And the other ones are? _____
From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2006 4:29 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Libertarian] Another interesting LP candidate From: "Thomas L. Knapp" <thomaslknapp@ <mailto:thomaslknapp%40yahoo.com> yahoo.com> > 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 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ForumWebSiteAt http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Libertarian Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Libertarian/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
