Do I have a right to go to my neighbor and make him buy me a new refrigerator? If your answer is no, and it should be, how then do we justify using the federal government as an agent to make our neighbors buy us a new car?
All who bought cars under this program and the dealers who sold cars are — in reality — thieves.
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