Meanwhile, on an Alternate Branch of the Quantum Wave Function of the Multiverse...

A correspondent writes:

Rand Paul: Ha ha ha ha ha! You had to ask me the “but.” um... I don’t like the idea of telling private business owners--I abhor slavery--I think it’s a bad business decision to ever enslave anyone to make them work on my plantation.

But at the same time I do believe in private ownership.

I think there should be absolutely no slavery on anything that gets any public funding. That’s most of what the Thirteenth Amendment was about, to my mind....

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