I know I have written on this before, but the quote following brought it back to mind. It also offered a possible explanation.
WHY WE LOVE GOVERNMENT: "We love government because it enables us to accomplish things that if done privately would lead to arrest and imprisonment. For example, if I saw a person in need, and I took your money to help him, I'd be arrested and convicted of theft. If I get Congress to do the same thing, I am seen as compassionate. "This vision ought to bother the Christians among us, for when God gave Moses the commandment "Thou shalt not steal," I'm sure He didn't mean thou shalt not steal unless you got a majority vote in Congress."
-- syndicated columnist Walter Williams.
What should clearly be understood as theft becomes an honorable example of charity when you fall for the big government paradigm. After growing up in this nation, with its government run schooling and its media that dares not criticize the government, it is easy to fall into that trap. Now that you have read this, you are under a moral obligation to rethink the issue.
You give honorable charity when you give your own property. You are a thief when you advocate or cooperate in the giving of someone else's property, assuming the owner has not consented. There is no honor to be had in that situation.
The dishonor is not just upon the congressional representatives that vote for the "charity at gunpoint". It extends to citizens who pressure for it, to the government clerks who collect the taxes and pay out the goodies and even to the newspaper editors who assist in the propaganda that got it passed.
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And once again, I will hold up passage of the 17th amendment as the opening of the gate to the road to ruin.
We get that sucker repealed and we can get control of things back in Topeka.
Then we shut down the tax and spend in Kansas....and if Michigan wants to tax and spend in Michigan that is their business....we will have control over what the framers said we should have control over....our state.
If you would like quotes from the Federalist Papers that support my point of view, let me know.
SLW
Why do libertarians worry about the national elections ?
It seems that your focus should be on the porcipine rebellion and getting to a place where you can control your lives.
The two party system only has meaning because we do so much at the federal level.
If you want to put a third group in there, there is no reason to believe you won't behave like they do now.
I say you should focus on local politics and education.
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