Regarding the redistribution of your income...

From the Federalist Patriot:

The U.S. Department of Interior is requiring National Parks in the Southeast to allocate armed law-enforcement rangers for critical 14-day-rotation details with full reimbursement for travel expenses, per diem costs and overtime. You might assume they are being assigned for Homeland Security tasks supplementing protection for dams or critical points of the national infrastructure. Perhaps they will be sent to help protect our porous southern border from nefarious drug gangs and terrorists.

No, these officers are being deployed to Cape Hatteras National Seashore to guard the nests of Piping Plover birds from being tread upon by beach strollers. Well, actually there are no nests, but two male Plovers have been seen exhibiting courtship behavior with one female Plover.

Last year, two Least Tern chicks were found dead in an ingress area for visitors, and environmental groups are outraged. After all, the birds are protected under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act. So armed NPS rangers will now escort all visitor ingress and egress to make sure no non-existent bird nests will be disturbed. At this writing, reports indicate that birdwatchers (the tree-hugging variety) in line for escort outnumber beach comers two to one. No word on whether deadly force has been authorized against anyone attempting to enter without escort.