Gavin McInnis on Baby Boomers

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(05-22-2016, 03:41 AM)Galen Wrote: The Classical Liberals weren't perfect but they are vastly superior to what is called liberal now.

It is interesting you bring up Classical Liberalism. More and more it seems like I'm being pulled into that direction.

Quote:I am going to correct you about saying that the US has free trade and it doesn't.

I think that is mostly a linguistic quibble much like how the Regressive Left is typically called liberal when they have absolutely nothing to do with Liberalism (in the classical sense) and much more to do with psuedo-Marxist and idealistic socialism.

Quote:  It doesn't take agreements thousands of pages long to get free trade.  If you want to get rid of the income tax then a much smaller government and revenue tariff is one of the better ways to go about it.

Quite true. It isn't fair trade either. NAFTA, CAFTA and TPP really are signing over economic sovereignty for cheap imported goods.

As for the size of government, I would say it is the federal government that must be smaller. State Governments are limited in their size by more natural means and an inability to run up sovereign debt.