The post I just did Liberty? We Can’t Afford It – Says Coulter got me to thinking about how to end the welfare state. Coulter is incensed that welfare money would be going to support dopers if drugs were legalized (as if that isn’t the case currently).
Well Ann is not too bright. Just think of the demand to end the welfare state if drugs were legalized Ann. First we get more liberty and that causes a demand for more liberty. Make the jump to lightspeed Ann.
Cross Posted at Power and Control
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5 responses to “How To End The Welfare State”
do it on your island/oil rig first and get back to us.
As if paying people to take drugs wouldn’t be cheaper than all the money spent on suppressing the drug trade?
Newrouter,
The Swiss have voted to legalize heroin Twice.
BTW you aren’t on the Drug War Gravy Train are you? I would be soooo disappointed if that were the case.
People like Coulter, and all other supporters of the WOD for that matter, can always point to the costs of drug abuse, but the costs of prohibition (in both dollars spent and human misery meted out) never seem to enter the equation for them.
Conservatives like Coulter talk a good game about personal responisiblity and accountability, yet the drug poilicies that they support and the calamatous results from those policies are not their fault in their minds.
The thing that gets me is when you point out the obvious injustice in the drug laws (comparing laws over alcohol to pot for example) to an Ann Coulter, the Coulter’s of the world act as if it’s nothing. Get that. Injustice is nothing. Some how their alledged superior moral reasoning skills allows them to dismiss this obvious injustice as a trivial concern. Then they’re off to their next bit of flag waving in the name of liberty, freedom and justice. It’ makes me want to puke.
IIRC, David Friedman used a similar argument to defend open borders.