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« on: December 10, 2016, 02:09:37 PM »

Black Lives Matter and Criminal Justice Reform: I've seen first hand what drug addiction does and how little the war on drugs has done to stop it. The turning point came when someone in my life battling serious drug addiction went on a destructive rampage in our home, resulting in a visit from the police. They should have arrested him, but the cop literally just called him a "punk ass brat" and then left. Meanwhile, up the street about a quarter mile, you'd find Haitian kids being arrested for small amounts of marijuana. The entire Criminal Justice system, like so many other aspects of our country, has been engaged in a systematically racist campaign against black America. Movements like BLM have done a great deal of good despite somewhat annoying tactics in a few unimportant instances.

Medicare/Medicaid: I'm 100% in favor of keeping these programs and oppose privatizing them despite my otherwise largely libertarian beliefs. These programs are paid for by the same taxpayers who benefit from them in many cases, and while reforms are needed, should largely be retained. I'm against any program whose intent is to be redistributionary. These programs are not like that.   

Trade: Unless the world becomes purely anarcho-capitalist or something (which is impossible and undesirable anyway), I see no free market argument that extends to international trade or commerce. So long as American companies move to foreign countries to manufacture (where they often get unfair advantages such as foreign subsidies or tax breaks), they are not competing on an equal footing. In short, when governments pick winners or losers in a economy, then that economy is not free. So as long as we have goods being imported from nations like China that don't abide by our standards, then the manufacturers of those imported goods shouldn't be subjected to the same economic freedoms that American companies have. Which is why I think tariffs are justified under the rules of a free market.
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