Dreams From My Forefathers » Income Tax http://dreamsfrommyforefathers.com A fresh look at what the founders wanted for the new American Republic. Tue, 08 Jun 2010 16:57:23 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Libertarian v RINO http://dreamsfrommyforefathers.com/2010/04/21/libertarian-v-rino/ http://dreamsfrommyforefathers.com/2010/04/21/libertarian-v-rino/#comments Wed, 21 Apr 2010 16:23:29 +0000 ROK http://dreamsfrommyforefathers.com/?p=233 When you see people who say they would vote for a RINO but never a libertarian it makes you wonder. What is the difference between a libertarian and a RINO that reasonable men could arrive at such a conclusion?

I created a handy table illustrating the differences between libertarians and RINOs on issues of the day and yesterday.

Principle Libertarian RINO Low Taxes No Taxes What Will Get Me (Re-)Elected
Or WWGM(R)E for brevity Drug War End it WWGM(R)E Gun Rights The more the merrier WWGM(R)E Free Speech They never shut up. I think that pretty much says it all. WWGM(R)E Religion Most religious people are kooks but they have a right to be kooks. WWGM(R)E Free Press Totally dude WWGM(R)E Income Tax End it. WWGM(R)E Life Mostly Pro-Abortion.
Large Pro-Life contingent. WWGM(R)E Standing Army No WWGM(R)E NASA Let the private sector do it WWGM(R)E Federal Reserve Let the Free Market do it WWGM(R)E

 

If we take just a few of these:

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Alexis de Tocqueville

Do we have a party of principle? What are the principles?

Do we even have men of principle? What are those principles?

Are you a Big Tent Republican? Does big tent preclude principle? Reagan’s big tent philosophy is often cited as reason to avoid getting bogged down in policy debates. Or for failing to excommunicate RINO’s. Did Reagan have no principles?

I have asked here before if there is even one principle to which conservatives can agree one must be bound to be accepted into the fold. I have not yet heard the response that was more than a vague exercise in goals.

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Hamilton proposed and oversaw the creation of the First Bank of the US.

Generally central banks in the US have been favored by proponents of a strong national government. Hamilton was also a borderline monarchist. He wanted a King-like President and he wanted the senate to be a British style House of Lords with lifetime tenure. Chuckie Schumer for life.

Though he wrote of balance of power in the Federalist Papers he consistently landed on the side of federal power once the document was ratified. Combine his opposition to the Bill of Rights with his love of federal power and he is what?

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]]> http://dreamsfrommyforefathers.com/2010/02/25/the-fed-is-progressivism/feed/ 1 Will America always be free? http://dreamsfrommyforefathers.com/2009/10/13/will-america-always-be-free/ http://dreamsfrommyforefathers.com/2009/10/13/will-america-always-be-free/#comments Tue, 13 Oct 2009 20:51:06 +0000 ROK http://dreamsfrommyforefathers.com/?p=128 Seems like every time I turn around I hear or read somebody saying America will get through this current crisis. Or Obama’s socialist debauchery or Romney’s Progressive activities. That the American Spirit is indomitable. It will always shine through, waters will part, the sun will shine, liberty will prevail, Gawd will never let America fall no matter how far she um, er, falls?!!!

These are the people who in the 90’s said it was a new economy and the markets would now always go up.

 

I disagree with the premise that somehow as Americans we are immune to the march of history. I hear “We will never long surrender our freedoms!!!” Really?

 

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