You Can’t Comply Your Way to Liberty
The American colonists demonstrated the right way to take on big government in their response to the Stamp Act.
The post You Can’t Comply Your Way to Liberty first appeared on Tenth Amendment Center.Supersized IRS Will Shrink Liberty
The IRS is expected to hire approximately 87,000 new agents. Supporters of the expansion say the IRS will use the enhanced enforcement capacity to target only “the rich.” However, it is not necessary to massively increase the IRS’s enforcement capacity just to go after “rich tax cheats.”
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There is no sign the U.S. government is going to get its spending problem under control. Last month, the feds ran the second-largest July budget deficit in history.
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George Washington warned that a party-first approach to politics would lead to "a frightful despotism." Partisanship leads to a cult of personality. That leads to a lot of power in the hands of a few. And that leads to tyranny.
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Few today know the name Tench Coxe, but at the time of the founding, he was famous. He wrote prolifically about the individual, natural right to keep and bear arms, the structure of the republic - and much more.
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Under the proposal, adults 21 and over could legally possess up to three ounces of marijuana. It would also create a licensing and regulatory scheme for retail sales. Individuals could grow up to six flowering plants, six immature plants and six clones. The measure also includes provisions to create a program that would automatically review and expunge criminal records relating to non-violent marijuana-related offenses.
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Many anti-federalists warned us about the dangers of centralized power. And George Mason was one of the most prominent, warning that a consolidated government “is totally subversive of every principle which has hitherto governed us,” and that it “is one of the worst curses that can possibly befall a nation.”
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the fact that the MQD applies a clear statement rule instead of applying close textual analysis isn’t novel or contrary to originalism.
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Washington D.C. is drunk on power. The only way to sober it up is to take the power away.
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The new law contains a big loophole that was inserted in June under pressure from San Diego Police Chief Dave Nisleit. The council voted 5-4 to include new language that exempts police officers working on federal task forces from the oversight and transparency requirements.
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