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There are good reasons for those viewpoints, but the people repeating them as talking points aren't doing the cause any favors imo.

>End the fed

I would really like to read this book: End the Fed. I feel like it would really help me understand the viewpoint better, but as I understand it, the Federal Reserve is not helping the average citizen. They have near total control of our money supply. With total control of the money supply, you don't need to even care about who's making the laws.

In addition, they are not a government entity. This is not generally commonly known. They don't really represent the government regulating the banks. They represent the banks, who pretend to regulate themselves, but instead just give themselves advantageous loans at near zero interest rates, which are then loaned out to people at increased interest rates. Money loaned in this way is created without being backed by anything, it's just loaned into existence of thin air, which is somewhat terrifying. Money paid back to the Federal Reserve is then destroyed.

> Get rid of taxes

This, I don't particularly agree with. But I also know that Ron Paul's plan isn't to whisk it away overnight. He'd implement this plan by cutting government programs, and then downsizing taxes to fit the new budget (or so he's stated). I don't really know enough about the pre-income tax federal budget, but it worked somehow, so I should do some more reading there. I do know that income tax is one of the only progressive tax structures that currently exist, so I'm not entirely comfortable with removing it entirely.

Then again, I highly doubt that Ron Paul will be able to keep enough control that he can fully implement this plan. As long as he doesn't cut taxes for the rich and raise it on the poor, he'll be better than any other candidate (including Obama).

Probably the most important factor in this is that Paul believes an empire building strategy through endless war will bankrupt us, regardless of the taxation situation, so the first thing to stop will be the wars (which were never declared by Congress, so as far as I understand, the president has full control over).

> Screw Obama, vote Ron Paul

To be honest, I feel deceived by Obama. Maybe I was stupid, but I thought he would be good for our civil liberties. As is evidenced by the endless wars, NDAA HR 1540 and SOPA HR 3621, he is clearly not.

> I'm not entirely convinced on Ron Paul (and neither are you)

You are right. Paul is not my ideal candidate, but he is my favorite candidate of the currently viable bunch. I don't necessarily agree with all of his conclusions, but I can follow them from the assumptions.

The rules are usually variants of Roberts Rules of Order. You'll note that the particular version to which I linked is over 800 pages. Memorizing all the rules would be a full time job. Congress employs parliamentarians, who have this as their full time job to clarify such matters. These kinds of questions are common in proceedings.

http://www.amazon.com/Internet-Dummies-John-R-Levine/dp/0470560959/ref=sr_1_1_title_0_main?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1324052271&sr=1-1

How many do we need?

>In Abilene, Ellsworth, Wichita, Dodge City, and Caldwell, for the years from 1870 to 1885, there were only 45 total homicides. This equates to a rate of approximately 1 murder per 100,000 residents per year.

>In Abilene, supposedly one of the wildest of the cow towns, not a single person was killed in 1869 or 1870.

http://www.amazon.com/Frontier-Violence-Another-Galaxy-Books/dp/0195020987/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1234881730&sr=8-1