How come I can't create a poll here? Ther reason I'm asking is because od someone who seems to misunderstand Libertarian principles to mean we believe a business should have the freedom to do anything it wants, or even we don't believe in laws. Nonsense. Not liking regulation is not a call for anarchy.
There are common sense laws about rape, murder, theft, that no one seems against with he possible exception of rapists, murderers and thiefs. As for corporations, does anyone here think they should have the freedom to sell poison as cherry coke? You can't take platforms and statements then pervert them to extremes and talk about inconsistency. Another contention is that Libertarians believe employers have the right to hire anyone they want, and discriminate against anyone they want. So my poll would be, do you think an employer has the right to refuse to hire someone because of race, religion, gender or sexuial orientation? Another poll would be, would you vote for a simple bill that said an employer can not discriminate in hiring or pay based on gender, race, religion or sexual orientation. That is a bit different than equal pay because an employer should be able to pay someone more for the same job who's done it for ten years with 7% annual raises? Or some guy gets hired out of Harvard, some woman at of Montgomery Community College. But a law could be written that states you can't discrimate in hirin or pay based on the race, gender, etc criteria. Leaving the burden of proof up to a person suing a company. So the company is not forced to simply pay everyone the same for the same job. I mean, does anyone here think an employer has the right in a free market system to just say, sorry, we don't hire blacks here? I personally think, why not? I believe in meritocracy. I believe people should have a redress to the law if someone refuses to hire them based on anything but merit, ability, skills, experience, etc.
