WHO SHOULD DECIDE ??? |
Here's
a new version of the popular "Nolan Chart," also known as the "World's
Smallest Political Quiz". David
Boaz of the Cato Institute (who popularized
this "who should decide" approach in his book, Libertarianism:
A Primer) thinks it's more appropriate than the other ones, and
helps people think better, with a wider perspective.
It's just a quick self-help guide; its purpose is only to help you find out for yourself where you stand on the real political spectrum, as opposed to the ancient "left-right" political spectrum which was developed when the world was still feudal, made up of only "givers" and "takers," or "taxees" and "taxers". That old "left-right" spectrum was really only good for medieval societies, when there was mostly compulsion (forced transactions or by-permission-only transactions), long before there was any large entrepreneurial, or "middle", class which engages in trade (mutually-agreed-upon transactions), which we enjoy today. Nowadays when that ancient "left-right" spectrum is used, most people try to put fascists on the "right" and socialists on the "left" (as if they trampled peoples' lives any differently), and then trap you into swallowing the bizarre and evil notion that freedom is in between them, as some kind of fuzzy "compromise" between two allegedly "opposite" totalitarian extremes! How ridiculous can you get? It should be emphasized that your answers should not..reflect your opinions on the topics themselves, but rather your opinion, simply, of who should make the decisions..on them. The
quiz is in two parts; the first ten questions concern personal freedoms,
and the second ten concern
economic freedoms.
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.Plot
your personal freedom score on the left side of the diamond chart and your
economic freedom score on the right.
Put
a dot at the intersection of your scores. This is your position on
the political spectrum.
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your opinion, simply, of WHO should make the decisions | on them. |
Personal Freedom | |||||
whether or not you: |
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Send your child to a particular school? | |||||
Wear a seatbelt? | |||||
Allow smoking in your own establishment? | |||||
Smoke marijuana? | |||||
Serve in the military? | |||||
Own a gun? | |||||
Buy a pornographic video? | |||||
Have any kind of (consenting adults) sex? | |||||
Use a risky medical treatment? | |||||
Have uncensored access to the Internet? | |||||
Subtotal for each column: | |||||
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Economic Freedom | |||||
whether or not you: |
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Pay subsidies to farmers? | |||||
Give money to help the poor? | |||||
Work for less than minimum wage? | |||||
Drive a taxi or open a business? | |||||
Hire a worker from another country? | |||||
Put your retirement savings in social security? | |||||
Give the government 100% of your income? | |||||
Give the government 50% of your income? | |||||
Give the government 20% of your income? | |||||
Give the government ANY of your money? | |||||
Subtotal for each column: | |||||
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"You
have to ask yourself, 'Who owns me? Do I own myself or
am
I just another piece of government property?' " -- Neal Boortz
-- from www.FreedomKeys.com/whoshould4.htm |