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Originally Posted by BV
What have you got to loose?
Cant get much worse than it is now. 
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That is a terrible thought process to live by. In fact, I urge people to never say that because as sure as notoldschool will come running to RP's defense, once you say it, something will come along to show you that yes, things can get worse.
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Originally Posted by Socks
You're expecting Ron to do... All of that himself? Or are you suggesting he would do away with all those filters? He would just fire everyone, grab a hammer and RULE?
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Well, he does seem to want to dismantle every department of the government, so he would have to be prepared to do a lot of that on his own.
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Originally Posted by AcidMax
What bothered me is his statement to remove the IRS and cut all that income to the government, but yet he thinks the FBI, CIA etc should still be around, he just doesn't want them to torture people. OK, how does he truly expect to keep the government running? When you go in and start saying that you want to cut the troops, the irs, etc.., you should probably have a generic idea as to how much money it costs to run the government agencies he wants to cut, how many troops are spread throughout the us. I don't think he has to know every stat for every political question, but if this is your platform you are running on it would make sense to be able to have a guesstimate like Tim Russert had on the number of troops.
IMHO that interview did very little to help his cause. I am not sure who I am voting for at this point, Ron Paul has some descent ideas., but some are just left field.
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Quoted for truth.
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Originally Posted by notoldschool
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Originally Posted by MaDalton
oh man, i'm really at a loss of words here. is that how politics are done in your country? pathetic
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psst . . . he is Canadian. Carry on.
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Originally Posted by directfiesta
In Canada, the income tax law was passed as a temporary war effort ( that is WW2 , not the Gulf war ...  ).
Before that, the gov was running on the funds that it was getting from various other sources ...
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With all due respect, you can not even begin to compare Canada (33 million people) to the US (300 million people). The State of California has more people than your country.
I thought it was interesting while doing my research I discovered that in July 2007 Canada had close to 34 million, but now they have a little over 33 million. Why is that?