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Dear Editor:
A recent V-P editorial lamented the times for having political
candidates that offer to spend, spend and spend, but talk very little
about collecting the taxes to pay for what they spend.
Your editorial staff (incredibly) endorsed the idea that few, if
any, American citizens should be reliant on government for their
everyday needs.
As the
editorial seems to acknowledge, spending tax money to cure just about
any social ill is usually ineffective and always overpriced.
The practice of paying for the citizens’ needs also feeds the
dependent mentality so essential to how things are right now.
But the remedy suggested by the editorial could hardly have been
more 20th Century American liberal in its fundamental
assumptions. All the
country needs are political leaders with enough shame over the hypocrisy
and fraud inherent in what their pollsters advise them to compel them,
instead, to confess the truth.
We just have been electing the wrong people: read conservatives.
If our nation could just raise the selfless band of Rooseveltian
seers that our political system requires in its leadership we could then
have effective, fairly priced government services.
When prophets do begin to rule in Washington and Richmond I
suppose the nation will not mind the tyranny that is democratic
socialism.
There will be no
confusion when it happens because prophets will always be easily
identified by just about everyone.
Until then, it is prudent to assume we will have to make do with
the present band of political leaders with their self-interest and
power-mongering hypocrisy.
Indeed, are these not the very people drawn to socialist political
office?
Did not such people
play hard and dirty to get to the top in the first place?Dorothy, there is no Santa Claus.
Instead, vote to diminish fraud and hypocrisy in government:
elect the Libertarian Party of Virginia.
It is the only political party in this Commonwealth that stands
for the freedom that America used to enjoy.
Stephen Merrill, LIBERTARIAN PARTY OF VIRGINIA
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