Alcohol prohibition gave us a supercharged Mafia, the Kennedys, and who knows what other victors in the war on alcohol. Just as that war was over control of the money flow, so is the war on drugs. What police department--local, state or fed--is not corrupted by drug money, including 'legal' money like fines and property seisures? And the courts are no less corrupted.

Legalize drugs and the risk factors that drive costs up are drastically reduced. Both criminal and governmental oppositional activity will be disincentivised.

The war on drugs is no different from any other war: its motivation is fundimentally over access to revenue streams. Its results are likewise universal: it drives up costs and destroys...

Harsanyi said, "Libertarianism offers conservatives -- many of them new to political activism -- an earnest ideological alternative to the process-heavy politics that dominate Washington."

Exactly! And we absolutely need an alternative. One might even say that it is quite important that we become more earnest, ideologically, as libertarianist. We have seen more than enough of the earnest marxist ideology that has dominated the US Govt for the past five decades. Including the Fed, the national income tax, and all of the deals we have gotten from those who have most earnestly served a banquet of power in celebration of their serving of swill to the poor and downtrodden.

Neither the Democrat nor Republican party offers any...

It was all about taxation without representation. What is it about now? Um, who in government represents the consumer who pays all taxes?

As long as conservatives seek to conserve the 16th amendment, I will consider them part of the problem. The only legal recourse we have to the current overburden of government is to quit working--at least above-ground.

The FairTax is possible within a fairly short time period. Once instituted, we would have legal recourse by quitting spending. And it is a legal, and, more importantly, peaceful recourse we need.

The Income Tax and its IRS army represent and support no less thuggery as government than did George III. Today's elites are no less understanding of rebellion...

The root problem with mass education is that testing has been perverted into a way of excusing failure rather than of experimenting with success. The educational establishment uses testing to screen out the "rubbish", in Thomas Jefferson's words (Notes on Virginia, 146). Jefferson's plan would provide basic education to all, but weed out the "least promising" from Noble Cunningham "In Pursuit of Reason: The Life of Thomas Jefferson, 1987 Louisiana State University Press, P 59), and advancing only the "best in genius and disposition" (ibid), culminating in "twenty of the best geniuses raked from the rubbish anually."(ibid)

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