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Friday, October 6, 2000
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Top 10 questions left out of the debate
by Harry Browne
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Tuesday's presidential debate contained a lot of words, a lot of
repetition, and a lot of disputes over the candidates'
proposals. But many important questions were never raised.

Here are the top 10 questions that were never brought up:

10. Mr. Gore, you said you believe fully in a woman's right to
choose. Does this mean a woman has a right to choose to get out
of the Social Security system -- or to choose to smoke
marijuana to relieve the pain of glaucoma or chemotherapy? Or
is abortion the only area in which a woman has the right to
choose what she wants?

9. Mr. Bush, you said you believe in the strict construction of
the Constitution. Where in the Constitution does it give you
the authority to spend my money on federal education programs,
to take my money and give it to charities of your choice, or to
set up a prescription-drug program for seniors?

8. Mr. Gore, you said you believe the Constitution contains a
right to privacy. Does that mean you'll stop Treasury agents
from searching our bank accounts, looking for suspicious
transactions? Will you end all federal asset forfeiture, stop
monitoring e-mails, and take that ridiculous V-chip out of our
TV sets?

7. Mr. Bush, you said you want to give taxpayer money to
children to attend private schools. Won't that mean federal
regulation of private schools -- turning them into clones of
the government schools? Or are you planning to issue the
vouchers without any rules whatsoever?

6. Mr. Gore, when asked about the fund-raising scandals, you
said you won't answer such questions because they are "personal
attacks." Does this mean you should never be held personally
accountable for anything you do in office?

5. Mr. Bush, you said you believe in local control of education.
Why then are you pushing for mandatory testing and other
policies to be imposed by the federal government?

4. Mr. Gore, since the introduction of Medicare, the cost of
health care to seniors has more than doubled, even after
allowing for inflation. Why do you want to extend this failed
program to prescription drugs -- which would probably cause
their prices to rise and their availability to shrink, and
discourage the development of new drugs that might cure cancer
or Alzheimer's Disease?

3. Mr. Bush, you haven't proposed the elimination or reduction
of a single government program, regulation, or law. So why do
you refer to yourself as the candidate of smaller government?

2. Mr. Gore and Mr. Bush, you each keep referring to budget
surpluses. But the official federal debt continues to grow
month by month, year by year. This is because the "surplus"
exists only by borrowing the excess Social Security receipts
and using them to paper over the deficit in the general fund.
So how can you promise to "save" Social Security when you're
spending all its receipts and leaving nothing in the trust
fund? And how can you promise to use the "surplus" for tax
cuts, debt reduction, and new spending programs when there is
no surplus?

And the #1 question that wasn't asked in the presidential debate
is ...

1. Mr. Bush and Mr. Gore, would either of you be a better person
today if, for your youthful drug use, you had served 10 years
in prison? If not, why don't you propose to release the
hundreds of thousands of non-violent drug offenders in federal
prisons?


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