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Voting Is No Substitute For The Eternal Vigilance That Every Friend Of Freedom Must Demonstrate Towards Government. If Our Freedom Is To Survive, Americans Must Become Far Better Informed Of The Dangers From Washington -- Regardless Of Who Wins The Presidency.

How Many Mcdonald's Gift Certificates Would It Take To Sway A Lot Of Americans To Pledge To Never Publicly Criticize The U.s, President?

However Accurate Or Inaccurate The Agency's Numbers May Be, Tax Law Explicitly Presumes That The Irs Is Always Right -- And Implicitly Presumes That The Taxpayer Is Always Wrong -- In Any Dispute With The Government. In Many Cases, The Irs Introduces No Evidence Whatsoever Of Its Charges; It Merely Asserts That A Taxpayer Had A Certain Amount Of Unreported Income And Therefore Owes A Proportionate Amount In Taxes, Plus Interest And Penalties.

Governments And Citizens Blend Together Only In The Imaginations Of Political Theorists. Government Is, And Always Will Be, An Alien Power Over Private Citizens. There Is No Magic In A Ballot Box That Makes Government Any Less Coercive.

Entire Generations Of Americans Have Come Of Age Since The Ancient Time When The President's Power Was Constrained By A Duty Of Candor To The American People.