Barney Frank's Only Regret

by Will

Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

December 8, 2011

After decades of dutiful service to the tax-devouring class, Massachusetts Democratic Congressman Barney Frank announced his retirement.

Frank was a figure out of some of the gamier passages of imperial Roman history. In April 1985, he hired a male prostitute, Steve Gobie, who moved into his Georgetown apartment and became a so-called ?personal aide.? Gobie also used that apartment to run a homosexual prostitution ring. Rather than facing criminal charges ? as any private citizen would ? or expulsion from the House ? as its rules required ? Frank underwent a mild chastisement and was allowed to continue his career as an impenitent plunderer.

According to the JTA News Service, ?Frank said he rued his vote against the first Persian Gulf War in 1991, as well as approving restrictions on the Internal Revenue Service that he now sees as impeding tax collection.?

So as he assesses his career, Frank?s chief regret is that he failed to serve the welfare/warfare state with perfect fidelity. He has no similar misgivings about the Dodd-Frank financial legislation he helped produce, which has driven countless small businesses into oblivion. For collectivists like Frank, wealth-producers are the enemy, and tax-gatherers are indispensable allies.

Let us take back the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free.

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