Somewhere in between, I guess you could call it free market by convenience. You can't be a free market economy and that always backing businesses (banks) up and talking about backing businesses (automakers) up.

Yeah, I guess you're right. We were founded on free market principals though, and I support it. So that's what I primarily base most of my economic solutions off of.

I have to admit, it saddens me Congress bailed out the financial industry so stupidly and they're just now deciding to be hardasses about our money.

We definately shouldn't bail these guys out. The government has no right to tax, period. So any more stealing to help out the fellow man is still wrong.

Communist!!!

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The Sixteenth Amendment disagrees.

Well, he's got a point about taxes...Everyone born here is forced into a social contract and the majority has no viable way out.

No he's wrong. The government legally does have the right to tax.

I was referring to actual "rights" not what our government deems legal. Coercion violates another's right to his own life. Rights can not be a right if they necessitate the violation of another's right to his life. Therefore taxes, which are coercive, cannot be a right.

Without taxes Without what keeps the government and everything it funds going?