Tax Day Interview with Libertarian Bob Barr

LP TV sat down with Bob Barr to discuss April 15th's tax day issues.

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• april
• 15

[BasicEconomics]

Govt. loves to bend over backwards for minority interests, so if just 10% of the people voted libertarian, our voices would be heard and our objectives would be closer to being met.

[LibertarianParty]

We agree.

[DoctorMurky]

Barr says we need a national defense. No we don't. I need a defense. You need a defense but if "we" have a "national defense" then some people have weapons of mass destruction and you and I don't. Real libertarians understand that the government is "them". Real libertarians understand that taxation is theft and that we should should be for the government having weapons as much as we should be for our worst enemy having weapons.

[allahjihad11]

Ever noticed how much the government is like a gang?

Taxes are just a legalized form of protection money. If you don't pay the gang comes and takes your property. Replace gang with IRS and you have the modern form of government.

[Chaaarge]

@UberNoob33 From what I've read he used to not be a libertarian, but he is now. He was a supporter for the war on drugs, but is no longer, he voted for the patriot act, but then said he regretts it. So I guess he has learned a lot during the years^^. He did call for the ending of corporate welfare, which is more than one could say about most neocons. But yeah, I would put him somewhere in between an old school conservative and a libertarian

[UberNoob33]

Bob Barr is NOT a Libertarian.

[JustaLibertarian]

‎"Libertarian Bobb Barr" isn't that an oxymoron?

[debatemaniac24]

Barr is seriously cool. He's not a neo-conservative con man like many people say he is. He's a true, die-hard libertarian conservative and he's AWESOME!

Barr 2012!

[peterscottfrost]

If the Congress were willing to eliminate these programs, 95% or so of the federal government, end their wars, bring troops home from abroad and devote the proceeds of their tariffs to paying down the debt, conceivably, it could happen. But the reality is that it will not happen. Every year the debt grows, the interest on the debt becomes a larger percentage of federal revenue and the politicians do the opposite of what they should do -- they spend even more.

[peterscottfrost]

Of course, the big budget items are not police, which are generally locally paid for, anyway, but entitlement programs which are spiraling out of control: Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, federal pensions, prescription drug benefits, and so on, not to mention our international empire and multiple wars. Now they want to add a national health care plan that they have no way of paying for. It is only a matter of time before the government goes bankrupt. It's a matter of when, not if.

[peterscottfrost]

The court stated, in the case of Bowers v. DeVito, that "The Constitution...does not require the federal government or the states to provide services, even so elementary a service as maintaining law and order." In Souza v. City of Antioch, CA, the court said, "Police officers have no affirmative statutory duty to do anything." Yikes! When Katrina hit New Orleans, government failed people took in strangers, private companies got food and water in. By contrast, government agencies were inept.

[peterscottfrost]

The national debt has already reached a point where it will never be paid off. They just keep spending more and more. Nevertheless, the income tax is not the only source of revenue for the federal government. They get more from tariffs and such. We don't need the Post Office, as FedEx and UPS have shown. When disasters occur, people always help one another, whether obligated or not. We would pay for private police and ambulances the same way that we pay for everything else in the private sector.

[YaoiHuntressEarth]

But how would we pay for police, ambulances, the postal service and rescue workers if there's another natural disaster? It would look bad if rescue workers were privatized and they could only save their customers and leave others to die. If I read correctly, if the government didn't have any taxes how can they pay off the debt? I'm not saying tax everything or allow big government, but there are somethings I have doubts about.

[TimeWarp66]

Bob Barr is the Al Gore of the Libertarian Party. We can do BETTER!