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		<title>By: Michael</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2013 03:09:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You suspect right. As it so happens, here in the great white north, a man CAN&#039;T make his own whiskey (legally of course). ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You suspect right. As it so happens, here in the great white north, a man CAN&#039;T make his own whiskey (legally of course). </p>
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		<title>By: FreedomIsEverything</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[FreedomIsEverything]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jan 2013 05:37:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[That argument doesn&#039;t work. I wouldn&#039;t want my kid drinking alcohol either, so do you propose we make it also illegal again? There is such a thing as personal responsibility, whether it&#039;s in the parent as gaurdian over their child, the children themselves to a point, or a legal adult on their own. We can&#039;t protect everyone from themselves and their own decisions regarding all things. ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>That argument doesn&#039;t work. I wouldn&#039;t want my kid drinking alcohol either, so do you propose we make it also illegal again? There is such a thing as personal responsibility, whether it&#039;s in the parent as gaurdian over their child, the children themselves to a point, or a legal adult on their own. We can&#039;t protect everyone from themselves and their own decisions regarding all things. </p>
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		<title>By: cynthia curran</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[cynthia curran]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jan 2013 00:43:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cig taxes hurt the poor more and booze taxes hurt the rich more in regards to sales tax. Maybe some had said let&#039;s get rid of income taxes and moved to sales taxes. Big Govern grow the most with high income taxes not sales taxes. ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Cig taxes hurt the poor more and booze taxes hurt the rich more in regards to sales tax. Maybe some had said let&#039;s get rid of income taxes and moved to sales taxes. Big Govern grow the most with high income taxes not sales taxes. </p>
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		<title>By: cynthia curran</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[cynthia curran]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jan 2013 00:41:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, birth control was good. Whites that cut their birth rates switched from being Dems in the early 20th century to Republicans since they moved up out of poverty. I think that hispanics dropping their birth rate and out of wedlock births would changed them as well in the long run. Italians and Irish going from 6 kids to 1 to3 today made them less asking the government to help support them since they were less poor. HIspanics using birth control will helped whites since Hispanics having lots of kids helped Obama in this last election. ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well, birth control was good. Whites that cut their birth rates switched from being Dems in the early 20th century to Republicans since they moved up out of poverty. I think that hispanics dropping their birth rate and out of wedlock births would changed them as well in the long run. Italians and Irish going from 6 kids to 1 to3 today made them less asking the government to help support them since they were less poor. HIspanics using birth control will helped whites since Hispanics having lots of kids helped Obama in this last election. </p>
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		<title>By: DrBukk</title>
		<link>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/how-liquor-taxes-led-to-big-government/comment-page-1/#comment-4116470</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[DrBukk]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jan 2013 21:23:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[No on crystal meth. Did not mention that in my comment.   ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>No on crystal meth. Did not mention that in my comment.   </p>
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		<title>By: DrBukk</title>
		<link>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/how-liquor-taxes-led-to-big-government/comment-page-1/#comment-4116455</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[DrBukk]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jan 2013 21:18:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[That thought really doesn&#039;t frighten me if they are old enough to be self-sufficient.  ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>That thought really doesn&#039;t frighten me if they are old enough to be self-sufficient.  </p>
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		<title>By: Mary Sue</title>
		<link>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/how-liquor-taxes-led-to-big-government/comment-page-1/#comment-4110891</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mary Sue]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jan 2013 08:42:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[yeah, you&#039;re being gouged pretty badly. ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>yeah, you&#039;re being gouged pretty badly. </p>
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		<title>By: WilliamJamesWard</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[WilliamJamesWard]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jan 2013 00:24:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well well, you know the government has a nack of making people take to strong drink. 
William ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well well, you know the government has a nack of making people take to strong drink.<br />
William </p>
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		<title>By: UCSPanther</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[UCSPanther]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jan 2013 00:18:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Or doing crystal meth? ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Or doing crystal meth? </p>
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		<title>By: Ghostwriter</title>
		<link>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/how-liquor-taxes-led-to-big-government/comment-page-1/#comment-4109291</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ghostwriter]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jan 2013 22:35:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[DrBukk,I have a question for you. Do you want your kids smoking marijuana? 
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>DrBukk,I have a question for you. Do you want your kids smoking marijuana? </p>
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		<title>By: DrBukk</title>
		<link>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/how-liquor-taxes-led-to-big-government/comment-page-1/#comment-4109250</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[DrBukk]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jan 2013 22:21:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Slavery is uneconomical because the owner had to care for entire families while getting work out of about 1/5th of those living on the plantation. Those who worked had little incentive and constant supervision was necessary.  
 
Since slavery was voluntarily ended in Central &amp; South America, as well as the Caribbean islands, it is preposterous to think the South would have kept slavery had she won independence.  
 
America&#039;s unique, highly charged racial tension can be traced to federal liquor control. At the same time newly freed negroes were seeking work, small farmers were dispossessed of their land because corn isn&#039;t nearly as valuable as corn squeeze. So they had to compete in desperate times and to this day you can&#039;t make a living off two acres. I say we legalize moonshine and weed and bring prosperity back to small landowners willing to work. ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Slavery is uneconomical because the owner had to care for entire families while getting work out of about 1/5th of those living on the plantation. Those who worked had little incentive and constant supervision was necessary.  </p>
<p>Since slavery was voluntarily ended in Central &amp; South America, as well as the Caribbean islands, it is preposterous to think the South would have kept slavery had she won independence.  </p>
<p>America&#039;s unique, highly charged racial tension can be traced to federal liquor control. At the same time newly freed negroes were seeking work, small farmers were dispossessed of their land because corn isn&#039;t nearly as valuable as corn squeeze. So they had to compete in desperate times and to this day you can&#039;t make a living off two acres. I say we legalize moonshine and weed and bring prosperity back to small landowners willing to work. </p>
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		<title>By: tanstaafl</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[tanstaafl]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jan 2013 18:35:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Next you&#039;re going to tell me a man can&#039;t make his own whiskey...... ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Next you&#039;re going to tell me a man can&#039;t make his own whiskey&#8230;&#8230; </p>
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		<title>By: rightwingcanadian</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[rightwingcanadian]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jan 2013 17:56:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[in my home province of Ontario only the government can sell alcohol at retail and there have been reports of LCBO (liquor control board of Ontario) gauging the prices, so in Ontario we pretty much a 100% liquor tax that the government can raise anytime they want. ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>in my home province of Ontario only the government can sell alcohol at retail and there have been reports of LCBO (liquor control board of Ontario) gauging the prices, so in Ontario we pretty much a 100% liquor tax that the government can raise anytime they want. </p>
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		<title>By: tagalog</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[tagalog]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jan 2013 14:33:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Part of the impetus for federal gun control came out of criminals dealing in prohibited alcohol using full-auto firearms to destroy the competition. ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Part of the impetus for federal gun control came out of criminals dealing in prohibited alcohol using full-auto firearms to destroy the competition. </p>
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		<title>By: Edward Cline</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Edward Cline]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jan 2013 11:35:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Slavery is an uneconomical institution, and it could very well have caused a major crisis in the Southern economy had the secessionists been left alone to continue the evil, and ultimately led to its necessary abolition. The Underground Railroad was siphoning growing numbers of former slaves northward, as well, causing a deficit in plantation manpower. A number of &quot;alternative&quot; history novels have been written that address the issue, some serious and some satirical. At the moment, however, it&#039;s fruitless to hypothesize about what might have happened had there been no Civil War, just as it&#039;s fruitless to wonder about the condition of the world had we let Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia destroy each other, or had the U.S. not entered WWI.  ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Slavery is an uneconomical institution, and it could very well have caused a major crisis in the Southern economy had the secessionists been left alone to continue the evil, and ultimately led to its necessary abolition. The Underground Railroad was siphoning growing numbers of former slaves northward, as well, causing a deficit in plantation manpower. A number of &quot;alternative&quot; history novels have been written that address the issue, some serious and some satirical. At the moment, however, it&#039;s fruitless to hypothesize about what might have happened had there been no Civil War, just as it&#039;s fruitless to wonder about the condition of the world had we let Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia destroy each other, or had the U.S. not entered WWI.  </p>
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		<title>By: Edward Cline</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Edward Cline]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jan 2013 11:35:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#039;ve always suspected that the war waged against the Southern states was motivated more by a determination by the federal government to retain power over all the states, than by a desire to end slavery. If we view the war as an unjust one, the question arises: Would slavery have ended in the South over time? Britain and Europe benefited mightily from especially the cotton exported by the South. Indeed, the federal government came close to real blows with Britain over the blockades of Southern ports. Britain, for example, while it waged a war on the high seas against slavers, also had little problem with paying for the products of slave labor.  ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#039;ve always suspected that the war waged against the Southern states was motivated more by a determination by the federal government to retain power over all the states, than by a desire to end slavery. If we view the war as an unjust one, the question arises: Would slavery have ended in the South over time? Britain and Europe benefited mightily from especially the cotton exported by the South. Indeed, the federal government came close to real blows with Britain over the blockades of Southern ports. Britain, for example, while it waged a war on the high seas against slavers, also had little problem with paying for the products of slave labor.  </p>
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		<title>By: Edward Cline</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Edward Cline]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jan 2013 11:34:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another fine article by Daniel Greenfield, one that demonstrates the principle that actions have consequences, consequences not immediately perceived.  
 
The Lincoln administration can also be credited with introducing the income tax and the draft on a &quot;temporary&quot; basis to fund and staff the Civil War, and their imposition served as a precedent later. Some readers might object to criticizing the government for those sins of commission, saying, &quot;But they were necessary to end slavery, a greater evil.&quot; Yes, slavery was the greater evil, but the income tax and the draft were also forms of slavery. That money wasn&#039;t yours (and it was real money); well, maybe it was yours, but we&#039;re taking it anyway. And your life wasn&#039;t yours, because you must perform community service by taking part in the carnage of Civil War battles.  
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Another fine article by Daniel Greenfield, one that demonstrates the principle that actions have consequences, consequences not immediately perceived.  </p>
<p>The Lincoln administration can also be credited with introducing the income tax and the draft on a &quot;temporary&quot; basis to fund and staff the Civil War, and their imposition served as a precedent later. Some readers might object to criticizing the government for those sins of commission, saying, &quot;But they were necessary to end slavery, a greater evil.&quot; Yes, slavery was the greater evil, but the income tax and the draft were also forms of slavery. That money wasn&#039;t yours (and it was real money); well, maybe it was yours, but we&#039;re taking it anyway. And your life wasn&#039;t yours, because you must perform community service by taking part in the carnage of Civil War battles.  </p>
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		<title>By: Edward Cline</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Edward Cline]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jan 2013 11:33:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another fine article by Daniel Greenfield, one that demonstrates the principle that actions have consequences, consequences not immediately perceived. _The Lincoln administration can also be credited with introducing the income tax and the draft on a &quot;temporary&quot; basis to fund and staff the Civil War, and their imposition served as a precedent later. Some readers might object to criticizing the government for those sins of commission, saying, &quot;But they were necessary to end slavery, a greater evil.&quot; Yes, slavery was the greater evil, but the income tax and the draft were also forms of slavery. That money wasn&#039;t yours (and it was real money) ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Another fine article by Daniel Greenfield, one that demonstrates the principle that actions have consequences, consequences not immediately perceived. _The Lincoln administration can also be credited with introducing the income tax and the draft on a &quot;temporary&quot; basis to fund and staff the Civil War, and their imposition served as a precedent later. Some readers might object to criticizing the government for those sins of commission, saying, &quot;But they were necessary to end slavery, a greater evil.&quot; Yes, slavery was the greater evil, but the income tax and the draft were also forms of slavery. That money wasn&#039;t yours (and it was real money) </p>
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		<title>By: Edward Cline</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Edward Cline]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jan 2013 11:31:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another fine article by Daniel Greenfield, one that demonstrates the principle that actions have consequences, consequences not immediately perceived. __The Lincoln administration can also be credited with introducing the income tax and the draft on a &quot;temporary&quot; basis to fund and staff the Civil War, and their imposition served as a precedent later. Some readers might object to criticizing the government for those sins of commission, saying, &quot;But they were necessary to end slavery, a greater evil.&quot; Yes, slavery was the greater evil, but the income tax and the draft were also forms of slavery. That money wasn&#039;t yours (and it was real money) ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Another fine article by Daniel Greenfield, one that demonstrates the principle that actions have consequences, consequences not immediately perceived. __The Lincoln administration can also be credited with introducing the income tax and the draft on a &quot;temporary&quot; basis to fund and staff the Civil War, and their imposition served as a precedent later. Some readers might object to criticizing the government for those sins of commission, saying, &quot;But they were necessary to end slavery, a greater evil.&quot; Yes, slavery was the greater evil, but the income tax and the draft were also forms of slavery. That money wasn&#039;t yours (and it was real money) </p>
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		<title>By: κατεργάζομαι</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[κατεργάζομαι]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jan 2013 10:06:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[How some of the TARP funds were spent in 2008: 
 
In June 2008, U.S. Virgin Islands Governor John deJongh Jr. agreed to give London-based Diageo Plc billions of dollars in tax incentives to move its production of Captain Morgan rum from one U.S. island -- Puerto Rico -- to another, namely St. Croix. DeJongh says he had no idea his deal would help make the world&#039;s largest liquor distiller the most unlikely beneficiary of the emergency Troubled Asset Relief Program approved by Congress just four months later. 
~ Ryan Donmoyer of Bloomberg  
 
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>How some of the TARP funds were spent in 2008: </p>
<p>In June 2008, U.S. Virgin Islands Governor John deJongh Jr. agreed to give London-based Diageo Plc billions of dollars in tax incentives to move its production of Captain Morgan rum from one U.S. island &#8212; Puerto Rico &#8212; to another, namely St. Croix. DeJongh says he had no idea his deal would help make the world&#039;s largest liquor distiller the most unlikely beneficiary of the emergency Troubled Asset Relief Program approved by Congress just four months later.<br />
~ Ryan Donmoyer of Bloomberg  </p>
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