[259] in libertarians
Re: liberals support civil liberties?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (castillo@media.mit.edu)
Tue Sep 27 00:31:01 1994
To: libertarians@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 26 Sep 94 23:14:10 EDT."
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Date: Tue, 27 Sep 94 00:30:02 -0400
From: castillo@media.mit.edu
>>The purpose was to show that the simple model "liberals are
>>for civil liberties, conservatives are for economic freedom" doesn't
>>always hold. One could also give a list of economic restrictions favored
>>by conservatives.
>
>Well said. The temptation recently though, seems to be to forgive
>conservatives a bit more for their "transgressions" than liberals.
>
>Vernon
One thing to keep in mind is that the right wing excesses of conservatives
have many more judicial (esp. Supreme Court) impediments than the left
wing excesses of liberals. On many issues (school prayer, abortion,
flag burning, etc.) the courts have consistently upheld limitations on
government intrusion into our lives. To date there has never been a
court ruling that eliminated any bureaucratic regulation, tax rate or
entitlement program...no matter how oppressive the burden.
Can you say "97% marginal tax rate?"
This is not to endorse the freedom-stealers of any political persuasion.
But we're a bit safer with some grumbling by the right about prayer than
with whining by the left about fairness.
"make lots of money", "enjoy the work", "operate within the law": choose 2
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