You added more to your post after I responded, so here is my new response to the new content. > So does setting tariffs, yet that's widely accepted (as a gover

You added more to your post after I responded, so here is my new response to the new content. > So does setting tariffs, yet that's widely accepted (as a government power) by both parties. Not always, and not by me. What the parties accept is irrelevant. We (almost) all believe that one or both of them is fully evil. Almost nobody on the right or left thinks "their" party represents their views (except a vocal minority of Republicans). > This is probably why you're being downvoted. I expected to be downvoted heavily when I posted. That doesn't mean I'm wrong. Sometimes I'm willing to take the hit. > When you say "x violates your rights", most people take that as to mean it violates your legal rights I don't think that's true. Obviously, we have basically no legal rights anymore in America. The ones we do have are tiny procedural things, like Miranda rights. When it comes to legality, it's just a matter of asking if rule X will be enforced in way Y at this particular time, which will certainly not hold at a different time. The Federal government is free to regulate basically anything in basically any way it pleases. I mean, can you name anything that actually, solidly, is a legal right, for Americans? Maybe free speech, but that is under heavy assault. I can't think of much else.