I've not posted
since the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the insurance mandate of Obamacare,
and am leaving much of the back-and-forth to other writers. Peter
Schiff writes that if the government really does have the authority
to levy a "tax" upon any citizen who does not purchase what the
government demands they buy, then there really are no more checks
on the power of government.
I tend to agree. In the last decade, we have seen exponential growth of the surveillance state, the prison state, the militarization of the police, and we now have a president who believes he has the authority to order missile strikes anywhere in the world and to kill whomever he likes – and it all is done "under color of law." In other words, lawless behavior by state agents now is an oxymoron, since by definition, state agents cannot break the law.
This SCOTUS decision will unleash the IRS in a way that will astound people, and one can bet that the powers that government seized with the passage of the Patriot Act and other such legislation will be put to use in new and oppressive ways. Furthermore, this decision will further unleash to power of federal prosecutors to criminalize just about anything they choose.
(I deal with their brutality of the innocent in my other blog, not that Keynesians really care about the brutality of the state. They just want to see more because, in their minds, a leftist state cannot be brutal since by definition, socialism cannot oppress.)
Read more: http://lewrockwell.com/anderson/anderson341.html
I tend to agree. In the last decade, we have seen exponential growth of the surveillance state, the prison state, the militarization of the police, and we now have a president who believes he has the authority to order missile strikes anywhere in the world and to kill whomever he likes – and it all is done "under color of law." In other words, lawless behavior by state agents now is an oxymoron, since by definition, state agents cannot break the law.
This SCOTUS decision will unleash the IRS in a way that will astound people, and one can bet that the powers that government seized with the passage of the Patriot Act and other such legislation will be put to use in new and oppressive ways. Furthermore, this decision will further unleash to power of federal prosecutors to criminalize just about anything they choose.
(I deal with their brutality of the innocent in my other blog, not that Keynesians really care about the brutality of the state. They just want to see more because, in their minds, a leftist state cannot be brutal since by definition, socialism cannot oppress.)
Read more: http://lewrockwell.com/anderson/anderson341.html
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