How far will you go for your principles?
This freedom movement has brought together the most devoted, caring patriots that I personally have ever seen. We have all donated our time and money, and some have quit jobs or traveled the country to support the good doctor. I've seen many people who offered to submit to arrest, if necessary, for civil disobedience and even seen comments such as I'm glad i have my guns or such, implying that they would be willing to give their lives to secure freedom for all Americans.
Yet, for people willing to give so much to succeed, it sounds like you would be willing to give up this possibly last, definitely best chance to achieve that freedom for lack of money, if that money came from taxes.
The campaign has said they need $23 mil for the rest of the primary. That is almost exactly what they will qualify for in matching funds as of right now. The gov't has this money, set aside, for this purpose. they are not going to give it back to us.
Ron Paul's principles are impeccable. Better than mine I admit. But I see that this "love revolution" could, and might, turn into a real revolution should we see no other way to bring about change peacefully. Imagine what America will be like in 4 years should Hillary win.
(you do know that she is the anointed one, there has been a Bush or Clinton in the white house for a quarter century. Longer than many of our supporters have been alive.)
Real Id, NAU, habeas corpus, patriot act, military commissions act, Iran, maybe Pakistan, Energy prices, military spending, taxes, etc..
There will be no middle class and no freedom.
Would you prefer arms to money?
It seems prudent to take every possible step to reduce that possibility.
Collectively, we have paid in billions in taxes. We paid mostly because we were afraid. Afraid of jail or afraid of losing even more of what they let us keep. They don't ask us what to spend it on, or even if we support their schemes.
Here we have a chance to have a say in how some of those billions are spent. We have a chance to spend some of our collectively hard earned and stolen dollars on something WE support.
If doing so returned to us our freedom, and the other options were slavery or violence, who among us would choose the latter.
We must win. We will win. The question is at what expense.
Please stop posting duplicate threads about the same topic
One again, I have to point out that this topic is already being beaten to death at another Daily Paul thread:
http://www.dailypaul.com/node/15738
There's over 200 comments on that thread already, which is 100 times more than the subject deserves. And this isn't the only time it's been argued here at Daily Paul... In fact, this has been discussed to death before.
P.S. - treber, I see this is the 2nd time today you've started a new thread about this topic. FYI: It is considered bad "netiquette" to post duplicate threads on the same topic. (Especially a topic that is so inflammatory.)
P.P.S. - And, by the way, I don't disagree with your arguments. But personally I believe that Dr. Paul has the information & wisdom to make the right decision without all the "armchair quarterbacks" here at Daily Paul bickering about it. In this case we should let him make the decision.
Matching Funds
In the late 1970's my husband and I lived in a second floor apt overlooking the main street of our town. We were behind on our taxes. I received a threatening call from the IRS almost every day, weekends included. Once a week or so a man from the IRS knocked on our door to threaten us. I could see from my window that he stopped at many doors on the way to mine.
With the help of family we paid off the taxes plus interest and penalties.
Now we pay over 20% of our money to the IRS every year.
My 26 year old son introduced me to Ron Paul's message. My parents died last year. Going through their checkbook I found that they had donated to Ron Paul. This is a multi-generational movement of Americans who want to love their country again.
Please... take the money and Get This Done.
We are 5 votes in the Massachusetts Republican Primary for Ron Paul.
Immoral
It is immoral for the government to take my money to support a politician's campaign, even if that politician is the honorable and moral Dr. Ron Paul and even if that money has already been taken from me.
This is a decision only Ron Paul can make (and I can guarantee you what his decision is or will be), so why waste time sitting around discussing it here? I'm outa here to go do some letter writing.
DON'T ACCEPT WELFARE
We have gotten this far without it.
"If the people ever allow the banks to issue their currency, the banks and corporations which will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property, until their children wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered." T. Jefferson
Some prices are too high, and this is one.
Until someone can explain why TJ's morally-wrong below, I'm with refusing the welfare. We can do this on our own without sacrificing principles, so we shouldn't.
Besides, the stolen tax-loot would mostly go to an already-biased news media we all know is evil if Dr. Paul took it. I think it is truly "sinful and tyrannical" even if that's not a common expression these days. I don't want to become what we're fighting.
JMR
To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
Thomas Jefferson