated to the great students and Merrill Jenkins Sr. M.R. supporters, who tried to expose the truth about money and interest and their evils to the American people. A few of these dedicated Monetary Realists’ names are as follows: Bruce G. McCarthy, Dave Wiber, Amos Bruce, and Dr. Paul Hein.

This book is also dedicated to Frederic Bastiat, the author of The LAW (1850), Leonard Read, Founder of The Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) and the author of many books on the Freedom Philosophy, and to Ludwig Von Mises, who became a champion of free-market economics and the author of many excellent books on the subject.

Last but not least, this book is dedicated to ALL those great men and women who fought for freedom, justice, and equal opportunity and have stood opposed to Socialism, Communism, Fascism, Nazism, and Mercantilism doctrines, policies, and tenets. These doctrines have caused extreme suffering, destruction, and death on the earth. But those brave and courageous warriors for freedom faced the danger, kept their faith, and fought the good fight.

The Free Market Manifesto!

The solution to saving the free market economy!

The solution to saving America!

The solution to saving the world!

There is no perfect world. There has never been nor ever will be. There is no perfect free market economic system, and there is no perfect socialist/communist economic system. What is true is that civilization will advance further the more society embraces the free market, limited government, and personal responsibility. And civilization will decline faster the more society embraces Socialism/Communism.

Greed vs Covetousness

At the heart of Socialism is covetousness.

In common language, both terms (greed and covetousness) are used interchangeably because of blurred definitions that project the same meaning. And many times, they project the same mistrust and disgust.

From ancient times in secular literature and present-day translations or interpretations of scriptural revelation transcripts, they (greed and covetousness) have lost their true meaning and intent. They have lost their differences. But there is a subtle and significant difference. And that the differences can have almost opposite effects in terms of human progress.

Napoleon Hill said, the starting point of all achievement is desire. Greed is having a strong excessive desire for something - good or bad. It has been turned into a bad word, just like the word profit. And profit is simply the wealth production in excess of consumption during successful efforts of capital and labor. Just like greed, it motivates individuals to improve themselves and work for noble causes. When the intent is right, greed is good! When you add legitimate competition and cooperation, it makes civilizations advance. It is similar to having dreams and ambitions. It motivates people to learn skills, get educated, and work hard. Because they want more than what they have, individuals seek improvement from day to day and year to year.

As long as they do not destroy, in the process, anyone else’s life, liberty, or property, individuals are free to follow their own pursuits of happiness. It makes them better, and as a result, it makes society better.

Covetousness is desiring something (or someone) that does not belong to an individual but to someone else. It is like wanting something a person did not earn or work for, which will worsen the individual and society. Covetousness is always evil!

Covetousness is a man not wanting a wife like his neighbor, but it is him wanting/ desiring his neighbor’s actual wife. It is not him wanting a house or car like his neighbor, but wanting/desiring his neighbor’s actual house and his actual car. It is not wanting a home or savings account like his neighbor but wanting/desiring his neighbor’s actual home or savings account.

It will cause jealousy and envy, and all of the deadly sins.

Covetousness will break many of the Ten Commandments, such as do not commit adultery, do not steal, do not bear false witness, do not kill, do not disbelieve (worship other gods or no God at all, worship idols, vain self-worship, take God’s name in vain, not keeping the Sabbath day, and not honoring one’s parents). It is placed as the last of the Ten Commandments as an underpinning for the others.

The truth is trapped in incorrect and false definitions. Once people are free from being trapped in these two blurred meanings or misunderstood words, they will become saner, and the world will become a better place. But when they try to cover themselves with self-righteous pretentious morality, they compromise and capitulate, trying to avoid extremes. They try to find the middle ground but end up sacrificing lifesaving principles. They unwittingly strive for and settle for mediocrity.

Being extreme is not good except when seeking freedom, justice, equal opportunity, and optimal survival. Striving for truth, righteousness, and excellence are all pro-survival thoughts and behaviors. They require much dedication and intensity and can cover a lifetime.

In today’s world, people are accusing other people of being greedy. On the other hand, some people accuse others of being covetous. The world is divided into two ideological camps in the political world and political parties. One ‘non - wealth building’ group calls another group greedy because it desires to create wealth. And the ‘wealth building’ group is calling the other group covetous because it wants to confiscate wealth and redistribute it to someone who did not earn it or to whom it does not belong.

So, we must ask ourselves, are we on the side of greed or covetousness?

Will we be trapped in language, or will we be free?

I have never understood why it is greed to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else’s money.

Thomas Sowell

A Do for Self philosophy is contrary to economic common sense. It is seductive mental self-deception, leading to an economic trap of poverty and economic failure, or maybe aggression and criminality. No one can be successful in the economic arena of competitive bidding and voluntary exchanges thinking of only doing for themselves or having self-interest entirely without first doing for others or thinking about others’ self-interests.

Economic trade is good and is what God has ordained. But trade is always a two-way street, voluntary and without coercion or fraud. If not, it is not true free trade. It