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Entry: Deductive Politics Link: http://www.takimag.com/sniperstower/article/deductive_politics#26377 Post contents: @ Tom Piatak, My apologies for misspelling your name. As to your assertion on tariffs. We have gone back and forth on that subject at length. It was, and is, not my intention to reopen that debate. My point was that tariffs were simply another tax, which would expand an already oppressive government. I indicated that, if income tax was exchanged for tariffs, there could at least be a discussion of the benfits of one vs. the other. However, to propose tariffs, without the eradication of the income tax, would simply expand government--to the detriment of its citizens. That seems to be the lodestone of the Neo-con movement to me (a big government is "ok" as long as its "our" big government)--the War in Iraq being a symtom of the disease. The tariff is also a form of wealth transfer, from one segment of the economy to another, with the govermnment sucking its percentage from the river as it flows by--thereby screwing things up even more than it already has. Mr. Roach has made it clear he has no qualms about government intervention in our every day lives--because he doesn't like certain groups within our society--and is willing to use laws to accomplish ends unrelated to those laws--which I find morally indefensible. You agreed with him. It seems to me that, ultimately, both of you want to use the government as a mechanism to accomplish your ideological ends. That's how I define "Neo-con" Sent at: 2008 12 02