[Phloydrix]

Originally Posted by Raised Fist

Yeah, but a lot of the taxes we pay are bullshit. We pay to fund programs that don't use the money correctly. And yeah, sorry, I don't want my money going to some asshole who doesn't have a job. I work for my money, I'd like to keep it.

Some gov agencies don't spend taxpayer money wisely, but that doesn't necessarily mean the agency should be scrapped, it can be amended. Gov agencies are created in the first place because there is a problem to be solved that the free market isn't taking care of by itself.

So what if he isn't the only one? HE'S RUNNING FOR FUCKING PRESIDENT, thats why it actually means something.

But he's not the only anti drug war candidate running for president was the other posters point...

So we make it federal? SWEET, I really want to pay for OTHER people's health! Private sector will drive down prices with competition.

You already do that in a sense anways. 80% of the money that goes to healthcare pays for 20% of the patients, and those 20% are the reason everything is so expensive. If healthcare became completely privatized would still be very expensive (we do have the most privatized healthcare of any first world country) and people who couldn't afford operations would be kicked to the curb. Universal healthcare works, and providing this necessity is a moral obligation a government owes to its citizens.

When minimum wage goes up, so does unemployment.

Do you have any data to support this? Minimum wage was implemented because the free market can be abused and many factory owners were able to get away with paying their workers shit wages for working 16 hour shifts. These regulations were put in place for a good reason, we shouldn't get rid of them. We've seen what happens without them.

I'd take a look at the FDA's record since it was created. You know how much toxic shit slipped through, while safe products are put under the mircroscope? The FDA and Big Business go hand in hand.

FDA isn't perfect, but it's better than having no FDA. Can you imagne what type of dangerous shit the pharmaceutical industry would be flooding the market with if there was no one to keep them in check? Haven't you heard news stories about how the FDA prevented so-and-so from releasing a new pill because of the dangerous side effects? You would really be comfortable with these companies being allowed to sell any type of pill they want? Before the FDA was invented, there was plenty of meat with diseases and other nasty shit in it that made people sick. The free market does not provide enough incentive to deter drug companies from taking dangerous shortcuts; government intervention is necessary.

And why is there so many people who only support him cause of his stance on the drug war? Oh holy shit, we are on a marijuana messageboard. No shit.

Just because there's an obvious reason for it, that doesn't excuse the stupidity of it.