The move to tax Internet sales, clothed as a ‘fairness’ issue, is the typical ‘wolf-in-sheep’s-clothing’ ploy so often used by governments unwilling to cut expenditures to match revenues. It matters not whether its proponents have a ‘D’ or an ‘R’ after their name. It is a tax increase in either case. Bob Barr Read Quote
Accepting federal funding undermines state sovereignty as states become beholden to federal requirements in order to keep the money flowing. Bob Barr Read Quote
Taking privacy cues from the federal government is – to say the least – ironic, considering today’s Orwellian level of surveillance. At virtually any given time outside of one’s own home, an American citizen can reasonably assume his movements and actions are being monitored by something, by somebody, somewhere. Bob Barr Read Quote
Courts have long recognized the federal government’s robust power to inspect people and goods entering the country. After all, the very foundation of national sovereignty is a nation’s ability to protect its borders. Bob Barr Read Quote
For far too long the American public and business sector have kept their silence as civil liberties have been whittled away by statutory and regulatory measures. Bob Barr Read Quote
MoveOn loves government. It remains enamored of government spending as fuel for its liberal agenda; and anything that threatens to close that spigot in any degree is perceived as a dire threat – worthy of Chicken-Little warnings that the sky is going to fall. Bob Barr Read Quote
On taking office, Obama promised the ‘most transparent’ administration in history; yet his record as president has been anything but transparent. Bob Barr Read Quote
The world is undoubtedly a safer, freer place because Thatcher – like Reagan – refused to back down when it came to defending freedom. Bob Barr Read Quote