Every individual should be a libretarian at heart

[Berzerker]

St Leo -

No, a democratic tax-funded government prevents such a thing.

Hmm...I trust you'll jump in to correct the liberals when they complain about the power wielded by corporations.

[Theben]

Oh, if your answer is alcohol prohibition, take a few minutes to think about that...

Go ahead and answer that. I'm a bit curious as to what you have to say.

[Berzerker]

Glad to, drug prohibition, like alcohol prohibition before it, has resulted in a massive black market that generates crime.

http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/library/graphs/10.htm

People who understand the nature of large black markets won't be surprised by that graph. Even Sen Orrin Hatch argued against increasing tobacco taxes because even with the taxes we have now, tobacco tax related crime has been increasing.

[St Leo]

Originally posted by Berzerker
St Leo -

Hmm...I trust you'll jump in to correct the liberals when they complain about the power wielded by corporations.

Are you saying that a Government should be friendly to corporations in order to decrease their power?o_0

Maybe I misunderstood your original sentence. You did say that libertarianism would prevent people from gaining power over me, right?

[Berzerker]

Are you saying that a Government should be friendly to corporations in order to decrease their power?o_0

Can you respond to my point without asking an unrelated question? You said a democratic tax funded system prevents people from having power in response to someone's assertion that a libertarian government prevents us from having power over others.

Maybe I misunderstood your original sentence. You did say that libertarianism would prevent people from gaining power over me, right?

Someone else said that, but I'd agree with it. Right now corporations have more power than individuals because we have a democratic tax funded system. Once you have a tax system designed to "re-distribute" wealth, you create a power grab between people wanting wealth distributed to them at the expense of others.

[NeOmega]

Originally posted by Theben
So that would make you a "student"? Read the directions!

???? How do you figure? Did I say I am in school? Did I say I was going to school? Do you need to go to school to figure this one out? :P

No, a democratic tax-funded government prevents such a thing.

Except the people who work for the tax funded government, ie the Child Protective Services people sometimes, many social workers, hypocritical preachy rehab specialists, zealous drug warriors, middle management bureaucrats......

[Berzerker]

Except the people who work for the tax funded government, ie the Child Protective Services people sometimes, many social workers, hypocritical preachy rehab specialists, zealous drug warriors, middle management bureaucrats......

They don't have power over us, they are a product of a Democratic tax funded system.

[Solly]

Berzerker, thanks for the graph as it is somewhat illuminating, but we should be always a little wary of single variable causes.

Perhaps variable y caused both the increase in drug laws and the increase in homicide rate.

[Caligastia]

I love it when Berzerker gets going on the drug war.

He's right though.

[Caligastia]

Originally posted by Theben
I.e., prove to me that libertarianism isn't just a reaction by upper middle class/upper class whining about taxes.

Why would you whine about taxes if you don't pay any?

[David Floyd]

Good point, Cali

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

Yep. It's a libertarian thread, all right.

Now wait for my two-line post to be dissected and waffled over, word by word.

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

Do you know why libertarians don't rule the world?

It's easy. They discovered the internet.

[NeOmega]

Originally posted by Caligastia


Why would you whine about taxes if you don't pay any?

Everybody pays taxes, including the working poor, allthough many times the working poor see absolutely nothing from their tax dollars.

[Caligastia]

Originally posted by Lazarus and the Gimp
Now wait for my two-line post to be dissected and waffled over, word by word.

I considered doing that but got bored thinking about it.