The move to tax Internet sales, clothed as a ‘fairness’ issue, is the typical ‘wolf-in-sheep’s-clothing’ ploy so often used by governments unwilling to cut expenditures to match revenues.
BOB BARRCourts have long recognized the federal government’s robust power to inspect people and goods entering the country.
More Bob Barr Quotes
-
-
Looking down the road, space exploration and the benefits it yields – in medicine and information technology – should not be overlooked.
BOB BARR -
After all, the very foundation of national sovereignty is a nation’s ability to protect its borders.
BOB BARR -
The way to achieve this goal is you go negative and you don’t let up. If you’re always attacking your accusers, the debate becomes one of Democrat vs. Republican, rather than right vs. wrong.
BOB BARR -
For far too long the American public and business sector have kept their silence as civil liberties have been whittled away by statutory and regulatory measures.
BOB BARR -
I supported the Iraq resolution, but that was not an approval of war in Iraq and certainly was not approval for an occupation of Iraq.
BOB BARR -
It is high time for some congressional oversight backbone.
BOB BARR -
History has shown that Big Government expands quickest in the immediate aftermath of a crisis – real or manufactured.
BOB BARR -
Nobody is denying we should investigate and do what we can to prevent gun crime in our cities and towns. But, we should not scapegoat the American gun owner for complicated, cultural problems we are just beginning to understand.
BOB BARR -
I’m pro-life but I believe that the federal government ought to stay out of it. That’s a decision that the people of each state ought to make for themselves.
BOB BARR -
Unfortunately, the Windy City also enjoys a reputation for corrupt politics, violent crime, and some of the strictest gun control laws anywhere in the country.
BOB BARR -
It matters not whether its proponents have a ‘D’ or an ‘R’ after their name. It is a tax increase in either case.
BOB BARR -
Going to war against Iran – whether one calls such a move ‘surgical’ or ‘total’ – would be an extremely serious undertaking; with worldwide economic, military, diplomatic and human ramifications in both the short- and the long-term.
BOB BARR -
Every day, the front page of The Drudge Report is littered with stories of government assaults on our civil liberties – from local government officials all the way up to the Oval Office.
BOB BARR -
State legislatures continue to do just that – enact laws that significantly infringe this fundamental human right.
BOB BARR -
Iran is not a make-believe country. It is a real country populated by some 75 million people – real people; including, I daresay, a majority who are philosophically and by education inclined toward the modern, secular world, and particularly American values.
BOB BARR