From: Natasha Vita-More (natasha@natasha.cc)
Date: Fri Mar 21 2003 - 15:19:48 MST
At 08:13 PM 3/20/03 -0800, Spike wrote:
>I would suggest a mostly libertarian society that
>allows great personal and financial freedom but still
>reserves the right to raise taxes for common defense,
>and even the right to draft citizens in a dire
>emergency.
A libertarian society could not work at this time in history. It suggests
an overly unbalanced approach to social needs and individual rights.
The alternative is a true democratic system that decentralizes big
government and the taxes are indeed used for common defense as well as
helping bootstrap society. After all, isn't our goal to work with the
world, not just put up billboards for our own freedom and rights? This
cannot be done without a willingness of society to accept all of society
(of course not the terrorists), rather than I'm right and you are wrong
approach which libertarians seem to hold onto so dearly. By the way, so do
Republicans and Democrats, Greens and others :-)
Natasha
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