[Perdogg]

I never heard of a libertarian who wants to spend 1 trillion dollars on education and health care.

[MNJohnnie]

Don’t see anywhere in the US Constitution that authorizes you to do that MR “Original intent” Paul.

Just another political huckster.

[The_Victor]

[mnehring]

If you use the Ayn Rand Institute as a benchmark for solid Libertarian thought.. he is way off on several Libertarian issues.. he is way off on the Iraq issue..

http://www.aynrand.org/site/PageServer?pagename=media_america_at_war_iraq

[Ultra Sonic 007]

Ping.

[AdamSelene235]

He didn't say government funded education or medical care.

Taxes, inflation and debt take away income for everything.

[MNJohnnie]

Yes I know. “Dogma uber alles”. Just ignore ALL factual reality of what Paul is actually saying. No one is allowed to question Der Paul!

[AmericanHunter]

If the feds weren’t taking this money from us, it could be spent at the state or individual level for these purposes.

[MNJohnnie]

The US Constitution requires a President to protect the people of the US for any foreign threat. It does NOT authorize that President to ignore that duty so he can buy votes by shoveling out loot from the Federal Treasury. Yet Congressman Paul promised to DO that every thing last night. Just another political con man trying to buy votes with the taxpayers money.

[Tribune7]

The president ran on a program of a humble foreign policy, no nation-building, and no policing of the world. And he changed his tune,

Golly, what could have made him do that?

[Chi-townChief]

I think Ron Paul means to call himself a LIBERALtarian.

[kevkrom]

He's also the declared choice for liberal Democrats like MurryMom.

[jveritas]

Ron Paul is a defeatist and an idiot, period.

[jveritas]

By the way, the mods just banned "irontank" one of Ron Paul lunatics on FR.

[Remember_Salamis]

This is a sloppy smear-job.

Ron Paul has PERSONALLY introduced legislation to repeal the Department of Education, the Department of Commerce, and various other programs.

Ron Paul’s statement on keeping such money for “education and health care” is firmly grounded in Libertarian principles going back to Murray Rothbard. Essentially, as AdamSelene235 pointed out, ANY spending by the federal
government, regardless of whether the money is from taxes or debt, transfers wealth from the people to the government:

Finite economic resources are re-directed from the private sector to the government sector. Even anarchocapitalists at the Ludwig Von Mises Institute make that argument!

Furthermore, Ron Paul has, of many, two education bills that he sponsored currently pending in Congress: HR 193 and HR 1056. HR 193 would provide a full tax deduction for money spent on college. HR 1056 calls for a 100% tax CREDIT (full reimbursement) for Americans who send their children to private school—Both primary and secondary. The latter would effectively end the socialist school system in America!

He has sponsored a bill that would provide the largest tax credit in AMERICAN HISTORY and desocialize the American Public School system and you (Perdogg, MNJohnnie, and others) say that he wants to increase federal spending on education!!! You are fools, bashing the only man who defends the Constitution and its Article I, Sec. 8 restraints. You are all statists who ache for President Benito Giuliani. The only question is whether Rudy will give his Innagural Address in Drag and how long it will take before the Giuliani Justice Department Starts Seizing Guns and Benito himself works to rescind the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban.

As a note, Ron Paul this year introduced the Sanctity of Life Act of 2007, which would declare that human life (and attached rights) begins at conception. This would effectively render all abortions murder under federal law.

But hey — he’s against an UNWINNABLE WAR so let’s all goose-step for Benito!

[Chi-townChief]

Ron Paul is a LIBERALtarian

[johnreed]