Faustus 0 Report post Posted June 20, 2008 (edited) The Political Spectrum: Take The Test: Libertarian / Statist - (Left/Centrist/Right) Just 10 questions: <Click Here> (To plot your score; you may need to print-out.) Edited June 20, 2008 by Faustus Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Northern Neil 3 Report post Posted June 20, 2008 I scored a dead-centre on this. However, being an American test there were some issues which are very hot in the UK at present which perhaps arent in the US, and were absent from the test. I have some strong views on these absent topics! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Faustus 0 Report post Posted June 20, 2008 I scored a dead-centre on this. However, being an American test there were some issues which are very hot in the UK at present which perhaps arent in the US, and were absent from the test. I have some strong views on these absent topics! Good comment NN. I thought that would be the case for people outside the US making it esoteric(?). Those very items might be "neutral" here (L & R fall on both side). Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Kosmo 5 Report post Posted June 20, 2008 With 80 points on personal and 20 on economic I'm a liberal. No surprise here. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Faustus 0 Report post Posted June 20, 2008 With 80 points on personal and 20 on economic I'm a liberal. No surprise here. But mine might be a surprise: 70 on personal and 80 on economic. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
M. Porcius Cato 2 Report post Posted June 20, 2008 100% personal and 100% economic. In my view, economic freedom without personal freedom is a bore; personal freedom without economic freedom is a fantasy. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Nephele 4 Report post Posted June 20, 2008 100%/100% for me, too. 100% personal and 100% economic. In my view, economic freedom without personal freedom is a bore; personal freedom without economic freedom is a fantasy. Nicely said, MPC. But I'm having a tough time seeing how one can even have boring economic freedom without personal freedom. If your government threatens you with imprisonment for using your freely earned dollars to purchase recreational drugs and prostituted sex (prohibited because your nanny government knows what's best for you), or prevents you from earning a living for yourself through prostituting your own body (if that's your choice, considering that your body is your property -- not your government's property), then you don't really have economic freedom (as well as personal freedom). It just seems to me that economic and personal freedoms are inseparable. -- Nephele Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ASCLEPIADES 0 Report post Posted June 21, 2008 Salve, Amici It seems fiscal terrorism is reaching new heights ... (possible Romanian exception?) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
M. Porcius Cato 2 Report post Posted June 21, 2008 100%/100% for me, too.100% personal and 100% economic. In my view, economic freedom without personal freedom is a bore; personal freedom without economic freedom is a fantasy. Nicely said, MPC. But I'm having a tough time seeing how one can even have boring economic freedom without personal freedom. I agree. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ursus 6 Report post Posted June 21, 2008 100, 100 --- but this so-called test was very shallow. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Faustus 0 Report post Posted June 21, 2008 100, 100 --- but this so-called test was very shallow. If taken as a "quick and cursory" tool to locate one on the "political spectrum" it's fine. These are the 5 salient questions in the U.S. at present; Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Kosmo 5 Report post Posted June 21, 2008 Salve, Amici It seems fiscal terrorism is reaching new heights ... (possible Romanian exception?) We have now a nice 16% income tax regardless of the size of the income (before it was progressive so I could end up with a 40% tax). I'm less happy with the indirect taxes that were raised with EU accession, especially those on gas and cigarettes are bad. The gas price it's greatly increased by a tax and then by VAT applied even to the tax. Still, we have now no tax to imports from EU and those from outside EU were greatly reduced. I'm an welfare liberal, believing in personal freedom and a "free market" but also I believe that the state should act so no one lives in abject poverty. With less poor the society it's better for everybody. I do think that personal freedom it's worthless without some economic safety. Otherwise we're slaves to the grind... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ursus 6 Report post Posted June 21, 2008 If taken as a "quick and cursory" tool to locate one on the "political spectrum" it's fine. These are the 5 salient questions in the U.S. at present; Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Faustus 0 Report post Posted June 21, 2008 If taken as a "quick and cursory" tool to locate one on the "political spectrum" it's fine. These are the 5 salient questions in the U.S. at present; Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
M. Porcius Cato 2 Report post Posted June 21, 2008 If every citizen had an I.D. card we would know that only citizens were voting in our national elections. The votes of citizens would not be diluted. We would also know who among our employers were employing illegal hires because they could be licensed to do so. "We" could also check them at airports--and keep track of who goes where and when. "We" could require them for employment--and know where every drop of a citizen's economic blood comes from (the better to drain it). And "we" could also use them to validate marriages, births, school enrollments, credit ratings, insurance policies, membership in political parties and unions and churches, so that "we" the State can track, monitor, and approve or deny every aspect of our private lives and social intercourse. No thanks. Personally, I agree with Ayn Rand: "Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men." Share this post Link to post Share on other sites