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A classic example of government thievery.

unfunded federal liabilities currently exceed 127 trillion

expect more wealth seizures, both foreign and domestic

btw thats about $1.1 million per taxpayer and nearly double 2012’s total world output

lol

Obviously this law was put in place to go after drug dealers, terrorists, etc.. But anyone can see it's so vague that it was surely going to be used by corrupt cops and officials to go after anyone, and everyone.

It's just another example of a long line of laws put in place in the name of 'security' and 'law and order'.. Eventually we got to decide if giving away all of our freedoms is worth being 'secure'..

The so called 'small government' Republicans are all for these kinds tactics, and for more aggressive and larger police forces and military. Hypocrites..

And the Democrats are no better. And even though they say they are against heavy handed police and them violating civil rights.. More and more government intrusion and armed to the teeth police forces and military tactics are actually fine with them.. Hypocrites..

Democrats are the party that say no one should have a gun except police. How you ever saw them as posturing themselves against excessive police power over ordinary citizens is beyond me.

it's a good example of why all laws should have sunset provisions. in fact, i'd like to have something that if it has no sunset provision it automatically sunsets in 2 years, and sunset provisions cannot go more than 10 years out.

here we have another classic example of good intentions f**k everything up. they thought, how do we get local police forces interested in helping on this "war on drugs"? i know, lets give them financial incentive so that when they make drug busts, they get to keep some of that money. sounds great... but then everything becomes a drug bust and you need more drug busts to satisfy your ever growing costs to keep armed personal carriers operational and whatnot

had this sunseted they would have had to redebate the subject and they could look back and make adjustments. instead we just complain and it stays on the books. some places, like my state, have removed the teeth of it (there has to be a conviction before they can take it... which is f'd up that isn't that way everywhere) but at a national level you have people like Rand Paul trying to end it and no democrat wants to be associated with him and nothing ever changes