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“None of the federal government's business.”

- JOHN T

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In Response to: 100 by '50 Act

“The way ethanol is done in this country *increase* the use of petroleum products overall because of how much is used in the supply chain (tractors, fertilizer, trucks, etc.).”

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In Response to: Should the EPA’s Renewable Fuel Standard be Eliminated?

“This has absolutely nothing to do with the federal government.”

- JOHN T

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In Response to: Should Schools be Prohibited From “Lunch Shaming” Children Unable to Pay for a Meal?

“If you went to college you are elite. It makes no sense to take tax money from lower-middle-class workers and give it to you. This increases how much you are (admittedly indirectly) receiving. Besides all that, the federal government has no business involving itself it education or funding thereof.”

- JOHN T

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In Response to: Should Borrowers Be Able to Refinance Their Federal Student Loans?

“We need to simplify taxation, not make even more conditional clauses.”

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In Response to: Ending Tax Breaks For Outsourcing & Giving Businesses Tax Credits For Bringing Jobs to the U.S.

“We can pay for it by cutting other, less-defensive, military projects.”

- JOHN T

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In Response to: Does the U.S. Need to Improve and Expand its Missile Defense System?

“The federal government has no role to play in education. It's a local, or at worst state, issue.”

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In Response to: Reauthorizing and Reforming Career and Technical Education Programs

“If you want to save money on the military (and I do): 1) Reduce wasteful cronyism 2) Reduce DARPA spending 3) Reduce military foreign aid 4) Recruit fewer soldiers. Don't try to save money by reducing per-soldier compensation.”

- JOHN T

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In Response to: Closing a Loophole That Reduces Retirement and/or Disability Pay For Certain Veterans

“Unions are terrible, but citizens should have complete freedom of association. If you want to join a micro union, so long as the government doesn't negotiate with you or force anyone else to do so, you should have every right to do that.”

- JOHN T

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In Response to: Should Labor Micro-Unions be Banned?

“1) You're making the tax code even more complicated.”

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In Response to: Should People Not Have to Pay More Than 50% of their Income in Taxes?

“Freedom of association includes the right to not disassociate.”

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In Response to: Does the Federal Government Need to Stop State Right-to-Work Laws?

“These sorts of decisions need to be made by the owner of the school, since it's their property, not forced upon them by government. In the unfortunate case that owner is a government, so be it - it should be handled at that (hopefully hyperlocal) level of government.”

- JOHN T

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In Response to: Will Guns on Public School Campuses Keep Students Safe?

“That definition of assault weapon is moronic. But beyond that, imagine what you'd have to do to enforce this. And... what exactly are you trying to accomplish?”

- JOHN T

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In Response to: Should People Under Age 16 be Banned From Possessing or Using Assault Weapons?

“If you want a plan suggest a plan. Stop delegating to agencies.”

- JOHN T

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In Response to: Does U.S. Space Strategy Need an Overhaul?

“While there is a problem with people not appreciate how subservient they've made themselves, and so transparent in the is a laudable goal, this bill is confusingly narrow in scope and so would only lead to more labyrinthine regulatory state. Any reasonable approach to addressing this would, obviousl…”

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In Response to: Restricting Monitoring Technology in Home Media Devices

“However, it would be better to simply issue checks (or vouchers) to veterans to let them for care.”

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In Response to: Should the VA Provide Service Dogs to Vets With PTSD?

“States can raise taxes if they need to. DC should rely on money from states, not the other way around.”

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In Response to: Are Federal Grants Needed to Help Police Departments Buy Body Cameras for Their Officers?

“Requiring a doctor's approval for everything just adds more drain on their already overly demanded time.”

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In Response to: Using Health Savings Accounts to Purchase Over the Counter Drugs

“A bureaucrat's opinion of a law is completely irrelevant. If the intent is unclear they can ask the legislators what they intended. If those lawmakers are dead, well that is why we need a sunset provision, but they can ask current lawmakers, or a court. The agency's this informed interpretation shou…”

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In Response to: Does Our System of Checks and Balances Need to Be Rebalanced?

“Social welfare programs have no place in the federal budget.”

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In Response to: Should the Government Stop Providing Low Income Americans With Cell Phone and Internet Subsidies?