Would You Want to Live in a Country with a Government Who Treated Its Citizens like...

What would you think of a government that:

  • Confiscate 60 percent of wages?
  • Walked all over your private property rights with taxes and environmental policies?
  • Subjected their citizens to unwarranted searches?
  • Treated citizens like criminals until they are proven innocent?
  • Asked citizens to spy on each other?
  • Kept records of activities on all citizens right down to what they are purchasing?
  • Tell citizens what they can consume and how much they can consume?
  • That pursued fiscal policies that devalued everything you ever worked for?
  • Redistributed wealth without shame?
  • Penalized those who work hard for what they have?
Sounds like a real nasty place doesn't it, maybe a place that you would expect freedom loving people to condemn? 

But wait a minute, that sounds like where I live--the United States of America. Isn't it sad.