OK, Christine. What the hey. You wanna fight? I'm your girl. I was formerly State Secretary of the Louisiana Libertarian Party. Also State Central Committee Member, if you know what that means. They wanted to run me for Governnor. Which tells you a lot about how hard up they were. I said no, for reasons of dignity. Those are my bona fides. I admit I am now a Republican, have served on the local County Central Committee, and have been a delegate to the Gubernatorial and Senatorial Conventions, but not Presidential.
You wanna fight about politics? Let's do it. (Rolling up my sleeves).
The single, simple dividing line between libertarians and the rest of the world, especially liberals, is the believe that "That government is best which governs least." Which means that there are certain things that government can do, and certain things it can't. No matter how nice it would be. No matter if it would save lives. No matter if it would save the children. It can't be done by government.
The reasons, you see, are that government is voluntary, and it is funded by taxes. And if tax money is confiscated from the tax payer it must be for a proper function of government, otherwise it is theft. And theft is wrong.
So if you see someone starving to death, it's your job to feed him, if you want to, but it's not mine, if I don't want to. And you should not be able to make me. It's wrong.
OK? Simple. Plain. Conceptually perfect.
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