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Not 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.
by gnaritas 10y ago
Not 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.