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This Issue:
85 Congressmen vote to abolish Drug Czar's office...
Are you verbally spamming your friends and family? ... Major foundation
validates World's Smallest Political Quiz model... Majority of Americans
say taxes are too high... And much more!
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The
Liberator Online
Vol. 11, No. 9 | April 27,
2006
Circulation: 66.716 subscribers in over 100 countries.
The world's largest-circulation libertarian publication!
Published by the Advocates for Self-Government
Edited by James W. Harris | Email: james(a)TheAdvocates.org
...
"The Advocates leads the way in thinking,
methods, and materials for communicating libertarianism to a
world that most definitely needs it. Every libertarian
activist has benefited from, and owes a debt of gratitude
to, the Advocates."
--
David Bergland, author of Libertarianism In One Lesson |
Contents
PRESIDENT'S
CORNER
*
Major
foundation validates Quiz model
WHAT'S
HAPPENING WITH THE ADVOCATE
* April 29, 2006: Sharon Harris speaks at the Kansas Libertarian
Party convention
* Quiz on
drive-time radio
* Libertarian cruise
GOOD
NEWS, BAD NEWS, UNBELIEVABLE NEWS
* Survey: Most Americans Believe
Taxes Are Too High
* Bush Borrows More Than All
Previous Presidents -- Combined
* Socialization Without
Government Schools
* QUICK SHOTS: 85 Congressmen
vote to end Drug Czar's office, and more...
PERSUASION
POWER POINT #201
* "Are You Verbally Spamming Your
Family and Friends?" by Michael
Cloud
ASK
DR. RUWART
* Ending the Federal Reserve
System
* How Can I Help Bring about a
Free Society?
SOUNDBITES
FOR LIBERTY
* Harry Browne, P.J. O'Rourke, and
Thomas Szasz
...
PRODUCT
REVIEW
* Get 50 FREE Quiz cards with
Concise Guide to Economics book!
...
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President's
Corner |
Dear
friends,
Here's some great news.
For two decades, the Advocates -- through our
World's Smallest Political Quiz and other means -- has worked to
replace the old, simplistic and inaccurate "left versus right" view
of politics -- which excludes libertarians -- with a more accurate
map of politics that includes libertarians and others.
This is vital, because the dominant "left versus
right" map makes libertarians invisible.
We've seen some major breakthroughs in this goal,
as more and more opinion-leaders have come to reject the "left
versus right" model in favor of a multi-spectrum model like the
Quiz.
Now I'm happy to share another such breakthrough
with you.
The Pew Research Center is a distinguished and
highly respected nonpartisan non-profit research organization. Its
mission is to "provide information on the issues, attitudes and
trends shaping America and the world."
Last week they released a new report entitled "In
Search of Ideologues in America: It's Harder than You May Think."
The report begins:
"In the political caricature of recent years,
America is a nation divided: red vs. blue, conservative vs. liberal.
"Liberals" tend to favor an active role for government in regulating
the economy, but oppose government attempts to regulate morality or
private life in the social sphere. "Conservatives" take just the
opposite approach, preferring a smaller role for government in the
economy but a bigger role for it in promoting morality. Not
surprisingly, liberals and conservatives are political opponents on
most issues.
"But while there is little question that U.S.
politics have become more polarized in recent years, the red-blue
political shorthand is far from adequate to describe the full
spectrum of Americans' political views. Judging by their opinions on
a number of issues, many Americans simply do not fit well within
either the conservative or the liberal ideological camps, instead
falling into one of the two other important U.S. political
traditions -- libertarian and populist -- or defying attempts to
pigeon-hole them.
Pew then goes on to use a set of six questions to
place respondents on a 5-position chart, using answers from a 2004
Pew poll. While I have no way of knowing whether or not our Quiz
influenced them, both the questions and the chart are remarkably
similar to our Quiz. They even look very similar. Further, the
questions are divided into two sections -- economic and social
issues -- again paralleling our model.
I prefer our Quiz questions to theirs -- some of
their questions just don't seem to work very well in ferreting out
dividing points between ideologies. This can produce mushy,
non-rigorous definitions of the political groups. They also don't
offer the option of a "maybe" or "not sure" answer to their
questions, which can help avoid shoe-horning people into categories.
And several years ago we replaced "Populist" -- an ambiguous term
that is sometimes used by all political ideologies -- with the more
precise "Statist."
But these are quibbles. The important thing is
that we have a validation of the basic Quiz model from one of
America's most distinguished and influential research groups.
And certainly this is another strong step towards
the replacement of the obsolete left versus right line with a
Quiz-type, multi-spectrum map of politics.
The Pew report concludes:
"Based on this process, almost six-in-ten
Americans fall into one of the four ideological groups; 18% are
liberals, 15% are conservatives, 16% are populists, and 9% are
libertarians. The remainder included people with a mixture of views,
or who declined to offer opinions on several of the six questions in
the test; this large non-ideological group (42%) is labeled the "ambivalents."...
"[L]ibertarians, though the smallest of the
ideological groups, represent a substantial percentage of the
population (9%)."
Again, I can quibble. In August 2000, the
respected polling organization Rasmussen Research gave our Quiz --
which actually has a much more rigorous definition for libertarians
than the Pew survey -- to just under 1,000 representative likely
American voters. Sixteen percent scored libertarian by the Quiz's
far more stringent definition.
Whichever result you prefer, however, there's no
doubt that libertarians are a substantial -- and growing -- part of
American politics. And, like Pew, more and more people are coming to
realize this.
And that is good news indeed!
You can read the Pew report -- and see their chart
-- here:
http://pewresearch.org/obdeck/?ObDeckID=17
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Welcome
to 779 new Liberator Online subscribers this issue. Thanks
for joining our subscription "family" of over 66,000 liberty-loving
readers in more than 100 countries!
-- Sharon Harris, President | Email: sharon(a)TheAdvocates.org
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work for liberty visit: www.TheAdvocates.org.
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What's
Happening With The Advocates
* April 29, 2006: Advocates President Sharon Harris
will be the featured speaker at the Kansas Libertarian Party convention
at the Shawnee Country Club in Topeka. Cost: $30 per person (before
April 22). Prices includes a buffet-style Italian dinner. Other
speakers will be announced in the coming weeks. For more information,
visit: http://www.lpks.org/.
* Drive-Time Quiz Show: Advocates
President Sharon Harris was interviewed April 25 on Tampa's 970-AM
WFLA drive-time radio show. The invitation came after a WFLA producer
took the World's Smallest Political Quiz and wanted Tampa listeners
to learn about it. "The hosts all liked the Quiz,"
Sharon reports.
"They recommended the Quiz to listeners, gave the Advocates'
Web site address several times, and asked the ten Quiz questions
on the air."
* Freedom Cruise: It's
not too early to mark your calendar for the 2007 Freedom Cruise.
This event, the tenth annual, will take place from February 19-March
6, 2007. You'll sail from San Diego to Hawaii (and back!) on Holland
America's ms Zaandam. The event is organized by Ken Bisson of Freedom
Cruises. (This isn't an Advocates' event, but Ken is on our Board
of Directors, and libertarians who have been on past cruises rave
about them.) For more information, visit:
http://freedomcruises.biz/CRUISE2007.html.
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Good
News,
Bad News,
Unbelievable News |
By
James W.
Harris
Survey: Most Americans Believe Taxes Are Too High
Two-thirds of Americans believe that today's taxes
are too high. Further, an additional 22 percent believe today's
taxes are reaching the limits of what is proper.
That's the findings of a new poll by the Tax
Foundation, a non-profit non-partisan organization that works to
educate taxpayers about sound tax policy and the size of the U.S.
tax burden.
The poll asked: "What is the maximum percentage of
a person's income that *should* go to taxes -- that is, all taxes,
state, federal and local?"
24 percent answered that all taxes should take
less than 10 percent of a person's income.
Another 43 percent said taxes should take less
than 20 percent.
Added together, then, about two-thirds of
Americans think that 19% is the most anyone should pay in taxes.
Further, another 22 percent said taxes should not
take more than 30 percent of income.
Adding those figures together, then, indicates
that fully 90% of Americans think that 29 percent is the most anyone
should pay in taxes.
So how does this compare to the actual taxes
Americans pay? Economist and syndicated columnist Bruce Bartlett --
who served in the Reagan administration and is author of the new
book Impostor: How George W. Bush Bankrupted America and Betrayed
the Reagan Legacy -- notes there are several ways to look at the tax
burden.
"One way to look at this is to take taxes at all
levels of government as a share of the gross domestic product -- the
nation's total income. In 2005, taxes came to a little over $3.5
trillion and GDP was close to $12.5 trillion, for an effective tax
rate of 28.5 percent.
"Another way is to look at the Tax Foundation's
"Tax Freedom Day," which calculates the day each year when we stop
working for government and start working for ourselves. ... Last
year, taxes took 29.1 percent of income by this measure, down from a
recent high of 33.6 percent in 2000."
There are other ways as well. But the bottom line,
concludes Bartlett:
"{T]he tax burden is well above the level that at
least two-thirds of Americans think should be the maximum -- and
right at the level that 90 percent believe should be the absolute
limit."
Tax revolt, anyone?
Source:
"How
Much Tax is Too Much"?
http://www.townhall.com/opinion/columns/brucebartlett/2006/04/11/193240.html
Tax Foundation Report:
http://www.taxfoundation.org/publications/show/1408.html)
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Bush's Mind-Boggling
Borrowing
According to U.S. Treasury Department
figures, President Bush has borrowed more money than all past U.S.
presidents -- combined.
The forty-two previous presidents borrowed a
combined total of $1.01 trillion from foreign governments and
financial institutions.
But between 2001 and 2005 alone, the Bush
administration borrowed $1.05 trillion -- again, more than all of
the previous presidencies combined.
Further, Bush came into office having inherited
the largest federal surplus in American history.
Yet his spending has turned that surplus into the
largest *deficit* ever.
And an even higher deficit, $423 billion, is
forecast for 2006.
Source:
Rolling Stone:
"Worst President in History?"
http://www.rollingstone.com/news/profile/story/9961300/the_worst_president_in_history?rnd=1145823896703&has-player=unknown
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Socialization Without
Government Schools
"When my wife and I mention we are strongly
considering homeschooling our children, we are without fail asked,
'But what about socialization?' Fortunately, we found a way our kids
can receive the same socialization that government schools provide.
"On Mondays and Wednesdays, I will personally
corner my son in the bathroom, give him a wedgie and take his lunch
money. On Tuesdays and Thursdays, my wife will make sure to tease
our children for not being in the 'in' crowd, taking special care to
poke fun at any physical abnormalities. Fridays will be 'Fad and
Peer Pressure Day.' We will all compete to see who has the coolest
toys, the most expensive clothes, and the loudest, fastest, and most
dangerous car.
"Every day, my wife and I will adhere to a routine
of cursing and swearing in the hall and mentioning our weekend
exploits with alcohol and immorality.
...And we have asked
(our kids) to report us to the authorities in the event we mention
faith, religion, or try to bring up morals and values."
Source: New
Oxford Review (originally from the Kolbe Little Home Journal,
Fall 2005)
(http://www.newoxfordreview.org/note.jsp?did=0106-notes-socialization)
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QUICK
SHOTS...
* Literacy without government schools: "Literacy in
the North rose from 75 percent to between 91 and 97 percent between
1800 and 1840, the years prior to compulsory schooling and governmental
provision and operation of education. In the South during the same
time period, the rate grew among the white population from between
50 and 60 percent to 81 percent." -- Sheldon Richman, from
his book Separating School & State, p. 38, published
by the Future of Freedom Foundation.)
* 85 Congressmen vote to abolish Drug Czar's office: Last
month, libertarian U.S. Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) introduced an amendment
to the ONDCP Reauthorization Act (H.R. 2829) that would have
eliminated the White House's Office of National Drug Control Policy
(ONDCP) -- the Drug Czar's office -- in five years. Although the
amendment didn't pass, it received an amazing 85 "yes" votes,
including 47 from Republicans, according to the Marijuana Policy
Project.
Sources:
Marijuana Policy Project press release reprinted here: http://usmjparty.com/content/view/40/2/
Wording of Amendment:
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/D?d109:66:./temp/~bd7lZb::|/bss/d109query.html|
House Votes:
http://clerk.house.gov/cgi-bin/vote.asp?year=2006&rollnumber=36
)
* * *
"Good News, Bad News, Unbelievable News" is written by
Liberator Online editor James W. Harris. His articles
have appeared in numerous magazines and newspapers, and he has been
a Finalist for the Mencken Award, given by the Free Press
Association for "Outstanding Journalism in Support of Liberty."
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Persuasion
Power
Point
#201 |
"Are You Verbally Spamming Your Family and Friends?"
By Michael Cloud
You've been spammed. You know how you feel
when you get undesired and undesirable email offers. Relentlessly.
Electronic Chinese Water Torture -- drip, drip, dripping until you
want to scream.
"Refinance your home..."
"Greetings, Sir or Madam. I'm a political refugee
from [African or Middle Eastern nation] with $30 million in a
special account. Send me a small "good faith" donation and I'll
share my wealth with you." (Confidence Game. Scam.)
"You have been selected to receive this free..."
"Amazing Weight Loss Breakthrough melts away the
fat without diet or exercise..."
"Sexual Performance Enhanced..."
Spam, spam, spam.
We delete it. Block it. Route it to delete. Filter
it.
Because we hate getting spammed.
People feel and respond the same way when they're
verbally spammed.
People tune out, ignore, and delete unwanted
verbal spam.
And they avoid spammers.
Are YOU verbally spamming your family and friends
with libertarian ideas?
Are you unthinkingly drip, drip, dripping your
libertarian opinions on people who have repeatedly shown you that
they are NOT interested?
Are you ignoring their body language, comments,
and reluctance to engage in a political conversation with you?
Are you being avoided and not invited to many
social events?
Maybe you are verbally spamming them.
Want to find out?
Ask them.
Try this: "John, you don't seem to be interested
in my libertarian ideas. Would it be better for you if we didn't
discuss politics?"
Or this: "Mary, I get the impression that you're
not receptive to my political ideas. Would you rather not have
political conversations?"
Or this: "Bill, a couple of friends told me that
they didn't enjoy discussing politics with me. I value our
friendship. And I don't want either of us to be uncomfortable. Would
you prefer that we talk about things other than politics and
government?"
When you ask your friends or family this kind of a
direct question, they'll usually answer in a way that doesn't hurt
your feelings. They'll say things like: "Well, I don't mind it that
much" or "It's not that big a deal" or "If it's important to you, of
course I'll listen" or something similar.
Thank them for their answer.
Then ask: "On a scale of 1 to 10 -- with 1 being
"It bores me out of my skull" and 10 being "I love it, I'm aching
and longing to talk about this" -- where would you rate talking
about Big Government or libertarian politics with me?"
If you get less than a 7 or 8, your libertarian
conversations are verbal spam to them.
Be a good friend or family member. Stop verbally
spamming them.
Talk about things you both enjoy. Discuss things
you both love.
Make your conversations with your friends and
family so win/win, so delightful, so fascinating that they hate for
you to leave.
* * *
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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Ask
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.
Ending the
Federal Reserve
QUESTION:
If the U.S. Congress imposed inflation-targeting as a
statutory mandate on the Federal Reserve, such that the money supply
grew at the rate of long-run productivity growth in the U.S. (and
adjusted interest rate policy to counteract productivity shocks)
would this resolve the libertarian gripe with fiat money? It seems
that such a policy would lead to price stability and a constant
purchasing value of the dollar, which are the objectives
libertarians seem to be espousing.
MY SHORT ANSWER:
Libertarians object to the Federal Reserve
and other central banks because they ultimately steal the wealth of
the citizenry through a mechanism that causes price inflation.
Central banks expand the money supply at will, thereby diluting the
purchasing power of the average person's salary and savings.
Since its inception, the Fed has diluted the U.S.
dollar down to about 8% of its original purchasing power (see Figure
9.2 on p. 138 of my book, "Healing Our World," 2003 edition). Thus,
over 90% of the wealth created in the U.S. over the last century has
been stolen, almost invisibly, from the average American. You can
see why families and retirees have trouble making ends meet and can
never seem to get ahead!
Europeans have had an almost identical experience.
The even greater expansion of the money supply in many Third World
countries is a significant contributor to poverty there.
Here's how it works. The banks lend the new money
to the government, collecting interest. The government officials,
like our representatives in Congress, get to spend the money on
their pet projects without visibly raising taxes and angering
voters. As the new money is spent, it drives up prices. The average
person pays these inflated prices long before their cost-of-living
wage increase. Those on fixed incomes can buy less and less each
year.
Certainly, a central bank which maintained
constant purchasing power would be inflating less, and thus stealing
less, than the Fed does now. However, most central banks are
established for the express purpose of expanding the money supply so
that governments can borrow the new money and deficit spend. Most of
our representatives don't want this to change.
However,
we do have a few honest politicians left. Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX),
former Libertarian Party presidential candidate (1988), is leading
the charge to end the Fed. You can learn more about his efforts
on this issue at his Web site: http://www.house.gov/paul/
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How Can I Help Bring
About a Free Society?
QUESTION:
How can I personally help bring about a free society?
MY SHORT ANSWER:
Each of us has a special role to play in
moving our nation, and the world, towards liberty. Only you can
decide what role fits you best.
A good way to start your exploration might be to
attend meetings of a local libertarian group. Your contacts there
can help you learn more about libertarianism, expose you to
different types of political activism, and help you network with
education-oriented libertarian nonprofit groups. In all likelihood,
you'll find yourself drawn to certain activities which inspire your
creativity and dedication. You'll be most effective "doing what
comes naturally."
Of course, changing the world generally entails
changing ourselves. We've all been brought up in a culture that pays
lip service to liberty, while attempting to enslave. Don't be
surprised if you need to rethink some of your most cherished
beliefs. We all go through it!
Clearly, helping to
create a libertarian world requires a great deal of our time, effort,
and/or money. At times, it seems easier to simply let other people
shoulder the burden or to shrug it off because we can't imagine
how our statist world will ever become free. However, I have discovered
that in doing my small part to change the world, I myself have been
internally transformed. Perhaps our own personal "reward"
depends, not so much on our success, but on our willingness to do
all in our power to achieve it.
* * *
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:
http://www.TheAdvocates.org/Merchant2/merchant.mvv.
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Soundbites
for
Liberty |
"A
free and prosperous society has no fear of anyone entering it. But
a welfare state is scared to death of every poor person who tries
to get in and every rich person who tries to get out." -- Harry
Browne (1933-2006), Liberty A to Z: 872 Libertarian Soundbites
You Can Use Right Now
"One of the annoying things about believing in free will and
individual responsibility is the difficulty of finding somebody
to blame your problems on. And when you do find somebody, it's remarkable
how often his picture turns up on your driver's license." --
P.J. O'Rourke
"I favor free trade in drugs for the same reason the Founding
Fathers favored free trade in ideas: in a free society it is none
of the government's business what ideas a man puts into his mind;
likewise, it should be none of its business what drugs he puts into
his body." -- Thomas Szasz, On Liberty
and Drugs
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