A Trillion Wrongs

There is a new article on the FEE website written by Lawrence W. Reed, entitled A Trillion Wrongs Don’t Make a Right. It is a scathing review of politicians and business men alike. A short but sweet article that helps put in perspective what is truly happening in our country. However, my favorite part is his quote of a portion of Resolution No. 2 of the 85th General Assembly of the State of Indiana, passed by that state’s House and Senate in January 1947. It reads as follows:

"Indiana needs no guardian and intends to have none. We Hoosiers—like the people of our sister states—were fooled for quite a spell with the magician’s trick that a dollar taxed out of our pockets and sent to Washington will be bigger when it comes back to us. We have taken a good look at said dollar. We find that it lost weight in its journey to Washington and back. The political brokerage of the bureaucrats has been deducted. We have decided that there is no such thing as ‘federal’ aid. We know that there is no wealth to tax that is not already within the boundaries of the 48 states.

"So we propose henceforward to tax ourselves and take care of ourselves. We are fed up with subsidies, doles and paternalism. We are no one’s stepchild. We have grown up. We serve notice that we will resist Washington, D.C. adopting us."

From the news reports, it sounds like we have a few governors that may still possess such resolve.