Funny, I lost a house in this downturn, and I'm still a libertarian. Gruss Gott wrote: >> tBone wrote: >> You limit the government to those powers specifically contained in the >> constitution, get rid of all these federal government programs (medical, >> SS, R&D, any welfare or buy outs, education and so on) any of those >> states that want those programs can have them. You use tariffs, trade >> stamps and import licenses to generate funds for the government. >> > > But then some of that has been tried. Social Security, for example, > because people aren't will to watch old people live in the streets. > > You can say that it would be up to each state, but then the wealth > disparity is so high that you'd end up with arbitrage - i.e., why live > in North Dakota where the SS tax is 15% when you can move to South > Dakota where it's 5%? Then you end up with ND full of medieval > ghettos of old people. > > In short, I don't see how any of that can work anymore and I've studied it. > > Plus, you look at our current crisis - which extends WAY WAY WAY > beyond, say, New York's borders, and the truth is that Americans are > not willing to let things fail. > > There's a new saying: just as there are no atheists in foxholes, there > are no libertarians in an economic crisis. > >
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