William and Casey, the only thing dumber than George WMD Bush is one of his blind followers. In response to my LRC article, “Just Say No,” I was told the following by a Bush/war/military supporter:

Protecting your family is more important than “not killing”. Well, my family is safe now that the terrorist are being chased in another country and not freely bombing our buildings.

I am sure you will make up some excuse why you live in a country protected by these fine soldiers yet you encourage our people to abandon the one institution that has kept the demons from our doors for over 200 years.

Don’t want to join the military or support it…then leave the country! Put your money where your mouth is… because we won’t survive and this country wouldn’t be here except for the military.

Does this guy really believe what he is writing? The greatest enemy of our freedoms is the U.S. government and its military intervening across the globe and making more enemies of the U.S. than we could have made if we deliberately tried to do so.

The Best of Laurence M. Vance

The Republicans have responded to the Democrats’ calls for tax increases on the rich with calls for tax increases on “undertaxed” lower income Americans. The GOP does not consider the highly regressive payroll tax a tax, instead the GOP views payroll taxes as the equivalent of contributions to a savings account. Notice that the social security reformers do not call for lowering the payroll tax, instead they simply call for forcing workers to invest some of their money in the stock market instead of sending it all to the government. In fact, some of the biggest proponents of “privatizing” social security are hostile to cuts in the payroll tax rate.

Republicans also do not consider how their deficits increase the hidden tax of inflation. As the only member of Congress who understands Austrian economics could tell them, the inflation tax hits the middle and working classes the hardest.

As Alina points out the GOP is lucky that their opponents are the hapless Democrats, who are either unwilling or unable to make an issue out of the GOP’s support for tax hikes on the poor.