helices<p><a href="https://mastodon.xyz/tags/Vote" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Vote</span></a> for me. I'll use my office to take another American's money and give it to you<br /><a href="https://mastodon.xyz/tags/WalterEWilliams" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WalterEWilliams</span></a></p>
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helices<p><a href="https://mastodon.xyz/tags/Children" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Children</span></a> with no father in the home are five times more likely to be poor and commit crime, nine times more likely to drop out of school and 20 times more likely to be in prison<br /><a href="https://mastodon.xyz/tags/WalterEWilliams" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WalterEWilliams</span></a></p>
helices<p>The moral tragedy that has befallen Americans is our belief that it is okay for <a href="https://mastodon.xyz/tags/government" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>government</span></a> to forcibly use one American to serve the purposes of another - that in my book is a working definition of slavery<br /><a href="https://mastodon.xyz/tags/WalterEWilliams" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WalterEWilliams</span></a></p>
helices<p>One of the primary dangers of <a href="https://mastodon.xyz/tags/majority" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>majority</span></a> rule is that it confers an aura of legitimacy and respectability on acts that would otherwise be deemed tyrannical. Liberty and democracy are not synonymous and could actually be opposites<br /><a href="https://mastodon.xyz/tags/WalterEWilliams" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WalterEWilliams</span></a></p>
helices<p><a href="https://mastodon.xyz/tags/Liberals" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Liberals</span></a> and progressives find difficult to accept fact that equality among humans is exception and inequality the norm<br /><a href="https://mastodon.xyz/tags/WalterEWilliams" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WalterEWilliams</span></a></p>
helices<p>After all, if an employer must pay the same wage no matter whom he hires, the cost of <a href="https://mastodon.xyz/tags/discriminating" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>discriminating</span></a> in favor of the people he prefers is cheaper. This is a general principle<br /><a href="https://mastodon.xyz/tags/WalterEWilliams" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WalterEWilliams</span></a></p>
helices<p>If we're ignorant, we won't even know when <a href="https://mastodon.xyz/tags/government" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>government</span></a> infringes on our liberties. Moreover, we'll happily cast our votes for those who'd destroy our liberties<br /><a href="https://mastodon.xyz/tags/WalterEWilliams" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WalterEWilliams</span></a></p>
helices<p>Politicians exploit economic illiteracy<br /><a href="https://mastodon.xyz/tags/WalterEWilliams" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WalterEWilliams</span></a></p>
helices<p>No matter how worthy the cause, it is robbery, theft, and <a href="https://mastodon.xyz/tags/injustice" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>injustice</span></a> to confiscate the property of one person and give it to another to whom it does not belong<br /><a href="https://mastodon.xyz/tags/WalterEWilliams" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WalterEWilliams</span></a></p>
helices<p>If today's weak <a href="https://mastodon.xyz/tags/family" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>family</span></a> structure is a legacy of slavery, then the people who make such a claim must tell us how it has managed to skip nearly five generations to have an effect<br /><a href="https://mastodon.xyz/tags/WalterEWilliams" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WalterEWilliams</span></a></p>
helices<p>Much of that spiritual <a href="https://mastodon.xyz/tags/poverty" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>poverty</span></a> is a result of public and private policy that rewards inferiority and irresponsibility<br /><a href="https://mastodon.xyz/tags/WalterEWilliams" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WalterEWilliams</span></a></p>
helices<p><a href="https://mastodon.xyz/tags/Guns" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Guns</span></a> haven't changed. People have changed<br /><a href="https://mastodon.xyz/tags/WalterEWilliams" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WalterEWilliams</span></a></p>
helices<p>In fact, one of the primary dangers of <a href="https://mastodon.xyz/tags/majority" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>majority</span></a> rule is that it confers an aura of legitimacy and respectability to acts that would otherwise be deemed tyrannical<br /><a href="https://mastodon.xyz/tags/WalterEWilliams" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WalterEWilliams</span></a></p>
helices<p>Sloppy <a href="https://mastodon.xyz/tags/language" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>language</span></a> permits people to get away with speaking and doing all manner of destructive nonsense without being challenged<br /><a href="https://mastodon.xyz/tags/WalterEWilliams" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WalterEWilliams</span></a></p>
helices<p>Primary danger of majority rule is it confers aura of legitimacy & respectability to acts otherwise deemed tyrannical<br /><a href="https://mastodon.xyz/tags/WalterEWilliams" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WalterEWilliams</span></a></p>
helices<p>The Founders knew that a <a href="https://mastodon.xyz/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>democracy</span></a> would lead to some kind of tyranny. The term democracy appears in none of our Founding documents. Their vision for us was a Republic and limited government<br /><a href="https://mastodon.xyz/tags/WalterEWilliams" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WalterEWilliams</span></a></p>
helices<p>Most of the great problems we face are caused by <a href="https://mastodon.xyz/tags/politicians" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>politicians</span></a> creating solutions to problems they created in the first place<br /><a href="https://mastodon.xyz/tags/WalterEWilliams" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WalterEWilliams</span></a></p>
helices<p>The poverty rate among black husband-and-wife families has been in the single digits for more than two decades. Can anyone produce evidence that racists discriminate against black female-headed families but not black husband-and-wife families?<br /><a href="https://mastodon.xyz/tags/WalterEWilliams" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WalterEWilliams</span></a></p>
helices<p>Chief among the policies that reward inferiority and irresponsibility is the welfare state<br /><a href="https://mastodon.xyz/tags/WalterEWilliams" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WalterEWilliams</span></a></p>
helices<p>The poverty rate among black husband-and-wife families has been in the single digits for more than two decades<br /><a href="https://mastodon.xyz/tags/WalterEWilliams" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WalterEWilliams</span></a></p>
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