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Originally Posted by strandinthewind
I am all for the Fair Tax, though I hate the name  |
Sounds like a great idea!
But if it's instituted, would there be enough money coming in to keep our Leviathan from beaching? Don't get me wrong -- I'd love to see the Leviathan beach itself on the Shores of Shrinking Government. But I don't think the
functionaries would like it.
The presidential candidates are a train wreck this time, except for Paul, who seems to have actually read all the papers in the National Archives -- & understood them. He's probably the only candidate who has read & understood Locke & Burke & Madison, the only candidate who knows that the state's power is the power of coercion at the point of a gun.
Another really amazing thing to me is that I haven't heard any of these dip****s in either party discuss the "terror" of violent crime at home (instead of abroad). Where's the goddamn war on THAT? My chances of being killed by an American carjacker are significantly higher than they are of being killed by an Islamic suicide bomber -- higher consistently throughout the year. In my old age, I have zero tolerance for violent crime & the thugs who commit it. I favor taking all prison sentences currently in place for all violent crime & multiplying them by a factor of at least 3. Thugs have forfeited the privilege of living & walking among the rest of us. But has there been any discussion in this stupid campaign about the rising tide of blood
domestically?