Posted by
Tim Blessing on Saturday, June 14, 2008 6:58:55 PM
LIBERTY.
Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.
Liberty deals with freedom and individualism.
Liberals would call it social darwinism.
Conservatives would say it is smaller government.
Liberty is about freedom from economic, social, and foreign control.
In economic terms, it would be the reduction of government's true size today back to the level around 1930. That would amount to 10% of Gross National Product.
It would include getting rid of the current tax code by going to a simple flat tax.
Social Liberty would mean an end to all of the legal intrusions into peoples lives and behaviors. That means purging the religious right from the Republican Party, while not purging the more normal elements of religion itself.
Foreign Control would mean an end to trade agreements, while conductiong more business activities through transactional leadership.
Foreign Control would mean getting rid of the United Nations and not listening to the European Union.
It would mean listening to European Governments at their national levels.
It would mean getting rid of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade.
An end to regulation as much as possible in all of its forms, except in extreme cases.