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Originally Posted by Tully Mars
If only we could pump a couple more trillion into the war on drugs. We could imprison a few more hundred thousand citizens. Then we'd win! Then the streets would be free of people we prefer not to see. Then everyone left, those not incarcerated, would be hard workers and the US economy would boon. Hell, just employing those watching the inmates would add greatly to the economy. We can get the inmates to make widgets and that'll pay for they keep. That'll be great for everyone. Well, everyone except those people and companies currently making widgets, they'll be screwed.
Surely if we just spend a couple more trillion this will happen, just a few more trillion- I swear then you'll see results.
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Its rather hard to draw a cost without a baseline. How many more lives would be destroyed taking drugs vrs the cost of enforcing the existing laws? Lets assume its drastically in favor of making them legal, thats fine, but my comments were to the flowery, idealistic, and silly comments that ending the drug war would somehow make pretty much everything better.
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Many people speak about how awful the police are until someone breaks into their house, then they call the police and want help. On the flip side many people bitch about government spending and want to pay zip in taxes, they still want the fire dept. to show up when their house is burning down. They also seem to have little problem in spending trillions on our military. Of course it seems they prefer to borrow that money from China et el.
There's always a qualifier when people speak about drastic changes to our government. All in or all out rarely works when it comes to government, IMO
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This has pretty much nothing to do with Libertarianism. You can still fund the military and the police and be a Libertarian, its not about no taxes, its about not using taxes to redistribute wealth and buy votes. Its about having the government do the minimum required for the state to function.
I didn't put the needle in their arm, they want it legal, then be a grown up and take personal responsibility. If people can't do this then it shouldn't be legal.