What government is all about. Being in control of your life.
Take a right or freedom away, make you pass test, pay a “fee” (tax), and maybe you get what was already yours back.
In Erie PA don’t think about setting tables and chairs on the sidewalk outside your business without approval and paying for a permit. Your kid can’t sell lemonade in the front yard, a restaurant can’t BBQ ribs on an outside grill. Against the rules comrade. There is great grilled rib place just over the Ohio border. Business there is good.
https://reason.com/archives/2018/07/24/permitted-lives/
Do you have permit for that? If you want to keep that permit, you’d better do as you’re told.
Increasingly, that’s the theme of modern America. More and more of what we do is dependent on permission from the government. That permission, unsurprisingly, is contingent on keeping government officials happy. Rub those officials the wrong way and they’ll strip you of permission to travel the roads, leave the country, or even make a living.
That’s not a recipe for a free country. Read the rest of this entry »
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