Re: [RC] Michael Lind's views discussed by EJ Dione in the Washington Post

[David R. Block]

Title: ORourke54.htm

Hello Ernie, Most of the time they don't want to replace things. That's usually impractical. I do wish that Boortz and others that put together the first book would work on it some more. All alternatives MUST include the repeal of the current income tax. Otherwise we get double taxed. This is turning out to be a lot like the journey I took into Postmodern Christianity. They were always ready to deconstruct Christianity, but they never seemed to have time to build something in its place out of any of the deconstructed pieces. That way they could always complain and moan and never have to do anything about it. The Church would have to fix itself without their help, and often in the face of their continued opposition. One could come to the conclusion that they just didn't like any part of most institutional churches. David   "There is no virtue in compulsory government charity, and there is no virtue in advocating it. A politician who portrays himself as "caring" and "sensitive" because he wants to expand the government's charitable programs is merely saying that he's willing to try to do good with other people's money. Well, who isn't? And a voter who takes pride in supporting such programs is telling us that he'll do good with his own money -- if a gun is held to his head."--P. J. O'Rourke On 6/12/2013 12:03 PM, Dr. Ernest Prabhakar wrote: Hi David, On Jun 11, 2013, at 7:43 PM, David R. Block <david.r.bl...@verizon.net> wrote: My main issue with all of these ventures in an effort to destroy Libertarianism is that they all appear to reach the point to where there is damn near nothing worth keeping. All of these scandals (IRS, DOJ (multiple), EPA, NSA, CIA, FBI) that we have now is due to The Government Leviathan that is too big and too powerful. But we cannot have a Libertarian inspired smaller government because they are all "miserable failures" and a "fiasco."  The problem is that the libertarian *critique* is generally wise, but it is hard to find a workable libertarian *construct* to replace it. Give me the Fair Tax and abolish the IRS. That's a start.  It's a start, but the Fair Tax is emblematic of the problem.   A brilliant idea, but most of the momentum was built on relatively shaky facts.  And the proponents haven't bothered to update their messaging to reflect *their* fair criticisms. :-( If enough libertarians would get practical and self-critical enough to help us Radical Centrists build a better alternative, we might actually get to the point where we *could* abolish the IRS.  But for now they keep just shooting themselves in the foot… -- Ernie P. -- -- Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community <RadicalCentrism@googlegroups.com> Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/RadicalCentrism Radical Centrism website and blog: http://RadicalCentrism.org   --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to radicalcentrism+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.     -- -- Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community <RadicalCentrism@googlegroups.com> Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/RadicalCentrism Radical Centrism website and blog: http://RadicalCentrism.org   --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to radicalcentrism+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.