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The Theory Of The Irs Is Rather Repugnant To Me Because The Assumption Is Made That I, The Government, Owns 100% Of Your Income And I Permit You To Keep 5%, 10% Or 20%. You're Vulnerable, You've Sold Out. The Government Can Take 80% If They Want, Which They Did At One Time.

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The Theory Of The Irs Is Rather Repugnant To Me Because The Assumption Is Made That I, The Government, Owns 100% Of Your Income And I Permit You To Keep 5%, 10% Or 20%. You're Vulnerable, You've Sold Out. The Government Can Take 80% If They Want, Which They Did At One Time.

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Critics Of Nafta And Cafta Warned At The Time That The Agreements Were Actually A Move Toward ... An Eventual Merging Of North America Into A Border-free Area. Proponents Of These Agreements Dismissed This As Preposterous And Conspiratorial. Now We See That The Criticisms Appear To Be Justified.

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There's A A Right To Privacy For All Individuals And All Who Have Legal Rights - And That Includes The Unborn. As An Obstetrician, If I Cause Any Harm To A Fetus, I Will Be Sued. If Someone Kills Or Harms A Fetus They're Liable In A Court Of Law.

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Ideas Are Very Important To The Shaping Of Society. In Fact, They Are More Powerful Than Bombings Or Armies Or Guns. And This Is Because Ideas Are Capable Of Spreading Without Limit. They Are Behind All The Choices We Make. They Can Transform The World In A Way That Governments And Armies Cannot. Fighting For Liberty With Ideas Makes More Sense To Me Than Fighting With Guns Or Politics Or Political Power. With Ideas, We Can Make Real Change That Lasts.

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The Fed Has One Power That Is Unique To It Alone: It Enables The Creation Of Money Out Of Thin Air. Sometimes It Makes Vast New Amounts. Sometimes It Makes Lesser Amounts. The Money Takes A Variety Of Forms And Enters The System In Various Ways. And The Fed Does This Through Techniques Such As Open-market Operations, Changing Reserve Ratios, And Manipulating Interest Rates, Operations That All Result In Money Creation.

If We Stuck To The Constitution As Written, We Would Have: No Federal Meddling In Our Schools; No Federal Reserve; No U.s. Membership In The Un; No Gun Control; And No Foreign Aid. We Would Have No Welfare For Big Corporations, Or The "poor"; No American Troops In 100 Foreign Countries; No Nafta, Gat, Or "fast-track"; No Arrogant Federal Judges Usurping States Rights; No Attacks On Private Property; No Income Tax. We Could Get Rid Of Most Of The Agencies, And Most Of The Budget. The Government Would Be Small, Frugal, And Limited.

Let The Revolution Begin.

Our Constitution, Which Was Intended To Limit Government Power And Abuse, Has Failed.

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Legitimate Use Of Violence Can Only Be That Which Is Required In Self-defense.

Our Country's Founders Cherished Liberty, Not Democracy.

I Think It's A Theory... The Theory Of Evolution And I Don't Accept It As A Theory.

Theory Of Evolution

Demanding Domestic Security In Times Of War Invites Carelessness In Preserving Civil Liberties And The Right Of Privacy. Frequently The People Are Only Too Anxious For Their Freedoms To Be Sacrificed On The Altar Of Authoritarianism Thought To Be Necessary To Remain Safe And Secure.

It's Not Like I'm Just Trying To Win And Get Elected. I'm Trying To Change The Course Of History.

Trying To Change

Justifying Conscription To Promote The Cause Of Liberty Is One Of The Most Bizarre Notions Ever Conceived By Man! Forced Servitude, With The Risk Of Death And Serious Injury As A Price To Live Free, Makes No Sense.

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The Founding Fathers Realized That "the Power To Tax Is The Power To Destroy," Which Is Why They Did Not Give The Federal Government The Power To Impose An Income Tax. Needless To Say, The Founders Would Be Horrified To Know That Americans Today Give More Than A Third Of Their Income To The Federal Government.

What We Need To Do Is Not Only Live Within Our Means, But Start Paying Down The Deficit, And Offer An Opportunity At Least For The Next Generation To Get Out.

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Whether [the 1993 World Trade Center Bombing] Was A Setup By The Israeli Mossad, As A Jewish Friend Of Mine Suspects, Or Was Truly A Retaliation By The Islamic Fundamentalists, Matters Little.

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It Is A Dangerous Notion That We Need A Government To Protect Us From Ourselves.

Deficits Mean Future Tax Increases, Pure And Simple. Deficit Spending Should Be Viewed As A Tax On Future Generations, And Politicians Who Create Deficits Should Be Exposed As Tax Hikers.

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I Had The Privilege Of Practicing Medicine In The Early '60s, Before We Had Any Government. It Worked Rather Well, And There Was Nobody On The Street Suffering With No Medical Care.

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Why Is It That Some People, You Know, Think We Should Obey The Constitution Sometimes And Not Other Times.

If I Were In Congress In 1996, I Would Have Voted For The Defense Of Marriage Act, Which Used Congress's Constitutional Authority To Define What Official State Documents Other States Have To Recognize Under The Full Faith And Credit Clause, To Ensure That No State Would Be Forced To Recognize A 'same Sex' Marriage License Issued In Another State.

All Initiation Of Force Is A Violation Of Someone Else's Rights, Whether Initiated By An Individual Or The State, For The Benefit Of An Individual Or Group Of Individuals, Even If It's Supposed To Be For The Benefit Of Another Individual Or Group Of Individuals.

Abortion On Demand Is The Ultimate State Tyranny; The State Simply Declares That Certain Classes Of Human Beings Are Not Persons, And Therefore Not Entitled To The Protection Of The Law. The State Protects The 'right' Of Some People To Kill Others, Just As The Courts Protected The 'property Rights' Of Slave Masters In Their Slaves. Moreover, By This Method The State Achieves A Goal Common To All Totalitarian Regimes: It Sets Us Against Each Other, So That Our Energies Are Spent In The Struggle Between State-created Classes, Rather Than In Freeing All Individuals From The State.

I Would Say Nobody Is Perfect. I Don't Know All The Answers. I Have Don't Want To Run People's Lives And Run The World And Run The Economy. So, My Qualifications Are A Little Bit Different.

It's A Mistake To Think That Poor People Get The Benefit From The Welfare System. It's A Total Fraud. Most Welfare Go To The Rich Of This Country: The Military-industrial Complex, The Bankers, The Foreign Dictators, It's Totally Out Of Control.

If You Can’t Protect Life, Then How Can You Protect Liberty?

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The Theory Of The Irs Is Rather Repugnant To Me Because The Assumption Is Made That I, The Government, Owns 100% Of Your Income And I Permit You To Keep 5%, 10% Or 20%. You're Vulnerable, You've Sold Out. The Government Can Take 80% If They Want, Which They Did At One Time.

We Should Have A Strong President. Strong Enough To Resist The Temptation Of Taking Power That A President Shouldn't Have.

Big Government Flourishes Under Republicans.

With The Exception Of The Military Industrial Complex, We All Want A More Peaceful World.

If People Won't Spend Any Money, The Government Has This Moral Obligation To Do It.

The American People Are Sick And Tired Of Washington And The People Who Have Been In Charge Have Been Passing All These Bills And I've Been Voting No All Of The Time And Vote No On These Appropriation Bills.

Each Of Us Should Choose Which Course Of Action We Must Take; Education, Conventional Political Action, Or Even Peaceful Civil Disobedience To Bring About Necessary Changes, But Let It Not Be Said That We Did Nothing.

Necessary Change

I Will Always Vote What I Have Promised, And Always Vote The Constitution, As Well As I Will Not Vote For One Single Penny That Isn't Paid For, Because Debt Is The Monster, Debt Is What's Going To Eat Us Up And That Is Why Our Economy Is On The Brink.

When We Finally Decide That Drug Prohibition Has Been No More Successful Than Alcohol Prohibition, The Drug Dealers Will Disappear.

Israeli Government & The Neocons Want Us To Bomb Iran.

There's Capital Controls And There's People Control. So Every Time You Think Of A Fence Keeping All Those Bad People Out, Think About Those Fences Maybe Being Used Against Us, Keeping Us In.

I Do Not Have Much Confidence In The Political System And Never Did. My Goal Has Always Been To Change People's Minds Because As Long As People Demand More Government, They Will Get It.

Ignorance, As Well As Disapproval For The Natural Restraints Placed On Market Excesses That Capitalism And Sound Markets Impose, Cause Our Present Leaders To Reject Capitalism And Blame It For All The Problems We Face. If This Fallacy Is Not Corrected And Capitalism Is Even Further Undermined, The Prosperity That The Free Market Generates Will Be Destroyed.

Back A Hundred Years Ago, Especially Around Woodrow Wilson, What Happened In This Country Is We Took Freedom And We Chopped It Into Pieces.

Capitalism Should Not Be Condemned, Since We Haven't Had Capitalism.

Deficit Spending

But Let It Not Be Said That We Did Nothing. Let Not Those Who Love The Power Of The Welfare/warfare State Label The Dissenters Of Authoritarianism As Unpatriotic Or Uncaring. Patriotism Is More Closely Linked To Dissent Than It Is To Conformity And A Blind Desire For Safety And Security. Understanding The Magnificent Rewards Of A Free Society Makes Us Unbashful In Its Promotion, Fully Realizing That Maximum Wealth Is Created And The Greatest Chance For Peace Comes From A Society Respectful Of Individual Liberty.

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Welfarism And Excessive Spending And Deficits And Socialism Divide Us, Because Everybody Has To Go To Washington. Those Who Have The Biggest Clout, Whose Who Are The Best Lobbyists, Those Who Go And They Grab. And Whether It's The Medical Industrial Complex, Or The Banking Industry, Or The Military Industrial Complex, That's Who Ends Up Controlling Our Government...

We Need To Take Away The Government's Money Power. The Banking Industry Needs Its Welfare Check Ended. The Dollar's Soundness Depends On Its Being Untied From The Machine That Can Make An Infinite Number Of Copies Of Dollars And Reduce Their Value To Zero.

Get Rid Of Irs; Get Rid Of Income Tax; Get Rid Of Spending.

Well, I Don't Think We Should Go To The Moon. I Think We Maybe Should Send Some Politicians Up There.

I Like Mitt Romney As A Person. I Think He's A Dignified Person. But I Have No Common Ground On Economics. He Doesn't Worry About The Federal Reserve. He Doesn't Worry About Foreign Policy. He Doesn't Talk About Civil Liberties, So I Would Have A Hard Time To Expect Him To Ever Invite Me To Campaign With Him.

The Concept Of Equal Pay For Equal Work Is Not Only An Impossible Task, It Can Only Be Accomplished With The Total Rejection Of The Idea Of The Voluntary Contract... The Idea That A Businessman Must Hire Anyone And Is Prevented From Firing Anyone For Any Reason He Chooses, And In The Name Of Rights, Is A Clear Indication That The Basic Concept Of A Free Society Has Been Lost.

Our Federal Government, Which Was Intended To Operate As A Very Limited Constitutional Republic, Has Instead Become A Virtually Socialist Leviathan That Redistributes Trillions Of Dollars. We Can Hardly Be Surprised When Countless Special Interests Fight For The Money. The Only True Solution To The Campaign Money Problem Is A Return To A Proper Constitutional Government That Does Not Control The Economy. Big Government And Big Campaign Money Go Hand-in-hand.

Real Patriotism Is A Willingness To Challenge The Government When It's Wrong.

Could America Exist Without An Income Tax? The Idea Seems Radical, Yet In Truth America Did Just Fine Without A Federal Income Tax For The First 126 Years Of Her History.

Unlike Newt Gingrich And Rick Santorum, I Never Voted To Provide Taxpayer Funding To Planned Parenthood.

It Is Not Democracy To Send In Billions Of Dollars To Push Regime Change Overseas. It Isn't Democracy To Send In The Ngos To Re-write Laws And The Constitution In Places Like Ukraine. It Is None Of Our Business.

I Will Veto Any Spending Bill That Contains Funding For Planned Parenthood, Facilities That Perform Abortion And All Government Family Planning Schemes.

What You Are Inferring Is, If We Were To Legalise Heroin Tomorrow Everybody Would Use Heroin. How Many People Here Would Start Using Heroin? I Bet Nobody Would. Oh Yeah, I Need The Government To Take Care Of Me. I Don't Want To Use Heroin, So I Need These Laws.

When You Have War, Whether It's A War Against Drugs, War Against Terrorism, War Overseas, The Mentality Of The People Change And They're More Willing To Sacrifice Their Liberties In Order To Be Safe And Secure.

One Thing Is Certain: Those Who Worked And Voted For Less Government, The Very Foot Soldiers In The Conservative Revolution, Have Been Deceived. Today, The Ideal Of Limited Government Has Been Abandoned By The Gop, And Real Conservatives Find Their Views No Longer Matter.

We Need To Surrender Our Attachments To Government In Every Aspect Of Life. We Need To Give Up Our Dependencies On The State, Materially And Spiritually. We Should Not Look To The State To Provide Us Financially Or Psychologically. Let Us Give Up Our Longing For Welfare, Our Love Of War, And Our Desire To See The Government Control And Shape Our Fellow Citizens.

We Have A Greater Responsibility To Act Than Those Who Live In Ignorance. Once You Become Knowledgeable, You Have An Obligation To Do Something About It.

Cliches About Supporting The Troops Are Designed To Distract From Failed Policies, Policies Promoted By Powerful Special Interests That Benefit From War, Anything To Steer The Discussion Away From The Real Reasons The War In Iraq Will Not End Anytime Soon.

Only In A Free Society Do Individuals Have The Best Chance To Seek Virtue, Strive For Excellence, Improve Their Economic Well-being, And Achieve Personal Happiness. The Worthy Goals Of Civilization Can Only Be Achieved By Freedom-loving Individuals. When Government Uses Force, Liberty Is Sacrificed And The Goals Are Lost. It Is Freedom That Is The Source Of All Creative Energy.

The Fourth Amendment Is Clear; We Should Be Secure In Our Persons, Houses, Papers, And Effects, And All Warrants Must Have Probable Cause. Today The Government Operates Largely In Secret, While Seeking To Know Everything About Our Private Lives - Without Probable Cause And Without A Warrant.

The Most Basic Principle To Being A Free American Is The Notion That We As Individuals Are Responsible For Our Own Lives And Decisions

There's Been A Coup, Have You Heard? It's The Cia Coup. The Cia Runs Everything, They Run The Military. They're The Ones Who Are Over There Lobbing Missiles And Bombs On Countries. ... And Of Course The Cia Is Every Bit As Secretive As The Federal Reserve. ... And Yet Think Of The Harm They Have Done Since They Were Established [after] World War Ii. They Are A Government Unto Themselves. They're In Businesses, In Drug Businesses, They Take Out Dictators ... We Need To Take Out The Cia.

We Don't Think A Child Of 13 Should Be Held Responsible As A Man Of 23. That's True For Most People, But Black Males Age 13 Who Have Been Raised On The Streets And Who Have Joined Criminal Gangs Are As Big, Strong, Tough, Scary And Culpable As Any Adult And Should Be Treated As Such.

Everyone Assumes America Must Play The Leading Role In Crafting Some Settlement Or Compromise Between The Israelis And The Palestinians. But Jefferson, Madison, And Washington Explicitly Warned Against Involving Ourselves In Foreign Conflicts.

What Else Do We Need To Know About The Political Establishment Than That It Refuses To Discuss The Crimes That Terrify Americans On Grounds That Doing So Is Racist? Why Isn't That True Of Complex Embezzling, Which Is 100 Percent White And Asian?

We Don't Need Any Troops Abroad-they Don't Help Our Defense.

The Notion Of A Rigid Separation Between Church And State Has No Basis In Either The Text Of The Constitution Or The Writings Of Our Founding Fathers. On The Contrary, Our Founders’ Political Views Were Strongly Informed By Their Religious Beliefs.

Young People Are Not Raw Material To Be Employed By The Political Class On Behalf Of Whatever Fashionable Political, Military, Or Social Cause Catches Its Fancy. In A Free Society, Their Lives Are Not The Playthings Of Government.

Banning Guns Because Of Their Misuse Is Like Banning The First Amendment Because One Might Libel Or Slander.

Liberty Built Civilization. It Can Rebuild Civilization.

Imagine If The Political Elites In Our Country Were Forced To Endure The Same Conditions At The Airport As Business Travelers, Families, Senior Citizens, And The Rest Of Us. Perhaps This Problem Could Be Quickly Resolved If Every Cabinet Secretary, Every Member Of Congress, And Every Department Head In The Obama Administration Were Forced To Submit To The Same Degrading Screening Process As The People Who Pay Their Salaries.

By Encouraging Americans To Adopt A Group Mentality, The Advocates Of So Called 'diversity' Actually Perpetuate Racism. Their Obsession With Racial Group Identity Is Inherently Racist.

I Take My Marching Orders From The Constitution.

Stop Policing The World And We Can Get Rid Of Income Tax.

If People Are Smokers, Don't They Have To Pay More? Sometimes, You Get Your Insurance Cheaper If You Are A Nonsmoker. So, Let The Markets Sort This Out And Insurance Sort It Out, But Not Having Dictates By The Government Saying Thou, You Must Do This And Your Behavior Doesn't Matter, You Know?

This Is The Deadening Consensus That Crosses Party Lines, That Dominates Our Major Media, And That Is Strangling The Liberty And Prosperity That Were Once The Birthright Of Americans. Dissenters Who Tell Their Fellow Citizens What Is Really Going On Are Subject To Smear Campaigns That, Like Clockwork, Are Aimed At The Political Heretic. Truth Is Treason In The Empire Of Lies.

When The Goal Of Political Action Is No Longer The Defense Of Liberty, No Word Other Than Demagoguery Can Describe The Despicable Nature Of Politics.

I Lean Toward A Flat Tax. But I Want To Make It Real Flat, Like Zero.

Secession Is A Deeply American Principle. This Country Was Born Through Secession.

During World War Ii, Joseph Stalin Was Once Asked By An American Writer, According To Professor Dean Russell, How He Could Justify Conscripting All The Property Of All The People For Use By The Government To Fight The War. Stalin Answered By Asking Why They Considered It More Immoral And Illogical To Conscript Lifeless Property Than To Conscript Life Itself, As Was Being Done In The United States And All Other Capitalistic Countries. His American Challenger Had No Answer, Because There Was No Answer.

The Only Thing We Learn From History, I Am Afraid, Is That We Do Not Learn From History.

Do They Think If We Destroy Our Freedoms For The Terrorists They Will No Longer Have A Reason To Attack Us?

Every Country Ended Slavery Without Civil War; Us Could Have.

I'm Convinced That You Never Have To Give Up Liberties To Be Safe. I Think You're Less Safe When You Give Up Your Liberties.

If You Give Up On Your Principles I Don’t Think That’s Being Pragmatic... Doing The Wrong Thing, Even Partially, Isn’t Being Practical...if You Have The Right Ideas And Are Forceful Enough...i Think You Can Get The Support You Need.

Sexually-transmitted Diseases Is Caused By Sexual Activity And Promiscuity It Spreads Diseases. That's Been Known, You Know, About 400 Or 500 Years, That Somehow These Diseases Are Spread. If Fault Comes With People Because Of Their Personal Behavior But It Isn't To Be Placed On A Burden On Other People, Innocent People, Why Should They Have To Pay For The Consequences?

Sexually Transmitted Diseases

The Original American Patriots Were Those Individuals Brave Enough To Resist With Force The Oppressive Power Of King George... Patriotism Is More Closely Linked To Dissent Than It Is To Conformity And A Blind Desire For Safety And Security.

It Is No Coincidence That The Century Of Total War Coincided With The Century Of Central Banking.

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