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==== You didn't answer the question: what's your position? ==== | ==== You didn't answer the question: what's your position? ==== | ||
That's right, I answered with my strategy for being listened to precisely because many libertarians want the easy route out of dismissing me for my position. | That's right, I answered with my strategy for being listened to precisely because many libertarians want the easy route out of dismissing me for my position. | ||
| − | But I've never made any bones about my position. | + | But I've never made any bones about my position. I'm a liberal [[Progressivism|progressive]], liking a very few of David Friedman's ideas but closer to the liberalism because I think government works better and the market more poorly than he does. |
| − | What that works out to in practice is that I disagree with most libertarian complaints about taxation and redistribution, agree with many about needless government interference in private lives, and disagree with most libertarian proposals for reforms. For example, I too dislike the prohibitionary "war on drugs" and think it is very harmful. But while I would legalize most drug usage for recreation, I would do so under a regulatory policy that would address what I consider real, harmful problems due to a variety of market failures. Likewise tobacco. | + | What that works out to in practice is that I disagree with most libertarian complaints about taxation and redistribution, agree with many about needless government interference in private lives, and disagree with most libertarian proposals for reforms. For example, I too dislike the prohibitionary "war on drugs" and think it is very harmful. But while I would legalize most drug usage for recreation, I would do so under a [[Public Health Approach]] regulatory policy that would address what I consider real, harmful problems due to a variety of market failures. Likewise tobacco. |
==== You're ideological too! ==== | ==== You're ideological too! ==== | ||
