On Dec 14, 2011, at 3:43 PM, M Christol wrote: > Support Ron Paul in defeating this legislation.
Ron is a very mixed bag for me. I like some of his stands, dislike others (I don't believe that you can honestly reconcile your belief in maximum personal freedom and liberty, yet maintain that women are not allowed control over their bodies) and there's a reason we've left his 19th century monetary views back in the 19th century. He puts a childish faith in magical properties of a specific kind of metal. The fact that you can buy a tank of gasoline with a silver dime is about the interplay of commodity prices (namely silver and gasoline) not because our currency has been debased. His views on what is and isn't constitutional is oftimes based on a rather peculiar and blinkered reading of the Constitution, for instance, the phrase "The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence[note 1] and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;" >From Article 1 has been held in numerous instances by SCOTUS as the valid >Constitutional authority for the US Congress to enact programs, raise taxes >and expend those taxes on those programs. That said, Ron's about the only guy up at those Republican debates who believes the Constitution is comprised of more than the second and the tenth amendments. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "StrataList-OT" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/stratalist-ot?hl=en.
