<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>On May 18, 2016, at 5:23 AM, Dave Sill <<a href="mailto:sparge@gmail.com">sparge@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 7:54 PM, spike <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:spike66@att.net" target="_blank">spike66@att.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Dan, the problem with that notion is that the first two are legal, the third is not.</blockquote></div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Sure it is. Asset forfeiture is big business these days and could easily be expanded.<br></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div>It is a form of direct confiscation, though I'm not sure how well it could be used for routine funding -- as a replacement for taxation, inflation, and borrowing. (One can point to, of course, how traffic fines are used for routine funding -- little different than how bandits controlling a chokepoint rely on shaking down travelers to fund their organization.)<br><br><div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Regards,</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Dan</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> Sample my Kindle books via:</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><a href="http://author.to/DanUst" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">http://author.to/DanUst</font></a></div></div></div></body></html>