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When Did I Become the Government's 'Customer'?

• Lew Rockwell blog

Have you noticed that in dealing with many government departments now, we are referred to as "customers"? Talk about Orwellian newspeak.

I'm not the government's "customer"—I'm it's slave. The only reason why I and anyone else deals with the government is because it uses guns that force us to deal with them.