Hoffa’s Laughable Anti-Capitalist Whining

In the March 10 edition of The Detroit News, an opinion piece by James P. Hoffa — president of the Teamsters union — appears, entitled “Tea Party protestors pick wrong target.” Hoffa offers up the laughable commentary that tea partier disdain for “big government” is misplaced. Hoffa also attempts to pass off the obvious myth that “average Americans… are paying the price for the unrestrained power of corporations.” In reality, though, no private corporation has any power of force over me, or any other American. To cite a few of countless examples: Ford, Mazda, BMW, Volkswagen, and many other car companies most definitely want me to purchase their products, but have absolutely no power to force me to do so. The same goes for insurance companies, banks… thousands upon thousands of private entities in myriad industries. It is only the government that can legally (albeit immorally) confiscate my hard-earned income. (Their method? Armed threat of prison. And don’t get me wrong: willing recipients of confiscated money — such as the United Auto Workers and Government Motors — most definitely deserve Americans’ ire, too.) Proper government is limited — meaning, limited to the protection of every individual’s unalienable rights. At its best, the tea party movement seeks to return the government to this proper moral ideal. Anti-capitalists (i.e., those who eagerly seek to legalize theft that benefits themselves, such as James P. Hoffa) don’t get it, and never will.

– Mark Kalinowski
North New Jersey Tea Party Group
Liberty, Free Markets, and Individual Rights

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