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  and Patriot Act, 9, 132, 189, 215

  and Stop Watching Us, 149–50

  warrantless, 74, 130–32, 136, 189–90

  Syria, military action in, 193, 194

  Taparelli d’Azeglio, Luigi, 15

  TARP bailout, 185, 216

  tattoos, 222–25

  tax code, 79–83, 174

  complexity of, 177

  and health-care costs, 85

  scrapping, 177–78

  Tax Day (2009), 56

  tax reform, 177–78

  Tea Party, 56, 59–61, 62–64, 68, 72, 90, 143, 144, 213

  technology, changing, 201–4, 220, 226

  Tenth Amendment, 142

  Them vs. Us, 55, 73, 219, 221

  Thurmond, Strom, 141–42, 143

  Toomey, Pat, 209

  transparency, 185

  TrendPo, 143

  Tsarnaev, Dzhokhar, 134

  twelve-step agenda, 173–204, 205

  1. Comply with the laws you pass, 173–75

  2. Stop spending money we don’t have, 175–77

  3. Scrap the tax code, 177–78

  4. Put patients in charge, 179–80

  5. Choice, not conscription, 181–83

  6. End insider bailouts, 184–87

  7. Let parents decide, 187–89

  8. Respect my privacy, 189–90

  9. End the Fed monopoly, 190–92

  10. Avoid entangling alliances, 193–95

  11. Don’t take people’s stuff, 196–99

  12. Defend your right to know, 199–204

  unemployment, 104, 105–6, 109

  unintended consequences, 134

  UPS, 87

  USA Freedom Act, 190

  Verizon, 130

  Veterans Health Administration, 93

  Veuger, Stan, 62

  Vidal, Gore, 43

  Vitter, David, 88–89

  volunteerism, 13, 22

  wage and price controls, 84–85, 86, 179

  Walesa, Lech, 26, 148

  Walgreens, 87

  Walker, Toby Marie, 61

  Wall Street, bailout of, 69, 213, 216

  Walters, Johnnie Mac, 66

  war:

  and accountability, 193, 194

  declaration of, 193–94

  and entangling alliances, 195

  opportunity cost of, 195

  and presidential powers, 193–94, 213

  War on Terror, 194

  War Powers Act, 193

  Washington, D.C.:

  compromise valued over principle in, 47

  exclusive club of, 151

  special interests in, 69–71

  spinning in, 64

  Washington, George, 8, 55, 193, 223, 225–26

  Washington Post, 88

  Watergate, 72, 100

  Werfel, Danny, 70

  Whig Party, 121

  Wilkins, William, 64

  work:

  hard, 16–20

  as opportunity, 18–19

  World War II, 84

  Wyden, Ron, 131

  Yoho, Ted, 157

  Young Americans for Liberty, 149

  young people:

  attitudes toward government, 108, 118–19

  and debt, 101–3, 104, 106–7

  and education costs, 106–7

  and entitlements, 182

  and health care, 86–87, 100–101, 103–4, 109–15, 117–18, 180

  and the military, 117

  stereotypes of, 115, 119

  and unemployment, 104, 105–6, 109

  ABOUT THE AUTHOR

  MATT KIBBE is the president and CEO of FreedomWorks, a national grassroots organization that serves citizens in their fight for more individual freedom and less government control. An economist by training, Kibbe is a well-respected policy expert, bestselling author, and a regular guest on CNN, Fox News, The Blaze TV, and MSNBC. He also serves as Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Austrian Economic Center in Vienna, Austria. Kibbe is author of the national bestseller Hostile Takeover: Resisting Centralized Government’s Stranglehold on America (2012) and coauthor of Give Us Liberty: A Tea Party Manifesto (2010). Terry, his awesome wife of twenty-seven years, takes no responsibility for his many mistakes or frequent embarrassments.

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