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huskergun:
Taxes
Sunstein scolds readers like small-minded, selfish children for opposing the size, scope,
expansion and skyrocketing expense of government:
?In what sense in the money in our pockets and bank accounts fully ?ours?? Did we earn
it by our own autonomous efforts? Could we have inherited it without the assistance of
probate courts? Do we save it without the support of bank regulators? Could we spend it
if there were no public officials to coordinate the efforts and pool the resources of the
community in which we live?... Without taxes there would be no liberty. Without taxes
there would be no property. Without taxes, few of us would have any assets worth
defending. It is a dim fiction that some people enjoy and exercise their rights without
placing any burden whatsoever on the public fisc. ? There is no liberty without
dependency. That is why we should celebrate tax day ??
-- Cass R. Sunstein, ?Why We Should Celebrate Paying Taxes,? The Chicago
Tribune, April 14, 1999

huskergun:
Second Bill of Rights
My major aim in this book is to uncover an important but neglected part of America?s
heritage: the idea of a second bill of rights. In brief, the second bill attempts to protect
both opportunity and security, by creating rights to employment, adequate food and
clothing, decent shelter, education, recreation, and medical care.
-- Cass R. Sunstein, The Second Bill of Rights: FDR?s Unfinished Revolution and
Why We Need it More Than Ever, Basic Books, New York, 2004, p. 1

Much of the time, the United States seems to have embraced a confused and pernicious
form of individualism. This approach endorses rights of private property and freedom of
contract, and respects political liberty, but claims to distrust ?government intervention?
and insists that people must fend for themselves. This form of so-called individualism is
incoherent, a tangle of confusions.
-- Cass R. Sunstein, The Second Bill of Rights: FDR?s Unfinished Revolution and
Why We Need it More Than Ever, Basic Books, New York, 2004, p. 3

Those of us who have plenty of money and opportunities owe a great deal to an active
government that is willing and able to protect what we have.
-- Cass R. Sunstein, The Second Bill of Rights: FDR?s Unfinished Revolution and
Why We Need it More Than Ever, Basic Books, New York, 2004, p. 4

In a nutshell, the New Deal helped vindicate a simple idea: No one really opposes
government intervention. Even the people who most loudly denounce government
interference depend on it every day.
-- Cass R. Sunstein, The Second Bill of Rights: FDR?s Unfinished Revolution and
Why We Need it More Than Ever, Basic Books, New York, 2004, p. 19

For better or worse, the Constitution?s framers gave no thought to including social and
economic guarantees in the bill of rights.
-- Cass R. Sunstein, The Second Bill of Rights: FDR?s Unfinished Revolution and
Why We Need it More Than Ever, Basic Books, New York, 2004, p. 115

bkoenig:
The guy is a fruitcake, much like many of the people Komrade Obama surrounds himself with.  Our Dear Leader tries to come off as a moderate, but if you want to see someone's true colors look at the people he associates with.

Dan W:
Great compilation huskergun, reminds me of why I am doing all this work... We must stop this man from destroying our country.

A-FIXER:
Very informative rich...

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