I have a very simple question. What happens to all the personal property that is confiscated at airports? I ask because my husband travels on business with his tools a lot. He and his colleagues constantly report that their tools are being confiscated. My husband had some valuable ones confiscated out of his carry-on, but he has also had tools confiscated from his checked luggage as well.
I know that we are not allowed to come back and claim the confiscated property, nor pay to have it shipped back to us. We are not even given receipts for it. So what happens to it? And what law (constitutionality aside) permits the government to take it from us without compensation?
– Sarah
I hate to disappoint you Sarah, but I simply don’t know. I rather suspect the tools are claimed for personal use by those who are doing the confiscating. This behavior is very much in keeping with the various seizures being practiced on all levels of government around the country, in violation of numerous state constitutions and laws protecting private property. As American property rights decline, it is becoming more and more clear that government is usually little more than a massive criminal gang feeding off the populace.
I wrote a letter to Joseph Farah. It generated no reply, and as far as I know, it was not posted. Somehow, I get the feeling that the length of my letter was not the real problem. Since I, too, am a Christian, with libertarian leanings, I thought you might have some insider view of WND which might explain WND’s non-response.
– John
OK, everybody, relax! Joseph is not selling out his principles, he is not blowing people off because he’s getting above himself and there is no dark secret behind every failure to respond to someone. It’s just that Mr. Farah gets a massive amount of e-mail and he’s incredibly busy keeping WND’s ball rolling. It takes him a month just to send me a one-word answer to one of my e-mails.
What happens to the money contributed to the Social Security system when a person dies before retirement age? I figure the honest thing to do would be to roll that money over to the surviving family members but it appears instead that the government just walks with it, nobody thinks anything of it and it’s never mentioned. It appears that there were approximately 2,400,000 deaths in the U.S. in 2000. Let’s say that 400,000 of them were between the ages of 40 and 60 with an average contribution amount of $30,000. That would mean the government is walking with $12,000,000,000 of technically unaccounted for tax (retirement) dollars per year.
– Phil
Great question! That’s an excellent point, Phil, and one I wish I’d come up with myself. Since Social Security is actually a tax set up like a Ponzi scheme, the money that was paid in was long ago spent on benefits for retirees or other government programs, but I don’t know what is the official government rationale for allowing itself to keep the benefits of the deceased.
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