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Vol. 11, No. 5 | March 2,
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Contents
PRESIDENT'S
CORNER
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Head-scratching definitions of libertarianism
WHAT'S
HAPPENING WITH THE ADVOCATES
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Praise for Libertarianism In One Lesson
* What students say about the Advocates
GOOD
NEWS, BAD NEWS, UNBELIEVABLE NEWS
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If it quacks like a libertarian...
* Walter Cronkite: "The war on drugs has failed"
* H&R Blockheads? Not so fast!
* QUICK SHOTS: Bingo terrorists, and more....
PERSUASION
POWER POINT #197
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"Two words can cripple or kill your case for liberty"
by Michael Cloud
ASK
DR. RUWART
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Will drug kingpins remain a problem after legalization?
* Can we protect ourselves from bankrupt polluters?
SOUNDBITES
FOR LIBERTY
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Dear
friends,
Probably the single most common question asked of libertarians is:
"What exactly is a libertarian?" It's a query
that's launched a thousand conversations -- and generated a thousand
different responses.
It's also a question that fascinates us, since we at the Advocates
work hard to increase public awareness of libertarianism. So we
want to make sure the philosophy gets defined accurately.
Recently, we ran across two definitions of libertarianism that,
well, made us scratch our heads. One was serious; one was supposed
to be funny.
The first was from Kate Hoey, a member of Parliament for Great Britain's
Labor Party. She was quoted in the Daily Telegraph (February
17). Hoey is apparently quite libertarian. She voted against government-mandated
ID cards, and against a ban on smoking in pubs. She's spoken out
against the U.K's gun laws, which are so restrictive that English
Olympic pistol shooters must go overseas to practice.
But we did a double-take at her definition of libertarianism. "I'm
a libertarian," she said. "I don't want the state to do
anything that isn't being done for the benefit of people, and not
just controlling things."
Did you spot her rhetorical sleight-of-hand? The fact is, there's
never been a politician who justified a new law by saying, "This
law will give ME more power to control things!" (And then laughed
like Dr. Evil, just in case we missed his nefarious motives.)
Instead, every power-seeking politician earnestly tells us that
every new law, every new tax, and every new government program is
"for the benefit of people." And then, if he's a particularly
talented politician, he'll squeeze out a tear for all the little
people he's going to help (with your money).
So opposing ONLY laws that give politicians the power to gratuitously
"control things" doesn't make one a libertarian. There's
more to it than that. That's why Hoey's definition falls short.
The second definition is the "funny" one. It's from comedian
Tom Shillue, quoted on NationalReview.com (February 7). Shillue
said, "I'm a libertarian. You know what a libertarian is? A
Republican in show business!"
Nothing deflates a joke faster than taking it too seriously -- unless
it's trying to explain it! So suffice to say, no, you don't have
to be a Republican (or in show business) to be a libertarian. And
every Republican in show business is most certainly not a libertarian.
For proof, just see Rush Limbaugh!
So, two definitions, neither of which accurately captures the essence
of libertarianism. Can someone do better?
You bet! In his blog (January 6), Australian author Joel Shepherd
quotes young Frenchwoman Sabine Herold, who is affiliated with the
French libertarian group, Liberté Chérie.
Herold told Shepherd: "To be a libertarian is not to be either
right-wing or left-wing. To be a libertarian means that you're for
the rights of people to live their lives without the government
interfering."
As the French say, "Magnifique!" Thank you, Sabine;
that's a definition we can live with.
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Good
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Unbelievable News |
By
Bill Winter
If
it quacks like a libertarian...
In
what may be a sign of the coming conservative quack-up, the world's
most famous conservative duck has become a libertarian.
Mallard Fillmore, the anthropomorphic duck hero of the syndicated
comic strip that bears his name, announced he was a libertarian
on February 14.
In the comic strip, Mallard says about a co-worker, "I really
like Chantel, but I'm a libertarian and she's a liberal... We can't
even agree about Valentine's Day." The tweed suit-wearing duck
goes on: "I think nothing could be less 'romantic' than an
official day to be romantic... Whereas she supports federal legislation
requiring its observance."
Mallard's libertarianism may surprise his fans, since the wisecracking
duck is arguably the highest-profile conservative in cartoon history.
Mallard Fillmore was created in 1991 by Bruce Tinsley for the Charlottesville,
Virginia Daily Progress. (The name is a fowl pun based
on America's 13th president, Millard Fillmore.) Mallard's comedic
observations quickly began to reflect Tinsley's conservative sensibilities.
When his editors asked him to tone down the right-wing rhetoric,
Tinsley refused and was fired. The Washington Times picked
up the strip, and the King Features Syndicate began to distribute
it in 1994. The comic now runs in 400 newspapers around the USA.
In that day's strip, Mallard is a reporter at a TV station in Washington,
DC, surrounded by clueless left-wing media types, spokespeople for
loopy liberal causes, and spineless politicians -- all of whom are,
ahem, sitting ducks for Mallard's conservative quips.
Over the years, the strip has attacked all the usual villains: Bill
and Hillary Clinton, the NEA, Al Gore, the "habitually offended,"
John Kerry, anti-gun activists, Brokeback Mountain, and, of course,
Ted Kennedy.
The comic strip reflects his "unapologetically conservative"
beliefs, Tinsley told the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review (October
21, 2005). "Mallard really is about as close to me as you can
get," he said.
But Tinsley has a libertarian streak, too. He supports Social Security
privatization and an end to affirmative action. He complained that
President George W. Bush is a "big spender." He said,
"When you look at the budget and everything, I can't tell the
Republicans from the Democrats anymore in Congress."
Hmmm... Given that kind of talk, maybe it's no surprise that Mallard
is now a libertarian. After all, if it walks like a libertarian,
and quacks like a libertarian...
Sources:
http://jewishworldreview.com/strips/mallard/2000/mallard021306.asp
http://caglecartoons.com/previewColumn.asp?columnID=%7B0784295B-7CC5-45D8-A433-4C2392F9C572%7D
Walter
Cronkite: "The war on drugs has failed"
The "most trusted man in America" is becoming more outspoken
in his opposition to the War on Drugs. Walter Cronkite, the legendary
former anchorman for the CBS Evening News has signed a
letter for the Drug Policy Alliance in which he flatly states: "The
war on drugs has failed."
The Drug Policy Alliance (DPA) is a non-profit organization that
promotes "alternatives to the war on drugs." In a February
23 letter, Cronkite urged people to support groups like the DPA
that work to "end the war on drugs and replace it with a new
drug policy based on science, compassion, health, and human rights."
Cronkite wrote, "Americans are paying too high a price in lives
and liberty for a failing war on drugs about which our leaders have
lost all sense of proportion."
Specifically, wrote Cronkite, the War on Drugs "surely hasn't
made our streets safer. Instead, we have locked up literally millions
of people... disproportionately people of color... who have caused
little or no harm to others -- wasting resources that could be used
for counter-terrorism, reducing violent crime, or catching white-collar
criminals."
The War on Drugs also infringes on American liberties, wrote Cronkite:
"With police wielding unprecedented powers to invade privacy,
tap phones, and conduct searches seemingly at random, our civil
liberties are in a very precarious condition."
Anyone who dispassionately examines the issue will conclude, Cronkite
wrote, that "the war on drugs, as it is currently fought, is
too expensive, and too inhumane... The war on drugs is a failure."
This isn't the first time Cronkite has spoken out on this issue.
In a 1995 news special for the Discovery Channel, he called for
"a blue-ribbon panel to re-appraise our drug policy right down
to its very core" because "we cannot go into tomorrow
with the same formulas that are failing today."
Cronkite anchored the CBS Evening News from 1962 to 1981.
During that time, the avuncular newsman was named in several surveys
as "the most trusted man in America." His criticism of
the Vietnam War was widely credited for helping turn public opinion
against American involvement in that conflict.
In fact, in 1968, after Cronkite publicly said the Vietnam War was
turning into a "bloody stalemate," then-President Lyndon
Johnson reportedly said, "That's it. If I've lost Cronkite,
I've lost middle America." Hopefully, middle America will listen
to Cronkite again about this latest war.
Sources: http://www.drugpolicy.org/library/cronkite022306.cfm
H&R
Blockheads? Not so fast!
When you hear that H&R Block goofed on its taxes, your first
impulse may be to laugh. After all, how embarrassing is it that
a company that prepares other people's taxes can't even do its own
correctly?
Not so fast. The problem is with the U.S. tax code -- not with H&R
Block.
Here's what happened. On February 23, H&R Block announced it
had underestimated its "state effective income tax rate"
for fiscal 2004, 2005, and part of 2006. As a result, the company
owes $32 million to the government, and had to lower its previously
reported earnings for 2004 and 2005.
The announcement spawned all the obvious jokes. The Kansas City
Star punned, "These are taxing times at H&R Block."
The Tacoma News Tribune chortled: "H&R Block clients
might want to triple-check that math."
Okay, that's funny. But the real problem is that the U.S. tax code
has become so complicated that nobody can figure it out. In fact,
even the IRS can't figure out the tax code. Consider...
Jeff Schnepper, in a December 2, 2005 column for MoneyCentral.msn.com,
noted that the Treasury Inspector General tested the quality of
the IRS's taxpayer assistance programs in 2004 and 2005. The result:
About 35% of the time, IRS employees gave incorrect answers to common
tax questions.
In other words, if you ask the IRS for advice, more than one
of every three answers will be incorrect. And this is the government
organization that oversees the tax system!
Money magazine has gotten similar results over the years
when it asked 50 tax professionals to complete a tax return for
a hypothetical family. Each year, the 50 tax professionals came
back with 50 different results -- with tax liabilities differing
by tens of thousands of dollars.
Why all the confusion? The Journal of Financial Planning
(January 2004) notes that the U.S. tax code and supporting documents
runs to over 55,000 pages. Since 1986, there have been 14,000 changes
to the tax code. Meanwhile, an army of more than 100,000 IRS employees
expects to collect almost a trillion dollars in individual income
tax payments in 2006. To make sure that revenue keeps flowing, the
IRS levies about 32 million penalties each year on taxpayers, according
to the Cato Institute.
Now, H&R Block ran into problems with its corporate taxes, not
personal income tax. It's a $4.4 billion company that operates 11,000
tax offices around the USA, so its taxes are much more complicated
than those of an average American.
But if you're tempted to laugh at H&R Block -- don't. The joke
is on us; we're the ones who elected the politicians who turned
the U.S. tax code into a bigger mystery than The DaVinci Code.
H&R Block's tax problems are a warning, not a punch line.
Sources: http://www.usatoday.com/money/companies/earnings/2006-02-24-hr-block_x.htm
http://moneycentral.msn.com/content/Taxes/Preparationtips/P105690.asp
http://www.cato.org/new/04-03/04-14-03r.html
QUICK
SHOTS...
* O4 goodness sakes! A $36,300 grant from the Department
of Homeland Security to the Kentucky Office of Charitable Gaming
-- intended to protect bingo halls from terrorists -- has been cited
by Citizens Against Government Waste as an example of weirdly misguided
spending in the War on Terrorism. Kentucky officials said the money
was needed to stop terrorists from raising money by playing bingo
or running bingo games. -- CAGW Wastewatcher (February
21, 2006)
* Quote of the year: "I often
liken government to a mentally retarded giant. It is immensely powerful
but basically incapable of doing any but the simplest of tasks."
-- Syndicated columnist Charley Reese (February 20, 2006)
* World's biggest trailer park: Of the 24,967 mobile
homes bought by FEMA to house displaced people in the wake of Hurricane
Katrina, 10,777 of them are sitting in a field at the Hope, Arkansas
airport. They can't be transported to New Orleans because FEMA regulations
prohibit trailers from being located in floodplain zones. The empty
trailers cost the federal government $300 million to buy, it's paying
$25,000 a month to lease the space at the airport, and now the feds
are planning to spend another $6 million to spread gravel on the
field so the trailers don't get permanently stuck in the mud if
it rains. -- Newsday (February 20, 2006)
* Dirty little secret: In 2004, the federal government
classified 15.6 million documents as secret -- which works out to
about 125 documents a minute. "Government secrecy is being
ratcheted up to levels unseen in modern times," charged Senator
Patrick Leahy (D-VT). -- Parade (February 26, 2006)
Sources:
Bingo
terrorism: http://www.cagw.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=9712
Charley Reese: http://www.lewrockwell.com/reese/reese264.html
FEMA trailers: http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/nation/ny-usfema204634628feb20,0,4213947.story?coll=ny-nationalnews-print
Classified: Parade magazine, print edition, February 26,
2006
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"Good News, Bad News, Unbelievable News" is written by
Liberator Online editor Bill Winter.
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Persuasion
Power
Point
#197 |
Two Words Can Cripple or Kill
Your Case for Liberty
By Michael Cloud
Too often, too many of us over-claim and over-promise when we make
the case against Big Government -- and the case for freedom.
When criticizing Big Government, you might claim: "Government
never works." "Welfare never helps." "Drug Prohibition
never succeeds."
When justifying liberty, you might assert: "The marketplace
always gives us better goods at lower prices." "Private
enterprise always brings out the best in people." "Free
men and women are always tolerant and generous."
You want to tell people how destructive Big Government is. And declare
the virtues and blessings of freedom.
But attaching the words "never" and "always"
to the results of Big Government and freedom may well cripple or
kill your case.
Why? What is the literal meaning of "never" when
applied to the effects of Big Government? It means that 0% of the
time, in 0% of the cases, under 0% of the circumstances, without
exception, will we get the outcome we want.
What is the literal meaning of "always" when applied to
the consequences of freedom? It means that 100% of the time, in
100% of the cases, under 100% of the circumstances, without exception,
we'll absolutely and only get these good results.
And we could reverse the framing by asserting that Big Government
always produces bad results and freedom never does. But the flaw
and fallacy are the same.
Why? How many counter-examples does it take to falsify
a "never" or "always" claim? Just one.
"What do you mean 'welfare never works'? J.K. Rowling was on
welfare when she began writing the Harry Potter series. Welfare
helped her survive while she wrote. And there are professional NFL
football and NBA basketball athletes who were raised on welfare.
Welfare worked for them," answers a critic.
"Comedian Tim Allen went to prison for selling cocaine. He
says that prison turned his life around. When he got out, he started
his career in stand-up comedy. What do you mean 'Drug Prohibition
never works'? It worked for Tim Allen -- and it probably worked
for others, too," says another.
"What do you mean that 'private enterprise always brings out
the best in people'? Have you ever tried to buy a car? Didn't you
experience distrust, conflict, and frustration -- even when you
struck a deal?" asks yet another.
"I've been to mainland China and 'Free' China [Taiwan], and
I didn't see any difference between the tolerance and generosity
of people in private enterprise 'Free' China as opposed to those
in socialist mainland China," comments a skeptic.
There are thousands of real-world counter-examples to "never"
and "always" claims about the results of Big Government
and freedom. And it takes only one to cripple or kill this kind
of case.
After someone sees the flaw in a libertarian's "never"
or "always" case, are they more receptive or less receptive
to small government and freedom? Are our libertarian proposals more
or less credible? Will they be more open-minded or less toward the
libertarian who advanced the flawed, failed, false assertion?
Most people distrust political promises that promise too much. We
distrust claims that sound too good to be true.
The uninflated truth about Big Government is compelling. And the
facts are friendly to freedom.
Drunk driving is a very bad thing -- even though it isn't 100% fatal,
with 100% of the drivers, under 100% of the circumstances, 100%
of the time.
Cigarette smoking is harmful -- even though it isn't 100% lethal,
with 100% of smokers, under 100% of the circumstances, 100% of the
time.
Big Government is damaging and destructive -- even though it isn't
100% damaging, with 100% of Americans, under 100% of the circumstances,
100% of the time.
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Michael Cloud is author of the acclaimed book Secrets
of Libertarian Persuasion available exclusively from the Advocates:
http://www.TheAdvocates.org/secrets.html.
In 2000, Michael was honored with the Thomas Paine Award as the
Most Persuasive Libertarian Communicator in America.
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Dr.
Ruwart |
Dr.
Mary Ruwart is a leading expert in libertarian communication. In
this column she offers short answers to real questions about libertarianism.
To submit questions to Dr. Ruwart, see end of column.
Will
drug kingpins remain a problem after legalization?
QUESTION:
"It seems to me that if you decriminalize drug usage
and do away with the drug war, drug kingpins aren't just going to
sit idly by and let their kingdoms go to pot. So how can we keep
the peace and protect people from the violence of gang warfare and
drug wars after drugs are decriminalized?"
MY SHORT ANSWER: When alcohol Prohibition ended,
the gang wars ended, too. The Mafia focused on other illegal activities
when re-legalization took the profit out of booze. Crime decreased
dramatically and so did the need for police.
When we end drug Prohibition, we can expect the pushers to fade
quietly away also. When we re-legalize drugs, we'll take away the
black market profit that attracts the criminal element. Drug wars
will stop because they won't be worth winning. People won't need
to steal to support their habit because legalization lowers prices.
Just as with alcohol Prohibition, crime will decrease dramatically
and so will the need for police.
Can
we protect ourselves from bankrupt polluters?
QUESTION:
"While I agree that restitution is a way to deal with corporate
polluters, my question is this: what's to keep a company from polluting
until they get caught and then once they are, filing bankruptcy
as a way of getting out of paying restitution? Also, what's to keep
them from merely passing on the cost to their customers?"
MY SHORT ANSWER: Today, when an individual or corporation
declares bankruptcy, the government prevents creditors or victims
of pollution from collecting what is due them. In a libertarian
society, government would not have this power. Corporate officers
or employees who polluted might find themselves saddled with a lifetime
of restitution. Consequently, very few are likely to pollute.
Of course, corporate officers or employees would likely be insured
for environmental negligence. Insurers would set premiums based
on how well corporations adhered to safe environmental practices.
Thus, businesses would have a financial incentive to properly dispose
of waste, control chemical leaching, etc.
Some types of businesses are not entirely pollution free. If the
level of pollution was a nuisance, rather than a health hazard,
businesses would compensate affected neighbors satisfactorily. These
added costs would be passed on to the consumer in the form of higher
prices. These increased costs would discourage use of polluting
substances and encourage development and substitution of non-polluting
alternatives.
In a libertarian society, individuals might also insure themselves
against environmental hazards. Today, it is sometimes difficult
to do so, since the government has laid claim to waterways and other
parts of the environment. For example, a rancher cannot generally
buy insurance against pollution of his or her livestock's water
supply if it comes from a river. In the libertarian society, such
insurance would likely be available. The insurance company would
compensate the rancher for the effects of pollution and sue the
responsible party, where identification was possible, to recover
its costs.
Most people believe that corporations are responsible for most of
today's pollution. However, governments are actually the world's
biggest polluter, even in the United States. The U.S. military is
reputed to dump more chemical waste each year into the environment
than all the top chemical companies combined. Public discovery and
outcry was necessary before the military began to clean up its act.
Even when courts found the military negligent in its testing of
the atomic bomb, cancer victims were not compensated. The government
claimed "sovereign immunity," something it couldn't do
in a libertarian society.
Because of all of these safeguards, a libertarian society is likely
to be a less polluted society. Since no system is perfect, some
polluters will still escape justice, but their numbers will be far
fewer than they are today.
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Got questions? Dr. Ruwart has answers! If you'd
like answers to YOUR "tough questions" on libertarian
issues, email Dr. Ruwart at: ruwart(a)theAdvocates.org. Due to volume,
Dr. Ruwart can't personally acknowledge all emails. But we'll run
the best questions and answers in upcoming issues.
Dr. Ruwart's previous Liberator Online answers are archived
in searchable form at: http://www.TheAdvocates.org/ruwart/categories_list.php.
Dr. Ruwart's outstanding books Healing Our World and Short
Answers to the Tough Questions are available from the Advocates:
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"If
you ask the government to impose morality, then moral questions
will be decided by whoever has the most political power." --
Harry Browne, Liberty A to Z: 872 Libertarian Soundbites
You Can Use Right Now
"There are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom
of the people by the gradual and silent encroachment of those in
power, than by violent and sudden usurpation." -- James
Madison (1751-183)
"No matter how disastrously some policy has turned out, anyone
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