@OCapitalista:
Well said.
@Conservative Anarchists such as MrTouchdown:
Get real.
On the one hand it is true the New Black Panthers engage in voter intimidation in the Democrats’ favor and Democrats return the favor by covering for them and refusing to prosecute. And that’s just the tip of the iceberg — Chicago is famous for turning death certificates into voter ID’s.
On the other hand if people are truly ready to cut spending and pay their own way they can vote for fiscal responsibility any time they wish, and all the vote fraud in all the Democratically-controlled precincts in all the nation couldn’t hold us back.
We do need government and we do have politicians responsive to people who vote. If you’re tired of nanny-state politicians telling you to eat your Brussels sprouts while they gorge on deep-dish pizza then do something about it, and by “something” I don’t mean grow your own crops and make your own pizza.
Mr. Rubenfeld is onto something, he’s just fallen victim to over-reach. His criteria are confused and unfocused because they are excessive in number and needlessly divisive. It’s ironically sort of like the problem with Big Government.
Let’s slash those criteria to one: control spending. If you build smaller government good government will come. If we hold politicians accountable to their spending, and that’s easy to do because there are already organizations such as Citizens Against Government Waste and CATO who have been fighting this crap for decades, if we hold them to account for excess spending the non-government economy will prosper and we will have the freedom to build a better nation.
If that means Bible school and Christian charity for Vik Rubenfeld, paid for with money saved from tax cuts, he gets what he wants without using government coercion to get it, and instead of freaking people out with scary talk of theocracy he sets a good example for what it means to be a Christian.
It would work the same for proponents of green energy or light rail. Turn a profit purely on the strength of your own vision measured by voluntary paying customers and the whole world will hail your genius instead of half of them — the smart half — calling you out as a corporate welfare parasite.
Freedom is funny that way … “transformative” is the word.
