Harry Browne was awesome.
Yeah he was... the rest of that interview is pretty good too. Like this part, which applies to Mitt's immigration stance:
RUSSERT (interrupting again): "And anyone who is here illegally you would make a citizen?"
BROWNE: "I don't care whether or not they're citizens; what I care about is that, if we do have programs to close the borders, once again it will affect you more than it will affect the immigrants. They will make
you carry an identity card.
You will be stopped by policemen and asked to prove that you are a citizen.
Your employer will be sanctioned for inadvertently letting an illegal immigrant go to work in your company.
It will not keep the immigrants out, but it will be one more nail in the coffin of freedom in the United States for American citizens."
"The answer is to shut down the welfare state. Shut down the welfare state, and people will filter themselves out. They will only come here for the land of opportunity. If we leave the welfare state intact but close the borders, then we're going to have less freedoms in the United States, and we're still going to have a welfare state, and we're still going to have big government, and were still going to have government prying into every aspect of our lives, as we do now. The answer is to reduce government. We never solve problems through government. We haven't solved the education problem. We haven't solved the healthcare problem. We haven't solved the drug problem. We haven't solved the poverty problem. We haven't solved any of these problems. What makes anybody think that now we're going to close the borders and we're going to solve the immigration problem?"
