The Price of Liberty

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By Nathan A. Barton © 2010

Theft by government - Economic Issues
ARIZONA REJECTS ECONOMY KILLING ENERGY TAXES
HERITAGE FOUNDATION
Arizona will no longer attempt to limit greenhouse gas emissions across the West, say observers... Utah is not the only Western state that is rejecting the left's global warming regulation policies. Last month Ariz. Gov. Jan Brewer (R) signed an executive order stating that Arizona will not endorse any emission-control plan that could raise costs for consumers and businesses, says the Heritage Foundation.

The article describes just a few of the likely extremely negative impacts, and how Westerners will be hurt more than most of the country. However, New Mexico and Colorado (look who rules these states), and possibly Wyoming and Montana (again, notice whose in charge), are proceeding with this. In Colorado and New Mexico, the phenomenon is well-understood: Tranzi-controlled and -inhabited Metro Denver (with 2/3 the population) DOES care about how the rest of the state (especially the rural areas) fare economically: they want to DESTROY the rural economy, so that the "earth" is protected and so that the only viable economic activity in these areas is the servicing of tourists from urban areas: no mining, no oil and gas, no logging and timber, no farming, no ranching, and above all no industry. New Mexico, dominated by the Albuquerque-Santa Fe-Taos new-ager Tranzis, is much the same: they DO care about ranchers in Catron county and farmers around Clovis and roughnecks in Hobbs: they want them to all be on the dole in Albuquerque and this kind of thing is just what will do it. Of course, if the states don't put these taxes into place, the First Citizen and his thugs in the EPA will do it anyway. (Read the rest here)

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In general, it’s a bad idea to focus on treating the SYMPTOMS of a problem, instead of treating the problem itself. This is true in medicine, economics, philosophy, and just about everything else. However, if the symptom of ONE person’s problem is the SUFFERING of another, then treating the symptom is a worthwhile goal, for the sake of the innocent victim. (Read the rest here) Use the back button to return.

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The thing is, Musevni offers a good representation of what much of the world has experienced when it practices the goals of those who would ban private ownership of guns, and limit their keeping and bearing to the state and its representatives. You know, the "Only Ones."

We saw how that worked out during Idi Amin's reign of terror. How's it working in more recent history? (Read the rest here) Use the back button to return.

Too many tragic events begin with a person in trouble, or someone acting on their behalf, picking up the phone and dialing "911". Then, into this already tense situation come armed agents of the state whose very job it is to find things to "arrest" people for. This is not a recipe for solving problems, but for manufacturing them. It complicates a situation. Too often the person in trouble, or a family member, ends up being attacked or killed by the responding cops.
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Good question. The only thing illegal found at the Calvo home that day was the box of weed that the raiders placed on the doorstep in the first place, in an entrapment attempt modeled on a tactic that (we are told) is becoming common among The Bad Guys.

Thing is, from the sound of it, Calvo has been an almost unbelievable model of restraint in his questioning of how SWAT resources are applied against the constituency. (Read the rest here) Use the back button to return.

It has been a while since we've talked about states enacting some variation of the Firearms Freedom Act. This legislation would declare that firearms, ammunition, and firearm accessories manufactured in-state, and not moved across state lines, are not subject to federal law. The reasoning behind this is that federal authority for all such regulation stems from the Constitution's "interstate commerce clause." Someting that doesn't leave the state isn't part of interstate commerce. (Read the rest here) Use the back button to return.

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