The New Wimpery: begging to be taxed

Commentary from the liberterrain...

First it was the medical marijuana crowd in California who offered their state's politicians an enticing arrangement: Legalize our pot and tax it. It will help close the state's multibillion-dollar deficit.

The "Manhattan Madam" not only likes the idea but she wants to expand on it.

  Kristin Davis (AP Photo/Evan Agostini)

Kristin Davis is the alleged madam who supplied Ashley Dupre and other high dollar call girls to former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer for his personal amusement before the scandal broke in 2008 and drove him out of office.

Now Davis wants to run for governor herself on the Libertarian Party ticket.

The New York Daily News quoted Davis over the weekend as saying, "I'm a natural Libertarian," who also embraces gay marriage and the views of the National Rifle Association. She claims she will pull as many gun votes from the Republicans as pot votes from the Democrats.

Libertarians, who believe that no voluntary, consensual, peaceful activity amongst consenting adults should ever be criminalized, have few concerns with a sex worker running for office.

What they ought to be concerned about is this statement from a UPI article: "legalizing prostitution and marijuana could provide $2.5 billion in revenue."

So when exactly did it become fashionable for Americans to prostrate themselves at the feet of the political classes and beg to be taxed in exchange for pursuing activities that have always been their right to pursue in the first place?

  Eliot Spitzer (AP/ Groll)

American colonists never told the British, "Please let us import English tea and tax us for the privilege."

Northern Abolitionists who helped runaway slaves escape to Canada didn't whine, "Legalize the Underground Railroad and tax it."

Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton didn't lead the women's suffrage movement with the ringing battle cry, "Let us vote and you can tax us!"

And Martin Luther King isn't remembered for his eloquent civil rights message, "I have a dream – just let us sit in the front of the bus and you can tax us."

Anyone who won't stand up for the absolute, inalienable right to pursue any and all non-coercive, non-threatening, non-fraudulent, peaceful, voluntary activity without bribing lawmakers for permission has no justifiable claim to the title "libertarian."

America needs to find its backbone before it gets taxed too.