DGDevin wrote:
Tim Daneliuk wrote:

You can easily remove my ability to influence the content of the
library by having the government ceasing make me pay for it.

Some people object to their taxes being used to fund the military, should
they be allowed to opt-out of contributing to the defense budget? Obviously

No - because running the military is an explicitly enumerated task of
the Federal government in the Constitution, but libraries are not.

that is impractical, we can't have every taxpayer micro-managing various
govt. budgets. It's not unlike letting individuals demand books be removed
from a public library, eventually you'd have few books left. If you don't
like how the govt. spends your tax dollars there are elections every few
years so you have the opportunity to elect people who will be more
responsive to your wishes. So long as the bulk of the population and their
elected representatives think publicly funded libraries are a good idea,
you'll have to learn to live with the injustice of your tax dollars being
used for things you disapprove of, just like the rest of us.

Translation: If enough people break the law, it's OK. Fine. There are lots
of laws I don't like, so since you obviously don't believe in rule-of-law,
I am free to ignore the rules I don't like.

You are going to have to get used to the idea that our Federal government
is built upon a doctrine of enumerated rights. If a right is not enumerated
in the Constitution, the Federal government has no permission to act on
that matter. You are also going to have to come to terms with the
fact that ignoring this doctrine and thus our entire legal history
places *all* law at risk.





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