If people are smokers, don’t they have to pay more? Sometimes, you get your insurance cheaper if you are a nonsmoker. So, let the markets sort this out and insurance sort it out, but not having dictates by the government saying thou, you must do this and your behavior doesn’t matter, you know?
We can achieve much more in peace than we can ever achieve in these needless, unconstitutional, undeclared wars.
I do not have much confidence in the political system and never did. My goal has always been to change people’s minds because as long as people demand more government, they will get it.
What we need is a strong defense, but right now there is zero chance of an invasion by another country and right now we have more firepower than all other countries put together.
We should respect each other as rational beings by trying to achieve our goals through reason and persuasion rather than threats and coercion.
America was born of protest, revolution, and mistrust of government. Subservient societies neither maintain nor deserve freedom for long.
A system of capitalism presumes sound money, not fiat money manipulated by a central bank. Capitalism cherishes voluntary contracts and interest rates that are determined by savings, not credit creation by a central bank.
Real patriotism is a willingness to challenge the government when it’s wrong.
War is never economically beneficial except for those in position to profit from war expenditures.
The most important element of a free society, where individual rights are held in the highest esteem, is the rejection of the initiation of violence.
Everyone assumes America must play the leading role in crafting some settlement or compromise between the Israelis and the Palestinians. But Jefferson, Madison, and Washington explicitly warned against involving ourselves in foreign conflicts.
Prices are going up. Unemployment is continue to go up. And we have not had the necessary correction for the financial bubble created by our Federal Reserve system.
The number one responsibility for each of us is to change ourselves with hope that others will follow.
It is a dangerous notion that we need a government to protect us from ourselves.
Why is it that some people, you know, think we should obey the Constitution sometimes and not other times.
Demanding domestic security in times of war invites carelessness in preserving civil liberties and the right of privacy. Frequently the people are only too anxious for their freedoms to be sacrificed on the altar of authoritarianism thought to be necessary to remain safe and secure.
You wanna get rid of drug crime in this country? Fine, let’s just get rid of all the drug laws.
Outsourcing is a reflection of a bad economic environment domestically. If you fix that, you fix outsourcing. Our primary export is paper money, and that should change if you change the monetary policy.
I would absolutely never use the federal government to enforce the law of using marijuana.
I’m not sure what Al Gore did for peace. I don’t think he have been high on my list for the Nobel Peace Prize.