Because you're not allowed to do that, either,,,,,
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A bill that nobody is paying any attention to is sailing through Congress: Senate Bill 1813. It passed the Senate by 74 to 22, and is expected to sail through the House as well. It’s an act “[t]o reauthorize Federal-aid highway and highway safety construction programs, and for other purposes.”
It’s the “and for other purposes” part of the title that has me worried—specifically Section 40304: “Revocation or denial of passport in case of certain unpaid taxes.”
This section would give the IRS the power to keep a U.S. citizen from traveling—
—and it’s another example of Executive Power run amok. It’s another example of how the United States is turning into a police-state.
The right to travel freely is sacrosanct—it’s not some privilege that the government bestows on us: It’s one of our basic freedoms as citizens. In point of fact, the countries that have limited their citizens’ ability to travel—the Soviet Union, the People’s Republic of China, North Korea, Cuba—were all rightfully called “police-states”: It’s one of their defining characteristics—the fact that they were keeping their citizens hostage.
Welcome to the fascist states of the americas, one big open air prison, run by the police state. You are free, to operate within their strictly defined, and impossible to adhere to, set of rules. Freedom,,,,it's just another word
Why is congress and the senate so set on pushing this one through?
I dont get it with the legislative branch?
Wasn't the whole tea party movement about getting rid of the senators and congressmen that passed through the "patriot" act?
Wasn't this new batch of senators and congressmen supposed to protect and increase freedoms and rights?
And from what I saw this was not just about partisan lines as the teaparty movement took out republican incumbents who during the bush administration did not question the executive branch to create the checks and balances that our founding fathers based our system of government on?
Why is this new batch of "tea party" senators and congressmen who have taken over the legislative branch doing this?
Isn't this completely opposite to what they pretended to represent... or are they just as bad as the incumbents (regardless of partisan affiliation) that they sought to unseat?
Or were they simply politicians all along that talk about change and simply followed in the footsteps of their predecessors... except now we have a legislative branch that is basically the same thing except less experienced...
What a joke