From: peercy@crhc.uiuc.edu (Mike Peercy)
Newsgroups: talk.politics.misc,misc.taxes,alt.society.civil-liberty,pnw.general
Subject: Re: FW: news release: abolish IRS
Date: 7 Apr 92 07:01:53 GMT
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visser@convex.com (Lance Visser) writes:

| In <1992Apr4.085611.8063@eskimo.celestial.com> Corner.Core.Cafe writes:
| +>     The Libertarian Party is America's third largest and fastest growing
| +>political party. Libertarians believe "That government is best which governs
| +>least." The party supports civil liberties, a free market economy, and a
| +>non-interventionist foreign policy.

| 	The party also supports the "right" of private discrimination in
| employment, housing, and "service".  

Yes.

| 	They believe that it is wrong to
| have laws that require doctors to help at the scene of an accident or
| an emergency.

May I remind you of the Thirteenth Amendment?  "Neither slavery nor
involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the
party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United
States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction."

| 	They believe in repealing the various neutrality acts that prevent
| corporations from forming and supporting armies aboard and overthrowing
| governments abroad.

As well as repealing the various war powers acts that make anyone but
Congress able to commit the US to war.

I admit it is a frightening prospect having corporations fighting wars in
foreign lands to acquire resources.  But wars are very, very expensive.
Review your history.  When has a corporation gone alone into a war?
Corporations virtually always (no exception strikes me now) convince
their governments to fight the wars, and the taxpayers to pay for them. 
I do not anticipate companies alone forking over the kind of cash it would
take to unsettle some region in which they have interest.

| 	They believe in repeal of the child labor laws and the minimum wage.

If a child is being treated as a slave, then try the driver (parent and/or
employer) on servitude charges.  Don't just have some silly age or work
activity limit on children.  Repealing the minimum wage speaks for itself.

| They believe in repeal of compulsory vaccination laws and in the establishment
| of a free market for human body parts.

Yes.  That pesky Thirteenth Amendment again.  If one doesn't own one's
body, what does one own?

| 	They oppose laws requiring either air-bags or seat belts to be 
| provided as standard equipment in cars. 

Yes.

| 	In regard to the environment they believe that "strict liability, 
| not government agencies should regulate pollution."  They do not speak of
| what happens when the liable entity has ceased to exist through bankruptcy,
| disillusion or lack of funds.

Exactly what happens today?  Superfund?  Uh-huh.  I think you'd find
corporate third party liability increasing in a libertarian society,
especially for the officers.

If anything like the EPA exists, its functions should be investigation and
prosecution _only_.  It should not have the right of law-writing, license,
and fine that it currently has.  Or would you suggest that the DEA, FBI,
and even your local police department have the powers of the EPA?

Mike Peercy
peercy@crhc.uiuc.edu
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