By Ron Meyer / August 19, 2010
Milford, Va.
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America faces a mammoth debt crisis. Imagine if the Berlin Wall were reconstructed with stacks of $100 dollar bills. Using the US national debt, we could build two walls each 67 miles long, 12 feet tall, and eight inches thick.
This $13.4 trillion debt wall symbolizes the amassing barrier standing between my generation and the future of the American dream.
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by Ron Meyer – The Daily Caller
Rod Blagovich’s trial, Snooki’s taxed tan, and Brett Favre’s unretiring are all apparently more newsworthy than Iran’s acquisition of nuclear power. Nice job, media.
This morning, all the news websites I checked — including Google News, The New York Times, Yahoo News, The Drudge Report, The Huffington Post, and, yes, even our beloved Daily Caller (until now) — had zero headlines concerning Iran.
Iran goes nuclear on Saturday. That’s less than 48 hours from when you’ll read this article. America, or at least our media excluding John Bolton, seems not to understand the severity of this situation.
by Ron Meyer – The Daily Caller
But how is this legal plunder to be identified? Quite simply. See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them, and gives it to other persons to whom it does not belong. See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime.” — Frederic Bastiat, The Law
Taxes are a necessary evil, but they’re still evil.
Let’s start with a basic premise: Theft is wrong.
If one person steals your car, they go to jail. If two people steal your car, they both go to jail. If a majority of people vote to steal your car, you go to jail if you don’t let them have it.
When taxes become involuntary, they become theft. When a majority votes for an involuntary taking of private property, the government becomes an instrument of gang-theft.
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2010/08/12/taxes-are-evil-obama-the-great-plunderer/#ixzz0wT7ZHLEf
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