This forum is about to get a lot more interesting.

[LeftishBrit]

60. What I mean is that the right-wing think that the rich should have untrammeled rights to make money

without regulation, and to be relieved of any duty to pay taxes to help poorer people to survive, let alone reach any position of economic equality.

For example, the following from Ron Paul's speech 'A Republic If You Can Keep It', which he keeps posted on his own website:

....The modern-day welfare state has steadily grown since the Great Depression of the 1930s. The federal government is now involved in providing health care, houses, unemployment benefits, education, food stamps to millions, plus all kinds of subsidies to every conceivable special-interest group. Welfare is now part of our culture, costing hundreds of billions of dollars every year. It is now thought to be a "right," something one is "entitled" to. Calling it an "entitlement" makes it sound proper and respectable and not based on theft. Anyone who has a need, desire, or demand and can get the politicians' attention will get what he wants, even though it may be at the expense of someone else. Today it is considered morally right and politically correct to promote the welfare state. Any suggestion otherwise is considered political suicide.

.....It is now accepted that people who need (medical) care are entitled to it as a right. This is a serious error in judgment.


....The welfare system has mocked the concept of marriage in the name of political correctness, economic egalitarianism, and hetero-phobia.'


And clarifying his attitude to foreign policy:

....Any academic discussion questioning the wisdom of our policies surrounding World War II is met with shrill accusations of anti-Semitism and Nazi lover. No one is even permitted without derision by the media, the university intellectuals, and the politicians to ask why the United States allied itself with the murdering Soviets and then turned over Eastern Europe to them...'


So let's see. Paul is totally against any form of welfare state, even in its current American sense (very limited compared with most other developed countries); considers benefits for poor people to be 'theft'; does not think that people are entitled to medical care. Moreover, he is so isolationist or anti-Soviet or both, that he would apparently rather have had Hitler take over Europe than have an alliance between America and the Soviet Union during the war.

I realize that not everyone who calls themselves 'libertarian' has the same identical views as Ron Paul; but I think that most do at least on economic issues.