We believe it wrong ever to take a dollar from a free citizen without a very necessary public purpose, because each such taking diminishes the freedom to spend that dollar as its owner would prefer.
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What do you think, that a dollar in a savings account is freedom? Maybe you have understood nothing I have said.
We have the right as individuals to give away as much of our own money as we please in charity; but as members of Congress we have no right to appropriate a dollar of the public money.
Why should we use the Dollar even when we trade among ourselves?
Remember that government doesn't earn one single dollar it spends. In order for you to get money from the government, that money must first be taken from somebody else.
If it is wrong for you to take money from someone else who earned it, to take their money by force for your own needs, then it is certainly just as wrong for you to demand that the government step forward and do this dirty work for you.
Every time we spend a federal dollar, what we're doing is we're pulling money out of somebody's pocket, and we're giving it to somebody else.
It is logical for a U.S. person to give their money away while they are alive, as the government will take it from you when you die in taxes.
The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.
The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society.
It's not so unusual to run out of someone else's currency.
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