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What the government is good at is collecting taxes, taking away your freedoms and killing people. It's not good at much else.
Tom Clancy
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Tom Clancy
Age: 66 †
Born: 1947
Born: April 12
Died: 2013
Died: October 1
Non-Fiction Writer
Novelist
Prosaist
Writer
Baltimore
Maryland
Thomas Leo Clancy Jr.
Thomas Leo Tom Clancy Jr.
Thomas Leo Tom Clancy
Jr.
Thomas Clancy
Thomas L. Clancy
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Taxes
People
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Liberty
Politics
Away
Freedoms
Else
Collecting
Government
Libertarian
Much
Killing
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