I trust Facebook with my financial information just as far as I can throw the combined weight of every asset (both human and non) of the corporation combined.

Giving someone free will is the equivalent of making them imperfect, unless you also couple the free will with an innate pre-understanding of the consequences of every action they make.

Write-ins are counted the same way third-party votes are: a lower percentage of votes for Republicrats.

Yeah, I misread the source article on which I was relying. Even though they are not legally common carrier for information services (which I would still argue ISPs should be legally categorized for any non-content services), they are still generally treated as though they are.

After all, if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear. </sarcasm>

Like many things, it's all about government convenience. Medical care is necessary according to DHHS, and voluntary according to the DEA. You have to pay for it or you are penalized, and if you pay for it you give up your right to privacy. They've managed to legislate a method to force everyone in the USA to give up their rights to medical privacy.

Exactly. Their time means more money for them, and every penny they spend comes from someone else. Why in the hell would they care a whit about cost?

You actually believe those who wrote the Constitution intended it to allow the Federal government the general power to ban absolutely anything under the taxing authority? That's what the Supreme Court rulings on the Constitutionality of Federal bans have laid out. Just because the power is not used more broadly does not mean it doesn't exist as a result of bad rulings. Hell, as a result of the ACA ruling, the taxing authority now allows both general bans and general mandatory purchases. The Federal government now has the "legitimized" ability to police every aspect of every transaction made.

They're both tasked with creating as many criminals as possible.

And the most dangerous bureaucracies are those composed primarily of armed agents. Instead of ending up with a tax penalty for non-compliance, you are more likely to end up dead.

The Constitution stopped being ordered deny,allow a long time ago. It's now interpreted as allow,deny.

Revolutions are always violent. They just aren't always violent on both sides. They are, however, almost always violent on both sides.

They refers to Illinois, rather than specifically Chicago.

He's a politician from Chicago. Anyone with a brain should realize he never should have been elected (this isn't to say McCain should have been elected; they both sucked as choices), regardless of which party he came from. I don't think there's a non-criminal Chicago politician. They have more politicians sent to prison than any other state.

There is, but there aren't enough people willing to do something about it to prevent you from winding up dead.