Dr. No on Taxes
I can't believe the Chinese are blaming the U.S. on Sunday's midair collision. Come on. Our guys were flying a four-engine turboprop (EP-3E ARIES II). Their guy was flying a supersonic jet fighter (F-8). The fighter could have flown circles around the reconnaissance plane. If they collided, it was because the fighter pilot was too close or did something stupid. Definitely his fault.
Kevin Tuma - Nuts - cartoon commentary on the Brady Bunch, and one of their loudest whiners, HCI.
Jeffrey A. Miron at the San Diego Union Tribune - The Most Important Movie Of The Year - the lessons taught by Traffic. Conclusion: legalize drugs.
Lesson 2: Prohibition fosters corruption. Although many American and Mexican law-enforcement officers are beyond reproach, financial temptation will weaken some officers' and politicians' resolve to play by the rules. Drug money corrupts, as police scandals in Los Angeles, New Orleans and Washington, D.C., show only too well. The situation is even worse in developing countries where wages are much lower than in the United States and the threat of violence against honest judges and politicians is frighteningly real.
Bill Steigerwald at the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review - Big media's lonely libertarian: an interview with John Stossel. [zero]
Q: For the record, how do you describe your politics?
A: Jeffersonian. Government that governs least, governs best.
Q: How did you come upon these ideas?
A: I watched the regulators work, as a consumer reporter. I watched them fail and I watched them enrich lawyers and make consumers' lives worse with their interference with the free market. I came to conclude that protecting peoples' freedom, property and life is the role of government and people do best when government does little more than that.
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Q: When you speak in Pittsburgh, what will be your main message?
A: The same ideas that are in "Are We Scaring Ourselves to Death" and "Is America #1?": That freedom works and we ought to wise up to that and we ought to stop expanding government and covering our lives with a spider Web of little rules that limit our freedom and make life worse.
Julie Foster at World Net Daily - Bill would end tax withholding: Ron Paul intends to introduce legislation that would require tax payers to write a monthly check to the government instead of have their taxes withheld by their employers. I agree with Dr. Paul that his "Cost of Government Awareness Act", if enacted, will cause a massive popular outcry for a huge tax cut. I also think it has less than a snow ball's chance in hell of getting out of committee. [zero]
HR 1146, the American Sovereignty Restoration Act of 2001, is Ron Paul's latest entry in his yearly effort to get the U.S. our of the U.N. It's in the House Committee on International Relations where it will probably die a quiet death. Thank you for your persistence, Dr. Paul.
Ron Paul's Texas Straight Talk - Uncontrolled Spending Threatens Our Liberty: A simple formula for incresasing liberty in America. Cut taxes. Cut spending. Cut. Cut. Cut.
