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    AP article: Taxes aren't too high, they are at their lowest since 1950

    Notice "taxes aren't too high" isn't a complete thought. You can't possibly disagree with that statement. Too high for what, for who, etc?
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    "I'll take an illegal immigrant over an international banker ANY day."

    Immigration is a statist bureaucratic euphemism for MOVING!!!!
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    California passes bill to jail parents of truant kids.

    My younger sister didn't go to school for a while and then was threatened to have a probation officer visit every morning so she started going. I don't know if they were threatening force, but obviously I wouldn't put that past the government.
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    Poll: Are you on Food Stamps?

    There's nothing wrong with wanting to get "free" goodies whose costs have been outsourced to others. The problem comes when people act on those wants and choose to get on food stamps, especially when the people have other alternatives.
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    Islam - A Debate

    To me Islam is no more or less offensive to science than Christianity. Since no god has been shown to exist, people just project their own feelings onto a god character. Like that reverend all over the news who said he'd pray about his decision to burn the Qur'an.... he's obviously going to...
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    Can you enforce property rights when it tramples someone else's rights?

    An action that isn't wrong legally or morally isn't necessarily moral and legal. There is the idea of moral permissibility, which is that it's not moral or immoral, but left up to personal ideas and preferences. An example of this would be choosing not to sell to someone who wants to buy...
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    Cops seize legal guns, neighbors say it's "too many".

    The neighbor should define too many.... and explain how he got to that conclusion. Is it a magical number? Is it based on function? Chances are he wouldn't have a good answer.
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    Never give money to beggars on the side of the road...

    I never see signs held up saying, "Will work for money" or "Will provide services for money." Maybe the prostitution laws prevent that......
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    "All terrorists are Muslim"

    Good one! Well I certainly believe Islam, along with every other religion is a lie, although none are from the pit of hell.
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    Is it possible to be pro foreign interventions and a Libertarian at the same time?

    In all fairness, you never specified that. Who is "ourselves"? If by that you mean people in a certain geographic area that are forced to pay taxes to a government that made up those borders, then it's never self-defense. The government is made up of people. Countries are made up of people...
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    Estonia the most libertarain country

    I had a substitute from Estonia my senior year in high school. He said that you could take $10,000 and live there for over a year.
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    The Taliban is 'hunting down informants' named on Wikileaks

    If you choose to be an informant, you just entered into the conflict whether you intended to or not. Now I'm aware that people have been tortured to the point where they'd name anyone just to prevent their own suffering, but once again that's not Wikileak's fault. No matter how you look at the...
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    "The pen is mightier than the sword."

    They were fighting to give certain people in the colonies control over the taxpayers that were at the time stolen from by the British.
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    "The pen is mightier than the sword."

    Pens have the power to liberate and enslave. Swords only have the power to enslave, so I voted Agree with the original statement.
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    Cut all public pensions in half - now.

    Tell me, did you ever sign a contract agreeing to be the citizen in a citizen/government relationship? Did you ever sign away your rights to the government? Are contracts that were never signed by one contractual party valid? Government uses these so called "social contracts" to violate...
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