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To: Road Walker who wrote (338749)	5/26/2007 7:12:27 PM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573921

<Frankly I think I'm closer to his positions than you are>. you are against taxes, seat belt laws, smoking bans?? I didn't know that.

To: Road Walker who wrote (338749)	6/7/2007 12:49:56 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573921

Ron Paul - Well the main thing I think is that he doesn't have a chance of getting the nomination. I might disagree with him about some foreign policy issues, and I'm no so in to his idea of a gold standard, but if we had a climate where he really could get elected, and his general respect for libertarian ideas, and a government that is limited to the powers the constitution authorizes, I'd certainly accept pulling out of Iraq for that. Iraq is one war, and the pullout may happen soon after the next presidential inauguration anyway. Serious cut backs in the size and power of the federal government OTOH seem to be almost an impossible hope. Making them possible would be worth a lot. So I might be willing to accept a foreign policy disaster, in exchange for longer term improvement in domestic policy and an increase in freedom in the US. <Frankly I think I'm closer to his positions than you are>. I really doubt it. For example he'd never go for your idea of heavily taxing all cars with poor gas mileage while heavily subsidizing cars with good mileage. He also doesn't support nationalized health insurance / "single payer". He wants to move things strongly in the opposite direction of such government regulation and intervention in the economy. He may be more hardcore on the idea than I am.