You Choose '08 Spotlight: Ron Paul on Entitlements

This is Day 4 of our YouChoose '08 Spotlight week. Throughout this week we will be featuring a new video every day of presidential candidate Ron Paul talking about different issues. Please submit your questions, comments or your positions on the issues by posting your video comments on our video pages. (Posted August 4, 2007)

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[Freethought42]

Your Entitlement takes away from the fruits of someone else's labor.

Social Liberties are just as important as Economic Liberties.

If we are not economically AND socially free, then we are no longer America.

It's a shame Reps and Dems both want to take your liberties.

Liberty comes with Personal Responsibility.

If you don't want freedom, maybe the EU is for you.

[AlienProphecy]

God bless Ron Paul! This is the truest American hero in Congress.

[MAZDAKPRODUCTION]

@MiHiVidz You are a 100% right. It is a shame that all candidates up there are selling us the LIE: to give up our entitlements that we have paid into with our labor. They are selling us austerity measures and calling it freedom. I love Ron`s foreign policy & audit of the FED but when it comes to his other issues he seems to be supporting the same 1% elite that dont want to give back to the peasants who made them the 1% rich

[MAZDAKPRODUCTION]

@Freethought42 lets say your medical cost annually would total $1000, Are you saying you would not join a local cooperative that would reduce your cost to $500, saving you 500/mo because all u locals got a group discount. now lets say that the went national & because of increase of # of participants the same services only cost you 200/mo saving you 800/mo.It would NOT be civilized, morally just & economically wise for you to question your $200/mo input knowing the value you & society receive

[Freethought42]

@MAZDAKPRODUCTION

As long as the entity we call government maintains it's moral authority over the income of poor, middle class, and the wealthy (who disproportionally get away with tax evasion), the "elites" you speak of will remain in control.

Entitlements are just an excuse to control our earnings, whether the entitlements be for wealthy bankers, military contractors, or poor people that can't pay their bills.

No one has the right to the labor of another individual.

[MAZDAKPRODUCTION]

@Freethought42 This is nothing but nonsense serving the elites interest. First of all the "some one else" you are speaking of if laboring would benefit from the entitlements you are advocating to cut from him. The notion to cut entitlements is nothing but an austerity measures elite are selling us in name of ECONOMIC LIBERTY that only serves the elite. Health care should be free and available to all in the so called greatest nation of the world.U wanna balance the budget stop wars & foreign aid.

[MiHiVidz]

Ron is a strict constructionist, but it's not 1788. There's no more free land to grab & we have over 300M people. If you want to compete internationally in the 21st century, you need a degree of socialism.

We originally had no constitutional right to tax other Americans' income, but we'd be screwed without it. The constitution was meant to be amended and we have done so.

Also, I paid into SS and Medicare and I deserve it when I need it!

[MiHiVidz]

@Freethought42 You selfish bugfucker.

[Freethought42]

@MrWsad

Well it's simple, if someone wants a service they pay for it.

"And don't you think that people who pay voluntary transactions would get special treatment since it's only thanks to them that police gets their paychecks."

Lol, you think the police don't already give certain people special treatment?

In a marketplace, police would be held accountable through competition.

When they have a monopoly on the use of force and arbitration of justice, they can do whatever they want.

[MrWsad]

@Freethought42 And why would anybody pay voluntary transactions?

And don't you think that people who pay voluntary transactions would get special treatment since it's only thanks to them that police gets their paychecks.

You fail.

You're suggesting some kind of semi-private police.

[Freethought42]

@MrWsad

On that note, you said "without taxes there'd be no police or anything", I don't agree with this assessment.

Plenty of businesses in this country are able to hire security without forcibly taking money from people under the threat of imprisonment for noncompliance.

Police would exist without taxation, they would simply have to get funding like the rest of us do, through voluntary transactions.

[Freethought42]

@MrWsad

I'm glad that you think the income tax is unreasonable.

I go a little farther than Paul in that I oppose all taxation, Paul supports the US Constitution when it comes to taxation, excluding the 16th amendment.

Article I, Section. 9.

Clause 4: No Capitation, or other direct, Tax shall be laid, unless in Proportion to the Census or Enumeration herein before directed to be taken.

So, don't get the idea that I speak for Paul's views, only my own.