On 11/6/2012 10:20 PM, George Plimpton wrote:
So, the overall election results are dismal for believers in
constitutional limited government.

Translation: Libertarians were once again kicked in their asses on
election day. Nobody voted any of them into office for anything. They
remain a fringe of kooks that is lucky to garner 6% support for any of
them. Except for Gary Johnson. He has a lot of good ideas to go along
with a few dumb ones.


Nonetheless, here in California,
there are a few small and surprising libertarian wins.


Translation: What you call Libertarian wins.


Props 30 & 38 - both headed to defeat. Taxes are too high as it is, and
the state government ****es away tens of billions of dollars on deadbeat
parasites. Until they can start spending the money they get wisely and
appropriately, no more.

Americans are taxed at a lower rate than just about any other industrial
country. To get budgets back into balance it takes both cuts in services
and increases in revenue. A highly progressive tax that would require
more from the richest people would not be a burden to them. They won
again. The taxes on the richest stay low.



Prop 36 (Three Strikes law modification) - winning big. This is good,
and very surprising, especially the current margin (68-32). The idea
that you can put someone away for life for a trivial third strike is
just wrong.

Amazing! Something that a nut and I can both agree on. Hard to believe
but the nut actually showed a sign of sanity. Don't expect to see that
again any time soon.



Prop 37 (Genetically engineered food labeling law) - losing big. This
is a surprising but happy result. In an ecotopian state like
California, this one seemed to be a cinch to win. This proposition was
the devil's handiwork, and it's good that it's losing.

Now that's more like it. Praise for a win for corporate interests. Isn't
that always the case? When does a libertarian ever think a corporation
does something wrong? I haven't seen it happen ever. Asking for food
labels to inform us what foods have been genetically modified would have
been too heavy a lift for the corporations. Especially when you know
they would have just raised their prices a few pennies to pay for it. So
we the customers have to get along knowing less about what we eat and
corporations get to withhold information from us if they want. Yeah,
that's a loss for the public. No wonder the libertarian likes it. Don't
worry though. It'll keep coming back until it does pass.

Hawke