Your Questions for Ron Paul and Lew Rockwell

my introductions this morning oh yeah that's Lou and this is Ron now what we're going to do here in this Q&A is I'm going to read some of the submitted questions and then when we've gone through the submitted questions we'll take questions from the audience [Applause] [Music] not in my estimation tariffs or taxes it makes no sense I think tariffs are are not worth even giving it serious thought it really doesn't improve things temporarily it's a good political stunt and it seems like it's logical well we're gonna punish them and we hear hear it announced that if we put all these tariffs on China you know just think about it all that money China is gonna have to give us and I think that's not the way I understand tariffs it means it that our government's gonna take more money from the American taxpayer I usually summarize it by saying what do you have it against poor people who would like to buy tennis shoes for $15 and you want them to buy tennis shoes for $100 so I would say no no tariffs and it's a tough sell you know politically and it's very popular it's been around for a long time but he seems like we went many decades and most economists no matter what persuasion they were of we're generally opposed to to the tariffs but right now it's been softened and it amazes me that on the one hand it's the best economy we've ever had in the history of the United States at the same time we're in desperate shape and everybody is ruining us and therefore we have to retaliate and we want to put on tariffs I think it's foolish I think it's a big mistake [Applause] for me I'd make just a sure a quick addendum to that Frederic Bastiat said that when Goods don't cross borders armor the armies do and we can see the increased hostility that these tariffs on China have caused between China in the US we used to be friends trading massively now it's hostility will it actually lead to a war we can pray and hope not but it's very dangerous from that standpoint - question for Lu what can we do to counteract the influence of the lamestream media to include Facebook and Twitter it's a great question in fact we're gonna have a conference in like Jackson Texas with dr. Paul where we talk about all the alternative media the good alternative media as versus the bad alternative media as versus the evil lamestream media and dr. Paul's TV show is an important aspect of getting around these people and we'll I think that we just need more we need more websites we need more [Music] circumventing of the Facebook and Twitter and there are people who are producing competition for them still very small of course but we need to support that as well and it's a tough battle but I think it can be done already I think good alternative media attracts a huge number of people which is why of course they're censoring us and trying to put us out of business PayPal won't accept contributions for bad guys and you know quote-unquote and that sort of thing but I think it can be done I think I think there's going to be some good news coming up I think the left just this Cavanagh hearing has shown that people are upset with them people are more and more upset with them they're not believing them and so this is our time and you know the Mises Institute website LRC website there's there's there's a we have a lot of readers we're gonna have more readers and that's the way to do it but it's it's a difficult situation no question but I think Facebook Twitter and all the rest of them are actually are we already see them going down their stock prices going down employees leaving them they're still of course extremely powerful but I think they're more and more being seen as biased and left-wing and people who like that well they can of course go there but just one additional point more and more young people don't use Facebook I mean people under teenagers don't use Facebook kids in the 20s tend not to use Facebook either that's a very different situation than a few years ago so there's good stuff happening we just need to do while we can to encourage it I think Lou has a perfect answer for that and that's very good and we should be more optimistic about the alternatives but you know there is an opening one thing that I think we should demand is that they are and social media is an arm of the government but there are also private so to speak but the arm of the government when they start releasing private information to the government you know in secret and they keep spying on us it seems like there we should deny them from ever getting any funds from the government and of course the government funds helped establishment there so this is not private market so it makes it more difficult but under the circumstances I don't know if we have much more we can do there's probably at times when they could be reined in by denying funding and and used you know to spy on us but it's a it's a tough thing but there are alternatives and I think back in more more simpler times when we had maybe three TV stations and a couple newspapers well they were they were on monopoly then but what was the answer you know there are more radio stations more TV station then I thought boy the Internet is going to be an answer to all this and to degree it is I think the Mises Institute has done great because they're in better shape and say the Liberty report because we still you know have we said we still make use of it because on there we have a lot of friends 1.3 1.4 million and but all of a sudden many people know that they have done this you know with the new rules and regulation so emotionally there's certainly a mixed vat battling here but there are times when you think they're using you know taxpayers money to use private industry it's a it is a form of fascism as far as I'm concerned but in the mean time we'll do exactly what Lou say we should build the alternative and even if the origin of our of our history they had pamphleteering and I think that a lot modern-day pamphleteering to overcome you know the organized media in fact we have some libertarians who argue that you really can't criticize Facebook Google Twitter and so forth because they're private but of course I think in Poe in some sense is dr. Paul points out there in their foundations they were not private they had government money government help from the cia's firms that give give money to companies that they like that are starting up so it's MIT's and I think the more we can criticize them the more we can expose their true nature to people not call for regulation obviously but the more we can criticize them the better off we are the more we can diminish their their their value that's important as well okay - Ron what do you think the most important or biggest issue for our country is or the world today the protection of Liberty and it's not more complicated than that because but it requires first everybody having a general agreement what Liberty is all about and of course that's the fundamentals of the understanding of natural rights the right to our life in our Liberty and then applying some rules to it and the rules aren't complicated they've been around for a few thousand years you know we didn't invent the libertarian rules of non-aggression you know a long time they've been talking about no no lying cheating stealing and hurting people they've been around for thousands of year so that simple rule and then recognize that everybody as a sovereign person and that it's individual and I think the big effort that I make is trying to show how much better off we would be most people think yes but you know after 9/11 it would come to me yes Ron you're right about this don't sacrifice any of your Liberty for safety and security but you don't really have to have that choice besides it is it is the the principle of Liberty when it's enforced that's when we do well I mean that's when you have the middle class that's when you have development and all this so it's the protection of Liberty and I think what I gave my last speech in Congress there's a lot of points that you can make along this line but in along the line of understanding Liberty I said you know the one thing that we really ought to work hard is to understand and protect the First Amendment which means that we should never be closed down by the government as long as we can't distribute and exercise our right to explain our position and express ourselves I think then we have to stand on our own merits we get we don't have to get any help at all so being able to do that that of course is why I think the Mises Institute has done such a great job in the midst of all this mess that we're putting on and more importantly and I think Lulu is absolutely right there they're giving up on the alternative and I think some of this chaotic stuff is really pretty good and I love to see these statistics and they says 78% of the people don't trust the government that's nice pretty good okay for Lu what inspired you to found the Ludwig von Mises Institute well I had known Mises a little bit in the 1960s when I was his editor for bringing back some of his books into print and publishing a couple of new monographs as well and Oliver Vick at the day that my boss Neal McCaffrey at the president of Arlington I was publishers and by the way his grandson is Matt McCaffrey who's one of our scholars today called me into his office and he said Lou how'd you like to be editor Faludi von mises yeah so I mainly dealt with margot von mises in all of this but I'd already had been reading Mises and this in my relationship with the two of them brought me even more interested in his work and some years later after his death and I was working for a think-tank at Emory University and I became concerned that more and more the Austrian schools that existed at that time was diminishing and in in influence and the Mises was not getting anything like thee as a matter of fact it happened all during his life was not getting anything like the attention he should have as a great hero as well as a great scholar and so I because I was an associate director of this thing this think tank these two things came together that I thought well I can do this I can start one of these so I after I got I filled out all the IRS forms myself I didn't even have a lawyer and as soon as I got a permission for a non-profit and for the ability to receive tax deductible contributions I gave my notice and and got going and yet but it was really was my concern that the instant that Mises the man and the Austrian school was losing and it had never been huge but it was losing the stand for losing the influence the influence that it had and I think today you know it's we've got far more influence we're still very much a minority movement but we're hugely influential as compared to those days and Mises is much better known all over the world Murray Rothbard of course - and I first approached margot von mises after i decided to do this in a stir if he'd be our chairman and she very graciously agreed and she was not just a figurehead I mean she was as Murray Rothbard called her a one man Mises industry I mean she was so intent on all his books being in print and all his works being translated into as many languages as possible and she was just a huge help dr. Ron Paul was a gigantic help and I am financing the Institute in the beginning and using his influence to help us and Murray Rothbard agreed to be our academic head how could we lose with those three people so we didn't and so we're still small but far better than we were and Mises is known all over the world today his works are known broth bards works are known and in that way we're making just gigantic progress so have to thank Marie and Margit olivia von mises as well maybe they're looking down on us for all that they did I can attest to the fact that I was a poor graduate student here at Auburn University when Lou drove up in an old station wagon with a few boxes of pamphlets and I was really worried because his car was older than my car okay this is to both of you what do you think about president Trump's actions and statements on Venezuela the economic and personal sanctions imposed but as well as the military option which President Trump still says is are on the table it doesn't quite fit my qualifications for a non interventionist foreign policy way too much intervention doesn't mean that we should totally ignore the world and and not talk about it but if we're going to export anything it should be ideas and it should be exporting you know setting an example so if there's if socialism fails down there it doesn't require our military action to deal with it because that has something to do with socialism fascism too but you can't you can't spread ideas and these threats and intimidation and sanctions they're just horrible it undone does the whole thing so no I think it's completely wrong but wait'll Safari might change you know his a position might change you know so we don't know but on Venezuela as he is on Iran a pretty consistent way too much involvement and at one time we said something positive on the program about you know opening up the doors in a conversation with North Korea and that was back and forth and now that's a lot better than it was but obviously there's no consistent pattern that is why we at the Ron Paul Institute believe that promoting the best we can the principles of non-intervention is very important in foreign policy and rest of the you know personal liberties as well as economic policy but it's uh it's it's something that I think we have too much involvement and in the one thing that I've helped or at least I participated in and try to change is it was traditionally not a bad idea to use isolationism as a description of our viewpoint but politically I didn't like it because it sounds like you don't want to deal with the world and I think libertarians really want to deal with the world on voluntary terms instead of under military term so I want to be very much engaged travel trade sales and Prevention of Wars loop points on so I think that is quite a bit different so I don't want to isolate but if somebody wants to be isolated as an individual or a country that doesn't want to do much yet they still could do it but no I just I just like the idea of non interventionist mind our own business you know if it's pretty amazing that there was one time and I'm looking at a george w bush's campaign and careers i thought wow maybe this is okay and that was in the year 2000 when he expressed his foreign policy if you go back and look at it it was non-intervention mine our own business and you know treat people differently but of course that was just talk to appeal to a few people who might have libertarian leanings but someday matter of fact I'm not even too pessimistic about this it's it's a mess but it costs a lot of money and if you think that it's gonna last forever we're kidding ourselves because all you have to do is think about how powerful those Soviets were but they came crashing down for financial economic reasons and I don't think that's we're that far off so therefore we are going to have an opportunity to spread the economic message of libertarianism as well as a foreign policy because we're not going to be able to afford it and there's gonna be a point where they will just not accept our dollars and that will be good news [Applause] one interesting thing about Venezuela the US has been attempting to overthrow the government ever since the Socialists came to power and they've staged cooze they haven't worked but it makes it easy for the Socialists to say it's not our policies that are causing all the disruption here in Venezuela it's deliberate US and CIA intervention which of course is going on so it's another reason not to intervene it gives the Socialists an excuse for their failures and it seems to me the Venezuelans are coming down on their own the idea that the US needs to invade them and kill a bunch of people strikes me as an outrageous idea and of course their many outrageous ideas in Washington okay for both excuse me this is run as a champion for liberty I'm sure your political career has had many difficulties but what do you think your biggest political successes have been you know I think I think there's several but they're nothing real dramatic it's not like last week we just ordered to defend no no no successes like that but I feel good about the idea now they're compared to when we had our last bust in o9 that there's a lot more people in this country now very critical and questioning you know the authenticity of that secret organization the Federal Reserve so I think they're they're more on the defense they're still very very powerful no but I'll tell you what I think the average person is much more aware of it and I've been impressed when I go to the college campuses there's still a lot of people on campuses will be very excited about you know talking about the fit and how how bad it is I think there's you know being a little contribution on the foreign policy obviously about how disastrous the wars have been but I think there's been some other successes of positions not only I have taken but the Libertarians have taken I think we've made great progress on the war on drugs you know it's a semi it's amazing to me because I remember you know I was out I was there for four terms and decided this place isn't for me I'm going back to medicine so I went back for 12 years and then I don't know who pushed me or why I did it but I said ran again in 96 after I had identified as a libertarian or in as a libertarian and I said you know what this is gonna be this is gonna be something because they're going to talk about drug with legalizing drugs and the first press conference I had for that that candidacy the first first question out of the press conferences what about this legalizing and drugs I always thought that first it would have destroyed my career it just running for Congress or it would just sort of bomb but you know I ran again never for Congress and and it never hurt so I figured the people are a lot smarter than the clowns in Washington because they think that is totally you know they might agree with with me on it but they were just totally in imitated that it would be a total disaster for a political career if you said something like you know the war on drugs isn't working so well you know and I've finally dawned on me that there's probably so many families that have been touched back then the kids that teenagers were putting in prison that they were caught well a little bit of marijuana and things like that so a lot of people had a lot of concern so I think they were way far but now legislation is caught up with it and I think it's also done one other thing that I've talked about a lot and that is you notification states even even the Liberals are not on vacation so so those kind of issues I think there's been a little bit of a more attention given and as on the side I tried to pass out a message to pay more attention to the Mises Institute that's where you'll get the good information let me just mention one thing about dr. Paul's career this is in 2008 when he was running and and there was a Republican debate in in Michigan and all the all the people running against him were saying hey how dare you criticize our economy our economy is great it's magnificent it's fantastic the Republicans are doing great and and of course that wasn't true but after the debate he had a had me a meeting at the University of Michigan with the students and they had to hold it in the quad because there were 4,000 kids who wanted to come to here Ron Paul and they started chanting on their own and the Fed and the Fed and one kid lit a dollar bill in health not but he's chanting and the Fed and they were all doing it so it's just one small incident of the kind of influence this man has had on our on our movement in our country and the whole world for that matter for good I did spend a lot of time on talking about the stupidity of those laws but it was at a debate I think it was in maybe it was North Carolina it was here I know it was a Christian Republican group and I thought well they'll like me I'm a Christian and I'm a conservative but it didn't seem to help because the question was you know a you know a loaded question about drugs you would legalize a you know all all drugs and so even heroin so I start off by saying all right it's this say we legalize heroin it's been illegal in this country at one time the world didn't come to an end but let's say we legalize heroin tomorrow how many people in this audience will be tempted to use heroin and nobody put up there but they kidded me about that later on some of the interviews they say who would have ever thought that Ron Paul could go in in the Bible Belt and and talk to him about heroin and get a lot of cheers of course that night I got a lot of booze Lou you might have tipped your head on the this next question for you I know you are adamantly against the idea of voting but do you think we can gradually vote our way to a smaller government by electing freedom candidates or do we need a revolution well I wouldn't say I'm adamantly against voting I don't vote and I don't think I don't think voting your your your vote your individual vote doesn't count because of course unless the election is decided by one vote you vote doesn't matter and it's a pain in the neck to go into that government office and go through all the harassment that they put voters like everybody else who encounters the government through and I think it's you know it's like a it's like a sacrament of the state and I don't choose to accept it but if people want to vote you know I'm going to go to it I wouldn't tell you not to do it but I don't think voting is the answer I don't think with the exception of Ron Paul now I will say that all the votes he got and all the influence he had and it's by the way worldwide I mean remember Robert the greatest economic historian Robert Higgs telling me about his where he was in Brazil and he went into this small village and there was a Ron Paul sign and then all the kids were interested in Ron Paul and right he was just thrilled so Ron used his political his political position as as a bully pulpit used his elections to spread the truth about everything that was facing the country I don't see anybody else doing that by the way but if they do do it more power to them and but I think voting is the answer to our freedoms I must say I don't and I yes as Hans hopper has shown the wider the franchise the more people voting the less freedom there is so that we as a country were far better off when when people had their own property and for exempt us to take one example in order to vote and was when now everybody can vote we have a Leviathan state and these are not unconnected is not unconnected things okay and this is for both of you in the several decades that you have spent in the Liberty movement are you encouraged or discouraged by the amount and rate of progress being made I'm encouraged matter of fact if I speak to a group of college kids I talk about the bankruptcy company and coming and the wars that were involved in and all the problems that we have the attack on civil liberties and it gets down you know my average talk would be say 40 minutes or so and but the last five minutes is to talking about you know the answer because they say well this is overwhelming and the answer of course I don't think it's complicated at all sometimes just to simplify I said you know if you want to start just have people read the Constitution and try to use that as a guideline you know but it isn't I don't just don't think that the answer is in Congress and voting I don't believe we're going to have all of a sudden and influx of libertarian minded people we have three four five six you know that are that are good and few pretty good but that is not the way it's going to occur even though I do believe that the only real revolution real change comes from the prevailing attitudes of the people what they they endorse and that's all system of government so it's a it's a something that I think will come and that's where I'm optimistic is the change in attitude and times and and and and the internet as bad as it's turned out to be an ass how challenging it's been and the incident that Lou described to me who and this was even before before much of the campaign had gotten in this was early this was this was a reflection not of me I probably wasn't that well-known at that time but that issue is well known but it's well known because of Austrian economics and sound money is out there and there are some college kids out there that know about it so I think I think we're making progress I think there's going to be a collapse I don't think we're going to transition out of this and I think there's a much better chance but that doesn't mean I let up and say oh okay we've done enough but it all depends on the education changing people's minds and it's young people and remember it's not a numbers game you don't have to have you don't have to have 51% you have to have a minority that's a irate and are willing to champion the cause of Liberty and will out and do it and I think it's out there but it still needs a lot more boosting and all but it will not happen that and I think Lou touched on the real reason is it's a bully pulpit a chance you know I always wanted to deal an issue of ideas and I had nothing no way to get involved in the early 70s and the Bretton Woods thing was you know occurring so I decided nobody else in Texas wanted to run for that particular seat so I did it just to speak out you know so it was a it was a vehicle but I was speaking out on my terms and Eve quite frankly I thought nobody would pay any attention and even when I started in the presidential race I was convinced I know nobody's gonna pay attention so there's something out there and I think the people are starved for our message and that's why everybody has this obligation you know to go out and do whatever they do and when people ask me what to do it's like I have a mess you know I have a list of things that you have to do know everybody has to figure out where their most valuable and even if it's just taking your mailing list and sending it materials and talking to people but every everybody has an obligation I'm sure there's plenty of people in this room ever started their own organization and they're reaching a lot of people so that's where the real revolution that's where I'm optimistic I want to say like Ron I'm extremely optimistic and I see it in the young people and just huge numbers of I mean they're far more Austrian economists teaching in American universities today than I've ever been the case by many magnitudes still just a few compared to Keynes Ian's or monetarists but still it's an advancement I also see it in the in the increasing intelligence and character and abilities of the students were attracting I mean they really are extraordinary young people who are going to achieve who have achieved and we're going to achieve much for them for their own careers and for our for our movement so I think it's i think that there's every reason to hope as Ron points out far more people are aware of the fed former people are aware of what the government intervention in the economy does so when the collapse comes it's not going to be we can certainly hope like 29 where where it's easy for a Roosevelt to come in and establish a dictatorship excuse me yeah we have will have our problems but we have a much better chance today and we all just have to keep working keep spreading the word start a website compile a mailing list speak to organizations there's so much everybody can do to help spread the word and it's it's working will it be in time well we just have to when prey that is in time but we're in much better shape than we ever have been and certainly since the 19th century yeah I have the last of the submitted joint questions but before I give that I'd like to point out that I asked that very question of Murray Rothbard at the first me sis university I ever went to and he said very clearly and distinctly he said that in the short run he's very pessimistic if you look around it always seems like there's plenty of bad things but he said in the long run if you look at the long run timeframe he said he was very very optimistic okay the last of the submitted questions if each of you had a genie in a bottle and could ask the genie to fulfill one or three wishes what would you wish for abolish the government my mind would be very similar that all all activity social economic whatever would be on a voluntary basis no coercion okay first question well of course we should be concerned and under the original plan they would have been a lot more important than they are today but I I think that the states it was left up to the states to have individual constitutions but I'm not quite sure the point does that mean shouldn't you worry about the loss of Liberty at the state level I would say yes that is - so you just go down if we if people polish government that means you will have a lot less government all the way up and down and it would voluntarily it's quite different you have voluntary government - you have you know if you need rules and regulations that are going to be local and they'll be in your housing project or your condominiums or whatever there'll be some restraints made but it would all be voluntary but not by by governments that you know have you know power that they abused in which they've been doing for a long time so I think it would be developed they would be taken care of in the individual states you know if we if we drastically reduce the size and scope of the federal government and you had much more authority at the state level I think it would be more more more competitive I think the people in California would be quite different than the people in Texas and the one important thing that if we can get even if we don't get rid of the federal government but reduce it I think one thing that we ought to have in this rule if it's going to be voluntary is that when a state or state isn't you know happy with the federal government that they have easy access to secession [Applause] would return to the Constitution with just excise taxes and tariffs be better than what we have today abolishing income sales taxes in prop well I think almost anything could be better well we have today so it's really how much government you want if there's still a desire for that much government then yes I would be better the tax it that I despise the most is the income tax because the income that you have is a reflection of your energy so and it all belongs to you today the established principle no matter what the rate is the principle is established that you're ever that you put forth for your own benefit your family's benefit the results of that all belong to the government and then the government says what portion you can span under what condition so getting rid of the income tax would be a tremendous benefit now if you did will it down to a lot less taxes that it would be a big hell but ultimately the way you collect taxes is secondary to its secondary to the whole principle of spending I call spending is a tax because right now if the government spends another trillion dollars like you're going to you know this year another trillion dollars were the deficits you know what can they do raise the taxes wrote now they may I can't raise another taxes to balance the budget okay what can they do they can borrow they can borrow to a degree but eventually you know even under these circumstances you know the interest rates are going to go up so you have to monetize the debt so that they print the money but it's all attacks on the people because if you dilute the money the inflation tax goes to the middle class in the poor so it's the spending that counts and of course the spending precipitates the deficits so it's it's the it's the kind of thing that the spending and the principal and the role of government how big is going to be is the key issue and quite frankly I think we're I'm optimistic and we're going to be moving in the right direction and salvage a lot of the mess that we have but I don't think we're gonna reach you know to utopia where there's zero taxes but we have to aim for the very least amount and we have to get the government out of the business of regulating our lives policing the world and running the economy and you might be able come up with a text I don't think you know under those circumstances whether the user tax is the worst kind of tax in the world you know if if you don't use the highways why do you have to pay for it you know what we right now one thing at my hometown that I fought in Congress for a long time was the port port you had to always finance the port the port and they Lobby didn't they got everybody to pay for the pork and we have a port tax in our area it is all built for Dow Chemical always a chemical company why don't they pay for the poor and why don't they pay for the canal the user tax would get you around a lot of that and save this all this evil lobbying that they come to Washington DC what we have to do is you know lobby Congress for the for the bailout of course they've already collected it for that purpose but they spend it on something else and so it goes in the deficits so it has to be that has to be changed so I think user fees would help you know speaking to the question it's interesting that the southern conservatives argued for a what they call the Revenue tariff as versus a protective tariff to be the sole source or the major source of government funding and they argued that if you raise the tariff too high to make it a protective tariff which is what people in the North wanted that it would cut the income to the government and therefore they would have a incentive to keep it low like seizures at five percent who knows what if any of this would have worked but that's it's it's an interesting idea I think if we just had a five percent tariff I think you get rid of all the other taxes I think most of us would accept that as a pretty good deal yes for dr. Paul please back to China for a moment given I'd say their avowed premise that they want to overtake us economically and overtake us militarily is there anything that you would do with China to change our relationship and and understanding the tariffs their taxes I understand all that but is there anything to combat what China is trying to do against the United States well the one thing I think it's easier to say what we wouldn't do and that is to confront them unnecessarily there's there's no reason why we have to put our Navy in the South China Sea you know that's like what would we say if the Chinese had their ATAR Navy in the Gulf of Mexico you know we might not like that so I would say it's more what we shouldn't be doing and I think continue to offer the branch of trade they they need us to buy their stuff you know but nobody wants to take it into consideration ie if you want to sort some of that those trade problems you'd have to look at the monetary system we have license to steal through printing of money we have the we have the monopoly control of the reserve currency of the world and we take this and we export our inflation we send it to China we buy their stuff and we get in good prices and it's all China's fault so so the Chinese though and what do they do they don't go in excuse me they don't go and burn our Federal Reserve notes and shrink our money supply so we don't have inflation no they accommodate if they buy up our all our debt and the process continues so we have to break that up and I think the best thing we could do for China is admit the shortcomings on our part which contributes to it if they make mistakes and tax their people and different things that that's their problem but I think we would work very very hard to have better training relationships with it with China and you know if you look at the history of China they generally they have never been as aggressive worldwide with troops as we are we're in a hundred and seventy countries you know with military and we continue to do this China is you know expressing themselves better because you know they they should probably argue hey look we think we're getting a bum rap you've given us all this all this paper and it's losing its value so we're tired of this so my answer to that is not so much of what we would what we would do but what we would you should quit doing being free vaccines we choose how do we avoid public schools okay and I've thought a lot about this because you know to turn a switch in Reverse it's not going to be very easy so you had the goal I always has to be that you have to allow competition you have to get rid of the mandate so Obamacare was really wicked but the worst part was the mandate forcing everybody into it and that's the way with schools actually we've improved ourselves with with you know home schooling I mean it was worse in the early 80s and and it's better but that doesn't mean we're home free there's always going to be competition so yes there's still we still if you're determined to raise your kids outside the government schools you're able to and even though you pay twice you pay your taxes for school and then you pay for the private school but the private education Hope schooling education is so much less that you can survive that so the most important thing to protect the transition is protecting your right to compete money is the one thing that we worked on competing currencies the bills that I had on there is no sales tax and no capital gains tax so you wouldn't have to worry about and now we've recently we've had to with the campaign for Liberty that I work on we have helped to get it pass I think it was in Arizona and Wyoming where it's recognized that that gold and silver will not would not be taxed as money it's ridiculous you know if you decide to use American gold coins in American silver coins you're a criminal because you get hauled in by the IRA and they say well you know if if you if you have silver coins and you spend it well it's worth instead of $20 2500 a capital gain stag line no yes you have to protect the the right to compete with the government and there is a bit of that now the did you mention inoculations immune yeah that's another one it's tougher and it's getting harder on that but you there people can get around it but it is very difficult but it should be recognized we need more people educated to the danger without saying that we don't we're gonna pass a law and nobody's ever allowed to taking a vaccine again you know that would be ridiculous but it should mean that if you're gonna raise your kids and you understand there could be some danger the the the child can't make the decision it's your responsibility but you know you hear about parents going to prison you know for this for for not going along with inoculation that is a similar to the tax the government owns us and on vaccines the government owns the kids and that's the way that's why even though there is no draft now I've always fighting to get rid of the registration of the ground that means the government owns us yeah we don't need you today but tomorrow we might when we own you so it's always that message so we always have to go after that and give them a different message [Applause]

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Published: Wed Oct 03 2018