Generally speaking, the Libertarians I have spoken to are under the illusion that they are self sufficient.
" I don't have any kids, so why should I pay for other people's kids to be educated?" "People like Walmart should not pay taxes because they already give people jobs"
These are just two comments from the Libertarian community on Lj I have come upon. let's take them both and see what happens, when we pan it out.
Suppose we have a magic wand that means I get complete opt out - the government agrees not to tax me, but makes no contribution to me in return.
Ok, so I have to fix my house with a generator because the local power gets turned off - but Ii can afford it. But next day, when I leave my gated community of fellow millionaires, I go speak to my manager of the store chain I own and find that no one has turned up for work.
" the problem is" s/he explains " We did not educate our staff - the state did. We can only employ people who were privately educated. People who went to State schools make up 905 of our payroll. the checkouts are down , the delivery staff, even our management are mostly state educated.
Look, boss, I have private insurance, but the nurses in my retirement home I am going to in ten yrs time - i gave them a call, and most of them went to state school. I gotta consider my options, I'm tearing up my Libertarian Party card..."
I understannd that in the USA, a town is alredy under way, and people are being given the option to move there. In a State where laws are conducive, a libertarian community is already forming. Now, it's gonna be great fun for multi millionaires to move in and try running things, but sooner or later, they are going to find themselves paying for things they never had to think about - like drains - because the State took care of this stuff, and they never had to.
The best that can be done is to look at the present system and make reforms. we can't go back to the days when people lived in mud huts and grew their own food and spun their own clothes. People who had to do that soon gave it up, you will have noticed.
Libertarianism only suits multi millionaires who can pay for those choices. Most people opt for time share in stead of owning their own yacht, they opt to pay taxes instead of owning thier own private police force. I think this is why the Libertarians only have 2% of the vote in the USA.
Re: The problem with the ' Libertarian ' system.
" I don't have any kids, so why should I pay for other people's kids to be educated?"
"People like Walmart should not pay taxes because they already give people jobs"
These are just two comments from the Libertarian community on Lj I have come upon. let's take them both and see what happens, when we pan it out.
Suppose we have a magic wand that means I get complete opt out - the government agrees not to tax me, but makes no contribution to me in return.
Ok, so I have to fix my house with a generator because the local power gets turned off - but Ii can afford it. But next day, when I leave my gated community of fellow millionaires, I go speak to my manager of the store chain I own and find that no one has turned up for work.
" the problem is" s/he explains " We did not educate our staff - the state did. We can only employ people who were privately educated. People who went to State schools make up 905 of our payroll. the checkouts are down , the delivery staff, even our management are mostly state educated.
Look, boss, I have private insurance, but the nurses in my retirement home I am going to in ten yrs time - i gave them a call, and most of them went to state school. I gotta consider my options, I'm tearing up my Libertarian Party card..."
I understannd that in the USA, a town is alredy under way, and people are being given the option to move there. In a State where laws are conducive, a libertarian community is already forming. Now, it's gonna be great fun for multi millionaires to move in and try running things, but sooner or later, they are going to find themselves paying for things they never had to think about - like drains - because the State took care of this stuff, and they never had to.
The best that can be done is to look at the present system and make reforms. we can't go back to the days when people lived in mud huts and grew their own food and spun their own clothes. People who had to do that soon gave it up, you will have noticed.
Libertarianism only suits multi millionaires who can pay for those choices.
Most people opt for time share in stead of owning their own yacht, they opt to pay taxes instead of owning thier own private police force. I think this is why the Libertarians only have 2% of the vote in the USA.