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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
Politics
Away
Freedoms
Else
Collecting
Government
Libertarian
Much
Killing
Good
Taxes
People
Taking
Liberty
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