Originally Posted by BestXXXPorn

I'm a Libertarian and will always be a Libertarian.

The views are different. It's about defending the founding principals of this country. It's about understanding that just because you think something should be one way and your neighbor thinks things should be another way that you're both right and the really important part.... The government doesn't need to make a law one way or the other!


The original idea of the United States was to have individual states loosely coupled together with a very minimal federal government to provide protection of all states and regulate interstate and foreign trade (obviously I'm simplifying here). That's the way it was setup, that's the way it SHOULD be. If that were still the case then you would see a much different US. With the power residing in the states' hands, as originally envisioned, each state would be much more independent. The founding fathers had just escaped an oppressive system and they understood that different people had different values and you can not create law (other than very basic stuff, think infringement on rights [both personal and property]) that blankets every societal niche... these powers were given to the states so that each state could decide what is better for its people.

Place that in perspective of what has been going on for the last 80 - 100 years and you'll see the Federal Government has been WAY overstepping its authority... Shit there weren't even Federal income taxes until 1862 to support the Civil War and that was only temporary. We didn't get Federal Taxes until 1913 when the 16th amendment to the constitution came into play making the income tax a permanent fixture. Once the Federal Government hand was in the income pot they just couldn't stop. In the next 30 years we went from 0 income tax to $43 fucking billion...

With the kind of cash they started to run rampant. Federal government exploded with new positions; Czars of whatever the fuck and tens of thousands of new positions. That kind of cash turns anyone greedy so all of a sudden there were programs for this, programs for that, new regulation requires 16,000 new employees... IMO the idea here was to ramp up so big and so fast that it's irreversible.

Anyway I could go on for days about how the US government is an abomination and its core principals lost...