Difference between revisions of "Libertarianism in One Lesson; The Fourth Lesson"

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Remember that joke "if public libraries didn't already exist they would strike people as the most outlandish left-wing idea"? Libertarian Party's response: "this, but unironically"
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Remember that joke "if public libraries didn't already exist they would strike people as the most outlandish left-wing idea"? Libertarian Party's response: "this, but unironically".
  
 
Yet for some reason there was a huge movement to build free public libraries in the Gilded Age, lead by that dastardly arch-socialist steel magnate Andrew Carnegie.
 
Yet for some reason there was a huge movement to build free public libraries in the Gilded Age, lead by that dastardly arch-socialist steel magnate Andrew Carnegie.
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* The joke is that when they're justifying their ideology they embrace the idea that if you don't like it you can quit your job and move, without addressing the fact that you need money to move/live. But when it comes to the same fact for taxation they're stymied.
 
* The joke is that when they're justifying their ideology they embrace the idea that if you don't like it you can quit your job and move, without addressing the fact that you need money to move/live. But when it comes to the same fact for taxation they're stymied.
  
*Socialism will never work because it doesn't account for the greed and selfishness of human nature.  But charity and volunteerism can solve any problem that isn't fixed by markets!
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* Socialism will never work because it doesn't account for the greed and selfishness of human nature.  But charity and volunteerism can solve any problem that isn't fixed by markets!
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* Voluntary smoking, even limited by regulations, has a higher death toll than ever communism did; but government is the problem!

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