--- In [email protected], new.morning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "Rick Archer" <rick@> wrote: > > > > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > On Behalf Of off_world_beings > > Sent: Sunday, June 03, 2007 6:55 PM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: [FairfieldLife] Request to Rick to burn my months posts for Ron > > Paul > > > > > > > > Just kidding about burning the months posts Rick. Just making a point > > about Ron Paul. > > > > http://youtube.com/watch?v=HA9EHrH7NKQ > > > > from what little I know about him, I agree with you. I'd vote for > him over > > some Democrats. Very cool dude. > > This is not directed at you Rick, (though if the shoe fits at least > one foot ...) but more to others I see lauding this guy. He is > interesting. > > But for those who cry and moan and belittle the Bush tax cuts -- and > intents (which turned out to be words only) for constraints > on goverment spending -- and then to applaud Paul -- is the height of > irony. Its almost surreal. > > Paul doesn't want to cut taxes -- he wants to TOTALLY eliminate income > taxes. And to do that, he would cut government spending by a third. > Given that entitlements and debt service take up a large portion of > the budget, this means most discretionary funding would be cut. Like > for education, energy policy, expanded health care, science resarch, > etc. Are you and others who like Paul really behind these ideas? Are > you in favor of such policies?
Incorrect. If you actually listen to his reasoning you will see that his policy would actually INCREASE money available for education, energy policy, health care, science research, etc.....by FAR !!! This is his WHOLE POINT ! It is a rational approach. But you are right, most people in the country probably are not smart enough to understand this reasoning. OffWorld > > Personally I am not arguing against these polices, being some what > towards rational libertarianism on the political scale. I am not > advocating them, but I would be interested in some slices of what he > suggests. But his view are SO counter to what appear to be the > mainstream political thinking in this group, I am laughingly surprised > that those who support Dennis K on one hand, can clap for ron paul a > second later. >
