“This is nothing more than thievery. None of your property or assets are yours, they all belong to the state. Another incremental step in Marylands rigorous march toward socialism.”
Good point 3AngelaD. Then there is this from...
http://bastiat.org/en/the_law.html#SECTION_G1422
“But how is this legal plunder to be identified? Quite simply. See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them, and gives it to other persons to whom it does not belong. See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime.”
“Then abolish this law without delay, for it is not only an evil itself, but also it is a fertile source for further evils because it invites reprisals. If such a law which may be an isolated case is not abolished immediately, it will spread, multiply, and develop into a system.”
Thanks to FReeper raygun for the link.
This legal plunder may be only an isolated stain among the legislative measures of the people. If so, it is best to wipe it out with a minimum of speeches and denunciations and in spite of the uproar of the vested interests.
Sounds like a discussion of the farm bill!