I’m Rand Paul and I’m running for President of the United States of America. Ask me anything!
I'm Dr. Rand Paul, devoted husband and father, senator from Kentucky, and 2016 United States presidential candidate.
I am running for president to return our country to the principles of liberty and limited government. I am an advocate of a balanced budget amendment, term limits, and privacy reform. I’m proud to be here in Galt’s Gulch with you today and will be back at 4PM ET to provide answers to your questions.
Ask me anything.
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EDIT 3: Radio Interrupted post-show with the Atlas Society: http://www.galtsgulchonline.com/posts...
EDIT 2: A full summary of questions and answers by Dr. Paul can be found here: http://www.galtsgulchonline.com/posts...
EDIT 1: 09.22.15 4:50PM ET: The Senator had to cut it short to keep a date with Wolf Blitzer (CNN). Check out his farewell comment here: http://www.galtsgulchonline.com/posts...
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PROOF: https://twitter.com/RandPaul/status/6...
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I am running for president to return our country to the principles of liberty and limited government. I am an advocate of a balanced budget amendment, term limits, and privacy reform. I’m proud to be here in Galt’s Gulch with you today and will be back at 4PM ET to provide answers to your questions.
Ask me anything.
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EDIT 3: Radio Interrupted post-show with the Atlas Society: http://www.galtsgulchonline.com/posts...
EDIT 2: A full summary of questions and answers by Dr. Paul can be found here: http://www.galtsgulchonline.com/posts...
EDIT 1: 09.22.15 4:50PM ET: The Senator had to cut it short to keep a date with Wolf Blitzer (CNN). Check out his farewell comment here: http://www.galtsgulchonline.com/posts...
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PROOF: https://twitter.com/RandPaul/status/6...
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FROM SCOTT: Dr. Paul will be here at 4PM ET. Post your questions here now as comments below. IF YOU HAVE MULTIPLE QUESTIONS, PLEASE POST THEM AS INDIVIDUAL COMMENTS. Try and keep the questions brief so the senator can get through as many as possible. Also, make sure to vote on the questions (and this post) as the best will rise to the the top of the list.
At 4PM ET, refresh this page with your browser to see the Rand’s replies as they come in.
Also, make sure to join us at 4:30PM today for a special edition of GULCH LIVE: RADIO INTERRUPTED ( http://www.galtsgulchonline.com/g/the... ) for exclusive live commentary from the Atlas Society's David Kelly, Aaron Day, Will Thomas, and Ed Hudgins.
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Previous comments...
Before 9/11, President Bush W. was trying to shrink the size of the government. The Service Employees International Union, was fighting him with lawsuits and delaying tactics. How would you shrink the government and defeat their tactics?
In 2006 the UIGEA, legislation regulating online gambling, was passed after it was attached to a Safe Port Act.
Now, billions of dollars worth of taxable revenue are going to companies operating outside the United States.
Would you be in favor of, and actively pursue, the repeal of the UIGEA to allow reputable companies to operate within the borders?
Thank you for your response. Have a great day!
If elected, what is your plan to better regulate the Federal Reserve and defend the dollar from future hyperinflation? (assuming petrodollar trade comes to an end)
Mitch
I think you are by far the best candidate but you say things that are hard for both Republicans and Democrats to hear. So how do you believe you can win if neither party wants to accept you?
How would you address the former supporters of your father that are no longer supporting you stating that you are nothing like your father?
As an advocate of the free market would you say the government ever has the right to intervene? Especially pertaining to incidents conflicting with consumer rights, monopolies, and environmental regulations?
I can't believe my misfortune in not knowing about your appearance on this very insightful forum!
( I understand he isn't here to answer questions anymore, just let me keep a little hope! )
I am a millennial wondering one main question in today's society.
What plan or action could even reverse the juggernaut of tyrannical imposition of restriction upon the people and the states given no government in history has ever been able to retract back from what control it already has without revolution?
To clarify a little bit upon that, there are times in history when restrictions seem to be imposed back on the government however if you watch a nation's government in the long run throughout history even despite what seems like a major pushback by the people, the government always violates pledges or oaths and ends up continuing to grow its power over the people of its nation. For example the Magna Carta and having to have the Petition of Right later on because it was not being honored.
It seems like only revolution leads to more restriction of government's power over the people. I don't think advocating for revolution is a good solution but if revolution is the only meaningful time that the power struggle changes could not pushing for the expedited dissolution of a government be one of the only proven ways to get more rights back to the people? Some of our founding father's like Thomas Jefferson pushed for "little" revolutions every generation and considered it essentially a necessity in the political realm.
wouldn't that just give the government a handle
to raise taxes to pay for its excesses?
I would hope that any group going through all the effort to get an amendment passed, would include some limitations on increasing taxes rather than reducing expenses. It would be pointless otherwise.
1. I've heard Obama refer indirectly to the Constitution as a charter for negative liberties, yet the majority of laws and programs today are focused on positive liberties. Does that need to be corrected? If so, how would you do that?
2. Aside from secession (which no longer is lawful after the civil war) and nullification (which has never been legally upheld by federal courts) what incentive is there for our government, who writes its own laws, enforces its own laws, and defines and upholds its own laws, to ever find that their law is anything other than in its own best interest?
3. Are people wrong when they malign followers of Islam publicly (on social media) and dehumanize them into a category of subhuman barbarians? There are 1.6 billion people that fit into that category and they are being judged by the actions of 200,000 radicalized ISIS members. How much of that narrative is based on intentional atrocity propaganda and deflecting our role that caused the "blowback"?
4. I am a Christian and am focused on preserving our right to choose good from evil. Preserving that agency, to allow individuals to be persuaded through reason instead of compelled by force. When some people ask me why I enjoy Ayn Rand (among other liberty focused individuals and writers) being that she was an atheist, I respond "I don't like her because of her answers, I like her for her questions. I already know the source where I can find the answers." During the debates all the candidates appeared to claim to have all the answers. I want to know, what is the one question that voters need to ask? What question, that if they truly searched for the answer, it would empower them to take responsibility and embrace their stewardship over this country.
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