11-18-2007, 09:53 AM
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Banned
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I am young, healthy,and I'm gonna be rich from participating in "the free market economy". These are my politics, and this is my leader:
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http://nationaljournal.com/onair/tra...6_paul_ron.htm
Q&A: RON PAUL
Transcript: Ron Paul On Iraq, Social Security And More
Friday, Nov. 16, 2007
...Q: You would -- talking about domestic policies now -- eliminate the income tax. How would you then pay for services that are provided by the government?
Paul: Well, most of the services and most of the expenditures of the government aren't strictly designated by the Constitution. So you want to wean the government, wean the people off from this dependency, because it has led to overdependency, not self-reliance, and a bankruptcy. And that's why our dollar is on the ropes, because we can't afford it. So we just print the money, and we overtax, and we overborrow, and then overprint, and this has led to a very serious situation. And we can't turn that off immediately, and I realize that. And if you just got rid of the income tax tomorrow, it would just make the deficit that much worse, and then they'd print more money. So you'd have to get a consensus of people saying you have to cut the spending.
But my approach is to reverse the trend. If you get to reverse the trend, it would restore some confidence to the markets and I would start with foreign policy. I wouldn't start with any domestic program, where people become dependent. The elderly who have been promised to be taken care of -- although that was maybe not the best way to do it -- you don't start with them. You take care of them. And the only way you can try to fulfill those promises is to stop spending overseas to the tune of not a couple billion -- hundreds of billions of dollars you could save. You could help those who are dependent. You don't have to throw anybody out on the streets. <H3>At the same time, you can get young people out of the system and work toward the day where you absolutely don't need an income tax.</H3> Most of our history we didn't have an income tax.
Q: You mean out of the Social Security system?
Paul: Well that, yeah. Get out of Social Security and, of course, getting out of the tax system. If we ever got our government reduced to constitutional size... We've only had it since 1913. We haven't even had it 100 years, and people aren't very happy with it....
...Q: How would the safety net work for the poor? How would they access government services? How would you qualify?
Paul: Depends on where we are in the state. I mean ideally, the poor would be taken care of by a market economy that would make it so much healthier. I mean, we didn't have any of these things before the Depression. They blamed the Depression on capitalism, and that was a serious mistake. So they said everybody has to have a safety net, which has actually created more poor people. They've resorted to inflation, which destroys the middle class and undermines the poor. So to help the poor, you have to have a sound economic system. <H3>But if you have somebody that doesn't make it: families, friends, neighbors, churches charities. But there would be so few....</H3>
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The poor, elderly, and infirm, demanded too much, so fuck them, and to hell with their dignity.... |
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