Extortion: How Politicians Extract Your Money, Buy Votes, and Line Their Own Pockets

Posted on November 16, 2019 by Stella

This is an old speech (2013) by Peter Schweizer to the Heritage Foundation. Informative, but enraging! Washington DC is a cesspool.

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  1. glendl's avatar glendl says:
    November 18, 2019 at 9:57 am

    Peter Schweizer

    “A Democracy will continue to exist until the time the voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasurey”. – Alexander Fraser Tyler, Scottish writer & philosopher. (1770)

    “The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the people with public money”. – Alexis de Tocqueville. (1830s)

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    • glendl's avatar glendl says:
      November 18, 2019 at 10:02 am

      I intended to add a sentence up there and forgot, but it was something to the effect that
      ” this is a 2 pronged problem”.

      This is one of the reasons voting was restricted to taxpayers in the early days of the Republic. If you do not pay taxes, you do not care how much the government spends. Then we became more democratic, That being a reference to the Founders created a Constitutional Republic and a Nation of Laws because they viewed a democracy as something akin to a mobocracy.

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