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THURSDAY, MAY 16, 2024

























A people who are afraid to demand respect for their rights, can have no rights worthy to be respected.
  Benjamin Hill, Speech at Milledgeville [November 15, 1860]


















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May 16, 2024
Where Is the Compassion in Social Security?
One of the things that has long fascinated me about Social Security is how its proponents portray themselves as “caring and compassionate” for favoring this socialist program. Social Security, like all other welfare-state programs, uses the coercive apparatus of the federal government — specifically taxation on income — to take money from younger people to give it to older people. There is nothing …


















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