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" | 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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* It is curious the number of libertarians who claim to disdain vast corrupt soulless bureaucracies but who celebrate multinational corporations. ([[Dispatches from Libertopia: An Anthology of Wingnut Chestnuts and Democratizing Remedies|H/T]]) | * It is curious the number of libertarians who claim to disdain vast corrupt soulless bureaucracies but who celebrate multinational corporations. ([[Dispatches from Libertopia: An Anthology of Wingnut Chestnuts and Democratizing Remedies|H/T]]) | ||
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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. | ||
