When will the left learn that if you confiscate wealth it doesn't create more of it. Votes: 0
It's wrong for someone to confiscate your money, give it to someone else, and call that "compassion." Votes: 0
Nobody is going to try to confiscate guns, although some Web sites know better: President Obama, they are certain, wants to. Votes: 0
By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens. Votes: 0
On the morrow of each conflict I gave the categorical order to confiscate the largest possible number of weapons of every sort and kind. Votes: 0
We should not forget that the spark which ignited the American Revolution was caused by the British attempt to confiscate the firearms of the colonists. Votes: 0
By this means (fractional reserve banking) government may secretly and unobserved, confiscate the wealth of the people, and not one man in a million will detect the theft. Votes: 0
Government is not capable of caring. Government gets things done through coercion. They fine, they penalize, they tax, they confiscate, they jail, they bully to get what they want. Votes: 0
No matter how worthy the cause, it is robbery, theft, and injustice to confiscate the property of one person and give it to another to whom it does not belong. Votes: 0
Over hundred years ago Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act. There was wide distribution of land and they didn't confiscate anyone's privately owned land... We need an industrial Homestead Act. Votes: 0
People should have an escape valve for their money, their assets. If you have substantial financial assets, the government is going to confiscate the purchasing power of those assets and spend it. Votes: 0
You can only confiscate the wealth that exists at a given moment. You cannot confiscate future wealth - and that future wealth is less likely to be produced when people see that it is going to be confiscated.
It's the camel's nose in the tent. Look at Stalin, Mussolini, Hitler, Mao Zedong, Pol Pot, Idi Amin--every one of these monsters, on seizing power, their first act was to confiscate all firearms in private hands...
The only things government can do are regulate and redistribute, prohibit and penalize, confiscate and command. Are these the things that liberty is made of? Somebody else's money and an endless list of Thou Shalt Nots?
CBS started to confiscate our packages and mail as a safety procedure. A lot of packages that people send for the holidays and to our kids we can't open. A lot of times they are from overseas. It's very upsetting at times.
In my experience, people who are truly compassionate rarely use the word "compassion." Those who do talk compassion generally intend to be compassionate with your money, not their own. It's wrong for someone to confiscate your money, give it to someone else, and call that 'compassion'.