Hah - that was fast. You may wish to sign your comments if you're hanging around.
* Gold standard: To some extent, it's common sense - if the government is required to have a large stockpile of gold on hand, then the supply of gold for industrial purposes (e.g. corrosion-resistant electrical contacts) will be greatly decreased, increasing prices. Not to mention that the government has to come up with the gold somehow. A quick Googling turned up this analysis (http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/GoldStandard.html) from an actual economist - which is less about impracticality with simple improbability.
* Income taxes: Of the $2.4 trillion the U.S. government received in 2006, $1 trillion came from personal income taxes (http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/fy2008/summarytables.html). That's an absurd amount of money to cut from the budget - so large that I am unable to believe it could be practicably done.
* Racism: In deference to the weakness of my case, I'll drop the argument.
* Undermining modern medicine: Supporting alternative medicine and eliminating mandatory vaccinations (http://www.ronpaul2008.com/issues/health-freedom/) both do this. Unapproved treatments (http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h110-2717&tab=summary) are often bogus. And while our health care system is broken, the fix is not by encouraging the use of unproven medical treatments, but by - I hate to say it - universal health care.
Basically all of your "reasons" for being against Ron Paul are a result of a lifetime of brainwashing by a corrupt government that doesn't give a crap about you.
Re: lol
* Gold standard: To some extent, it's common sense - if the government is required to have a large stockpile of gold on hand, then the supply of gold for industrial purposes (e.g. corrosion-resistant electrical contacts) will be greatly decreased, increasing prices. Not to mention that the government has to come up with the gold somehow. A quick Googling turned up this analysis (http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/GoldStandard.html) from an actual economist - which is less about impracticality with simple improbability.
* Income taxes: Of the $2.4 trillion the U.S. government received in 2006, $1 trillion came from personal income taxes (http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/fy2008/summarytables.html). That's an absurd amount of money to cut from the budget - so large that I am unable to believe it could be practicably done.
* Racism: In deference to the weakness of my case, I'll drop the argument.
* Undermining modern medicine: Supporting alternative medicine and eliminating mandatory vaccinations (http://www.ronpaul2008.com/issues/health-freedom/) both do this. Unapproved treatments (http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h110-2717&tab=summary) are often bogus. And while our health care system is broken, the fix is not by encouraging the use of unproven medical treatments, but by - I hate to say it - universal health care.
Basically all of your "reasons" for being against Ron Paul are a result of a lifetime of brainwashing by a corrupt government that doesn't give a crap about you.
Citations, please?