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To: KoRn

“There’s no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren’t enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? What’s there in that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced nor objectively interpreted and you create a nation of law-breakers — and then you cash in on guilt. Now that’s the system.”

Quote by: Ayn Rand
(1905-1982) Author
Source: “Atlas Shrugged”, Part II, Chapter 3


15 posted on 12/03/2012 9:44:41 AM PST by CSM (Keeper of the Dave Ramsey Ping list. FReepmail me if you want your beeber stuned.)
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To: All
Democrats know exactly what the tax revenue inflow is, they just won't accommodate common sense budgeting. And they have no cares about the ill effect of paying back that debt.

Historical Amount of Revenue by Source
Receipts by Source: 1934-2017
http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/taxfacts/displayafact.cfm?Docid=203

Total Receipts (Millions of Dollars)

1999 $1,827,459
2000 $2,025,198
2001 $1,991,142
2002 $1,853,149
2003 $1,782,321
2004 $1,880,126
2005 $2,153,625
2006 $2,406,876
2007 $2,568,001
2008 $2,523,991
2009 $2,104,989
2010 $2,162,724
2011 $2,303,466
ESTIMATES
2012 $2,468,599

17 posted on 12/03/2012 10:05:35 AM PST by Son House (Romney Plan: Cap Spending At 20 Percent Of GDP.)
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To: CSM
One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.

I thought about this on my way into work today. I saw a Traffic Monitoring Strip at the entrance/exit of a small parking lot located by a river. How insane that I cannot even park by a river without being monitored! How many laws do I break on a daily basis without even thinking about it?
19 posted on 12/03/2012 10:07:47 AM PST by Eagle of Liberty (Be the Enemy Within the Enemy Within...)
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To: CSM; All
“There’s no way to rule innocent men. The only power
any government has is the power to crack down on
criminals. Well, when there aren’t enough criminals,
one makes them. One declares so many things to
be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to
live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of
law-abiding citizens? What’s there in that for anyone?
....Now that’s the system.”
Yulp!...Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged (1957); was a "shot-across-the-bow" for capitalism...
as Eric Blair's (Geo. Orwell)1984 (1948)/Animal Farm; as was to Soviet Totalitarianism.

23 posted on 12/03/2012 10:49:01 AM PST by skinkinthegrass (Anger a Conservative by telling a lie; Anger a Liberal by telling the truth....RWR 8-)
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