Smitty
DCC 4Life
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I think there is a blurry line for a lot of people between "Libertarian" and "Anarchist" when people hear the two terms. But Libertarian does not mean there that there is no legitimate government functions, just that it's relatively minimal on a federal level. The states could also pick up the slack, as they should, in a lot of these areas.I have seen you post that before and I get your desire to be a libertarian and how you feel it fits into what the founders wanted. Do you think it is a viable form of government (strict Libertarian) Would it work?
I'll say this much.... we could have a completely balanced budget, even a surplus, with existing tax rates, if we would cut back spending to the levels we had in 1990.
Now you may say that's "crazy" but I will counter that I just said 1990, not 1890. In 1990 pretty much all the standards of living we have become accustomed to, minus the internet and smartphones, were all in existence.
So would libertarianism work? Uh, yeah, there is a way it can be accomplished without depriving society of basic (constitutionally approved) functions and infrastructure. It's just that the propagandists on the left (or right) try to pretend that you are a caveman for insinuating that slashing spending could ever work. Hell, half of the cost of every dollar spent these days is a direct result of the inflation that has come about as a result of our deficit spending and printing that weakens the dollar's value, anyway. So rolling back the costs to 1990 would be a lot easier in that sense as well, if we killed off inflation.
As far as social issues, I think you would argue not only would it work, but that it's preferable to have a libertarian ideology.