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Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Land of the Free vs Land of the Coerced

Land of the free means a country of equal opportunity, fair dealings, fair laws that treat everyone the same. It is the polar opposite of a land of redistribution. In this alternate universe, government and its laws extract private property at will from certain citizens it deems sufficiently wealthy (who has a right to determine when someone should stop earning and accumulating wealth?) and deploys it to other citizens it believes are under-successful. That is tyranny. Whether at the point of a gun or through the power of massive government, the taking of personal property for the benefit of other persons is theft.

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