What issues matter to you?

[K. Darien Freeheart]

We're all fans of liberty here, but everyone has issues that are near and dear to their hearts?

[margomaps]

Yes, I believe that is a true statement in the form of a question.   




OOOohhh, you want us to list those issues that matter most to us.  Hah.  Gotcha.

Ok, in no particular order:

- RTKBA
- Laws punishing those committing victimless "crimes" have to go
- Taxes (want 'em reduced/eliminated, starting with sin taxes)

I don't want to just list all libertarian positions, so I'll limit it to these few which I feel pretty strongly about at the moment.  Though admittedly the second one on my list covers 90% of the libertarian position anyway.   

[Shane Maxfield]

Also in no particular order:

-RTKBA
-Abolishment or major overhaul of government welfare
-tort reform
-elimination of "nanny" laws (smoking laws, seatbelt laws, and such)
-elimination of "stupid" laws (like the milk container law and archaic laws (eg sex prohibitions))
-deregulation
-term limits for all politicians
-reasonable salary / benefit caps for politicians
-organized committees to scrutinize laws at all levels and start paring them down.  I don't believe we're so screwed up as human beings that we need politicians writing up layer after layer of laws and regulations, year after year.

[Caleb]

Ending War
Ending Empire
Ending Surveillance/Big Brother
Ending nationalism
Abolishing the armed forces and all intelligence services.

Summed up best by advocating the nonviolent teachings of Jesus Christ as the only solution to man's problems.

[[edited to add:  I forgot to mention standing up for the humanity of my Hispanic friends, against the strong effort by the neo-liberals to dehumanize them. I firmly believe that if there is a holocaust here in the US, it will be directed at Hispanic people. I see it headed that way, sadly.]]

[toowm]

Education
Real Money
Taxes
Outreach

[KBCraig]

Also in no particular order:

-RTKBA
-Abolishment or major overhaul of government welfare
-tort reform
-elimination of "nanny" laws (smoking laws, seatbelt laws, and such)
-elimination of "stupid" laws ...

Apparently "nanny" and "stupid" laws like mandatory government permission to drive isn't very important to Shane.

If LEAP weren't a single-issue organization, I'd recommend your expulsion (yes, I'm a member). Seriously, I'm ashamed of you. Go crawl back under your rock. From that vantage point, you might be able to spot more safe-but-unlicensed drivers, while you're on the lookout for licensed-but-unsafe drivers like the 100+mph motorcyclist.

[Kat Kanning]

I thought highline was the LEAP member, not Shane?

[Pat McCotter]

Also in no particular order:


-reasonable salary / benefit caps for politicians

If you are referring to the $100/year the reps/sens get here in NH, sorry, I don't want them to be professional politicians. Yes, I understand that many folks cannot gain these offices because they cannot take the lack of income it would cause, but you don't fix something that ain't broke.

-organized committees to scrutinize laws at all levels and start paring them down.  I don't believe we're so screwed up as human beings that we need politicians writing up layer after layer of laws and regulations, year after year.

This was HB1347 in the 2008 House.

HB 1347, establishing a committee to review the Revised Statutes Annotated and recommend revision or removal of obsolete laws or references.  INEXPEDIENT TO LEGISLATE.

Rep. Gail C. Morrison for Judiciary:  The sponsor points out that our RSAs contain much extraneous information that has accumulated since the last codification in 1955 and that review is long overdue.  This bill has a worthwhile intent; however such a review is prohibitively expensive and nonessential.  Further, codification is intended to bring about a permanent change and is not a process to be undertaken periodically.  Legal researchers find historic references to repealed sections and other changes useful to their endeavors.  Vote 14-0.

[Pat McCotter]

Also in no particular order:


-reasonable salary / benefit caps for politicians

If you are referring to the $100/year the reps/sens get here in NH, sorry, I don't want them to be professional politicians. Yes, I understand that many folks cannot gain these offices because they cannot take the lack of income it would cause, but you don't fix something that ain't broke.

-organized committees to scrutinize laws at all levels and start paring them down.  I don't believe we're so screwed up as human beings that we need politicians writing up layer after layer of laws and regulations, year after year.

This was HB1347 in the 2008 House.

HB 1347, establishing a committee to review the Revised Statutes Annotated and recommend revision or removal of obsolete laws or references.  INEXPEDIENT TO LEGISLATE.

Rep. Gail C. Morrison for Judiciary:  The sponsor points out that our RSAs contain much extraneous information that has accumulated since the last codification in 1955 and that review is long overdue.  This bill has a worthwhile intent; however such a review is prohibitively expensive and nonessential.  Further, codification is intended to bring about a permanent change and is not a process to be undertaken periodically.  Legal researchers find historic references to repealed sections and other changes useful to their endeavors.  Vote 14-0.

[Kat Kanning]

To answer the question:

War (Mafia killing people)
Torture (Mafia hurting people real bad)
Taxes (Mafia enslaving people)

[kola]

cops invading this forum

[Coconut]

Child porn laws (bordering on thought crimes when there is often no victim)
- A picture of a child being abused is awful, and evidence of a crime. Find the person who did it and punish him/her. Pictures of a consenting 16 year old (sometimes that he/she took of themselves) is not remotely grounds for a punishment

Online child solicitation laws and cops who pose as children online to entrap bad guys (more thought crime)
- as I understand it, one cannot legally chat about anything explicit to someone online that they think is underage. When police get involved, they charge men with child solicitation even though there was never a child. Some of these men I'm sure intend to do bad things, but you need more evidence than a chat log.

ALMOST ALL TRAFFIC LAWS. I'm not saying there shouldn't be "suggested" speeds and certainly unsafe driving would still be a violation, but I drive less safe having to watch my speedometer every 10 seconds and watch the side of the road for cops. The world would not fall apart if police stopped setting up speed traps and stop sign stings. I don't drive on the right side of the road because I don't want a ticket for crossing the yellow line; I drive on the right side of the road because there's oncoming traffic on the other side.

[Vitruvian]

In line with Caleb and Kat:

• War, conquest, and empire
  
• Taxes
  
• Restrictions on immigration
  

...just to name a few (the full list might go off the page).

[MaineShark]

My top issue is the abolition of the State.

If you are referring to the $100/year the reps/sens get here in NH, sorry, I don't want them to be professional politicians. Yes, I understand that many folks cannot gain these offices because they cannot take the lack of income it would cause, but you don't fix something that ain't broke.

Yeah, that should be changed.  I'd suggest that we cap it at $0.  Also, that they have to pay rent for the privilege of occupying space in buildings which they claim belong to "the people of New Hampshire."  If don't recall being asked if some politicians could squat in "my" building...

[margomaps]

Education

Duh, I can't believe I forgot that one!  It's one of the most important to me, and one of the most critical to freedom.  It's hard to create and maintain a culture of freedom when young people are indoctrinated with statist ideology from age 5 (or earlier) to 18 (or later).  I think it might be wise to infiltrate the teacher's unions and eat away at/reform that structure from the inside.

Not to mention that public schools are one of the biggest financial drains on anyone who owns property.  Some absurd portion of my property taxes go to local public schools that neither me nor my children will ever use.  And as the quality of the education decreases markedly, teacher's unions and other educational bureaucrats demand more power and more of my money to "solve the problem."  Outrageous!  I'd probably agree to pay a big tax just to do away with public schools and send needy kids to private schools.