No man’s life, liberty or property are safe while the Legislature is in session.
That’s how Gideon Tucker a New Yorker who knew Albany as a former legislator, secretary of state and judge put it back in 1866.
His wisdom, as demonstrated repeatedly over the ages, is timeless.
Yet there is something different, and especially troubling, about this time. The possibility of permanent decline and the ultimate destruction of the New York we know is unmatched in modern memory.
With Republicans reduced to hecklers, Albany Democrats, oblivious or reckless or both, are marching toward the cliff in an Alfred E. Neuman, What, me worry? way. The rising chorus of Stop! goes unheeded.
âNo manâs life, liberty or property are safe while the legislatureâs in session,â said either Mark Twain or newspaper editor and lawyer Gideon Tucker.
Judging by the current legislative session, he could well have been talking about voter-approved propositions or school funding bills.
The Arizona Legislature has advanced two major bills that would do an end-run around voter-approved ballot measures concerning school funding.
SB1783 could well gut Proposition 208, a voter-approved income tax surcharge on people making more than $250,000 annually to raise nearly a billion dollars annually for K-12 schools in a state with one of the worst-funded public school systems in the country.
In 1866 Gideon Tucker, a lawyer and newspaper editor in New York, famously wrote, “No man’s life, liberty or property are safe while the Legislature is in s
The Raven .the record of history is absolutely crystal clear that there is no alternative way, so far discovered, of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by a free enterprise system.
- Milton Friedman on the Phil Donahue show .What has always made the state a hell on earth has been precisely that man has tried to make it his heaven -F.A. Hayek -
The Road to Serfdom
The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government, are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite. The former will be exercised principally on external objects, as war, peace, negotiation, and foreign commerce; with which last the power of taxation will, for the most part, be connected. The powers reserved to the several States will extend to all the objects which, in the ordinary course of affairs, concern the lives, liberties, and properties of the people,