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To: neolib who wrote (7860)	12/21/2005 7:01:45 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542043

Ideal Libertarianism fails to understand the strong reach of greed. I'm not sure what you mean by "Ideal Libertarianism". If you mean some particular and fairly artificial libertarian vision you may be correct. If you mean any very strong form of libertarianism you would not be correct. Libertarianism recognizes the existence of fraud and supports making it illegal. Libertarians also recognize the special interest problem. They hope to address it largely by reducing the size of government. If government is less expansive and intrusive it can not as easily be recruited to give some fat cat a special break at the expense of everyone else. Tim