The Last Ditch by Tom Paine

2 responses to “Ron Paul for President”

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   Simon Clark

   November 10, 2007

   I share both your desire for American citizenship and your fondness for Ron Paul. My favourite part of the interview was when Leno asked (and I’m doing this from memory) “so you want a flat tax?” and Ron Paul replied “yeh, pretty flat, say about zero.” That right there is one of the bravest things a modern politician has ever said if you ask me.

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   Ben Around

   November 26, 2007

   When we get rid of Social Security, what will happen to my parents’ generation in this pay as you go system?
   Ron Paul is as silly as a communist ex-oxbridge professor I once had. Too much glorious theory, not enough knowledge of the misery such theory causes.
   Perhaps Paul ought to stop reading about Austria at mid-century and broaden his perspective. Perhaps he ought to read a newspaper about life as we live it here, in the US in 2007. Hayek’s views on the autobahn are gripping, being so overbuilt and all, but has Paul actually driven a road north of the Mason-Dixon recently? Is he aware that our privately-provided broadband is slower and more expensive than most other advanced countries? Even the CIA talks about our poor infrastructure on their World Factbook. Oh, wait, those might be market failures–Adam Smith wrote about those, some von Schmidt did not.

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