So, in your mind, being in favor of social equity is anathema to libertarianism?
I'd say that's not a principle but it is an outcome.
If you are free to work at any job, get for it what you can, charge what the market will pay, and work as hard and long as you wish, and we both choose the same professions, charge the same rates, are equally smart, but I am willing to put in twice the hours you will, your version of "Libertarianism" says the state should take 1/3 of my earnings and give them to you just to get an equal outcome?
That's weird, man.
Have you thought about the social and economic ramifications of that? Why should I produce more if the excess will be confiscated? Why produce at all, since I will get as much whether I do or not?
Did you notice that not even the Worker's Paradises went that far? They were stupid, but not THAT stupid.
"Equal" means equal in the eyes of the law, not equal incomes. That's communism, essentially the diametric opposite of Libertarianism. |
