Welcome to the Age of Unlimited Government! Nick Gillespie in Daily Beast
My latest Daily Beast column is titled, "Welcome the Age of Unlimited Government." Here's a snippet:
It's a telling coincidence that the latest scandalous revelation about the National Security Agency (NSA) is hitting the front pages just as the enrollment period specified by the Affordable Care Act (ACA, a.k.a. Obamacare) is getting started.
Each of these things underscores different but related aspects of the virtually unlimited state that has ruined the peaceful slumber of libertarian-minded Americans for decades. Whether we're talking about surveilling citizens without any sort of serious legal oversight or forcing them to participate in economic activity in the name of healthcare über alles, the answer always seems to favor the growth and power of the state to control more and more aspects of our lives. Is it any wonder that a record-high percentage of Americans think the federal government is too powerful?