I just think that the Chairman put it so well in his opening statement, those who threw the Boston Tea Party for excessive taxation of tea, I wonder how they would respond if their government told them they had to buy tea.
Franks draws a parallel between historical taxation and current government mandates.
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I know that when you interviewed Mrs. Clinton you were up against someone that really should have an earned doctorate of duplicity and deception.
Whenever we have a government that uses the power of the IRS... to deliberately coerce some of its citizens... that is by very definition tyranny.
I talked to the president yesterday one on one and I will just say to you that the man approached me in a reasonable rational manner and I thought it was amazing to see a president this engaged personally.
We can preserve this the last best hope of mankind on Earth for our children, or we can sentence them to take that very last step into 1,000 years of darkness.
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