Agreed, Warren. I'd happily go my own way if the government would simply give me my money back (and the money that my employer was forced to pay instead of paying me), but NOOOO, they've already spent that money. It's all a legalized Ponzi scheme to buy votes.

I would contend that a more universally humane solution would be to let the woman on the grate starve or freeze to death. Perhaps not for the women in the microcosm, but globally survival of the fittest improves the lives of the species by filtering out the non-producers/non-contributors. Tribal cultures often allowed the old and infirm to go off on their own to die rather than burden the tribe with their care. Much of our healthcare problem is that we insist of prolonging the lives of people who have ceased contributing to society, simply because the care of them produces profits for the medical care providers. Better that money be spent on medical research to prevent disease rather than keeping alive those who are going anyway.

I'd happily give up my Social Security and Medicare if you would simply give me back the money I paid into it over my 50 years working, plus interest. Unfortunately our government already spent that money.

Ah, but all bets are off when you can collectively legislate to steal money from the 49% to buy votes from the 51%.

The obvious correct response for the WI legislature and Walker should be to 1) immediately institute a voucher system worth 75% of what a public school costs per student, 2) a tax rebate to any private, parochial, or public school that accepts voucher students and raises the aggregate test scores of those students (paid for with 15% of the public school cost savings), and 3) applies the remaining 10% of public school cost savings to reducing property taxes.

bits=bites.

A politician I know once said that the art of taxation is to keep them as high as possible but low enough that the black market doesn't take over. I think that's where we are now. Many of the people that I know who are working independently (either a second job to make ends meet, between jobs, or laid off) are asking to be paid in cash, even significant amounts of cash. The law requires banks to report cash transactions over $10K, but several separate $9,999 cash transactions are perfectly legal.

Typical lib--doesn't know humor when it bits him in the a$$.

I think it was Butch Otter (R) in Idaho. If they had blue water and beaches I'd have moved there long ago. Here in the South (Georgia) there have been similar rumblings. The pushback against Obamacare is a similar example, and if the SCOTUS rules that it is constitutional, the rumblings could turn into open rebellion. Gun sales are trough the roof here.

If Prohibition is an example of peaceful civil disobedience, why do we still have thousands in jail and thousands more arrested each year for drug violations? There were certainly many who agreed with the Prohibition laws (my grandmother was a founding member of the WCTU), just as there are many who agree with the drug laws today. Prohibition and ending prohibition had much more to do with backroom payoffs to politicians than with what was right or constitutional.