Posted on 03/31/2014 4:40:22 PM PDT by mykroar
Or eliminating them completely.
ROFLMAO!
You would use the law to oppose socialism? But it is upon the law that socialism itself relies. Socialists desire to practice legal plunder, not illegal plunder. Socialists, like all other monopolists, desire to make the law their own weapon. And when once the law is on the side of socialism, how can it be used against socialism? For when plunder is abetted by the law, it does not fear your courts, your gendarmes, and your prisons. Rather, it may call upon them for help.
(from The Law ”Socialism Is Legal Plunder” - Bastiat)
I guess you didn't understand when I said they could add to their mandate I meant that they could add to their mandate.
Go ahead. Subtract something. ANYTHING. Go ahead. Try it.
Yeah, government is too big. Way too big. Duh.
How does the Fed give the citizens debt?
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