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This in effect provides legal protection for, among other transgressions, the White House's violation of habeas corpus, denial of access by detainees to evidence acquired from them coercively, and the imposition of torture and indefinite confinement. Classical liberals oppose price and wage controls, for example, but the libertarian economist's task "is not that of demonstrating specifically to the citizenry that coercively imposed price and wage controls cause damages that exceed any possible benefits," Buchanan writes. 35) If he was not capable of paying this bill, he risked being imprisoned coercively until he found a way to pay it. |
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