[jwparkerjr]

Passing laws and regulations to make us behave the way those in power deem it desirable is bad enough, but when you add the use of our tax system to enforce the social engineering it is the worst of both worlds. And that's exactly where we find ourselves today.

The ability to take from us, at gunpoint if need be, should be reserved for the sole purpose of getting the resources necessary to do what government is Constitutionally permitted to perform. Period. No encouraging people to buy Hummers because they can treat them preferentially when it comes to paying their taxes. The list goes on and on.

Regaining control of our future must be a two-part project. The first is to STOP government at all levels from doing things the Founding Fathers had no idea would ever come under the control of government. The second is to restrict government's ability to seize the fruit of our labor.

[backtothestreets]

I’ll have to read this later in the day. Looks interesting.

[alexander_busek]

In 1919, government decided that its citizens should not drink "intoxicating liquors." This "government-knows-best" idea produced more than a decade of lawlessness far worse than citizen intoxication. Prohibition was repealed in 1933.

How true! And when will the government finally decriminalize the consumption of intoxicating plants?

Regards,

[XBob]

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[joeystoy]

One disagreement. You describe the economic impact and loss of freedom as “unanticipated consequences” but they are neither unintended nor unanticipated. The common element of all the “crises” cooked up by the Left is the usurpation of our freedoms. The Global Warming Crisis is simply the latest distractor in the never-ending march toward a dictatorship of the proletariat. The socialists I speak with today don't even attempt to hide the real purpose of their activism.

[Cacique]

btt

[668 - Neighbor of the Beast]

It begins with the public schools. If people stopped thinking of public education as a reasonable and beneficial thing to which all are entitled, and started thinking of it as (and exposing it as) a form of welfare that should be opposed vigorously, we’d soon have a lot less liberalism in this country.
Repeat. Public education is a welfare program.

Search the keyword “homeschooling” if you want to get fired up for a good cause.

[LowCountryJoe]

Free people in a free market always produce the best products, most efficiently, at the lowest price. Every time government "engineering" intrudes into the market, products, efficiency, price – and consumers – ultimately suffer.

Agree? Yes or no. Or do you need qualifiers.

[Bon mots]

Scary Obama Tape

[rhema]

[metmom]

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