Kennigit
proud 2 boxer
I've seen both the libertarian cnn town halls (and mildly follow politics, including back at the 2012 third party debate) but I just don't align with libertarians or libertarian leaning economics -- they were both governors, they had to have fit decently within the framework of their states. Weld whips out good sounding pragmatism when he references his governorship.
But I fundamentally don't think they -- or any libertarian leaning policy -- would tackle job creation, energy & infrastructure, getting rid of super PACs and money in politics, or improving or ensuring the full services of a safety net. I don't think their policies really create the "equal opportunity" for many of the lower or middle class Americans that they say it would.
I know Johnson is floating around some minimum income type of thing, but I just haven't heard his numbers add up with the fair-tax type of stuff.
I just flatly don't buy that the various proposals put forth by the right that argue they support the lower middle class and compensate for the proposed slash in services, whenever they play around with flat taxes/fair tax/negative income tax/just general tax cuts across the board (and cut the top rates the most).
When Johnson talks about cutting federal education requirements and letting there be 50 states with 50 experiments, I just don't think that fills the role of government. Does department of education probably have a lot that can be cut? I wouldn't doubt it.
But I fundamentally don't think they -- or any libertarian leaning policy -- would tackle job creation, energy & infrastructure, getting rid of super PACs and money in politics, or improving or ensuring the full services of a safety net. I don't think their policies really create the "equal opportunity" for many of the lower or middle class Americans that they say it would.
I know Johnson is floating around some minimum income type of thing, but I just haven't heard his numbers add up with the fair-tax type of stuff.
I just flatly don't buy that the various proposals put forth by the right that argue they support the lower middle class and compensate for the proposed slash in services, whenever they play around with flat taxes/fair tax/negative income tax/just general tax cuts across the board (and cut the top rates the most).
When Johnson talks about cutting federal education requirements and letting there be 50 states with 50 experiments, I just don't think that fills the role of government. Does department of education probably have a lot that can be cut? I wouldn't doubt it.