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Why is it so hard for many people to understand such a simple syllogism? 

In fact it is the federal government more than anything else that divides us along race, class, religion, and gender lines. Government, through its taxes, restrictive regulations, corporate subsidies, racial set-asides, and welfare programs, plays far too large a role in determining who succeeds and who fails in our society. This government “benevolence” crowds out genuine goodwill between men by institutionalizing group thinking, thus making each group suspicious that others are receiving more of the government loot. This leads to resentment and hostility between us.
The political left argues that stringent federal laws are needed to combat racism, even as they advocate incredibly divisive collectivist policies.

Racism is simply an ugly form of collectivism, the mindset that views humans strictly as members of groups rather than individuals. Racists believe that all individuals who share superficial physical characteristics are alike: as collectivists, racists think only in terms of groups. By encouraging Americans to adopt a group mentality, the advocates of so-called “diversity” actually perpetuate racism. Their obsession with racial group identity is inherently racist.

The true antidote to racism is liberty. Liberty means having a limited, constitutional government devoted to the protection of individual rights rather than group claims. Liberty means free-market capitalism, which rewards individual achievement and competence, not skin color, gender, or ethnicity.

More importantly, in a free society every citizen gains a sense of himself as an individual, rather than developing a group or victim mentality. This leads to a sense of individual responsibility and personal pride, making skin color irrelevant. Rather than looking to government to correct our sins, we should understand that racism will endure until we stop thinking in terms of groups and begin thinking in terms of individual liberty.

Read it all: Racism and Government by Presidential Candidate Ron Paul

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It is the forced taking of services to provide health care to individuals that plays a prominent role in the high cost of care.  In a voluntary system, there are alternatives for people who have not obtained the financial resources that may be necessary to pay for health care.  In the past, before government involvement in health care, doctors routinely provided services on a pro bono arrangement.  There were hospitals that provided the poor with free care.  Today, it is illegal to open a hospital providing free services.  How American is that? 

There is no right to free health care anywhere in the U.S. Constitution.  Accordingly, any taxation for that purpose is unconstitutional.

Health care is not a right-one cannot have a right to other people’s service. Those must be provided voluntarily. A better understanding of the relationships people have to health care is that the latter is a value that doctors, nurses, and other medical professionals would, if they were free men and women, provide to people they would choose as recipients, on terms they regard as acceptable.

These values are not owed to anyone unless first agreed to be provided. Doctors, nurses, and other medical professionals may not be placed into involuntary servitude to people needing their services. The relationships must be voluntary, no matter how vital the services in question are to the recipients.

The belief that people may justly be coerced so as to secure funds to pay medical professionals who then will service those who need their work is an error-or a ruse. In a free country adult men and women must treat each other as ends in themselves, not as unwilling tools, instruments, or means to each other’s ends. Just as someone may not go over to one’s neighbors’ homes to conscript them to come and mow one’s lawn or drive one to the hospital but must ask for this and await willingly given help, so any service such as medical care must be obtained without coercion.

Some people believe that once it has been democratically determined that people must pay for medical services to everyone, there is nothing wrong with collecting taxes for this purpose. This view is wrong because no group-or majority of a group-may take what belongs to others. It is no less unjust to do such a thing than it is to hang someone because the majority in some town decides it is acceptable to do so, without first following due process, namely demonstrating through a justice system that the hanging is deserved.

Read it all: Health Care is a Value, not a Right

The shooting at Virginia Tech this week was the worst school killing but not the worse school killing in American history. That happened in Bath, Michigan, on May 18, 1927. Forty-five persons, mostly children, died and fifty-eight were injured when an angry school board member blew up the new school building. Andrew Kehoe dynamited the new building in revenge for the foreclosing of his farm for taxes. He blamed the foreclosing on the new school.  (source)

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