Pubdate: Tue, 15 Mar 2005
Source: Asheville Citizen-Times (NC)
Copyright: 2005 Asheville Citizen-Times
Contact:  http://www.citizen-times.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/863
Author: Charles J. Mathis,
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/decrim.htm (Decrim/Legalization)

HERE IS AN ALTERNATIVE TO MORE OF SAME OL' SAME OL' POLITICS

You too may be a Libertarian if you are frustrated by the futility of 
voting for either the Democrats or the Republicans. They are competing for 
our votes by outdoing each other in the unstoppable expansion of the 
welfare state. You too may be a Libertarian if you would like to decide how 
much of your money you want to save and spend, instead of letting the 
government take what it wants, leaving what is left for you to live on. 
Libertarians want to replace the income tax, which enslaves us, with a tax 
on the things we buy, which liberates us.

Taxation would also be greatly reduced by two factors: (1) the eradication 
of government control over the economy and (2) the steep reduction of the 
prison population due to the repeal of drug prohibition. Alcohol 
prohibition did not stop people from drinking, so we repealed the 
Eighteenth Amendment. Likewise, Libertarians want to win the unwinnable war 
on drugs by legalizing them. Alcohol and drugs should be health problems, 
not criminal problems.

This is all it would take to revitalize America, to take back our 
government as our servant, not our master.

Check us out on the Internet: www.lp.org.

Charles J. Mathis,

Arden 
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