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Libertarians support free trade, but it doesn’t take the five hundred plus pages of the NAFTA agreement to say ‘no more restrictions between us.’
Short Answers to the Tough Questions: How to Answer the Questions Libertarians Are Often Asked (2012)
The basic premise of libertarianism is that each individual should be free to do as he or she pleases so long as he or she does not harm others.
Healing Our World: In An Age of Aggression (2003)
Wealth is created when we use existing resources in new ways. Since such creativity is virtually limitless, wealth is too.
Healing Our World: In An Age of Aggression (2003)
As children, we learned that if no one hits first, no fight is possible. Therefore, refraining from ‘first-strike’ force, theft, or fraud, is the first step in creating peace.
Healing Our World: The Compassion of Libertarianism (2015)
Those too poor to own their own home pay no property taxes, but their rent reflects the taxes that the landlord must pay. The poor pay higher rents to subsidize inefficiency and waste.
Healing Our World: In An Age of Aggression (2003)
When tariffs are eliminated, consumers pay less for foreign goods. They therefore have more money to spend on other things. Their spending creates more new jobs than those that are lost.
Short Answers to the Tough Questions: How to Answer the Questions Libertarians Are Often Asked (2012)
Many subsidized exclusive monopolies are public services. On average, we pay twice as much through our taxes for these services as we would if they were provided by the private sector.
Healing Our World: In An Age of Aggression (2003)
We reap as we sow. In trying to control others, we find ourselves controlled. In failing to honor our neighbor's choice, we create a world of poverty and strife.
Healing Our World: The Other Piece of the Puzzle (1993)
Government is, in essence, the privileged class dominating the disadvantage. The Big Lie is that government is the friend of the poor and the foe of the well-to-do.
Short Answers to the Tough Questions: How to Answer the Questions Libertarians Are Often Asked (2012)
Actually, libertarianism assumes people will look after their own selfish interests. Because interaction is voluntary in a libertarian society, people can only cater to their own selfish interests by paying attention to what others want.
Short Answers to the Tough Questions: How to Answer the Questions Libertarians Are Often Asked (2012)
In a libertarian society, aggressors would be required to compensate their victims and pay for costs of their trial and apprehension. Studies show that such restitution is one of the most effective deterrents known.
Short Answers to the Tough Questions: How to Answer the Questions Libertarians Are Often Asked (2012)
By the late 1970s, armed citizens were killing more criminals in self-defense than the police. Many more would-be attackers and robbers are deterred from their crime when their intended victim simply brandishes a firearm.
Short Answers to the Tough Questions: How to Answer the Questions Libertarians Are Often Asked (2012)
When we, as individuals, take from our neighbors what they won’t voluntarily give—at gunpoint, if necessary—we call it theft. When majorities take from minorities what they won’t voluntarily give—at gunpoint, if necessary—we call it taxation.
Healing Our World: The Compassion of Libertarianism (2015)
Our greatest polluter is the government (i.e., U.S. military), not corporate America. Putting government in charge of protecting the environment is like asking the fox to guard the hen house.
Short Answers to the Tough Questions: How to Answer the Questions Libertarians Are Often Asked (2012)
An armed society is a polite society, and the not-so-wild West was rather peaceful, in spite of Hollywood’s violent portrayal. As a legacy, in the rural West where every household still has firearms, crime is less than in eastern cities.
Short Answers to the Tough Questions: How to Answer the Questions Libertarians Are Often Asked (2012)
Many individuals are capable of creating wealth but are excluded from the job market by minimum wage and licensing laws. Much poverty can be alleviated by allowing people to create wealth at whatever level they can and ‘work their way up.’
Healing Our World: The Other Piece of the Puzzle (1993)
As for charitable giving, Alexis de Tocqueville commented on the high level of generosity he observed during his travels in the early days of the United States. People who are free and prosperous are more likely to share with those who have less.
Short Answers to the Tough Questions: How to Answer the Questions Libertarians Are Often Asked (2012)
Can you imagine a school system funded by taxation hiring a teacher who equated taxation with theft? Hardly! Consequently, our children are instructed by teachers who believe that first-strike force, fraud, or theft is acceptable as long as it’s for a good cause.
Healing Our World: In An Age of Aggression (2003)
By making our police force an exclusive, subsidized government monopoly, we increase the cost and decrease the quality of protection, especially for the poor. By banning handguns, we disarm the disadvantage.
Healing Our World: In An Age of Aggression (2003)
Libertarian societies also create immense wealth primarily because the poor are not excluded from the labor market. Studies show that the closer a country is to the libertarian ideal, the more even is its distribution of wealth.
Short Answers to the Tough Questions: How to Answer the Questions Libertarians Are Often Asked (2012)