>>>started up a national health service, and began a process of ensuring personal freedoms
Forcing your neighbors to pay YOUR health bills is not freedom. It's graft. It's no different than if I bought a Lexus, and then demanded everybody contribute $1 to pay my bill & extracted the money from their wallets.
If he said "house" instead of "lexus" would it have NOT been a troll? I get that some people may not like comparing health care to luxury cars, but replace "health care" with any "need" (food, water, clothing, shelter, and
I still want to understand, since the Federal Reserve will be printing money for these bailouts and stimuli, why can't they just print money to pay off these debts in the first place?
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libertarian: socially liberal (you can do whatever you want), financially conservative (as long as I don't have to pay for it); people can help people directly (private charities work better than government regulated bureaucracies); and people can mostly govern themselves, thanks! (Politicians, stay out of our lives!)
Just once, I've love to hear a die-hard libertarian explain how privatized roads would work. Just once.
"libertarians" believe in private property, yes. But to argue that all libertarians want all roads private is just as stupid as making all citizens pay for all roads with federal tax dollars. The primary notion is decentralization. If a community wants to collect local tax revenues (via property, sales, or income tax) to pay for local roads, that's OK by a libertarian. A libertarian wants the LIBERTY to choose whether or not to live in such a location. In some places, it makes economic sense to do so, because free roads (and parking) may provide a boom to local economy.
But a libertarian also wants the freedom (liberty) to choose to live on the end of a long private road with no trespassers or passersby. It's the freedom of choice.
I'm also curious how many libertarians would want to live in large megalopolis cities like LA or NY.
"The Court's one-sentence denial deprived us, and the voters of Texas, of any explanation of the Courts reasons for arbitrarily exempting the Republicans and the Democrats from the clear deadline set forth in the law," Verney [Bob Barr's Campaign Manager] continued. "Third parties and Independent candidates are consistently told that deadlines are deadlines. Texas has somehow determined that deadlines are just suggestions but we are left without the guidance of the Court's reasons."
I guess this proves bipartisan actions are possible.
A morsel of genuine history is a thing so rare as to be always valuable. -- Thomas Jefferson
