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Show WHY KILL THE GOOSE? Government is maintained by taxation on industry. The pay of public officials comes from the taxes that are taken from industry. Then, why do so many public officials seek to gain popularity popu-larity by attacking- industry ? The simplest reasoning indicates the insanity of such a procedure. Government in competition with private business can lead to but one end destruction of private business, which means destruction of taxable resources of government. Destruction of private business means destruction of constitutional rights. No bit of liberty that is given by a people as bureaucracy bureau-cracy encroaches on individual rights, is ever regained except ex-cept by pain and suffering. The problem of upholding constitutional rights, or defending de-fending personal liberties and private property from the grasping hand of politics, is not a partisan issue, it is a personal per-sonal matter to every citizen. It makes no difference under what guise liberty and private pri-vate enterprise are destroyed, the common people suffer and pay for the privileged, political class that profits. Personal liberty is indeed a priceless heritage which should never be willingly exchanged for a mess of political pottage and patronage that destroys private enterprise. |