Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless.
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Inflation is taxation without legislation.
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I'm in favor of legalizing drugs. According to my values system, if people want to kill themselves, they have every right to do so. Most of the harm that comes from drugs is because they are illegal.
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