What is your plan for Property and Sales taxes?

When will you be back in N.KY? I have a 14yr old son that gets slammed all day long with political opinions from teachers and classmates and he is excited to attend your next rally and I see this as a last chance to save him from the left.

Dr Paul,
I can't believe my misfortune in not knowing about your appearance on this very insightful forum!
( I understand he isn't here to answer questions anymore, just let me keep a little hope! )

I am a millennial wondering one main question in today's society.
What plan or action could even reverse the juggernaut of tyrannical imposition of restriction upon the people and the states given no government in history has ever been able to retract back from what control it already has without revolution?

To clarify a little bit upon that, there are times in history when restrictions seem to be imposed back on the government however if you watch a nation's government in the long run throughout history even despite what seems like a major pushback by the people, the government always violates pledges or oaths and ends up continuing to grow its power over the people of its nation. For example the Magna Carta and having to have the Petition of Right later on because it was not being honored.

It seems like only revolution leads to more restriction of government's power over the people. I don't think advocating for revolution is a good solution but if revolution is the only meaningful time that the power struggle changes could not pushing for the expedited dissolution of a government be one of the only proven ways to get more rights back to the people? Some of our founding father's like Thomas Jefferson pushed for "little" revolutions every generation and considered it essentially a necessity in the political realm.

Why are you focusing so much on Planned Parenthood? The organization does a lot more in my understanding than supporting abortion. I have even seen claims that they some how sell aborted fetus parts put forth by associated voices. This type of thing is quite divisive for your constituency when you have so many important pro-liberty positions that are the core that all of your constituency agrees upon. At best it seems politically poor timing.

If it was a blanket amendment on how the balance was achieved.

I would hope that any group going through all the effort to get an amendment passed, would include some limitations on increasing taxes rather than reducing expenses. It would be pointless otherwise.

If a balanced budget amendment were passed,
wouldn't that just give the government a handle
to raise taxes to pay for its excesses?

Dr Paul- how about doing a series of YouTube videos talking about your ideas and plans. Forget these stupid "non-debates" put on by the news media to sell advertising time. I want to hear what YOU have to say, not some politically correct answer to a dumb question posed by the moderator.

ACtually, the moving of manufacturing jobs to China has had some hidden consequences. First of all, the demand for people who managed the production workers went to China also. Secondly, automation slowed in the USA because it was cheaper to buy from China than to invest in automation here in the USA. Thirdly, the entitled american workers have refused to accept that global competition has reduced the value of their work, and therefore the wages they could command. The result has been unemployment here in the USA.

I've asked these questions to Ben Carson. He has yet to answer. I would love for you to give one of these questions your time and response.

1. I've heard Obama refer indirectly to the Constitution as a charter for negative liberties, yet the majority of laws and programs today are focused on positive liberties. Does that need to be corrected? If so, how would you do that?

2. Aside from secession (which no longer is lawful after the civil war) and nullification (which has never been legally upheld by federal courts) what incentive is there for our government, who writes its own laws, enforces its own laws, and defines and upholds its own laws, to ever find that their law is anything other than in its own best interest?

3. Are people wrong when they malign followers of Islam publicly (on social media) and dehumanize them into a category of subhuman barbarians? There are 1.6 billion people that fit into that category and they are being judged by the actions of 200,000 radicalized ISIS members. How much of that narrative is based on intentional atrocity propaganda and deflecting our role that caused the "blowback"?

4. I am a Christian and am focused on preserving our right to choose good from evil. Preserving that agency, to allow individuals to be persuaded through reason instead of compelled by force. When some people ask me why I enjoy Ayn Rand (among other liberty focused individuals and writers) being that she was an atheist, I respond "I don't like her because of her answers, I like her for her questions. I already know the source where I can find the answers." During the debates all the candidates appeared to claim to have all the answers. I want to know, what is the one question that voters need to ask? What question, that if they truly searched for the answer, it would empower them to take responsibility and embrace their stewardship over this country.

Why did you sell your dad down the river during his last campaign with your appearance on the hyper necon Hannity show?

Same here. Disappointing but certainly understandable. Hundreds of questions and only thirty minutes. He chose some good ones though. I definitely would participate again, especially now that we do have an account.

My questions weren't answered :(

I had created an account just for this interaction.

I love Ayn Rand!I just finished reading Anthem.Very good book.

Cruz also tried getting into the whole Kim Davis thing but Huckabees campaign wasn't having any of it.I used to like Cruz but now it seems like he is cozying up to Trump too much.

Brings to mind Orren Boyle... Shkreli has done this crap before.... "Retrophin Inc. was created in 2011[6] and run from the offices of MSMB Capital as a portfolio company with an emphasis on biotechnology, to create treatments for orphan diseases.[3] In September 2014 Retrophin acquired the rights to Thiola, a drug used to treat the rare disease cystinuria. It was with Shkreli as CEO that Retrophin introduced a 20-fold price increase for Thiola, despite no additional research and development costs incurred by obtaining these rights.[7][8] Shkreli resigned from the company in October 2014 after Retrophin's Board decided to replace him that September[9] with Stephen Aselage being named as his replacement.[10] Shkreli then left Retrophin and started Turing Pharmaceuticals. During his tenure at Retrophin Shkreli was also criticized by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) for the alleged manipulation of the US Food and Drug Administration's regulatory process in order to move stock prices for his own financial gain,[11] though these allegations did not result in any charges. Retrophin filed a $65 million dollar lawsuit against Shkreli in August 2015,[9] claiming he breached his duty of loyalty to the biopharmaceutical company in a long-running dispute over his use of company funds. https://http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_S...

Am I the only one who sees a possibility that this former hedge fund manager and now instant Pharma CEO saw a "looting" opportunity (created by the passage of Obamacare) by acquiring the rights to this orphan drug? What the hell has that litte sh*t ever created or invented?

Dr. Paul... I don't think that addresses one of the major underlying reasons for the 'argument'...

Laws exist in all states and at the federal level that convey certain rights and privileges to "married couples." Silly little things like inheritance rights and hospital visitation and rules about adoption, etc., not to mention a myriad of tax laws...

Don't you think that it would be a benefit to the US if, at least at the federal level, which you can influence, there is a higher degree of uniformity as to the enumeration, support and enforcement of such laws?

No, obviously you didn't.

My statement was that the global economy is hurting us..that is all. Anything else I was was to illustrate how.

Unemployment does a hell of job creating criminals too (see Detroit)...look at all the McD's employees who are starting to lose their jobs to Kiosks.

Authoritarian is a rule by one or few; democratic is by the majority. Neither guarantees any protections for the ones on the bottom of the political power scale. That's why I've always found it entertaining when the US proclaimed to export democracy - which is a rule by the mob; precisely what we now have achieved with lots of blood and money!

Who says a democratic system can't produce authoritarian rule? Many people want that, and many more are dupes.

I think I understood - you seem to want protections so the USA can make overpriced vehicles - and presumably "forcing" US residents to buy those cars -instead of buying from the low cost producer (wherever they are).

If automation added to unemployment lines, then we would now all be out of work since productivity is much higher now than it was in the past.

There is no reason to artificially protect any industry in the US - nor in any one state, county, city, etc.

Protectionism is a great way to create more criminals by making many more black markets look attractive - leading to more "crimes" like we see with the "War on Drugs".
The consumers lose, and the lower income folks take the brunt of it with higher costs and loss of freedom/jail time.