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So long as the folks in Kentucky and Tennessee remember how to make good whiskey I could care less except as an example of what the anti government madness can bring.
So libraries in Kentucky are raising taxes illegally, and the Tea Party activists want this to stop. Trying to see why making government abide by its own rules is a bad thing?
OP is engaging in a means-ends fallacy, that because libraries have this benevolent purpose as the ends, the illegal means by which they are funded (if these illegal tax raises were indeed only for funding for books) are OK.
Well, let's use the standard Fuzzy Kittens to Orphans argument to illustrate that fallacy. My aim is to purchase and distribute fuzzy kittens to orphans, a noble goal that nobody could possibly find argument with, right? To fund this awesomely super benevolent idea, I will simply take money from EclecticEars' bank account via a computer hack. Yeah yeah, not totally legal and all, but who cares, so long as we get those pitiful orphans waifs their fuzzy kittens, right? Heck, I could probably skip whole computer hack thing and just mug EclecticEars, steal the money directly, and again...no real harm done given how much good the money will do for those kittens and orphans versus sitting in mean old EclecticEars' wallet. Right?
This is the government's go-to marketing whenever they are skimming more from the till and get busted. They always turn the whole thing into Fuzzy Kittens for Orphans and then shame anyone arguing against their means as cruel, emotionless troglodytes who want to kill orphans and kittens.
EclecticEars, pat yourself on the back for carrying tyranny's water so well. Your are what VI Lenin referred to as a "useful idiot."
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