At a recent public event where I was the featured speaker the question of term limits came up during the Q&A session. One audience member made a brief, impassioned case against congressional term limits by saying that he is primarily concerned with freedom, and term limits would take away part of his freedom to vote.
But the kind of “freedom” that elections give us is the “freedom” to determine who gets to plunder us: Plunderer A, or Plunderer B. It is as though someone told the slaves in the mid 19th century that they would be “free” if they were allowed to vote for who would have the job of slave plantation overseer: Overseer A, or Overseer B. It would not matter, of course; they would still be slaves to their “masters” just as we taxpayers are still slaves to the state from January 1 until at least the end of April (Tax Freedom Day).
12:53 pm on December 22, 2016
