Gary Johnson: Trump's a pussy

[Excited Penguin]

I thought myself a Libertarian for a while there. But I'm not looking for that kind of society. People still need taxes.

Fair points. I was wrong.

[FatAndFaithless]

[Minimalist]

Then why isn't it in their platform?

[FatAndFaithless]

Then why isn't it in their platform?

Er..because Gary Johnson =/= the Libertarian Party?  A candidate isn't just a copy and paste of their party. Otherwise every republican or democratic candidate would be identical to each other.

All I'm saying is, you wondered if Johnson accepted that party plank, and he doesn't. That's all I was responding to.

[Minimalist]

You think so?  A little later I'll post a story of how Drumpf manipulated the GOP platform to make things easier for his buddy Putin.  The candidate controls the platform.

Things to do right now.

[Alex K]

Armies are designed to kill people and break things.  They are not a House Cleaning Service.

I beg to differ.

If that's the Infantry, I wanna see the Artillery!

[Pat Mustard]

Oh, horseshit.  The Libertarian party wants to abolish the income tax and how one funds the government after that seems to be no concern of theirs.  As I have challenged libertarians many times before, name me one modern state which could function under such fiscal constraints.

Why the fuck do you think this cartoon is so accurate?




If Johnson agrees with that platform plank then he is a horse's ass, too.

Just in response to this point specifically - I was curious myself so I went on his website.  Here's him on the income tax:

Governor Johnson advocates for the elimination of special interest tax loopholes, to get rid of the double-taxation on small businesses, and ultimately, the replacement of all income and payroll taxes with a single consumption tax that determines your tax burden by how much you spend, not how much you earn. Such a tax would be structured to insure that no one’s tax burden for the purchase of basic family necessities would be increased. To the contrary, costs of necessities would likely decrease with the elimination of taxes already included in the price of virtually everything we buy.

So basically Johnson is in favour of regressive taxes to keep the poor in the shitter. Wonder how anybody earning less than £500,000 per month and owning half a shire would want to vote for him?

[Minimalist]