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To: JasonC

Citizens have rights. Remittances are foreign aid. Citizens rights to representation in this matter have been abrogated.


264 posted on 02/04/2006 8:51:23 AM PST by hedgetrimmer ("I'm a millionaire thanks to the WTO and "free trade" system--Hu Jintao top 10 worst dictators)
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To: hedgetrimmer
What's foreign aid about it? Foreign aid is when taxpayer money is used to support a foreign government or people abroad directly.

If you want to convince the Congress to institute foreign exchange controls and prevent any money from ever leaving the country, and likewise to regulate possession of foreign exchange within the US (since otherwise it is easy to evade the previous), you are free to lobby for it. No rights lost at all. I won't support it because they uniformly fail in practice as well as being economically inefficient and unjust, but you have full political freedom to campaign for them. That you haven't, and haven't won such an argument, it not any reduction in your rights. It is just not winning a political argument.

279 posted on 02/04/2006 9:04:04 AM PST by JasonC
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To: hedgetrimmer
Citizens have rights. Remittances are foreign aid. Citizens rights to representation in this matter have been abrogated.

I have a right to tell you how to spend your money? Sign me up.

292 posted on 02/04/2006 9:20:39 AM PST by 1rudeboy
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