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and Patriot Act, 9, 132, 189, 215
and Stop Watching Us, 149–50
warrantless, 74, 130–32, 136, 189–90
Syria, military action in, 193, 194
Taparelli d’Azeglio, Luigi, 15
TARP bailout, 185, 216
tattoos, 222–25
tax code, 79–83, 174
complexity of, 177
and health-care costs, 85
scrapping, 177–78
Tax Day (2009), 56
tax reform, 177–78
Tea Party, 56, 59–61, 62–64, 68, 72, 90, 143, 144, 213
technology, changing, 201–4, 220, 226
Tenth Amendment, 142
Them vs. Us, 55, 73, 219, 221
Thurmond, Strom, 141–42, 143
Toomey, Pat, 209
transparency, 185
TrendPo, 143
Tsarnaev, Dzhokhar, 134
twelve-step agenda, 173–204, 205
1. Comply with the laws you pass, 173–75
2. Stop spending money we don’t have, 175–77
3. Scrap the tax code, 177–78
4. Put patients in charge, 179–80
5. Choice, not conscription, 181–83
6. End insider bailouts, 184–87
7. Let parents decide, 187–89
8. Respect my privacy, 189–90
9. End the Fed monopoly, 190–92
10. Avoid entangling alliances, 193–95
11. Don’t take people’s stuff, 196–99
12. Defend your right to know, 199–204
unemployment, 104, 105–6, 109
unintended consequences, 134
UPS, 87
USA Freedom Act, 190
Verizon, 130
Veterans Health Administration, 93
Veuger, Stan, 62
Vidal, Gore, 43
Vitter, David, 88–89
volunteerism, 13, 22
wage and price controls, 84–85, 86, 179
Walesa, Lech, 26, 148
Walgreens, 87
Walker, Toby Marie, 61
Wall Street, bailout of, 69, 213, 216
Walters, Johnnie Mac, 66
war:
and accountability, 193, 194
declaration of, 193–94
and entangling alliances, 195
opportunity cost of, 195
and presidential powers, 193–94, 213
War on Terror, 194
War Powers Act, 193
Washington, D.C.:
compromise valued over principle in, 47
exclusive club of, 151
special interests in, 69–71
spinning in, 64
Washington, George, 8, 55, 193, 223, 225–26
Washington Post, 88
Watergate, 72, 100
Werfel, Danny, 70
Whig Party, 121
Wilkins, William, 64
work:
hard, 16–20
as opportunity, 18–19
World War II, 84
Wyden, Ron, 131
Yoho, Ted, 157
Young Americans for Liberty, 149
young people:
attitudes toward government, 108, 118–19
and debt, 101–3, 104, 106–7
and education costs, 106–7
and entitlements, 182
and health care, 86–87, 100–101, 103–4, 109–15, 117–18, 180
and the military, 117
stereotypes of, 115, 119
and unemployment, 104, 105–6, 109
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
MATT KIBBE is the president and CEO of FreedomWorks, a national grassroots organization that serves citizens in their fight for more individual freedom and less government control. An economist by training, Kibbe is a well-respected policy expert, bestselling author, and a regular guest on CNN, Fox News, The Blaze TV, and MSNBC. He also serves as Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Austrian Economic Center in Vienna, Austria. Kibbe is author of the national bestseller Hostile Takeover: Resisting Centralized Government’s Stranglehold on America (2012) and coauthor of Give Us Liberty: A Tea Party Manifesto (2010). Terry, his awesome wife of twenty-seven years, takes no responsibility for his many mistakes or frequent embarrassments.
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