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To: robertpaulsen
Not a lot of "personal responsibility" goin' on.

So you would be in favor of all substances being legal as long as the personal responsibilty was added back in?

89 posted on 12/17/2004 12:45:39 PM PST by Protagoras (Christmas is not a secular holiday)
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To: Protagoras; Beckwith
I'll simply quote my favorite, Ms. Coulter:

"Until several weeks of negotiations with the Connecticut Libertarian Party over its pro-drug legalization stance, my position on drugs was to refuse even to discuss drug legalization until I don't have to pay for the food, housing, transportation and medical care of people who want to stay home all day shooting up heroin."

"It's not as if we live in the perfect Libertarian state of nature, with the tiny exception of those pesky drug laws. We live in a Nanny State that takes care of us from cradle to grave and steals half our income. I kept suggesting to them that we might want to keep our eye on the ball here. (The Libertarians' other big issue is privatizing Yosemite. Seriously.)"

"In theory, our areas of agreement should have included, among other things: eliminating the Department of Health and Human Services, eliminating the Department of Education, eliminating the Department of Commerce, eliminating the National Endowment of the Arts, eliminating the National Endowment for the Humanities, eliminating the Department of Agriculture, eliminating the Department of Housing and Urban Development, eliminating the Department of Transportation, eliminating the progressive income tax and instituting a flat tax."

"Our sole area of disagreement was whether to abolish the drug laws before or after completing the above tasks."

And I say after.

108 posted on 12/17/2004 1:20:49 PM PST by robertpaulsen
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