Dear Congressman Paul

I like you. I completely agree with your monetary policy concerns. I switched to the republican party from a lifetime of being a democrat to try to vote for you in the last presidential election. Sadly, you dropped out.

1. I have just finished watching you at the Palmetto Freedom Forum on September 5, 2011. You suggested that capital gains tax and income tax should be repealed. I understand that you want the federal government to have a much smaller role, but what is the precise mechanism by which this new smaller government would be funded during a Ron Paul presidency?

2. If businesses have liberty, how do you prevent them from poisoning the food supply and air in other countries or states? This happens now. When they do, how do you propose we prevent the wars which would therefore ensue? Other people in the world will assume that companies based in America represent America. Are they wrong?

3. If corporations have liberty, why would they allow small competition? Would they be allowed to form their own militias to defend their markets against new small competitors? If not, who would stop them and how? A hundred years ago, the Rockefeller's empire was built by sending militia to neighboring oil wells to slaughter the people who worked and lived there and those oil wells were taken over. Isn't this capitalism? What controls (if any) would a Ron Paul presidency provide to prevent this?

4. You see evil in government bureaucracy; I see evil in corporate bureaucracy. How do they actually differ? If the federal government has a limited budget as you suggest it should, why wouldn't it therefore be appropriate for the commons to be protected by it? I'm speaking here about the common airwaves, water ways, clean air to breath, ocean ecosystems upon which we all rely for food and foreign ecosystems upon which we all rely for certain medicines.

5. The social security system is a contract between the federal government and workers. Obviously, you propose that it be phased out. How should its funding be shorn up to pay for it to be closed down in an orderly fashion with the current recipients paid what they're owed? Or should they be?

6. After there is successful currency competition, what do you imagine would be the next steps to phasing out the bottomless Federal Reserve? Since, as you correctly observe, they can print all the money they want, how do you propose to shut them down without getting yourself assassinated by their current constituency?

7. As president, do you plan to stop the contract Nixon made with the Saudi Royal Family to make the US Dollar the world's reserve currency in exchange for military defense of their regime? What about other such contracts? To which energy and transportation fuel do you imagine we'd have access if we cancelled all these agreements? Do you know why so many American politicians are enthralled to the state of Israel? How long do you imagine you'd survive if you didn't do what they wanted too? I'm not trying to be inflammatory here, just practical.

8. Just for your information, nowhere in the entire world has there ever been a single instance of a public transportation system which was privately funded and which succeeded. Do you still believe there should be no public funding of transportation for masses in or between cities?

9. Do you know that while the US Government subsidizes Amtrak, the Union Pacific Corporation regularly violates their agreement to give Amtrak the right of way on all the tracks they own? How would a small federal government enforce any federal court action on a matter such as this?

10. Did you know that we subsidize the airlines with three to ten times more money than we give Amtrak? Air traffic Control Systems and airports are owned by the Fed. Should they be given to the states? If we could just get Union Pacific to abide by their original agreement for owning all that land which the US Government gave them for free for building tracks so that passenger rail would have the right of way originally agreed to, Amtrak wouldn't require subsidies, but the tracks would still be owned by Union Pacific. The US Government gave Union Pacific all those tracks and all that land (100 miles on either side of every track; so they crisscrossed the nation with tracks exactly 200 miles apart in a lot of places!) and could therefore afford to support Amtrak, if they so chose. But if you sever ties with OPEC, then we wouldn't be able to afford to use it, especially now that peak oil is beginning.

11. "Liberty" and "Sound Money" and "Sovereignty" sound great, but how will we actually live if we can't afford to travel? Should we all crowd into the cities like during medieval times? Should many of us die of Cholera because we can't afford medicine or clean water? Can you see why I feel I must be hearing only part of your message?

12. Are you saying it is okay for states to have socialism if they want to, but that such socialism shouldn't extend beyond states? How could any such government ever have any enforcement power over multinational corporations? Or do you think it is okay (for example) for Monsanto to poison the whole world's food supply (as they are attempting to do)? Do you think it is okay for Union Carbide to build plants which are so cheap that they accidentally kill thousands of people as happened in Bhopal, India? What's to stop them, if not big government?