The politicians – particularly Bernie Sanders – are talking a lot about FAIRNESS… but here’s the truth:  FAIRNESS is the OPPOSITE of freedom, and it’s a code word for targeting and confiscating YOUR WEALTH.  I’m Bryan Ellis.  I’ll tell you precisely why this is true RIGHT NOW in Episode #193.-----Hello, SDI Nation!  Welcome to the podcast of record for savvy self-directed investors like you!My friends, I hate that politics ever intersects with money.  Unfortunately, it does… and it’s the politicians who insist that it happens.Case in point:  In his victory speech at the New Hampshire primary, socialist Bernie Sanders proclaimed that “what American people understand is that our great country was based on a simple principle, and that principle is fairness.”My friends… what utter poppy-cock!  What an utterly foolish, wholly made-up statement!  This is a LIE, my friends… it’s exactly the OPPOSITE of the truth.This great country was based on a central concept… and it’s a concept that you and I as self-directed investors use every single day.  That concept is FREEDOM.  FREEDOM.  FREEDOM!My friends, not a single person who fought, bled and died to make this country independent from England did so because they yearned for FAIRNESS!The Pilgrims who came here so early in the history of this country didn’t come here to seek religious FAIRNESS… they came for religious FREEDOM.The revolutionaries who dumped tea into the harbor at the infamous Boston Tea Party in 1773 in defiance of English economic oppression… those people called themselves the Sons of Liberty – that’s FREEDOM – NOT the sons of Fairness!This is the land of the FREE and the home of the Brave… not the land of the Fair and the Home of the Same!And I’ll tell you one thing for damn sure, my friends:  My grandfather, who fought and bled and was shot and suffered mightily in world war II for the benefit of this country – in a war that had GENUINE relevance for the entire future of the world and of our country in particular:  He did NOT fight – nor did the millions who died in that effort – so that America would be FAIR.  He fought so that we’d be FREE.My friends:  Fairness is 100% OPPOSED to freedom.  Fairness is an intellectually simple concept that exists solely for one purpose:  to emotionally incite those who unwisely fail to realize that Fairness is a wholly subjective, and thus completely meaningless concept.And here’s the proof of that:Fairness to me means that if you, as a self-directed investor, invest wisely and make a profit, you should be able to choose what happens to that profit.Fairness to Bernie Sanders is that if you invest wisely and make a profit, you should pay a MASSIVE tax to benefit those who – for whatever reason – did NOT make a profit.  Because, you see, it’s not “fair” that you had more money than them.  It’s not “fair” that you had more knowledge than they did.  It’s not “fair” that they were too young or too old or lived in the wrong place or didn’t have the right education or that they didn’t know the right people.  In Bernie’s world… fairness happens only when everybody is exactly the SAME.That’s right, folks:  Fairness is about FORCING you – and everyone else – to sameness… removing your individuality… removing your ability to be exactly what you were created to be, and instead forcing you to be JUST LIKE EVERYBODY ELSE.  If you’ve got more money than most… you’ve got to give some up.  If you’ve got less than most, you get to collect some free money.If you need education, you get it for free… so everybody can be educated just the same.If you don’t have health insurance, you get it for free… at least that was the idea, right?... so that everybody can get health care just the same.Sounds really good doesn’t it… for everyone to have exactly the same?Well no, it doesn’t.   And here’s why:The concept of FAIRNESS – as Bernie and other politicians use it – is wholly and completely opposed to one central concept that we all value dearly:  Innovation.  Inno