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By Daniel Kogoy, published 19/1/2012Why the left should be supporting Ron Paul's bid to become the Republican Presidential candidate.
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>>...once again, when we take away your misrepresentations and projections, you have no argument left.<<
Ummmm... which misrepresentations and projections might you be referring to, pray? You carefully select one mini-topic - the old-age pension (which, incidentally, I didn't single out for comment) - and ignore the rest. You may think that is a smart debating tactic, but to me it is simply cowardice.
But I'm afraid your slip is showing.
>>...the way to abolish the age pension is not by new taxes or regulations. It is to stop inflating away people’s savings, stop taxing away their income, stop destroying capital on schemes that people wouldn’t voluntarily pay for, stop preventing people from earning income by occupational licensing and minimum wage laws; and allow young people to opt out of the whole dysfunctional racket if they want.<<
You plan to achieve all that without new regulations? "Watch my lips: no new regulations"
How? By osmosis? Telepathy? Vulcan mind-melds? As with all you platonic idealists, you think that these small details can be resolved just by wishing them into being.
*tap tap* "There's no place like home..."
Ron Paul has not yet articulated a single practical policy. They exist on the same cosmic plane as your ideas - "if only the world wasn't like it is, life would be so much better". Newsflash - you cannot replace the reality that the rest of the world enjoys, with your own brand of theoretically-benevolent anarchy.
But let's be generous for a moment, and imagine you could sprinkle your wouldn't-life-be-grand-if fairy dust around. Explain to us how Ron Paul's fixation for the gold standard (or, if you don't like gold, pick a specie) is going to benefit the US economy. Maybe you could begin with a quick overview of how it might be introduced?
That's just for starters.
And please, try hard, for once, to be practical.