cwelsch
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« on: July 23, 2004, 04:14:06 AM » |
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Abortion:
Outright abolition, full right to life from conception. All risk to the mother's life issues can be treated with caesarean section rather than abortion (widely accepted diagnosis).
Iraq:
It's always justified to kill a dictator and to free a people, but the US should pay restitution to all the victims and victims' families of people it killed, provable terrorists excepted. I'm rooting for the reconstruction to succeed because I think freedom and democracy will help the world in the long run, but I hate the massive spending associated here since it was derived from involuntary taxation.
Tax Cuts:
More of them, eliminate payroll taxes and eliminate the bottom bracket of the income tax over and over again as we can afford it until it becomes a situation where a good 70 or 80 percent of people pay very little in taxes. Eventually hope to replace the tax system with user fees, donations and a system of national lotteries.
Gun Control:
Against most of it, although I don't have a problem with violent felons being prohibited from buying guns. The police can't be everywhere, and so we must take responsibility for our own protection when they can't help us out fast enough. Just wave a gun at most criminals and they run, usually little need to fire a shot. Gun control should mean stiff penalties for violent criminals that use guns to committ crimes.
Education:
The Dept. of Ed is unnecessary pork at the federal level, we should pass various measures to provide vouchers to people, and make sure that we open up the area to allow more innovation like charter schools. We should also scale back tenure so we can fire bad teachers more easily.
Religion:
"...no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States."
Homeland Security:
Repeal the Patriot Act, downsize or eliminate the Homeland Security Department. The best way to stop terror is a combination of free trade, democracy promotion, and immigration deregulation. Free trade and democracy promotion attack the root of terrorism, since undemocratic and anti-market regimes are the source of terror. Immigration deregulation loosens the job on existing law enforcement and INS officials so instead of trying to stop Mexicans and Haitians that just want to work they can actually find the people that shouldn't be here. Instead of tracking down harmless illegals that just want access to the US job market, the INS needs to spend its time on known terrorists.
Other Civil Liberties:
We should have all of them. As long as you don't use force or fraud on others, it's all you. That's what we should be striving to allow, because that's what every person is oed (the Founders knew it if you read the national debates on the Nnth Amendment).
Gay Marriage:
Privatize marriage, let people do what they want, same as bar mitzvah and baptism. No need for licenses, and polygamy should be allowed (with adults) as well. It doesn't hurt us any more than gay marriage.
Death Penalty:
For it, especially for rape and molestation. I'd be willing to part with it in exchange for extremely difficult prison sentences. We could also abandon it in exchange for restitutive criminal justice, so you pay back whomever you wrong.
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