Ron and Rand Paul to Host Fundraiser for Kurt Bills

Minnesota Republican Senate candidate Kurt Bills is off to Washington on a trip that includes a fundraiser held by Ron Paul and Rand Paul, reports AP.

Is this part of the new Paul plan? Help Paulite posers?

Bills won the Minnesota GOP's endorsement this spring, in part by tapping into a base of Ron Paul supporters at the state party convention, according to AP.

A spokesman for Bills said donors at Tuesday's fundraiser are being asked for $350 each, with a five-figure overall goal for the event.

Of note, Bills' issues page indicates softball libertarian positions that suggests he could sell out on any liberty issue at any time.

His position on the Federal Reserve is to audit the Fed, but he stops there. He attacks Fed money printing, but then calls for it, when he calls for the Fed to manipulate the money supply so that "price stability" stability becomes the role of the Fed, which indicates that he has no idea how the business cycle can occur, even with stable prices, as Murray Rothbard warned occurred before the Great Depression:

One of the reasons that most economists of the 1920s did not recognize the existence of an inflationary problem was the widespread adoption of a stable price level as the goal and criterion for monetary policy. The extent to which the Federal Reserve authorities were guided by a desire to keep the price level stable has been a matter of considerable controversy. Far less controversial is the fact that more and more economists came to consider a stable price level as the major goal of monetary policy. The fact that general prices were more or less stable during the 1920s told most economists that there was no inflationary threat, and therefore the events of the Great Depression caught them completely unaware.

Bills' "stable price" position on the Federal Reserve is both clueless and dangerous.

Note on taxes, Bills is in favor of a "simplified tax code." Bills says:

Simplifying the tax code and ensuring the best return on the taxpayers’ investment needs to be one of Congress’s top priorities.

Taxpayer investment? Yikes. Since when is taking money from citizens via taxes an investment. It is a politicians distortions of the words taxes and investment. And, btw, here's Rothbard on "simplified" taxes:

It was allegedly free-market economists for example who pioneered in and propagandized for the alleged Tax Reform Act of 1986. This massive change was supposed to bring us "simplification" of our income taxes. The result, of course, was so simple that even the IRS, let alone the fleet of tax lawyers and tax accountants, has had great difficulty in understanding the new dispensation. Peculiarly, moreover, in all the maneuverings that led to the Tax Reform Act, the standard held up by these economists, a standard apparently so self-evident as to need no justification, was that the sum of tax changes be "revenue neutral." But they never told us what is so great about revenue neutrality. And of course, by cleaving to such a standard, the crucial question of total revenue was deliberately precluded from the discussion...J.B. Say's policy recommendation was crystal clear and consistent with his analysis and that of the present paper. "The best scheme of [public] finance is, to spend as little as possible; and the best tax is always the lightest."

Under Foreign Policy, Bills does not even mention ending any of the current wars, drone strikes or U.S. empire building at all. He says zero about these great evils.

Bottom line: This guy is as libertarian as Barack Obama. It's understandable that Rand would endorse this guy, but what is Ron Paul doing in the same room with him?