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Fear-Mongering from the Left and the Right

It’s time for both sides to start imagining what they fear most: What if government did nothing?

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Freedom is Better Than Bailouts

Elected officials, who neither respect the Constitution nor understand its basic tenets, should be expelled from Washington and sent home to live under the conditions and mandates they have created.

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Hope For Financial Freedom

The financial system our federal government created in 1913 and thereafter maintained has created nothing but iron chains around the hands, feet and necks of the states of America.

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Obama’s Fake “Spending Freeze”

If government would stick only to what it was authorized to do, and leave the rest to the people, most of our economic problems would resolve themselves.

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Legalize the Constitution!

Writes Ron Paul: “Simply legalizing the Constitution should be a no-brainer to anyone who took an oath of office. Consequently, private mints should be allowed to mint gold and silver coins.”

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Why the Federal Reserve likes Secrecy

This claim that the Fed should have “independence” is a canard. They very much enjoy their comfortable pattern of bailing out friends and devaluing the currency with no oversight and no accountability.

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Paper Money and the Constitution

It is no exaggeration, no stretch of the imagination, no revisionist or wild-eyed conspiracy theory to state that the Constitution of the United States of America came into being, more than any other reason, to crush a welfare program, to stop the poor from ganging up on the rich and, endowed with the power of democracy, stealing their money.

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The Fed: Forcing Americans Into Indentured Servitude

In the end, it only took the money changers and the power brokers 81 years to undue the actions of Andrew Jackson and get their way again, by convincing the U. S. Congress and President Wilson that we needed another central bank, euphemistically called the Federal Reserve, which isn’t federal and it doesn’t have any reserves.

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The Federal Reserve vs the Constitution

Writes Ron Paul: “Congress created the Federal Reserve, yet it had no constitutional authority to do so.”

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Temporary Taxes Are Rarely Temporary

From a look at the definition, “permanent” is an antonym of “temporary;” that is exactly what has become of other “temporary” tax increases throughout history.

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To Tax or Not to Tax, That is the Question

In 1819 U.S. Supreme Court decision “McCullough v. Maryland,” Chief Justice John Marshall wrote, “An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, a power to destroy; because there is a limit beyond which no institution and no property can bear taxation.”

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