The reason the government sells the census as your ticket to getting goodies - rather than as your civic duty - is that distributing goodies is now all the government does.

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• Tom G. Palmer:

  The first census in 1790 asked just six questions: the name of the head of the household, the numbe

• Tom G. Palmer:

  The government has become a mechanism for distributing largess, and your census form is your ticket

• Tom G. Palmer:

  Most Europeans have no idea how wild life can be in north America.

• Tom G. Palmer:

  Abstraction is a mental process we use when trying to discern what is essential or relevant to a pr

• Tom G. Palmer:

  It is precisely because neither individuals nor small groups can be fully self-sufficient that coop

• Tom G. Palmer:

  Obviously, all of us have been influenced by those around us.

• Tom G. Palmer:

  What libertarians assert is simply that differences among normal adults do not imply different fund

• Tom G. Palmer:

  Libertarians recognize the difference between adults and children, as well as differences between n

• Tom G. Palmer:

  Guardians are necessary for children and abnormal adults, because they cannot make responsible choi

• Tom G. Palmer:

  Libertarians argue that no normal adult has the right to impose choices on other normal adults, exc