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Prohibition: A Cautionary Tale
The Wall Street Journal ^
| 2010-01-03
Posted on 04/12/2010 9:43:31 AM PDT by rabscuttle385
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To: bamahead; djsherin; Bokababe; dcwusmc; Favor Center; sickoflibs
In 2010, with talk of restructuring large swaths of our economy back in vogue, Prohibition should also remind us that Congress, scientists and economists seized by the noble desire to achieve some great moral goal may be abysmally wrong.Of possible interest.
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posted on
04/12/2010 9:44:50 AM PDT
by
rabscuttle385
(Live Free or Die)
To: rabscuttle385; Abathar; Abcdefg; Abram; Abundy; akatel; albertp; AlexandriaDuke; Alexander Rubin; ..
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posted on
04/12/2010 9:45:23 AM PDT
by
bamahead
(Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master. -- Sallust)
To: rabscuttle385
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posted on
04/12/2010 9:45:49 AM PDT
by
bamahead
(Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master. -- Sallust)
To: bamahead
The keyword trolls are already here.
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posted on
04/12/2010 9:45:53 AM PDT
by
rabscuttle385
(Live Free or Die)
To: rabscuttle385
Of course.
You’ve seen from the other thread what they’ll resort to when desperate.
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posted on
04/12/2010 9:47:26 AM PDT
by
bamahead
(Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master. -- Sallust)
To: bamahead
Youve seen from the other thread what theyll resort to when desperate.Of course!
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posted on
04/12/2010 9:48:53 AM PDT
by
rabscuttle385
(Live Free or Die)
To: bamahead
thanks for the ping! BTTT
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posted on
04/12/2010 9:52:10 AM PDT
by
murphE
("It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged." - GK Chesterton)
To: rabscuttle385
Well, I would like to ban ethanol in gasoline.
It's only there by virtue of stolen tax dollars by ADM and the like.
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posted on
04/12/2010 9:54:51 AM PDT
by
norraad
("What light!">Blues Brothers)
To: rabscuttle385
The only positive contribution of the Recabite madness known as Prohibition is that it raised the general quality of homemade beer making.
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posted on
04/12/2010 9:57:28 AM PDT
by
NaughtiusMaximus
(Don't waste your vote on a 'Rat wearing an Elephant suit.)
To: rabscuttle385
In 2010, with talk of restructuring large swaths of our economy back in vogue, Prohibition should also remind us that Congress, scientists and economists seized by the noble desire to achieve some great moral goal may be abysmally wrong. So this is a coded cautionary tale against abortion and socialized medicine, right?
They are both couched in moral arguments made by the Left.
Abortionists and death panels push eugenics.
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posted on
04/12/2010 9:58:41 AM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(VP Biden on Obamacare's passage: "This is a big f-ing deal". grumpygresh: "Repeal the f-ing deal")
To: rabscuttle385
Alcohol and Drug Prohibitions were programs of and by Progressives. Why do Conservatives go along with drug prohibition? It's not constitutional. It's not conservative. It's socialist in that it socializes everyone's blood stream and brain waves.
I hope the constitutional movement will open conservatives eyes to the damage drug prohibition has done to America.
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posted on
04/12/2010 10:11:06 AM PDT
by
Jabba the Nutt
(Are they insane, stupid or just evil?)
To: rabscuttle385
I dunno, today we can follow the tobacco model.
In MA, one legislator wants to lower the DUI line to 0.04 from 0.08 down from 0.16 originally, IIRC.
Could work. No solo person gets a drink, all parties and couples must specify the designated teetotaller/driver.
Eventually, start taxing beer, wine and booze like tobacco -$50 for a case of Bud is going to start hurting, like with tobacco taxes.
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posted on
04/12/2010 10:14:56 AM PDT
by
swarthyguy
(KIDS! - Deficit, Debt,- Pfft! Lookit the bright side of our legacy - Ummrika is almost SmokFrei!)
To: Jabba the Nutt; rabscuttle385; NFHale
Why do Conservatives go along with drug prohibition? those who cant see the rino-itis progressive component will support and worship at the altar of the insane woSd...
conservative followers of the Constitution, not so much...
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posted on
04/12/2010 10:18:50 AM PDT
by
Gilbo_3
(Gov is not reason; not eloquent; its force.Like fire,a dangerous servant & master. George Washington)
To: rabscuttle385
In before the liberatrians chanting “we should end Prohibition against drugs” get here.
(Ooops, I’m too late)
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posted on
04/12/2010 10:20:26 AM PDT
by
Responsibility2nd
(PALIN/MCCAIN IN 2012 - barf alert? sarc tag? -- can't decide)
To: Jabba the Nutt
Why do Conservatives go along with drug prohibition? It’s not constitutional. It’s not conservative. It’s socialist in that it socializes everyone’s blood stream and brain waves.
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It ain’t Conservatives who want to legalize dope. It’s them liberal Libertarians.
Big difference.
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posted on
04/12/2010 10:22:11 AM PDT
by
Responsibility2nd
(PALIN/MCCAIN IN 2012 - barf alert? sarc tag? -- can't decide)
To: swarthyguy
In DC any measurable blood alcohol level will result in a DUI citation!
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posted on
04/12/2010 10:23:21 AM PDT
by
catman67
To: Responsibility2nd
“It aint Conservatives who want to legalize dope. Its them liberal Libertarians.”
The Nanny State is not a conservative goal.
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posted on
04/12/2010 10:27:20 AM PDT
by
Favor Center
(Targets Up! Hold hard and favor center!)
To: Favor Center
>.The Nanny State is not a conservative goal.
Hang around here a while.
You may conclude you are wrong.
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posted on
04/12/2010 10:28:10 AM PDT
by
swarthyguy
(KIDS! - Deficit, Debt,- Pfft! Lookit the bright side of our legacy - Ummrika is almost SmokFrei!)
To: Favor Center
It is a SoCon goal true FisCons understand the folly in creating a limited market like illicit drugs.
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