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Politics : President Barack Obama

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To: tejek who wrote (81137)	8/18/2010 11:46:19 AM
From: TimF	Read Replies (2) of 149317

Do you expect me to be your go to source to defend anything Ron Paul says? If so I expect you'll be disappointed. Tax cuts aren't very well connected to drug abuse. Sure lower taxes could cause more economic growth over time, and there is a correlation (and causation) between economic growth and reducing poverty, and there is a correlation between poverty and drug abuse, but that's just too weak to support any argument that the answer to drug abuse is tax cuts. I agree that to the extent he is promoting tax cuts as the answer to drug abuse than the response doesn't make a lot of sense. One answer might be treatment for the abuse (which may often not work so well, but it works better than doing nothing). Another possible answer might be legalizing the drug (which probably would not reduce abuse, in fact it may slightly increase it, but it will make the cases of abuse less problematic, and will reduce or eliminate the expense of enforcement (freeing up resources for treatment), while eliminating most of the violence associated with the trade (which is one of the larger sources of violence in the US).

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