Lew, I see the Economist notes "one of the liveliest debates in the party is whether all drugs should be legalised, and all federal taxes abolished."

Of course, all libertarians believe drugs should be legalized and federal taxes abolished. Perhaps some LP members deviate here -- which is fine -- but it is shame we have regressed, and given so much to the state, on these issues. Jefferson abolished most federal taxes. Heck, Jefferson wasn't even particularly _for_ the creation of the federal government as under the Constitution. And of course, drugs were legal, almost without any regulation, until the evil progressive era. This shouldn't be a "lively" debate, should it? How many libertarians really believe people have no right to consume what drugs they want? That the fruits of their labor and voluntary exchange are properly the federal leviathan's? And look at what the empire does with that money, and with the drug war. And what about the non-aggression principle, pledged by all members?