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Latest post Sat, Mar 29 2008 10:59 PM by Ego. 1 replies.
  • Sat, Mar 29 2008 10:47 PM

    • dogsofworr
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    Austrian Battle Kits

    I have little time anymore to write letters. Does anyone know of any libertarian organization that offers "battle packs" for dealing with various local statists. For example, at this time I'm seeking the tools to defeat a local one cent sales tax increase. Not big enough issue that I want to spend a lot of time, but I'd like to have some premade tools to fight it. Maybe some articles showing the compounding costs fo local citizens, etc.
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  • Sat, Mar 29 2008 10:59 PM In reply to

    • Ego
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    Re: Austrian Battle Kits

    I'm going to warn you: this reply will probably be of no help to you.

    Have you tried write shorter, more summarized letters? I say this because it may take less time writing up a paragraph answer than searching for a canned one for every topic. Plus, I imagine if someone else sends the same canned letter, it will lose a lot of its effect.

    I've never written letters before, so perhaps they do need to be longer and well-sourced.

    Don't allow leftists to play games with definitions! Some of the libertarian-leaning leftists at this forum will try to redefine "left-wing" back to its original defition (Third Estate, limited government, free-markets, laissez-faire reforms, etc.). Fine! We non-leftists can't stop them from using their own personal definitions; they can use whatever labels they want to describe any concept they want.

    However, they have the audacity to then use their personal definition of "left-wing" (remember, the original definition, which is no longer valid) to prove that modern leftists are more libertarian than modern rightists! They will say that libertarianism is "inherently leftist" (again, using the original, no longer valid definition), and use that to insist that we should prefer and side with modern leftists over modern rightists.

    Question their motives.

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