Burning Ban

I live in the country. Part of living in the country is burning your trash, rubbish, dead trees, etc. I know when to burn, when not to burn. If it is dry and there is a wind, I don't burn. If it is green and lush with low winds, I'll burn. Always with a bucket of water near by and never unattended.

Sometimes though our local government passes a burn ban. Often times they wait till it's too late, a day or so before a soaking rain, so by the time a burn ban takes effect it's already green and lush.

That is why I basically ignore what my local government says about burn bans, and I burn if I need to with or without their permission.

Another interesting consequence of overbearing government intrusions is confiscatory taxation. Otherwise known as the "sin" tax this is a way that governments can try to tax us out of doing things we want to do.

Dr. Walter E. Williams asks the question: is cigarette smuggling a bad thing?

Some smugglers are good people who differ little from the founders of our nation such as John Hancock, whose flamboyant signature graces our Declaration of Independence. The British had levied confiscatory taxes on molasses, and John Hancock smuggled an estimated 1.5 million gallons a year. His smuggling practices financed much of the resistance to British authority

I find it ironic that most Americans honor men like Hancock, Adams, Jefferson, and Franklin. If these people tried to run for office now, with drastically extreme views of liberty and freedom they'd never win. Plus we would send swat teams to their homes because they were deemed dangerous or whatever.