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That's awfully rude of you to just assume that those who do not support Mr. Paul do so simply to squelch him.
I do not like Mr. Paul for the following reasons:
1. Ron Paul wants to abolish the IRS and make the government really, really small. This strikes me as idiotic. So long, medicare and medicaid. Federally-funded research? Nope. Government subsidized stuff for poor people? Too bad. RP is of the "starve the beast" mentality and that is a very, very silly idea. We give government power so it can act on our behalf, and some people require that help. It's been shown that we need to pump $10 billion into science or China is going to overtake the US in science shortly. How the hell are we going to do that with no income tax? Can you name a single developed nation with no income tax?
There's a reason for that. What we need to do is close the loopholes in the tax code, so the rich get taxed the same amount as the middle class. Warren Buffet said that while his secretary pays 30% tax, he pays about 3%. That's what we need to fix.
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I think many of your dislikes of him come from a misunderstanding of the way the constitution works, specifically how the USA is supposed to be a federation of states. The federal government has specific powers that they are allowed to handle and nothing more. Medicare, medicaid, welfare, and subsidizing are not part of their powers. These shouldn't even be discussed at a federal level because the feds do not have the power to do so.
These are state issues according to the constitution and with RP being a strict constitutionalist he doesn't support these things federally. Now, this doesn't mean your own individual state can't enact these programs. This helps keep government balanced and small, as well it allows variety for certain parts of the country to have more right wing policies or left wing polices instead of everyone being forced to do the same thing federally.
Therefore there is no need for the behemoth IRS code since the money won't be needed for many unconstitutional federal programs.
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2. Ron Paul opposes humanitarian aid in places like Darfour. Come on, there's genocide and we're not going to do anything about it? Genocide = bad.
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Again, he opposes federal money to help Darfur. He's not saying genocide is good or that you can't help out through charities.
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3. He wants to abolish the Fed and move back to the Gold Standard. Most economists will tell you that this is a Very Bad Thing, because the gold standard was stagnating the economy before.
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Abolishing the fed abruptly could be very bad, it must be phased out. The fed prints money out of nothing which deflates the value of the dollar and somehow we've been sold that this is healthy economics. It's called fractional reserve banking.
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4. Paul is extremely anti-abortion. He wants to overturn Roe v. Wade, has tried to introduce legislation that would allow states to ban it, etc. For someone who doesn't want government to interfere with people's lives, he has suddenly decided that his definition of when life begins must be impressed upon the people.
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His definition comes from delievering thousands of babies. RP was very liable to the health of the unborn fetus. Someone who murders a pregnant women faces double murder charges. If the fetus is a person in the above instances, how is it not during an abortion?
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5. Paul introduced legislation that would, in effect, allow religious displays on government property, a HUGE MISTAKE imo, as there is supposed to be separation between church and state. Ron Paul also claimed that this separation was not written in the constitution and does not support it, claiming a "war on religion" by the left. As a minority religion this honestly scares the crap out of me. It is a dangerous notion that leads to intolerance. There never has been a war on religion; it is a made-up notion by the right. Those poor Christians. How tough it must be to be the majority.
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I don't know what legislation you're talking about but I'm guessing it was the ten commandments in courts or something. Try reading the constitution and find this 'seperation of church and state' clause. It's not there. You're probably thinking of the 'freedom of religion' clause.
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6. Ron Paul does not want to support funding for stem-cell research. Maybe this goes with #1 but it's a big deal to me; look at places like China which fund research heavily -- many US soldiers who get paralyzed or wounded in battle go to China to have stem cell operations. That's not what I feel is best for our country.
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It's not a federal issue. The federal government doesn't have the authority.