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Not trying to be snarky, but isn't that pretty aligned with Libertarian views? You might not need to start your own party.
by joemi 10y ago
Not trying to be snarky, but isn't that pretty aligned with Libertarian views? You might not need to start your own party.
- Daishiman 10y agoBecause Libertarians are corporatists. Mostly they fail to understand that lack of regulation leads to concentration and cartelization because that's the natural state of capitalism, and if you don't actively fight it you end up handing power from the government (which is ultimately accountable to the people) to corporations which exert that same power, except accountable to no one.
- Miner49er 10y agoJust to add, pure Libertarians also wouldn't be cool with spending government money on research and education.
- gnaritas 10y agoNot true at all, they'd be totally fine with it as long as it was voluntary. Libertarians aren't anti-government, they're anti-authoritarian.
- Retra 10y agoWho is the volunteer in this equation? Who volunteers to pay taxes? Who volunteers to spend them? Who volunteers to receive them? What does this even mean?
- jgrowl 10y agoI dream of a future where allocating funds for non-essential government programs is as easy as using kickstarter.
- gnaritas 10y agoLibertarians are fine with voluntary collectives, many libertarians are collectivists, aka left libertarians like Noam Chomsky. Being libertarian doesn't mean being fiscally conservative and socially liberal, it can also mean being fiscally liberal and socially conservative, or both fiscally conservative and socially conservative or liberal. Libertarians are anti-authoritarian, they want everything to be voluntary, i.e. live and let live. You can be a total liberal or conservative and as long as you don't want your views forced onto anyone else, i.e. not made law, you're libertarian. The way presidential campaigns are funded for example, by voluntarily checking a box on your tax form is perfectly libertarian.
- jgrowl 10y agoI would argue that we are currently under a system of corporatism, but yet not libertarian. In fact I might go as far to say that corporatism is the natural state of the world. The wealthy and powerful will always use their influence to gain even more wealth and power. It is a state that we must constantly fight against regardless of whether we call ourselves anything from libertarian to socialist.