The more productive people are, the more governments can tax and confiscate. So the more productive people are, the more costly it is for governments to kill them. Evidence indicates that governments respond to this economic incentive.

They want the federal government controlling Social Security like it's some kind of federal program.

This case has had full analyzation and has been looked at alot.

For Americans war is almost all of the time a nuisance, and military skill is a luxury like Mah-Jongg. But when the issue is brought home to them, war becomes as important, for the necessary period, as business or sport. And it is hard to decide which is likely to be the more ominous for the Axis -- an American decision that this is sport, or that it is business. - The American Character.

A thief believes everybody steals.

In a democracy dissent is an act of faith. Like medicine, the test of its value is not in its taste, but in its effects.