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On the government's recommendation that BP pay $20 billion in damages, on Investors.com

"Where in the Constitution ... does it say that a President has the authority to extract vast sums of money from a private enterprise and distribute it as he sees fit ...? Nowhere ... [It] says that private property is not to be confiscated by the government without 'due process of law' ... If you believe that the end justifies the means, then you don't believe in constitutional government. And without constitutional government, freedom cannot endure."

--6/21/10

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