Posted on 10/04/2006 8:26:14 AM PDT by tang0r
How so? Ever wonder why businesses are hiring illegals anyway? Could it be the taxes and regulations and paperwork they have to do for legal U.S. citizens?
If these were reduced or eliminated, employers would have no incentive to hire illegals. Plus you get rid of the handouts and able-bodied U.S. citizens would take these jobs in a heartbeat.
Naturally, any rational person is "unwilling to acknowledge" such a vapid and empty notion. A criterion that asserts that (for example) limiting how long people can stay on welfare or overthrowing the Taliban regime after 9/11 (both of which upended preexisting cultures) "harms" people (and is therefore morally suspect) can hardly be taken seriously.
This libertarian supports:
There are more, but these are all my serious hot button topics.
How can we smoke pot and look at porn in peace when you religious busybodies are looking through our keyhole?
Drugs have won the Drug War.
Open borders
Actually, I oppose the Republican Senate, House and President's efforts to integrate Mexico into the United States.
No action against terrorists in other countries
Cobalt jacketed nukes.
You are correct on the paperwork hassles, taxes, worker's comp, unemployment, etc. A good framer will work for 15 to 30 bucks per hour depending on location. An illegal will do it for 7 bucks an hour. That is in addition to the costs to the employer. Also, most framers, etc are considered subcontractors so really no additional costs to the contractor. Who do you think the contractor is going to hire? That's just one example. I'm sure that folks in other industries could come up with more.
Seal the borders, end welfare, deport when caught.
Can you back that statement up?
Yeah, it's called the First Amendment to the US Constitutition.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof
Because by its very definition, a cop screw-up is more often than not a misuse or abuse of governmental power. One of the main reasons libertarians advocate a limited government is that limited governments offer fewer opportunites for the misuse or abuse of governmental power.Simple enough to understand, yes?
Really? I didn't get married because my government thought I should.
Yes really.
Why is that everytime a thread is started based on a main stream media news article about a supposed police screwup, the libertarian cop haters come out of the wood work trashing all cops?
It isn't, you lied.
Hmm? Happens every time.
No it doesn't, you lied again.
Some people don't like cops who abuse their authority. Some are conservatives, some are even liberals. Some are libertarians.
There are probably a few people who describe themselves as libertarians who say stupid crap. Just like there are some people who describe themselves as conservatives who really aren't but say stupid crap. In fact, people like you.
Your blanket statement is imbecilic. And your post was the one that was a rant.
This is brilliant, and is so brilliant nobody currently in government would ever go for it. Imagine if there were no such thing as "riders?" One can dream . . .
Letters of M&R to go after terror cells and the States that support them. Why not use ALL of our tools to nab them?
This idea rules.
My wife is already a librarian.
You missed my point. I'm not surprised.
I thought the hard core libertarians all got pissed off and left.
No, I didn't "lie". You are a liar. There, we are even, and you are still full of lying, libertarian crap. I know what I read, and what I've read.
Well, the people I work for are anarcho-capitalists. Not sure I buy into all of that.
"The libertarian ideology is one of the most misunderstood in American politics."
This (mis?)understanding would be the fault of the libertarians themselves.
I remember the words of Harry Browne following 9/11/2001. He blamed America. It might as well have been Noam Chompsky, Osama bin Laden or Pat Buchanan blaming America.
The fact is most Americans DO understand libertarianism.
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