"I never said that business was bad in TX; why do you keep bringing it up?" Why is America better than, say.. Pakistan? Or the UK? Or France? Or Russia, Japan, and so on.
Economic success is a VERY important barometer of liberty. You should understand that with all of chosen quotes on your profile page.
Economic success is a VERY important barometer of liberty. You should understand that with all of chosen quotes on your profile page. Yes; I understand it's a barometer, but by no means the only barometer.
Moreover, I am completely convinced of the correctness, and astuteness, of our Declaration:
all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed
There are
many injustices, tyrannies, and evils that we (a) do not notice, or (b) are terrified to change because we have become
used to
them.
The Income Tax is one; A hundred (and change) years ago there was none.
The Federal Reserve is another, it was instituted the same year as the Income Tax.
A hundred years ago, you could plainly argue a case based on the Constitution — now you cannot.
Fifty years ago a State could set its own qualifications and restrictions in law — like outlawing abortion, today we have [federal] judges telling states that they cannot amend their State's own constitution [or that such amendment is illegitimate] (See Prop 8)… despite the 10th Amendment.
And more — it would be easier to list the number of Constitutionally authorized agencies than to list the number of unconstitutional ones.