Whatever happened to justice? by Rick Maybury

Author:Rick Maybury
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Justice, Administration of -- United States., Law -- Philosophy., Law., Justice, Administration of.
Publisher: Bluestocking Press
Published: 1993-12-14T16:00:00+00:00

Whatever Happened to Justice?

should be able to read what you want, say what you want and swallow what you want, but your production and trade should be tightly controlled by the government. They also believe your income should be taxed to whatever extent appears necessary to help the poor; and, the U.S. should stay out of foreign wars.

Conservatives (the right) are the reverse. They believe your production and trade should be free, and taxes very low, but the government should control "sinful" things like pornography, drugs and gambling. They are also more willing to go to war.

These are simplifications but for the purpose of these letters they will do.

We have a problem with this left vs. right model. It doesn't tell us what liberals and conservatives will really do when they get into power. It explains only how liberals and conservatives think, not how they behave.

For example, conservatives want fewer taxes and they claim to work toward this goal. But each tax "reform" they give us seems to somehow yield a tax increase. This is a great mystery. Ronald Reagan was the most popular and powerful free-market president of the 20th century but taxes at the end of his reign were higher than at the beginning. The Social Security "reform" of 1983 boosted taxes enormously.

And, while we are examining conservative behavior, since 1945 conservatives have been anti-Soviet. But in the Iran-Iraq war (1980-88) they joined the Soviets in helping Iraq.

Worse, arch-conservative Ronald Reagan even helped pour U.S. money into the Soviet bloc. In 1981, at the exact time Mr. Reagan was making speeches about the "evil empire," the federal register published a declaration from

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