What we've "achieved" is a genteel sort of more-or-less uniform slavery administered through the IRS and the other alphabet agencies, with some special privileges written into it for favored groups. All other things being equal, the political order of the late 19th century was better: fewer people were discriminated against under color of law.
The Constitution is now of purely historical interest. Persons who'd like to dispute that are invited to read the McCain Feingold Bipartisan Campaign Finance Reform Act, and the Supreme Court decision that upheld it.
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He is, even if his rhetoric and analogies are sensationalist -- the points he's making are all too valid. The hard fact is, in modern America, we don't work for our employers (or ourselves, if self-employed), we all work for the government. If we don't give the government what it demands, we go to prison. This country didn't have an income tax until 1913 (save for during civil war), and I daresay that great American statesment of the founding era would have called it a form or species of slavery. Obviously, it's not the same thing as chattel slavery where someone owns and can sell you and your family, but it's an enslavement, in a clinical sense, to the government, which can imprison you if you do not hand over well more than a tithe of your earnings. Volokh ought to save his anger, outrage or moral indignation for that situation, not for Paul Roberts.