21st January 2008, 1:46 PM
It's called "spurring debate".
The libertarian view that the government shouldn't be handing out money like water is a legitimate on and in some ways I agree, but there's also a lot of developments that we probably wouldn't have without the government putting money into those programs. You only have to look at the laundry list of inventions that came out of the military and NASA.
On the other hand, the problem with our current system is that there are so many issues to be dealt with that it's utterly impossible to find the candidate that supports everything you want them to. So, cut out all the ambiguity and let each person decide what they want for themselves. Just take the money you would have spent on taxes and pass along a donation to NASA, or a university research institute working on curing diabetes, or whatever.
Our current system is by no means perfect.
The libertarian view that the government shouldn't be handing out money like water is a legitimate on and in some ways I agree, but there's also a lot of developments that we probably wouldn't have without the government putting money into those programs. You only have to look at the laundry list of inventions that came out of the military and NASA.
On the other hand, the problem with our current system is that there are so many issues to be dealt with that it's utterly impossible to find the candidate that supports everything you want them to. So, cut out all the ambiguity and let each person decide what they want for themselves. Just take the money you would have spent on taxes and pass along a donation to NASA, or a university research institute working on curing diabetes, or whatever.
Our current system is by no means perfect.
Sometimes you get the scorpion.