The government is way to powerful

We’ve recently seen an incredible abuse of Section 215 of the PATRIOT Act, leading to the National Security Administration collecting hordes of data from the average American’s phone records. Americans can no longer trust their government to respect their privacy and government acting as “Big Brother” from 1984 no longer sounds like a fiction story.

Yet another government agency under scrutiny for abusing its powers: the IRS. This past summer, Americans learned the IRS was specifically targeting conservative organizations, requesting personal information on employees, donor information, and other private data, as well as delaying tax exempt status gran...

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