Thursday, August 05, 2004

Comparative Policital Parties

Just a quick comparison of politcal party planks.

  • Taxation
    LP: Repeal 16th Amendment; Amnesty for 'tax evaders'; oppose all personal and corporate income taxation, including capital gains taxes
    CP: Repeal the 16th; opposed to the flat-rate tax, national sales tax, and value added tax; it is our intention to replace (current taxation), with a tariff based revenue system supplemented by excise taxes ... To the degree that tariffs ... are insufficient to cover the legitimate Constitutional costs ... an apportioned "state-rate tax" ... in accordance with their proportion of the total population.

  • Abortion
    LP: We condemn state-funded and state-mandated abortions. It is particularly harsh to force someone who believes that abortion is murder to pay for another's abortion; We oppose all laws likely to impose restrictions on free choice.
    CP: It is ... the duty of all civil governments to secure and to safeguard the lives of the pre-born; Under no circumstances may the federal government fund or otherwise support any ... government or any organization or entity, foreign or domestic, which advocates, encourages or participates in the practice of abortion.

  • Arms
    LP: We oppose all laws at any level of government restricting, regulating ... ownership, manufacture, transfer or sale of firearms or ammunition. We oppose all [registration]laws

    CP: We oppose attempts to prohibit ownership of guns by law-abiding citizens, and stand against all laws which would require the registration of guns or ammunition; repeal of all federal firearms legislation, beginning with Federal Firearms Act of 1968.

    Be a hero, vote LP or CP in November. (Matt posting on VoxDay's Blog)
    Either party is preferable to what we have now. More on this later.