Posted on 09/09/2004 7:04:51 PM PDT by Brainhose
These Free-Staters that are trying to invade N.H. seem to be hiding behind a veil of the 2nd ammendment.
Do any other Freeper have any familiarity with this group?
I know some Free Staters. They are probably pro-illegal drugs, but then again they would change the law so they wouldn't be illegal anymore...
Free Staters are for definitely for limited government. I don't know that they are for repeal of all drug laws. Maybe. But what's wrong with that? When this country started, there was no damned DEA or ATF. Why did we need those clowns now?
My wife and I have talked about heading out there, we have family that lives on border with Maine so our people would be there. We both could likely find work there, and the frosting on the cake is there's supposedly all these libertarian types moving up there. If they can merely affect the tax policy and government expenditure end of things in the state government, then I suspect NH will become a very favorable economic environment. Both of us support various legalization or decriminalization policies for some drugs although I would probably vote to keep certain ones illegal. So we may be up there within the next 3 - 4 years.
The people I know have pure motives, however I won't deny that they could be "useful idiots".
Hmmm... Pardon me if I am wary of a group, any group who plans on "taking over" my state. It's bad enough we have all those "Massholes" moving up here, the last thing we need is another bunch of Liberal Democrat voters moving in here.
I'm an occasional pot smoker myself, but the last thing this country needs is legal Heroin and Cocaine, or even pot. Tell me what is good about Legal Coke and Heroin? It sure has done Amsterdam a world of good.
What do you mean by "Affecting the tax policy" you come from a state with an income tax and a 7% sales tax into a state which has neither. The Maine tax policy sucks, so if you mean to change my taxes to yours, please stay there. I don't need an Income tax or a 7% sales tax. How about lobbying your state to increase your taxes instead of mine.
The legalization of drugs is nice on paper, but not nice in real life.
What's good about the laws against them? They've had no demonstrable effect in reducing drug use, but have had the effect of making drugs a high-profit business and putting those profits in criminal hands.
The criminalization of drugs is even less nice (which is why we ended the criminalization of the drug alcohol).
By affecting the tax policy I mean having either further reforms to the tax code and reducing the size of state government more. Not raising taxes.
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