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I'm a libertarian of the most demented and rabbid kind.
My personal view of government is that it is an evil to an end. To pretect the citizens from foreign and domestic enemies, to protect is from eachother (not ourselves), and to secure liberty.
To this end only should such an entity with power to take and force exist.



I heard someone comment that the only problem they had with libertarianism is every statement has to start "If only...".

It would all be so great "if only" everyone could blah, blah, blah.

No large society could function without the 'social' or 'group' or 'communal' stuff. However you want to label it. Gotta have roads, fire dept, hospitals, water system, sewers, schools, police, Coast Guard, air traffic control, satellites, EMS, the list is nearly endless and then where do you draw the line? Private prisons have been a disaster with judges getting paid off to keep the prisons full. Private schools...well, I won't go there. Lots of us have experienced private roads and who is gonna pay for what part of the road...that's a mess.

Someone recently asked 'would you rather have it run by government bureaucrats?'

Maybe. Probably. I'll take a $60,0000/year career whatever whose been doing the job for 15 years over a $12,000,000.00 mercenary MBA, who was running a completely different business last week, looking to score big and jump ship. But I digress...

Sometimes you can privatize things and it's not a total disaster...rarely...but you can't do it with the big stuff like highways. Even banks, though that ship has sailed. Check out the story of the North Dakota State Bank sometime.

There's a lot about libertarianism to like...I'm right there with you.

If only...