[AdamSelene235]

Great! Tonight when I fill up the tank, I'll let the guy at the Mobil station know...

This is the price you pay for allowing the government to dominate and control your economic life. In theory, a faith based currency such as our Federal Reserve notes offers Congress the ability to confiscate any amount of dollar denominated wealth held by its subjects. There is no difference, in principal, only in degree, between this and chattel slavery.

[Made In The USA]

Agree, and the confiscation your speak of is relentless. So many have become numb to the consequences of it, that we blindly accept it as acceptable.

[TopQuark]

This is the price you pay for allowing the government to dominate and control your economic life.

That's propaganda. Domination must be defined even to be discussed --- something you do not bother to do and replace with nice-sounding, insendiary phrases.

Markets do not provide public goods, and we hire the government to provide them. By itself, it is not at all act of submission. Naturally, any contract grants privilages and imposes duties, so to partake of public goods you as individual do forgo certain freedoms.

Having common currency, including that which is "faith-based," in a public good.

Any libertarian statement such as yours is nonsense as long as it does not even bother to address provision of public goods.

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[JasonC]

Of course there is - since holding any dollar denominated wealth is entirely voluntary.

Why do people find it necessary to engage in such ridiculous hyperbole, when they might make an entirely sound economic argument in a perfectly moderate way? What is the attraction of such comically paranoid extremism? It is just absurd.