Chicago indexed gas taxes to price. Drivers now pay a whopping 79 cents a gallon in taxes in Chicago.

And that, of course, is exactly the point for the politicians. Gov. Blagojevich, for example, is counting on the high price of gasoline to bring at least an extra $220 million in the State Treasury in the fiscal year that begins this July. Most of that will be used to balance the way-out-of-balance budget.

So my question is…
Once the government gets used to spending these windfall profits and gas prices come back to Earth, are you ready to hear the the big government spenders whine about massive deficits? Indexed taxes can go two ways. What happens when they drop? They’ll do what they always do, raise taxes once again.

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I took a risk on a previous post and I was accused of supporting rapists. I was told repeatedly that this case wasn’t about civil liberties, that it was about rape. As if you can’t violate civil liberties in pursuit of a rape case. It appears I stand vindicated. The Texas Court of Appeals ruled that the Texas CPS overstepped its authority. IMHO those words are an understatement. I’d call it state sponsored child abduction. Remember, however repugnant and unpopular this group is, if we allow the government to swipe children without due process, we have empowered them to steal our children.

The danger of empowering government is that its agents are not accountable for actions which would be criminal for anyone else, like kidnapping children. They can act with impunity. People who abduct children should be prosecuted and imprisoned. But in this case no one will be prosecuted. I’d guess no one will even lose their job.

In a similar case of government abuse, Tracy Ingle was shot five times in a botched drug raid. While no drugs were found he was still charged with a drug offense because he possessed a scale and some baggies, which he has a legitimate reason to possess. But should anyone be required to explain why they own baggies and a scale? Isn’t that the assumption of guilt? Is that what we’ve become? A nation which will shoot innocent people over baggies? The government abuse in this case stinks of an organized cover up and mafia style intimidation. You have to read it to believe it.

On a recent thread on Reddit commenters ridicule a Highschool girl who said “I don’t believe in democracy because I am a Conservative, not a democrat.”

They impugn her as an ignorant fool who is indicative of the stupidity of the current generation, when in fact she is smarter than most of the fools on reddit.

The United States is not a democracy, it is a Constitutional Republic. The founders of this country were not in favor of democracy.

“Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote!” Franklin, Benjamin

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“A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.” - Thomas Jefferson

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“Our real disease - which is democracy.” - Alexander Hamilton

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“Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.” - John Adams

Democracy is as large a threat to liberty as any dictatorship. Our problem today, is that most people don’t care what form of government we have and won’t take the time to understand it. They just want what they want and expect the government to give it to them. If the constitution or the rule of law gets in the way, few protest, and our freedom slips away because of fear, greed, ignorance, and laziness.

DUI law is a perfect example of this. Few people understand this, but DUI law may be the single largest threat to our constitutional liberty. It is a clear case of the end justifying the means and it is almost universally accepted, the 4th and 5th amendments be damned.