No need to PM I don't think.
There is nothing special about him specifically regardling lifespan extension, it is just his whole collection of policies. Basically he will get the federal government out of all of the things which it isn't needed in and let the free market take care of itself.
No more wars, no more foreign aid, no more federal reserve, no more dept. education, no more dept. of home defence, no more welfare etc. Suddenly you have a government with a shit load of expenses gone - therefore the need to tax people is almost lost.
The role of the government, as my understand of Ron Pauls overall principle, is to simply protect the states - so the federal government will provide a defence force and intelligence agencies to provide protection for 'The united states' - and then let the states run their own state without interference from the federal. It just makes sense.
It is, ironically enough, what America is supposed to be all about. Ron Paul is just the first person (in the last few hundred years anyway) who is actually going to do it. he is going to follow the USA constitution.
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So why do people support him so much, including immortalists? because you can be confident that he won't ban stem cell research, or any other research for that matter. Nor will he impede that research with stupid taxes. Research will be free to proceed. (Plus he is a doctor (Ob Gyn), not some moron creationist with no education)) He does believe some thing which I disagree with, but thanks to his perfect political principles, it doesn't matter what he believes - he won't impose them on anyone else.
What more can you want in a leader, but freedom?
Edited by Aegist, 17 December 2007 - 02:33 AM.