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How then, do you explain the United States? Unencumbered means without the distortions that governments bring to the markets when they go beyond simple police powers.
Do you believe today's market, twisted and contorted by massive government interference is unencumbered?
Are you denying your socialist tendency?
How can anyone be free who depends on the government for health care?
The US is easy! It was started by the capitalist’s ideals of those rich colonists who did not qualify to participate in the executive branches of the British monarchy, so they had designs on starting their own government that played by their own rules and gave them the financial freedom they wanted.
Today’s markets are not contorted or twisted by anything the US or US state governments have done. In fact, quite the contrary has been a work since 1979 in this country: corporate and Wall Street interests have legislated a tax code and financial market system of loopholes and speculation (on the come gambling) that has ripped the very strength and trust of this country’s economy right out from underneath everybody’s feet, and I defy you to prove that my assessments are not true.
Lastly: You seem a bit incapable of separating reason from your political prejudices: labeling me a socialist is just a lazy dodge for an inability to argue reason. Moreover, trying to mix freedom with health care and the government is almost pornographic in that “freedom” used as such, exploits something very dear and intimate to every US citizen as well as those trying to achieve citizenship, not to mention the losses of those who have died trying to maintain it under the attacks of autocratic despots.
I suggest that you rethink your position and try a reasonable and credible approach at making a case for your opinions.