From: szabo@techbook.com (Nick Szabo)
Subject: Re: Questions about the TEN POINT PARTY PROGRAM.
Organization: TECHbooks --- Public Access UNIX --- (503) 220-0636
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 10:53:57 GMT

In article <4232@winnie.fit.edu> baggs@zach.fit.edu ( Rhoda A. Baggs) writes:
>
>1)  As part of their 10 Point Party Program the party doesn't address
>    welfare reforms or homelessness.  However they do propose no federal
>    income tax... so am I to assume that all federally funded programs 
>    would be dropped (instead of financed another way)?

The LP has the most effective strategy for homelessness -- get rid of
middle-class-standard zoning and building requirements that raise the cost 
of housing construction beyond the means of the poor.  Give away
all federally owned housing to its inhabitants, and get rid of 
the bureacrats that are ruining their lives. The welfare strategy
is to eliminate the minimum wage, which forces of millions of low-skill 
workers into unemploymnent, and to let the voluntary charities resume 
their proper role as safety net.  

The personal income tax only pays for 1/3 of federal spending.  The
rest is payed from corporate taxes, tarriffs, borrowing, etc.  The
LP would phase out the personal income tax, but cut government spending
faster in order to eliminate the deficit.  The LP would start selling
the vast amounts of potentially valuable land the Feds are letting go 
to waste -- Camp Pendelton, the Presidio, and much of the federal lands 
being wasted by the DOE.  (If nature parks are ever sold, it would be to
groups like Nature Conservancy, who buy up land and protect it much
better than the U.S. government, which often lets lumber companies
commit subsidized rape). The proceeds could be around $2 trillion over 8
years, which would pay off half the national debt.  Developing places
like Camp Pendelton (on the coast of California between LA and SD) would 
provide millions of new homes and jobs in the private sector.  No other 
party, nor Ross Perot, has come up with such an effective strategy for 
getting our fiscal house back in order and reenergizing our economy.

>2)  Would the libertarian party necessarily have a stricter policy on
>    repeat offenders/criminals, or weaker, or the same?

Victimless crimes would be eliminated, freeing up law enforcement to
go after real criminals.  Law enforcement would more effective
with far less violation of civil rights.  Drug-related violent 
and property crimes would fade away, just as alchohol-related 
gangs faded away after prohibition.

>3)  Can somebody in the know give details on their education-reform
>    point?  A "voucher system" is mentioned but not explained.

Well answered in another post.

>4)  The Libertarians accuse the present administration of preventing
>    educators from educating about AIDS research, treatment, etc.  Is
>    this true?

Yes.  The FDA has banned or delayed a wide variety of AIDS treatments,
just as it delays nearly every drug for 10-15 years, long after they
have been proven effective.  Tens of millions have died because of
these delays, from a wide variety of diseases including AIDS.
The FDA has banned an entire class of substances intended enhance 
health rather than merely treat illness, and it bans vitamin companies 
from communicating the results of fully scientific studies showing the 
various effects of their products.  It has replaced the scientific method 
with a regulatory empire.  The LP will phase out the FDA alongside 
deregulation of the health insurance industry, so that insurers are 
allowed to implement the necessary safety rules in their contracts. 
Again, the LP comes out with an effective health-care reform policy, 
while the Demublicans continue mumbling about the failed centrally
planned systems of yesteryear.

>5) Answered above.

>6)  Any comments on their open policy towards immigration?

The LP will never give out any freebies to immigrants, but it
will always welcome those who want to come here and work.
Immigrants will continue to play a vital role in making
America great.  No restrictions on emigration either, from
the LP.  No Berlin Walls in America, either to keep people
in or out.


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