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How is it justifiable to take a person's property in order to fund the very government that is established to protect that property?

American citizens can now be arrested by the federal government, held indefinitely without trial, questioned under standards we would not allow for our own soldiers if captured by other nations or subordinates of those nations, and never have a hearing to find out the evidence being presented...

They seem blissfully unaware that once the power to define words is given to the state, it merely depends on who runs the state in order for the definition to be changed, and they seem too ready to tinker with the US Constitution in order to manage something that should have absolutely nothing to...

P. Garden Goldsmith writes on a hidden effect of the (wrongly named) Earned Income Tax Credit.

To a person who appreciates the efforts of private philanthropists, President Bush's effort to promote charity might have rung a very sour note.