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Very cool. I've met Mikey Weinstein and heard him give a talk that includes a really touching personal story of how he came to have this particular mission in life about 10 years ago after visiting his son at his own alma mater, the US Air Force Academy. He's like a bulldog with a mission of following his own oath to uphold and defend the Constitution by ensuring that the military doesn't violate the Constitution's non-establishment clause.

I have his book, With God on Our Side, and highly recommend it to anyone interested in the recent history of this issue.

Many libertarians support a return to some form of the gold standard or legalizing crypot-currency. That does not appear to be Johnson or Weld's position though, so that should calm your fears. That would take a large consensus of the federal government to change.

As far as finding an economist to suggest it would be a good idea, there are entire schools of economic thought that support the gold standard. Here's a book by James Rickards that discusses the gold standard in a relatively readable format (not an economics textbook).

https://smile.amazon.com/New-Case-Gold-James-Rickards/dp/1101980761?sa-no-redirect=1

That's not far off the mark. Randy Barnett has done a ton of writing on the Ninth Amendment. I'd also highly recommend reading his Restoring the Lost Constitution, which focuses heavily on the 9th and 14th Amendments to restore liberty in the US.

I would characterize this as Political Fantasy but Backdoor to the White House: The 2016 Election and the Crazy Story That Might Come True (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01KKLIWF8) gives a look at one way it might happen, and the e-book version is free.

Edit: apparently not free. Not sure how I got it free but I did.

This book is great: http://www.amazon.com/The-Fair-Tax-Book-Goodbye/dp/0060875496/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1344964945&sr=8-2&keywords=fairtax

Why does the person making $100,000 have to spend 80%? The FairTax plan encourages saving. It also only applies to new goods, so buying a pre-owned car, for instance, means you don't pay the FairTax on that purchase. The prebate system ensures that anyone including the poor shouldn't have to be paying any taxes, assuming they are spending within their means.

I strongly suggest anyone read The FairTax book. The chapter on the built-in tax costs on the products you buy (ever hear "businesses pass the costs on to the customer") is eye-opening.

If you want a good book about what always goes wrong with communism/socialism/collectivism, you should check out Hayek's The Road to Serfdom. Highly recommended.

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Can we stop saying this like it's gospel truth? Even the guy who literally wrote the book on media bias says this sort of thing is a conservative fantasy.

I ran into the same issue. I found some on Amazon that are $15 for 2. I'd rather pay a little more and know the money is going to the campaign, but 3 week wait sucks.

whoa whoa, let's make sure we're talking about the same thing. WTF are you talking about "interpretation of those books"? What books are you talking about?

Are you talking about The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau? That book was written to debunk the claimed "divine right" to power that medieval monarchs claimed to have. I didn't say reading that book disabused me of social contract theory because it didn't.

Try reading Against the State by Crispin Sartwell. Here's the author giving an introduction to the book and himself. I'm not an anarchist, but their philosophical arguments are sound.

He is for privatizing prisons, so long as they deliver the same quality of service at a lower price, but he's aware that either private or government-run prisons are subject to the guard lobby organizations, which fight to get more people imprisoned. He talks about this at length on Joe Rogan's podcast. But more importantly, he's for ending the drug war, and releasing non-violent offenders, which would significantly reduce the prison population and bring people back into society.

He is in favor of the Fair Tax which would end federal income and payroll taxes, and corporate income taxes. Instead we'd have a national sales tax on new goods and services. (Used goods would not be taxed). There are a handful of states that operate this way with their own state taxes. No income taxes, just sales tax. This plan and idea are very nuanced, so I suggest you read up. (The book about it is FAR better than their website, unfortunately.) But this is a very progressive tax system with the prebate setup. As a Libertarian, he's against crony capitalism, so the tax breaks you're talking about that were bought by lobbyists would probably be on his list to fix. Government shouldn't give anyone preferential treatment. On a side note, the wealthiest people in the US pay a tremendous amount in taxes. This "fair share" stuff is utter nonsense. See this chart and watch this video about "Deficit Day."

He wants to end the wars, and end our interventionalist foreign policy that wastes money, lives, and makes us less safe.