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    Frederic Bastiat argues that government is a fiction that allows people to live at the expense of others. He asserts that individuals have a right to self-ownership and control over their own body and property. However, when special interests lobby government for legislation or regulations that take another person's property, it is an act of legal plunder sanctioned by the state. This legal plunder can take various forms, such as bailouts, mandated insurance purchases, or wealth redistribution through programs like farm subsidies or unemployment benefits.

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    Frederic Bastiat argues that government is a fiction that allows people to live at the expense of others. He asserts that individuals have a right to self-ownership and control over their own body and property. However, when special interests lobby government for legislation or regulations that take another person's property, it is an act of legal plunder sanctioned by the state. This legal plunder can take various forms, such as bailouts, mandated insurance purchases, or wealth redistribution through programs like farm subsidies or unemployment benefits.

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    Frederic Bastiat argues that government is a fiction that allows people to live at the expense of others. He asserts that individuals have a right to self-ownership and control over their own body and property. However, when special interests lobby government for legislation or regulations that take another person's property, it is an act of legal plunder sanctioned by the state. This legal plunder can take various forms, such as bailouts, mandated insurance purchases, or wealth redistribution through programs like farm subsidies or unemployment benefits.

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    Government is a great fiction where everybody seeks to live at the expense of everybody else.

    Frederic Bastiat

    WHO A. You own yourself OWNS Someone else owns you, another YOU? B. individual or group of people
    This is the basis of self-ownership
    The concept of self ownership asserts that each person by virtue of being a human being has the absolute right to control his or her body and remain free from outside interference. This is why every individual has a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Anytime someone attempts to take your property, it is a criminal act of aggression. When special interests lobby and collude with government through legislation or regulations to take your property, the government is committing acts of aggression against you. In this way, individuals or groups of people are able to steal the life, liberty and property of others with the protection and assistance of government. This is known as legal plunder. What does legal plunder look like? Bailouts of banks and financial firms. Legislation forcing you to purchase health insurance for yourself or others. Sometimes plunder is disguised by what seem to be good intentions like farm subsidies, unemployment, or Social Security. But anytime wealth is forcibly transferred from one person to another it isntcharity, it is legal plunder. Legal plunder doesnt only apply to money. Government coercion that steals someones life or freedom is another form of plunder. Like when your children are forced to attend government schools or when you are drafted into the military to fight foreign wars. Legal plunder transforms citizens into competing groups who seek to use the power of government to carry out acts of organized crime against the natural rights upon which it was founded to protect. In this vicious cycle, its only a matter of time before the neighbor you plundered, uses the force of government to plunder from you.

    ARM YOURSELF WITH KNOWLEDGE, CHALLENGE THE STATUS QUO

    The Foundation for a Free Society www.f4fs.org The Tenth Amendment Center www.tenthamendmentcenter.com The Ludwig Von Mises Institute www.mises.org Natural News www.naturalnews.com Reason Magazine www.reason.com

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