Ron Paul

Ron Paul's Opinions

Drugs Should psychoactive drugs be legal? Agree All drugs should be decriminalized. Drugs should be distributed by any adult to other adults. There should be no controls on production, supply or purchase for adults. Edit Pitches 01 Jan 1988    Source Is the war on drugs good policy? Disagree In the last 30 years, we have spent hundreds of billions of dollars on a failed war on drugs. This war has been used as an excuse to attack our liberties and privacy. It has been an excuse to undermine our financial privacy while promoting illegal searches and seizures with many innocent people losing their lives and property. Seizure and forfeiture have harmed a great number of innocent American citizens. Edit Pitches 30 Oct 2001    Source Should marijuana be decriminalized? Agree Drugs are very dangerous but there's a lot of things that are very dangerous. The question is, should we regulate danger? Should we take responsibility for ourselves or should the government take care of us? I don't believe in the nanny state. Edit Pitches 13 Mar 2009    Source Politics Is free trade generally beneficial for a country? Agree Free trade is not a zero-sum game where some countries benefit and others inevitably suffer. On the contrary, true free trade by definition benefits both parties. Free trade is the process of free people engaging in market activity without government interference such as tariffs or managed-trade agreements. In a true free market, individuals and companies do business voluntarily, which means they believe they will be better off as a result of a transaction. Edit Pitches 12 Feb 2001    Source Should the US fence its border with Mexico? Disagree There was an immigration bill that had a fence (requirement) in it, but it was to attack amnesty. I don't like amnesty. So I voted for that bill, but I didn't like the fence. I don't think the fence can solve a problem. I find it rather offensive. Edit Pitches 03 Jan 2008    Source Abortion Should abortion be legal? Disagree I strongly believe that a fetus is a human life, and that a fetus deserves the same legal protections afforded to all Americans. Edit Pitches 30 Apr 2001    Source Is abortion morally acceptable? Disagree I strongly believe that a fetus is a human life, and that a fetus deserves the same legal protections afforded to all Americans. Edit Pitches 30 Apr 2001    Source

Science Do the benefits of vaccination outweigh the risks? Neutral A controversy over vaccines, specifically the smallpox vaccine, is brewing in Washington. The administration is considering ordering mass inoculations for more than one million military personnel and civilian medical workers, ostensibly to thwart a smallpox outbreak before it occurs. Yet dangerous side-effects from the vaccine – ranging from mild flu symptoms to gangrene, encephalitis, and even death – cause many to question the wisdom and need for such inoculations. Edit Pitches 10 Dec 2002    Source Does God exist? Agree I get to my God through Christ. Christ to me, is a man of peace. He is for peace. Edit Pitches 16 May 2011    Source War Are Iraqis better off since Saddam's regime was toppled? Mostly Disagree How much better off are the Iraqi people? Hundreds of thousands of former inhabitants of Fallajah are not better off with their city flattened and their homes destroyed. Hundreds of thousands are not better off living with foreign soldiers patrolling their street, curfews, and the loss of basic utilities. One hundred thousand dead Iraqis, as estimated by the Lancet Medical Journal, certainly are not better off. Better to be alive under Saddam Hussein than lying in some cold grave. Edit Pitches 06 Apr 2005    Source Can the military presence in Afghanistan help create democracy? Disagree We went to Afghanistan to get [Bin Laden], and he hasn't been there. Now that he's killed, boy, it is a wonderful time for this country now to reassess it, get the troops out of Afghanistan and end that war that hasn't helped us and hasn't helped anybody in the Middle East. Edit Pitches 05 May 2011    Source Liberty Should prostitution be legal? Mostly Agree Well, I understand prostitution has been around for a few years. And they tried to legislate it out of existence and I don't think it's worked very well. I would essentially have no restrictions, certainly on the federal level. Edit Pitches 25 May 2007    Source Ethics Should Julian Assange be considered a criminal for Wikileaks? Disagree In a free society we're supposed to know the truth. In a society where truth becomes treason, then we're in big trouble. And now, people who are revealing the truth are getting into trouble for it. Edit Pitches 03 Dec 2010    Source Will the WikiLeaks cable leaks do more harm than good? Disagree What we need is more WikiLeaks about the Federal Reserve. Can you imagine what it'd be like if we had every conversation in the last 10 years with our Federal Reserve people, the Federal Reserve chairman, with all the central bankers of the world and every agreement or quid-pro-quo they have? It would be massive. People would be so outraged. Edit Pitches 03 Dec 2010    Source Health Should the United States have Universal health care? Disagree [E]xcessive regulation, immoral mandates, and short-sighted incentives have created a system where no one is happy, doctors pass quickly from one patient to the next, insurance is expensive to get and difficult to maintain, and politicians place corporate interests ahead of their constituents... Repeal ObamaCare and end its unconstitutional mandate that all Americans must carry only government-approved health insurance or answer to the IRS. Edit Pitches 21 Dec 2011    Source

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Conforming Opinions

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Nonconforming Opinions

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Projected Opinions

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