Rather Than A Democracy, We Increasingly Have

However Accurate Or Inaccurate The Agency's Numbers May Be, Tax Law Explicitly Presumes That The Irs Is Always Right -- And Implicitly Presumes That The Taxpayer Is Always Wrong -- In Any Dispute With The Government. In Many Cases, The Irs Introduces No Evidence Whatsoever Of Its Charges; It Merely Asserts That A Taxpayer Had A Certain Amount Of Unreported Income And Therefore Owes A Proportionate Amount In Taxes, Plus Interest And Penalties.

Once Freedom Is Equated With A Certain Material Standard Of Living, Confiscation Becomes The Path To Liberation.

It Has Been Surprising To Me That So Few Conservatives Have Voiced Concern Over The Precedence That Are Being Set In Favor Of Suppression By This So-called Conservative Administration.

If An Election Is Simply A One-day Snapshot Of Transient Mass Delusions, Then This Is Not A Very Noble Form Of Government.

Governments And Citizens Blend Together Only In The Imaginations Of Political Theorists. Government Is, And Always Will Be, An Alien Power Over Private Citizens. There Is No Magic In A Ballot Box That Makes Government Any Less Coercive.