VIDEO: Ron Paul Calls Secret Service Protection ‘Welfare’

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Ron Paul doesn’t want Secret Service protection, he told Jay Leno last night. Why? Because a detail of highly-trained body guards would make him just the latest to rely on a government handout.

“You’re having the taxpayers pay to take care of somebody,” Paul told the late night host. “I’m an ordinary citizen and I would think I should pay for my own protection.”

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