Elections a license to steal

Scottsdale Opinions Page ^ | Craig J. Cantoni

[hsmomx3]

I used to pooh-pooh the belief of libertarian intellectuals that voting only encourages politicians to steal. Now, based on the upcoming presidential election and the Scottsdale mayoral and council election, I'm beginning to think they are right.

Judging by the domestic spending binge of Bush's first term, a vote for the president would mean a vote for a larger leviathan. A vote for John Kerry would mean a vote for an even larger leviathan. Some choice. We can vote for a big-government Yalie with slicked-down hair or a bigger-government Yalie with blow-dried hair who is married to a ketchup heir.

[El Gran Salseron]

My dad always used to say that if you knew that a crook was running for office against an honest man then you should vote for the crook because you don't want to corrupt an honest man.

[DM1]

a vote for John Kerry is a vote to surrender to Terrorists and the UN

[monday]

sigh.....he is right. After seeing the spending habits of Bush there really seems to be no point in voting anymore. Bush's budget dwarfs anything that Clinton proposed. I think I like Republicans more when they are not in the White House. At least then I can pretend that there is a fiscally conservative party.

Guess I will throw away my vote on the libertarians this time. If the pols keep stealing our money and our future people are going to start voting with their feet.

[an amused spectator]

We can vote for a big-government Yalie with slicked-down hair or a bigger-government Yalie with blow-dried hair who is married to a ketchup heir.

A slight correction:

a bigger-government Yalie with blow-dried hair who is married to a ketchup heir who gets his less well-off neighbors and constituents to pay a substantial portion of the property taxes on his swank Boston townhouse.