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Current Events » in reply to "If the government can tell someone how many yachts they can have, they can tell you how many cars you can have, or anything else."

Yachts are the same as murder?
TB — (archived)

Your analogy doesn't even make sense.

If you cede the government authority in a given area, that authority doesn't vanish at a certain income level. Or at any other dividing line where the gullible and stupid grant the State the power to step on "those bad people."

People have found this out the hard way in many countries. "First they came for..." You think that only happened once?

I got sneered at when I brought up the government making ownership of an incandescent light bulb a crime. The point I was making wasn't about light fixtures, but apparently nobody got it. There is an abstract principle working here.

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