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The War on Bad Habits
In his latest column, Ron Paul argues that bad habits (such as smoking) should be countered with education rather than force. Despite last century’s failed Prohibition as well as the more recent policy disaster known as the “War on Drugs”, many legislators still believe that they can regulate away our vices and force us – [...]
Ron Paul: Let the people decide on tobacco usage
Date: 6/12/2009
Ron Paul: Thank you, Madame Speaker. I don’t think anybody can argue at all with the intentions of the proposal of this bill. There’s no question that cigarettes are very, very harmful. The question for me here is the process and I find the process here atrocious because it assumes that authoritarianism is right [...]
