Shane Writes

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@RickSantorum Well then I look forward to being reimbursed for any of my tax dollars that funded the Iraq War.

— Gina Marie (@ginambakkun) February 17, 2012

Perfect. 

Fucking exactly.

I’ll just sit right here and wait for my reimbursements for drug prosecutions, money that went to drones that killed innocent families, any money that went to Haliburton or KBR, HFCS subsidies, abstinence-only education, and so on. 

ZI-Fucking-NG!

But in a way (a misguided, unrealized, and almost ironically hilarious way) Rick Santorum is absolutely spot on. 

Gov’t should not have the right to force the people into positions and payments that the majority don’t agree with. 

The Federal gov’t, themselves, has no Constitutional authority to do 99% of the things they do, including federal tax dollars, illegal wars and regulating both religion and sex. 

The majority of the things that the Federal gov’t FORCES the entire country to pay for was designed to be voted on and enforced on the local and state level. This is so small groups of individuals can get what THEY want in regions that they live in without forcing the vast majority of the country who might or might not agree with them in having to also foot the bill that they might or might not be willing to pay for.

As for the wars, this is why Ron Paul says that Presidents can’t just declare (or I guess non-declare) wars. They must be declared in and voted on by Congress, who, in turn are elected by the people.

But we don’t do that in America. At least not since 1913.

We don’t want the people to really vote on things in this country. We just want them to pay for it. 

For this reason alone, I’d vote for Ron Paul. 

@Suga_Shane