LP News May 1990
College Outreach Delivers Dean’s List Performance
In December of last year the national tant areas as newsletter production, Libertarian Party budgeted an aggressive speaker programs, literature tables, and outreach program for the campuses of the fundraising. These informational essays nation. are written by a number of activists who Monies were budgeted for providing draw upon their own success stories. Stu¬ literature, the purchase of “Operation Po¬ dent activists can obtain copies of these litically Homeless” booths, aid for college kits by contacting the national office. newspaper ads, and for organizational Another aspect of the new college out¬ tours. reach program is the organization oftours Under the direction of Don Emsberger, of regions by students who have been in¬ the college outreach program has made volved as activists and leaders on the contact with students on over 220 cam¬ campus. puses. The very first tour saw Jim Lark, chair At this writing, more than 60 campuses of the University of Virginia Students for have organized literature tables and some Individual Liberty, visit college groups in 120 campuses have seen libertarian stu¬ the South. Lark traveled to Florida, Ala¬ dent groups organize. Many ofthese groups bama, South Carolina, and North Caro¬ are involved with more than political ac¬ lina in late February to visit with student tivity. They provide educational programs activists on campus. He discussed the kinds and work on literature distribution proj¬ of programs he has developed at UVA and ects as well. tried to answer the many questions one Ernsberger has been receiving the expects ofgroups starting to organize. The names ofstudent contacts from a variety of tour was such a success that others will be sources, including the telephone fundrais¬ planned. Local Libertarians were pleased ing system, individual replies to the LP by the investment the national LP is NEWS questionnaire, and through the making for the campus program. “800 number” at the national office. Ernsberger, college outreach coordina¬ Many state LP groups have made an tor, also has in his budget monies for the effort to find libertarian student organiz¬ assistance of local college groups that are ers and have forwarded the names to placing ads in college newspapers. These Photo by John Terhune, Bloomington (IN) Herald-Times Ernsberger. ads, which were developed by the national One of the key tools in the college out¬ Libertarian Party, are being used both to In a photograph that seems wonderfully to picture the get-up-and-go reach project is a college “Care Package.” recruit members and to make the student These body aware of projects organized by affili¬ audacity of a libertarian defending a right of individual freedom, Indiana Libertarian prepackaged boxes contain hundreds of pieces of literature such as LP issue ate clubs. Party activist Fred Badalli took to the floor to oppose a Monroe County regulation papers, the Liberty Today flyer, and LP Another use of the budget has been to that would prohibit smoking altogether in restaurants, taxis, common areas in membership brochures. This care package purchase some 25 ofthe “Politically Home¬ shopping centers, and other “public" places. also contains the new College Organiza¬ less” booths from the Advocates for Self- It wasn’t the smoke that energized Badalli, it was the restriction. “I hate tion Manual, sample by-laws, and Government in Fresno, California. These constitution sheets. smoking,” he told the crowded meeting. “I don’t patronize restaurants that don’t booths, which use the Nolan Chart, a se¬ The college outreach project plans to ries of questions, and attractive posters voluntarily have no-smoking sections. But to make a sweeping ban against mail a special Outreach Update to all and banners, have been shipped to the smoking in what are essentially private pieces of property reminds me of most active Ayn groups every two months . The first mail¬ college clubs to use with spring Rand’s warning that Ihere are no such things as group rights. The smallest ing contained anecdotes from successful semester outreach table work. minority is the individual. If we violate individual rights we violate all rights.”' college groups and reprints of articles All over the nation, college campus Libertarian Badalli is shown brandishing a copy of the U.S. Constitution with the words dealing with the “war on drugs” issue and Party groups are organizing the U.S. Panama invasion. Each future and spreading the word of liberty. “Void Where Prohibited” stenciled across it. His T-shirt bears the inscription: “I mailing will contain anecdotal updates Ifyou are a student in college and want THINK; therefore I can’t be a socialist.” and news articles. to help organize a campus group, contact The College Organization Manual con¬ Don Ernsberger, 865 Meadowood Lane, tains detailed information on such impor¬ Warminster, PA 18974. Hess to Leave NEWS Karl Hess, co-editor of the Libertar¬ sible for the steadily improving appear¬ Now, Who Says Anarchists ian Party NEWS for the past four years, ance of the NEWS, enjoys my full sup¬ will leave that post as of the July 1990 port, and I will always consider myself issue. close to his editorship of the NEWS as a Don’t Have a Sense of Humor Full editorship of the paper will be neighbor, colleague, and friend. He will Dave Barry, nationally syndicated and operate up close, you taken over by Hess’ closest associate and make a fine editor just as he has been an very popular humor columnist, seems very begin to realize that no co-editor, Randy Langhenry. exemplary co-editor,” Hess said, adding serious when it comes to the government. one connected with za m The reason for the move, according to that “My fond, formal farewell to the In the featured interview of the May them is any better than Hess, is that “There are several book paper and to the hundreds of wonderful issue ofPlayboy magazine (P.O. Box 2007, you are, so you begin to friends I have made while editing it will projects that I feel I must finish while my Harlan, LA 51593-0222), Barry has this to wonder why they’re in badly battered health permits. With the be the subjectofmy Viewpoint column in say: charge of your life . .. movement of the NEWS to a monthly the July issue.” “If anything, I’m an anarchist. Not in “I don’t acknowledge 0 schedule there simplyhasn’t been enough The change was approved by LP Na¬ the sense of running around, throwing that the government time to work on books at all.” The proj¬ tional Chair Dave Walter who, Hess said, bombs at politicians, which is sort of what has a valid moral function in people’s lives. ects include more books for young has been “a constant and helpful sup¬ people, ... everybody’s perception of anarchy is. And I don’t vote Not voting is a way of following his pioneering Capitalism for porter ofthe NEWS, particularly in work¬ “I just have a very strong antigovem- saying something, and eventually, maybe Kids, and an ing to make possible the current monthly autobiography. ment bias. A lot of it comes from journal¬ people will recognize it as that kind of “Randy Langhenry, who is respon¬ publication schedule.” ism. Once you see government bodies statement.” 2 May 1990 Libertarian Party NEWS
Libertarians Have a Ticket for Loeffler Theodore B. Loeffler, founder of World Research Incorporated (WRI), The Yankee Doodle the pioneer free market film produc¬ Bandwagon tion and distribution group, has died after 11 years of fighting the effects of Parkinson’s disease. He was 64. By Karl Hess Viewpoint The classic liberal and libertarian free market films inspired by Loeffler Once utes. and upon a time it took a roving French - produced by WRI include “The In¬ man, Alexis de Tocqueville, to tell Ameri¬ And wealth? Germany and Japan each credible Bread Machine,” “Libra,” and cans what wonders they had accomplished have GNPs equal only to 75 percent of ' “The Hayek Equation”—all familiar in the then “new world.” He also, of course, America’s. | and enthusiastically received fare at libertarian warned of perils to come. The average American today is twice as I meetings. Now some English journalists, writing wealthy as during the supposed golden f For a catalog of the films and vide¬ in that always interesting magazine, The days of the 1950s from which the gloom- | otapes which will endure as a memo¬ rial to Economist, have come along to remind sayers claim we have precipitously slipped. Ted Loeffler, write to WRI, P.O. seemingly despondent Americans of just As one commentator (the columnist Box 9359, San Diego, CA 92109-0100. how powerful and productive this wonder Charles Krauthammer) put it: “To feel tightly guarded for national security. More of America truly is. Even with some of de poor just because [some foreign countries and more people recognize that true secu¬ who Tocqueville’s warnings having come tragi¬ were] utterly destitute back then are rity, peace, and prosperity arise from free Campaign Workshops cally to pass (racial tension, corrupt offi¬ now also enjoying prosperity—a lesser trade and not from armed might. Available Once More • cials, the public treasury as an open till), prosperity mind you—is a malaise born of English is humanity’s new universal The Economist seems to think a lot more of nothing but envy.” language. Alicia Clark, chair of the Council of • America than do a lot of Americans. Alas. During the 1980s the mighty German More people want to immigrate to State Chairs, has announced that Bob Some of the points distilled from The production machine experienced an an¬ America than to anyplace else on the planet. Waldrop will be available to conduct work¬ Economist’s nual • Most of our special report on America growth rate only half as great as that government elementary shops on a need and request basis. Bob’s should interest libertarians and of America’s. schools are as dull and dumb as dishwater give them transportation expenses will be underwrit¬ substance for optimism and excitement as Japan’s productivity rate increase was but our colleges remain the favorites of ten by private donors through the Council seven-tenths of a more they talk to their fellow Americans. Many percentage greater than foreign students than the colleges of and his housing/meals will be the respon¬ of them keep hearing Democrats wailing America’s. Horrors. At that rate, the em¬ any other nation. And, who knows, there sibility of the hosting state. about the “unfair” Japanese while Repub¬ pire of the rising sun, said to be humbling may even be some changes in early educa¬ These workshops continue the work licans take refuge against a feared malaise us up, down, and sideways, would have a tion as abysmal failures are recognized. started in the Houston Ron Paul campaign There could even be a market for nurtur¬ by declaring war on flowering plants, productivity rate as great as America’s workshop and carried on by Alicia during distant sometime after the farmers, and individual liberties. year 2120—assuming ing bright kids. the 1988 campaign in several areas of the that no Is America being “bought up by foreign¬ America had productivity increase Why, in the name of Tom Jefferson or country. ers”? We are still the world’s leading ex¬ in the meantime. That’s an assumption Lysander Spooner, would an American Recently, Waldrop spoke at the Illinois porter and, as a matter of fact, it could be that few graduates of MIT, CalTech, the want to feel sad or powerless at this time in and Wisconsin state conventions in April said that it is we who are buying up the University of Illinois, or Purdue, not to history? on the subject, “Grow Your Own Libertar¬ rest of the world with $350 billion (at book mention the Messrs. Cray, Jobs, Balti¬ As The Economist concludes: "... in the ian Neighborhood.” value, not even market value) in U.S. in¬ more, Crick, Watson, or the folk at Bell postwar decades, America lived up to its Basic political organizing skills, such as vestments abroad. i deal s whil e Marxist beliefs turned to venal Labs, etc., would be likely to make. strategic planning and goal setting, pre¬ Look at productivity, in which Ameri¬ But here are some more optimistic fac¬ reality. America-at-home has to stay a cinct work, voter registration, canvassing, cans are said to have tors from land of slipped to near zilch. my own observations: opportunity and openness, the and targeting, were presented. Persons • American culture dominates the better to assure that the rest of the world Well, it takes an hour for a Japanese globe. interested may contact Bob Waldrop at • worker, across the board, to produce what American products proliferate around keeps going that way.” 801-363-1640. an American worker produces in 31 min- the planet. Even in the crucial matter of the envi¬ • It is the American Declaration of In¬ ronment, a practical, inspiring goal is Special obvious for America: IS ABORTION AGGRESSION? dependence, not some Marxist blather, “[to] use its power— that is and its exam Candidates’ Issue Libertarian being recited around the world. pie—to promote market-based arguments against abortion and • The Statue of Liberty, not the statue measures that do not rely on draconian A good deal, if not all, of our August for parental obligation. Literature packet, $3. of Lenin, is being raised around the world. and unenforceable bans.” issue is going to be devoted to the (For information only, please send SASE.) • Market capitalism, not socialism, is There is a bandwagon out there, a serious races for public office which Libertarians for Life an international inspiration. Yankee Doodle one at that. 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By Dave Walter est, that we should “worship We also have attractive do the various projects to limit the number LP National Chair the smokestacks.” Our liber¬ positions (attractive at least to of years a particular officeholder can lord tarian positions are ones that From the substantial minorities)against it over us. Last month, this column urged Liber¬ many Americans will sup¬ a drug war that destroys civil The Democrats and Republicans have tarians to run for office in 1990 to give port: (1) victims who can dem¬ Chair liberties, promotes criminal disenfranchised virtually everyone in voice to our observation that so many of onstrate damages should be activities, encourages calls for America who still believes in minimal today’s problems are caused by, or exacer¬ able to collect from the polluters re¬ gun controls, and dishes out government, individual rights, individual bated by, government’s participation as an gardless of permitted limits of pollution more and more taxpayer money to those responsibility, and keeping our nose out of enabler of poor choices and failure. set by the government bureaucrats, and choosing to abuse drugs. foreign quarrels. The extraordinary changes in Eastern (2) many environmental crusades are anti¬ The jury nullification project appeals to Before the disenfranchised can join us, Europe, though predicted by Ludwig von progress and anti-jobs because ofunproven, tax rebels. Initiative and referendum proj¬ they have to know about us. That’s the Mises and other libertarians, have caught unscientific theories of environmental ects appeal to everyone who wants to con¬ task for our 1990 campaigns—outreach ef¬ us by surprise with their suddenness, while damage. trol the politicians’ power over our lives. So forts and community projects. creating extraordinary opportunities for us in the United States. These are oppor¬ tunities on which we can cash in, only if Libertarian candidates recognize them and Do you suffer from play to them. One great opportunity is created by the apparent collapse of the Soviets as a mili¬ tary danger to the U.S. While liberals and conservatives argue over whose policies Tired Libertarianism ? caused this collapse, we know that the focus ofthe American electorate is going to change from “standing up to the Soviet Do you have any of Gordon, Leland Yeager, Ralph threat” to concentration on domestic is¬ these Raico ... In what other publica¬ sues. While symptoms? Socialism is collapsing every¬ tions do you consistently find Are you tired of essays that as where else (unless the IMF and World Killing the work of provocative writers Bank experts manage to sell their welfare apologize for human liberty, in¬ like these? statism to the Eastern stead of Therapy nations), the call for joyously advocating lib¬ That is by Thomas Szasz why Liberty has spending the “peace dividend” on socialis¬ erty and exploring its achieved such an avid and en¬ tic programs in the U.S. is attractive to possibilities? thusiastic readership so quickly. most politicians. Whether Republican or Are you tired of articles on Democrat, the blunderbuss in office will be why free-market garbage collec¬ Of Smokestacks and Rhinos Fast, Fast, Fast Relief! spending this dividend on things of their tion is better than government- Economists vs. Environmentalists choosing, not ours. 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Prestigious Libertarian Research Grou] The libertarian, free market movement is culture is greater than the net income of all point is not because of“greed.” It is because the graced by outstanding research groups. Here U.S. farms. countries of the world in which the rhino can are selections from several of them. In 1985, the federal government collected flourish have made it all but impossible for $39 billion, from non-farmer taxpayers, to help farmers to domesticate this animal, and raise farmers. Yet the farmers netted only $8 billion it in large herds for purposes of profit. (Simi¬ of the amount. Is there a cheaper way to help larly, the Canadian government has placed Cato Institute farmers in distress? Of course. legal impediments in the way of those who wish to domesticate and raise such “wild” ani¬ 224 Second St., S.E. Every farmer in the country could be given a guaranteed annual income mals as elk and Washington, DC 20003 equal to 50 per¬ reindeer.) cent of average net farm income for $15.4 The fact that the rhino can be used for billion—less than one-third of the USDA dagger handles or aphrodisiacs is an explana¬ Erosion of Liberties budget. tion for its perishing, but only under institu¬ Government farm programs have done little tional arrangements whereby herdsmen can¬ to solve the problems of poor farmers. But not domesticate the animal. If no legal barriers By Edward H. Crane these programs have been a bonanza for a were placed in their way, these factors would select few. In 1986, 144 dairy farmers each make this beast more valuable. People would On October 8 the front-page headline of the received farm payments of more than $1 mil¬ have even more of a profit incentive to care for Rochester Democrat and Chronicle trumpeted, lion. The Prince of Liechtenstein and his busi¬ the rhino, to make sure that it was fed, wa¬ “Communist Party ends in Hungary.” Adja¬ ness partner (owners of Texas farmland) re¬ tered, sheltered, etc. cent to the lead article was a story headed, in ceived $2 million in aid for “distressed farm¬ If one really wishes to see the rhinoceros smaller type, “Mother must prove she deserves ers.” population prosper and grow, he would be a to keep her home.” A clipping ofthe two articles (Summarized from The High Cost of Farm staunch advocate of private property, profits, was sent to us by longtime Cato Sponsor Mark Welfare, by Clifton B. Luttrell, Cato Institute.) and markets. Those who oppose these things Babunovic, who thought that thejuxtaposition are really on the side of extinction of these rather graphically illustrated the gist of my OO + OO animals. most recent President’s Message: In our eu¬ phoria over the demise of communism in East¬ ern Europe, we risk ignoring the daily erosion of liberties in the United States. Fraser Institute Corporate Takeovers According to the second article, “Maxine 626 Bute Street the LaPiana learned a powerful lesson about the existing management. Vancouver, British Columbia By Michael Walker criminal justice system this summer, when V6E 3M1 Canada government agents seized her Mount Morris If there’s one thing for certain it is that the home for crimes allegedly committed by her 1980s will go down in history as the decade of son.” LaPiana’s 19-year-old son, Randy, had corporate takeover. Scarcely a week passed been arrested on Privatize Wildlife May 4 for selling a total of 11 when there wasn’t news of a large corporation and one-half ounces of marijuana to an under¬ National Center for being raided by a hostile acquisitor. In much cover police officer at her home—while she was By Walter Block discussion of these corporate struggles the at work. As of October 8 he was still in Policy Analysis jail, implication is often left that this is a wasteful awaiting trial. Neither he nor LaPiana could The villains [who are First Interstate Plaza leading some animal paper struggle having little to do with the real afford to post his $50,000 bail, for which her species to extinction, according to some] are 12655 N. Central economy and creating no benefits for society. Expressway house could no longer be used as collateral. “profit,” “development,” and a 'limitless de¬ Suite 720 The U.S. Congress has gone so far as to con¬ At 7:30 a.m. on August 18, while her 14- mand for an increase in consumer goods.” Solu¬ Dallas, TX 75243 sider whether or not the interest paid on money year-old daughter, Tricia, was getting tion? Cut down on excessive and frivolous ready borrowed to undertake a corporate takeover for school, “nine agents from the U.S. Marshal consumption and end our reliance on the pri¬ should be tax deductible. Service, with guns slung across their shoul¬ vate Future property and profit systems. Some new research conducted by Frank Security ders,” showed up at the house and presented The reason that many species are brought Lichtenberg and Donald Segel on corporate LaPiana with a forfeiture warrant. almost to the LaPiana, a edge of extinction is not for too takeovers in the United States has shown that One out of five non-communist counti single parent, had become “the defendant in a great a reliance on property a rights, but for one of the effects of takeovers is that they either requires workers to save for their o civil lawsuit filed by the government” and lack of private property rights. improve the productivity and competitiveness retirement or allows some private pensions would have to Consider the buffalo and the cow in this “prove in federal court that she of industry. In their studies for the National substitute for social security. didn’t know about her son’s alleged drug trans¬ regard. Biologically, these are very similar ani¬ Bureau of Economic Research, the two profes¬ An NCPA study shows that: More than actions” in order to get her house back. mals. And yet it is only fortuitous that the sors, from Columbia University’s Graduate percent ofall Chilean workers have opted cc If the government wins a forfeiture case, buffalo, which for many years was allowed to School of Business, show that the result of a pletely out of social security by contribute the Marshal Service puts the property on the run free, unowned man, was by saved from corporate takeover typically is a decline in the IRA accounts. Britain and Japan allow e market and “tries to get top dollar,” the article extinction. In sharp contrast, the cow has been amount of employment, particularly in the ployers to contract their workers out of par domesticated for explained, because “the arresting agency gets millennia; it has been owned, amount of administrative overhead employ¬ social security by providing equivalent priv 90 percent ofthe proceeds ofthe sale ofa seized and thus cared for, by farmers and herdsmen ment, associated with a firm. pensions. Since July 1, 1988, all British wo home.” from biblical times and even before. Between 1977 and 1982, while amongst ers have the individual choice to opt out ofp Across the United States federal authori¬ treatment Why the unequal of “equals?” those businesses not changing owners there of social security by opening IRA accounts, ties are Economists call what (almost) presently holding 2,500 such proper¬ happened to the was a three percent increase in employment, least 21 former British colonies have no so< ties with an estimated worth of buffalo the nearly $400 “tragedy of the commons.” If no one the change amongst those which had under¬ security and instead require workers to st million, all confiscated in the course ofthe “war is allowed private property rights over the gone a takeover was a decline of 16 percent in for their own retirement. on drugs.” buffalo, then it does not pay anyone to let any employment. The professors also found that on The study was prepared by John Goodmi The audacity with which the U.S. govern¬ of these animals that one could capture run average takeovers produce an 11 percent re¬ president of the National Center for Pol ment sweeps aside constitutional liberties in free. Things came to such a pass that hunters duction in the ratio of administrators to pro¬ Analysis, and Peter Ferrara, a consultant w the name of a “crisis”—in this case, a crisis would often kill a buffalo—to eat only its tongue. duction workers. Most importantly, for those the Heritage Foundation. It is based on nurtured own When a buffalo died—in the by its policies—is appalling. Now non-private who claim that takeovers are short-sighted survey of the retirement systems of 132 coi that such outrageous incidents have become property days of “home, home on the range,” and impair the long-term performance offirms, tries. and “don’t fence mein”—no one lost commonplace fare in our morning newspapers, any money, they also found that the reduction in admini¬ “The social security systems of all dev is it not time to stop celebrating the defeat of to¬ can no one so as thereby. As be expected, acted stration and support staff was not concen¬ oped countries and many underdevelop talitarianism abroad to long enough to reflect a prevent such occurrences. Hence, the virtual trated in the important research and develop¬ countries will face a financial crisis in the 2 bit on the nature of our own elimination of the buffalo. society? ment areas but rather in straight administra¬ century,” said Goodman. “To pay for benef (From a The case of the cow furnishes a policy report by Cato president sharp con¬ tion. currently being promised to future genei Edward H. Crane.) trast. When a cow dies, its owner suffers, in the So when you hear ofa firm being pursued by tions, payroll tax rates will have to incres pocketbook. He has an incentive to stay up all another firm don’t think of it as a useless and continuously for the next 100 years.” night with a sick or pregnant cow, to and call in wasteful activity. Chances are the net result of According to the study: Among all dev the services of a veterinarian, if need be. It is the takeover will be an increase in the effi¬ oped countries, only Ireland, New Zealar the understatement of the ‘Ag’ Me with a Spoon century to assert ciency of the firm, an increase in its productiv¬ and Israel are producing enough children that the cow never even came close to extinc¬ ity, and a reduction in the number of adminis¬ replace their current populations. As a resu tion. By Clifton B. Luttrell trators relative to production workers. Of •almost all developed countries will exp>erier It is the same with the rhinoceros. The course, it is the latter possibility that often shrinking populations, and a smaller numt reason The budget of the U.S. Department ofAgri¬ they are being driven to the vanishing motivates the strenuous corporate defense by of workers will have to support an ever-gro May 1990 Libertarian Party NEWS 5 ps Offer Abundance of Useful Information
after 1978 brought many new carriers into the transit service levels, to construct 135 new business. Though these new carriers are less light rail systems or 13 new heavy rail systems, experienced than their more established ri¬ or could have been diverted to reconstruct vals, they are no more hazardous. Although failing bridges, tunnels, streets, and highways. • price-cutting has become a recurring feature of Public transit agencies successfully have airline operations, this vigorous competition used competitive contracting to reduce the appears to strengthen rather than threaten costs of public transit service. Savings have safety. been used to reduce transit fares, increase or Finally, some have pointed to the rise in preserve service levels, and to render increased number and amount of fines imposed by the public transit taxes unnecessary. As a resultof FAA for safety violations as proof that safety documented savings, the Urban Mass Trans¬ has deteriorated. This case, too, is weak. In¬ portation Administration has supported, but deed, the opportunity to shift resources from not required, the use of competitive contract¬ fare and route regulation to safety regulation ing. should enhance crackdown efforts, and thus • The competitive contracting process is a represent a significant benefit from economic public management strategy to ensure that deregulation. goods and services of a defined quality and (From a Heartland study Deregulation, quantity are produced for the lowest possible Privatization, and Air Travel Safety, by John cost. Competitive contracting is the familiar Semmens and Dianne Kresich.) “make or buy” analysis applied to public serv¬ ices. Ifthe same quantity and quality ofservice can be purchased for less, a fixed-term, fixed- price contract is awarded to the lowest respon¬ sible and responsive bidder. Ifthe same quality and quantity ofservice cannot be purchased for less, then service is provided directly by the Reason Foundation public agency. • Private transportation providers for years 2716 Ocean Park Blvd., Suite 1062 have been safely transporting a large percent¬ Santa Monica, CA 90405 age of our most fragile passengers: school chil¬ the states’ tax structures. Vermont obtains ing number of retirees. dren (30 percent of service) and the elderly and “Most substantial tax revenue from a developed countries are taking a hard general sales disabled (more than 67 percent of the service). look at their tax and a options for the future,” said personal income tax. New Hamp¬ Transport Providers Public transit administrators who competi¬ Goodman. “But in the United States we are shire has no general sales tax and no income tively contract have reported that the quality still our tax on wages and salaries and relies primarily burying heads in the sand.” By Wendell Cox and Jean Love and safety of contracted service is as good as or Goodman said that a number of on local European property taxes. better than the previous publicly operated serv¬ countries are In New turning to mandatory private Hampshire, taxes collected locally The Economic Policy Institute report, “The ice. Industry statistics indicate that the pri¬ tend to pensions, leaving to social security the task of stay local. In Vermont, taxes collected Emperor’s New Clothes: Transit Privatization vate bus industry has the best safety record of providing a re¬ by state government tend to stay at the state and Public only minimum income during Policy,” alleges that competitive any surface transportation mode in the United tirement. For example, in Finland, social secu¬ level, rather than being returned to localities. contracting or privatization of public transit States. rity pays a fixed, minimum income to all retir¬ In Vermont, state government spends about services results in • higher costs, lower service The purpose of public transit is to provide ees, but Finnish workers are con¬ 60 percent state required to of and local expenditures. In levels, and is at odds with the objective of mobility and to reduce traffic congestion and tribute to New private pension plans to provide sup¬ Hampshire, the share oftotal spending by reducing automobile usage through increased air pollution. In the interests of the riders and state income during retirement. government is 47 percent. on plemental Other only reliance public transit. By contrast, this the taxpayers, transit services must be reliable countries with mandatory private pensions Vermont is also fond ofhiring people. State paper [Policy Study Number 207] documents and safe and produced at the lowest possible include France and Switzerland. and local employees number 439 per 10,000 the following points: cost. According to the study, Singapore has one population in Vermont, compared with • only U.S. public transit costs per mile in¬ The goals oftransit have been compromised of the most 392 in New comprehensive private alterna- Hampshire. creased more than 65 nes percent over inflation by the steep cost escalation and declining pro¬ tives to social security, including private sav- (Summarized from The Fiscal Systems of from 1970 to 1986—a rate far iwn greater than that con¬ New ductivity of public transit. Competitively ings to pay for health care during retirement. Hampshire and Vermont, An Update, by of medical care services and s 10 gasoline prices. tracted transit service is safe and reliable, and Currently, all Singapore employees must con¬ Colin and Rosemary Campbell, published by For each new inflation-adjusted dollar public the public retains full control. The savings tribute six percent of their income to a medical the Henley League.) transit realized can be used to 1 w received, only 17 cents funded new address the problems of IRA known as a “Medisave” account. Funds in was 3n1' services; the remaining 83 cents consumed mobility, traffic congestion, and air pollution. the account are used to pay for hospitalization by costs over inflation. The billion in public Because of these £:o $32 benefits, competitive con- both before and after retirement, monies used to fund sm- public transit’s runaway tractingis a superior strategy for achieving the costs instead could have been used to double tof full public purpose of public transit. ate iik- The Heartland art At Institute ad The Henley League 634 South Wabash Avenue ave Liberty Lane Second Floor Hampton, NH 03842 Chicago, IL 60605 an, Airline Hey!! 5 New England Tax Safety l a We’re moving—but w- By Colin and Rosemary Campbell By John Semmens and Dianne Kresich
The theories advanced to just down the road. The neighboring states of New Hampshire argue that de¬ regulation and Vermont are very similar—geographically of the airline industry has imper¬ iled Our new 1st and economically. Yet New Hampshire has the safety, while superficially plausible, are Address is: not fi® lowest taxes in the nation (12.3 percent of supported by the evidence. The low fares and more convenient service offered ra- personal income) while taxes in Vermont are by the ^ nearly 40 percent higher. industry since 1978 have led to a tremendous increase in air traffic. But the Libertarian Why the difference? The difference in tax resulting conges¬ Party NEWS tion has not resulted in more aircraft colli¬ w- burden is not explained by differences in either sions. The switch to small commuter carriers nd> the quantity or quality of public services—if P.O. Box 780 10 for smaller communities has not lowered over¬ anything, public services are better in New all Hampshire. The difference is not explained by safety. While the air travelers from these communities o* federal aid—Vermont receives more federal may face higher risks, travel in ter the more Winchester, VA 22601 aid per capita. aggregate has become safer for people. The )w- Instead, the difference appears to stem from surge of growth in the airline industry 6 May 1990 Libertarian Party NEWS
Colored Boy seemed to outnumber supporters After reading your material I have decided by a margin of three to one. The most to decline membership in your organization. commonly expressed fear seemed to be that of: “You Even though the Libertarian Party is can’t mean EVERYTHING!" opposed to gun control, there are some Ethical decisions become meaningless things that I can not go along with. when coercion is involved. It is the One is the idea of legalizing drugs. Such Letters to the unconstrained expression of free will which an Editors approach to this problem is just not gives personal liberty meaning. When people acceptable, and displays an obvious lack of LP NEWS are free to choose between all possible courage. My second reason is the man that actions, the choice not to cause harm to your organization has as it’s editor for the LP another becomes the distinguishing mark of paper, Hess. Any white person that would P.O. Box 780 an ethical person. [work with] the Black Panthers is obviously Some will no doubt write this off as mere not in his right mind ... believe me the only Winchester, VA 22601 idealism, so let’s get real. In a strictly thing that they were or are interested in is pragmatic sense, one person’s choice to destroying the white race!! specifically: 1) securing endorsement of Larry Violate the Free Choices of Others,” but the cause harm to another is balanced by the Get rid of the "colored boy" and try to find Dodge’s Fully Informed Jury Amendment; 2) shrewd reader should graspthat that is clearly other person’s right to self-defense. a little bit of courage to resist the bad things persuading NRA to start endorsing implied, nay, necessitated, by the slogan as James Feathers in our society. Then maybe I can support libertarians for office, and; 3) securing a it stands. Capitols, CA you. disavowal by the NRA of the fascistic views Fred Cookinham Steven J. Speece expressed by former NRA Executive Vice- Brooklyn, NY Israel Mobile, AL President Harlon Carter in the September I first joined New York’s Free Libertarian 1989 issue of American Rifleman. Carter Choice Party in 1977. I was a Green Caucus delegate to the 1979 advocated thatthe U.S. government establish The March LP NEWS "Choice letters” convention in Los Angeles and ... Since my I would like to hear from other libertarians concentration camps for those accused of move me to write. The LP should be pro- return to New York in 1981, I have been who would be interested in forming a Green drug offenses where they would be held choice. Non-aggressor humans have a right inactive, though supportive of the LP. Caucus within the Libertarian incommunicado Party. The without trial for the duration not to be killed against their will. Gametes Until now. Your decision to call for the end Green Caucus would have three of the on major “War Drugs." have no such right. When, from conception of the U.S.’s special relationship with Israel purposes: (I) outreach to the libertarians, Any libertarians who are planning on to birth, the growing entity acquires rights is leads me to formally resign from the Party populists, and decentralists in the Green attending the NRA convention should contact a matter of opinion, not of observable fact. and to completely disassociate movement and other myself from parts of the anti¬ Bob Weber at 213-204-0612. You must be That it... entity has no will. .. you are hippies of the authoritarian right who seek to left; (2) forming a counterpart either a life member or a five-year annual The common ground for pro-choice and play at politics. I am a Republican. within the Greens and other leftist groups— member to have a vote at the convention. If pro-life efforts is the prevention of unwanted So I resign. Go to hell... And please stop that is, a Libertarian Caucus, or Jefferson you are an annual member but do not have pregnancy. We can endorse availability of sending me that stupid newspaper. Democrat Caucus, in those; and five (3) lobbying years in, you can upgrade your member¬ contraceptives and information on their use. Mitchell within the Libertarian Langbert Party, for it to adopt an can ship to five years before the convention. We endorse safe and responsible sex. Long Island City, NY openly favorable attitude toward [such] basic Bob Weber (Heck, we can endorse abstinence for all the Green values as [participatory democracy, Chairman, Libertarian Party good it will do!) Israel ecological concerns, reduction of violence, of California, Region 62 Robert Raffealll I do not believe that the United States social diversity, and mutual aid]. should have a “special relationship” with any Those libertarians who are Panama already country, be it Israel, Mexico, or Monaco. members of Green organizations or Green- Michelle Klein-Hass, in her letter in the Moreover, I have always contended that oriented left-leaning groups, or would like to March LP NEWS asserting thatthe American American monetary aid to Israel cripples the network with them, and are interested in a invasion of was Panama justified because in Israeli economy and compromises the Green Caucus within the LP, can contact me case this the U.S. was "liberating" the independence of the State of Israel. However, at the following address: Jack Jones, 4715 Panamanian people rather than imposing a there is no need for singling out Israel as a Rittenhouse St., Riverdale, MD 20737. Phone dictator on them, ignores many crucial points. whipping boy. 301-277-2242. First, while it is true that Noriega was a Too many libertarians are grossly Jack Jones dictator, he was a dictator placed in power misinformed when it comes to the Arab- Riverdale, MD and supported by the U.S. and only his Israeli conflict. From the start of Zionist refusal to help the U.S. overthrow the settlement in Palestine, settlers founded their Dueling Sandinistas (not his drug dealing, which had farms and towns eitheron barren unoccupied Politics has degraded from an exchange been known since the days of President tracts of land or on plots paid for in full... in the market of ideas to spiteful mud-slinging Nixon) ledthe Reagan administration to begin Jewish settlers before the founding of the that appeals to emotion instead of reason. Is the process that led to the invasion on State of Israel never initiated aggression, there a valid libertarian solution which does December 20. and afterwards took up residence only on the not involve the intrusion of government? Second, her comparison of World War II In the March LP NEWS, a letter of intent sites of dwellings which had been Yes, but it’s a hard sell. and Panama forgets that in WW II, the U.S. to resign from the LP because of a unconditionally abandoned. To the best of Dueling is permitted in Uruguay, albeit by had been attacked by the Japanese and disagreement with the present platform stand my knowledge, it is not Israeli policy to destroy government permission only. Recently, that declared an enemy by Germany before on abortion ... left me cold. homes of suspects for committing illegal government permitted (and then cancelled) officially entering the war; in Panama it was Regardless of the particular issue, I am acts. Only homes of those known to have a duel between Police Chief Saul Claveria sick and tired of the U.S. that initiated the use of force. “liberty lovers,” from acted with murderous intent are in jeopardy and editor Federico Fassano of the daily Finally, the U.S. does not have a moral wherever, lambasting the LP because of the (I’m not defending this policy, just clarifying). one or two issues newspaper La Republica. The paper had duty to liberate the Panamanian people or they disagree with . . . In fact, I even read where the wrong printed a story accusing the officer of owning anyone else, the only moral purpose for the (instead of glorifying the other 98 percent!). house was blown up by mistake, and the two cars involved in a smuggling case. The use of military force by the U.S. is to defend In America, one has three choices on the government made full compensation to the editor was called upon to really stand behind the lives, liberty, and property of its citizens. ballot (maybe a few more in some areas). family, enabling them to rebuild. his story. Douglas Mataconis Shut up, pick one, get involved to convince Marc Aaron Landes One can always turn down a duel, but Piscataway, NJ the present membership of your point of Qiryat Ata, Israel what better way is there to resolve conflicts disagreement, and get to work bettering the
so subjective in nature yet so central to one’s Choice cause of freedom ... Just stop whining and Constitution personal honor? What better way is there to I am a bitdismayed that some LP members quitting. I am distributing copies of the Constitution deter the ambitious Doris Gordon has had much upstart from profiting at would resign from the Party (see Letters, influence through a local book store. I obtain copies the expense of another’s personal integrity, March LP NEWS) ratherthan work within the through her Libertarians for Life efforts. So from the Commission on the Bicentennial of can others with reputation, and honor? libertarian community to educate people as equal desire and contrary the Constitution (808 17th Street, N.W., beliefs. I long deeply for a society in which men to the fact that abortion is an act of aggression Washington, DC 20006,1-50 copies free, 1- truly respect one another... Meanwhile, only against another person. I can assure these Chuck Geshlider 5,000 at $. 10 a piece), stamp the Libertarian squeamish backbiting cowards benefit by people that they won’t find true defenders of Goldfield, Nevada Party phone numberon it, staple a Libertarian the prohibition on dueling. freedom in either the Democratic or Party political quiz card in the back, and then John Black Republican Parties. Choice leave them with the people who work at the Concord, CA Dennis Kjeldergaard I was particularly grateful to see the "Pro- book store. Of course, I had to obtain the Choice on St. Cloud, MN Everything” photo in the January cooperation of the book store but they were Gun Caucus LP NEWS. The existence of support within very willing to set them out on the counter for At the California LP State Convention in Choice the LP for an individual’s freedom to choose their customers. I am distributing San Diego, a caucus of libertarian gun- Some people apparently think that the is heartening, to say the least. approximately 100 copies per week in this owners Then some who are members of NRA was slogan “Pro Choice on Everything” includes I read of the letters in the mannerthrough this single book store. I think formed. The NRA will be holding its annual the choice to violate the right to choose of March LP NEWS. I began to wonder whether that this is an idea that should be repeated convention June 8-12 in Anaheim, California. others. It obviously could not. if slogans support for freedom of choice within the LP across the nation. The caucus’ goals will be to favorably didn’t have to be short and punchy, this one was really all that widespread. Opponents to Edward A. Ipser, Jr. influence the NRA towards libertarian goals, would include the proviso"—That Does Not the "Pro-Choice on Everything” position Mar Vista, CA May 1990 Libertarian Party NEWS 7
Party’s Telephone Tree BAC Continues Drive Makes Effective Debut For Access and Funds
On March 15, 1990, the Libertarian By Steven I. Givot signature requirements in half. It would Party’s National Telephone Tree System Chair, Ballot Access Committee also have permitted the state convention was active for the first time. to nominate candidates for partisan races The telephone tree project has been Response to the first 100 letters sent that were not statewide. This passed the underway since June 1989, when Utah soliciting participation in our monthly Georgia Senate 50-0. It was defeated in activist Bob Waldrop became involved pledge program were mixed. While many the House Rules Committee by a vote of unexpectedly in a rally put on by Chi¬ individuals were extremely generous, most 13-12. Close votes like this one make us nese students, got a wonderful reception opted to send large single payments rather hopeful that relief will be available soon if to his libertarian ideas, and wanted to than be billed monthly. Given the funds we persist. share his methods and successes with raised, however, I am confident that when •Kansas - SB 59, endorsed by the Sec¬ activists around the country. the appeal is taken to a retary of State, would cut Because the Chinese student rallies broader group of past con¬ political Party petitioning occurred in a very short space of time (a call me back to let me know when they tributors, we will meet with Ballot Access requirements in half. The two-week period before schools closed for had received their calls,” said Gingell. favorable results. Kansas State Senate voted the summer), Waldrop wanted to share “By 9 p.m. that night 17 states had re¬ Ifyou receive a letter, or if itdown 21-19. Yetanother his ideas quickly—over the phone. He ported in, and I found out the next day you are wondering how you case of a narrow defeat. called up Affiliate Parties Chair Mary that at least four more states had also can help, please keep in mind that every Here, too, continued work will undoubt¬ Gingell and asked her to “tell state chairs been contacted on Thursday. Having this penny of net receipts from this year’s edly provide successful results within the all about it.” immediate feedback that the tree was pledges will go directly to ballot access. next few years. At that ac¬ time, the LP did not have a actually working was very exciting.” Printing costs, postage, and other produc¬ •Massachusetts activists’ ballot quick way ofreaching all 51 state chairs. The tree itself is four levels deep, and tion expenses are donated from other cess initiative has qualified. Massachu¬ But Gingell, Waldrop, and North Caro¬ callers are asked to contact their list sources. Furthermore, these funds go to setts law now gives the legislature until lina LP Chair Phil Jacobson (who has within 12 hours of receiving a message. BAC 100 percent commission-free. If you mid-May to consider the initiative. If the had experience both with military tele¬ So Gingell “expected that it would take ever wanted to give in a way that was 100 legislature does not pass the initiative in a form phone tree alert systems and an Am¬ 36-48 hours for the message to travel to percent effective, this is it! For more infor¬ acceptable to the initiative’s spon¬ nesty International phone tree) started the state level. That it moved so much mation write LP Ballot Access Committee, sors by June 21, an additional 10,000 sig¬ planning an LP National Telephone Tree more quickly was marvelous, and all Route 7, One Middlebury Road, Barring¬ natures will be sufficient to bring the System (LPTTS). participants deserve high praise and ton Hills, IL 60010. matter before the voters. This is another The purpose of the system is to pro¬ thanks for their performance!” As we raise our nest egg, we are prepar¬ case oflocal activists taking the bull by the vide time-sensitive, action-oriented The LPTTS was used again on March ing to begin petitioning later this spring. horns rather than expecting help from messages to local activists around the 22 to urge activists to participate in local Our goal is to qualify for 1992 in ten states outside. We congratulate all involved. country as quickly as possible. “The tree’s radio call-in shows, as guest speakers or by virtue of this year’s petitioning activi¬ •Missouri - HB 1417 would reduce callers are volunteers spending their own as callers, discussing how the census ties. This will only be possible iffunding is signature requirements from about 24,000 money to make calls,” said Gingell, “so invades our privacy. Since that time, the available. to a flat 10,000. The Missouri House Elec¬ tions Committee we must use the tree sparingly, only for LP has gotten over 300 requests for As always, BAC urges state Parties to unanimously approved the bill. The excellent work from the Mis¬ time-critical items of wide interest to LP census privacy information on its na¬ take the initiative. BAC cannot afford to souri LPand activists.” tional 800 telephone line as a result of provide ballot access to every state unless Project 51-’92 is undoubtedly Gingell and Jacobson collected con¬ these radio appearances. every state is prepared to put forth its own responsible for this victory. We salute them. tact names and phone numbers, and got In addition to contacting participat¬ maximum effort to get the LP on the ballot. Last month I wrote about the possibil¬ commitments from 45 state Parties that ing states, national callers also pass the We are eager to hear proposals from any ity for achieving a 10 percent vote total in information called to them would be message to all national committee state which has a plan, backed with some Virginia’s Senate race. No Democrat is passed to local activists. members, alternates, and subcommittee commitment of state resources, to get our running against incumbent John Warner. on BAC is in contact with At 4:30 a.m., Pacific Standard Time, chairs, as well as national contractors 1992 national slate the ballot. To bor¬ Virginia activists to on Thursday, March 15, Gingell and and employees, and try to reach the state row from a past president, “Ask not what determine whether a strong, committed Jacobson finalized the first message, chairs in those states that have not yet your Party can do for you, ask what you candidate is available, and to determine which told local activists how to view the officially joined the system. can do for the Party!” what Virginians are willing to do to get new tax protest ad and how to get copies LPTTS contacts who have access to On the lobbying/legislative/litigation that candidate on the ballot and operate a of the ad for local placement. At 5:30 fax machines, or who have computer front, a great deal has happened since last strong campaign. The Ballot Access Com¬ a.m., the calling started. mail, receive the message electronically, month: mittee is waiting to hear what they pro¬ “The message asked state contacts to as well as getting a follow-up phone call. •Georgia - SB 639 would have cut pose.
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