When making the case for a Libertarian Solution, interviewees will get benefit points if they go beyond just stating their proposal i.e, “we must end the marijuana prohibition” – and show how everyday voters’ lives will be better when we end the marijuana prohibition.
Following are some examples of benefits.
Cutting taxes will:
- Put more money (name specific $ amount when possible) in the family budgets of the men and women who earned it.
- Force politicians to cut government waste.
- Create jobs.
- Encourage workers to produce more because they’ll have more incentive when they keep more of what they earn.
- Make businesses more profitable, return more money to shareholders and owners, and make America more prosperous.
Cutting government spending will:
- Force politicians to cut government waste.
- Create jobs.
- Force politicians to repeal laws and end Big Government Programs that do more harm than good.
- Move money out of the wasteful government sector and into the productive, private sector
- Put millions / billions of dollars into the private sector which will be used to invest in small businesses – the engines of economic growth.
- Replace inefficient bureaucracies with private enterprise and private charities that work far better, more humanely, and operate at a fraction of the cost of government
- Encourage and empower people to be self-sufficient and better able to support their families.
Reducing red tape and bureaucracy will:
- Dramatically reduce waste
- Remove a source of annoyance in people’s lives
- Allow businesses to operate with fewer hassles, to be more effective, to be more competitive, to serve their customers better, and to create more private-sector jobs.
Fewer foreign entanglements will:
- Remove and reduce one of the ugliest aspects of humanity – war.
- Foster peace.
- Stop human casualties.
- Stop massive property damage caused by war.
- End the pretext for massive government overspending, high taxes, and government debt. Stop borrowing from the Chinese to fund American adventurism.
- Take away reasons for people of foreign countries to hate Americans or to seek revenge.
- Reduce the threat of terrorism.
Balancing the federal budget will:
- Greatly reduce the risk of U.S. dollar becoming worthless
- Greatly reduce the risk the U.S. government devolving into tyranny should hyperinflation lead to unrest
- Stabilize prices
- Preserve the value of savings, including retirement savings
- Allow interest rates to rise to market rates, yielding livable annuities for seniors to live on without turning to government welfare.
- End exploitation by banks of low-income Americans
- Create incentive for investment according to real market demand, which creates jobs and financial stability.
