From: "Thomas L. Knapp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Partial platform of Charles McPeek, LP candidate for Congress in
> Maryland:
> - Mandatory registration to vote ("Incumbents stay because the little
> people don't vote ... I want to require young people to register
> to vote")
>
> - Mandatory military service (using the mandatory voter registration
> as a database to catch everyone).
>
> - Abolish the income tax and replace it with a flat sales tax, which
> probably means he's a "fair" taxer, but that's unfortunately not
> uncommon in LP ranks these days.
>
> - Oh, and he wants to reduce "minor" drug offenses to misdemeanors
> --
> not because drugs shouldn't be illegal, but because he wants to make
> sure that defendants don't have pesky lawyers like, you know,
> defending them or anything.
The first two are no good as libertarian platforms.
BWS
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