Recent content by Gee

Yes, there must be free competition in banking. Not simply banks themselves, but entire financial systems. Banking needs to be the result of consumer choices in the marketplace, not the result of political clout.

Nothing wrong with secession. Forced integration (and prohibited secession) into any group is tyranny. I'm quite certain Ron Paul would have no problem letting states secede, although states would have more leeway to run things differently under a Paul administration, so secession would be less...

KramerDSP, the most important points are: 1) Regulations are like a regressive tax on small businesses. They usually costs small businesses nearly as much to comply with regulations as larger ones, meaning they pay much more relative to their revenue. The result is that big business often likes...

Mises also makes this point in Human Action. He says that social cooperation arises from the economic laws of comparative advantage which creates the division of labor. Society is voluntary, and enforced socialism, to Mises, is literally a step backwards towards barbarism. Enforced socialism...

Overall I think it helped, but Fox's lies hurt him quite a bit. Get rid of the CIA and FBI? Paul has never campaigned on those things.

Bleh, don't watch a video. All of them, even Mises.org's video to a small extent, are propaganda. Its best to read about it. The Austrians have the best critiques against the Fed. To understand the other side, I'd read about monetarist (or old Chicago-school, i.e. Milton Friedman) and Keynesian...

This isn't the first time RP has turned down a televised debate indentation... It may be because he plans on being in Congress that day.

Well, the problem was already there by the time Bernanke became chairman. In his defense, he did try to slow down the printing...

By taking it from the federal courts, it does allow the states to outlaw sexual practices (which were previously protected by SCOTUS's interpretation of the 14th amendment) as per the 10th amendment. I really want to know WTF Paul was thinking with this bill, its the only one I've seen him...

Well, thats true. People don't respect the law, but they do mostly still respect property rights and liberty. Discrimination based on race or gender has been replaced with discrimination based on acts in the economy. True... I suppose the people who you don't want voting are ones that vote in...

And the natural impulses of men pave the way for war.

Mostly civil rights for women, blacks, immigrants, gays, etc. Yeah, it sucks to have to get a permit to buy a house, but that beats getting lynched and hung by an angry mob with little chance of justice, doesn't it? It would probably be even more slanted in favor of the rich than it already is...

That is true (such as in Hong Kong under British rule), but keep in mind why the framers chose to have a democratic republic. Voting wasn't put in place because the liked the idea of it, it was a way to prevent tyranny by other forms of government. You can have liberty without suffrage, but it...

The framers did not want women to vote because they were under the mistaken impression that they were not intellectually capable of doing it intelligently. It was an error in science amplified by natural gender roles which made women have little reason to seek much of an education. The first...

I would say you seem to be more motivated and capable to get this done than the campaign, so go for it. Campaign HQ can only do so much, and I don't think they are doing a very good job. I'd just sidestep them. There is nothing campaign HQ can do which the grassroots cannot. I am personally a...