Hoosier Libertarians Help Encourage Important Legislation -- Hoosier Libertarians Help Encourage Important LegislatThe Facts Were These

I am pleased to see that my senator (Greg Walker) is supporting this legislation.

It is reminiscent of the 1947 Indiana House Concurrent Resolution 2.

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"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."

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