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Originally Posted by CitizenZenSin  I had some questions about Libertarians though. If someone wants to answer. |
I don't see a whole lot of libertarians posting here other than me (NthErik and TooMuchButtHair maybe? They seem at the very least, libertarian-leaning...), so I'll take this one on even though this is somewhat off topic.
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With the massive reduction of taxs where does the money come to pay policeman, fireman, teachers, and all other goverment workers?
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I'm pretty sure the services you are describing are paid through local property and school taxes. Libertarians often have mixed opinions about these types of services, but I would consider most to take a minarchist position here and say that police, firefighters, courts, etc. are legitimate government services. Could you be a little more specific about government workers, though?
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Why would you legalize crack and coke and heroin, pretty much all the synthetic drugs? Weed is one thing, legalizing meth just sounds like a bad idea.
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... because prohibition doesn't work. Most people would agree that alcohol prohibition was a total failure, so why try it with other drugs? When you ban something you only push the activity "underground" so to speak, which creates a black market that is accountable to no one. Other than that, government has no right to tell people what they put into their own bodies. This is something that should be considered a personal responsibility, and if you f..k yourself up on drugs, you shouldn't expect a government handout.
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What do the people who need the taxpayer funded assistance do? If you get rid of welfare and foodstamps etc, thats gonna leave alot of people without means to feed there familes. I know just like everything else in the country welfare is taken advantage of, but there are genuine cases of people needing the assistance, alot more genuine cases then not.
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I think that it's a bad assumption to think that getting rid of the welfare-state is going to hurt a lot of people. In a truly free society, goods and services should be provided by the market, and if someone is left out, we all have a personal responsibility to help them. Another words, government has no right to steal from you or me in order to give it to someone who might need it. It's a safe bet that since the government has been in the business of welfare, more and more people are being left out. What's the typical politician's solution? More government programs. I am pragmatic about this issue, though. Personally, I think we should cut our foreign policy, save 100s of billions of dollars, and use that to help the people who have become dependent. Any money left over should be used to pay down our debt.
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Libertarians do have some viable stances. If the timing and canidate is ever right, i will strongly consider their canidate.
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That's the problem. They never nominate anyone worth a sh.t. Ron Paul was probably their best pick when he ran back in '88, but he only received like 300,000 - 400,000 votes. Third parties spend most of their money getting ballot access, and by the time this is done, they have little money to get their message out.
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