Drex Davis Recent Posts- Why I supported Proposition 102 in Arizona (and Prop. 8 in CA)
- Today I voted Libertarian, and it felt great
- oh, this is rich; the “maestro” suprised, and Waxman hits all the wrong notes
- My ongoing battle with NJ
- Thugz at the DailyKos targeting Mormons
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- Is Obama inevitable?
- The Super Easy Guide To Understanding the Financial Crisis
- Responding to an Altgate blog - We the people are not We the investors
- 72 cents for your soul, young one
as a follow up to the story/part below, don’t miss the part
where the justice department has to pay $5.8MILLION dollars of TAXPAYER money to a man they wrongly suspected in the case.
first off, we give money to people who are suspects who turn out to not be criminals?
secondly, we give them taxpayer money?
yes, america, you get to pay for the bungles of your justice department’s errant “hunches.”
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What is government doing to your money?
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If you want to learn more about Minarchism, look no further
As many of you know, I am, essentially, a minarchist. Not an anarchist, a minarchist. Which I guess is kind of like a mini-anarchist, meaning a little bit of an anarchist (hey, there’s no government like no government”!).
The difference between minarchists and anarchists is that minarchists DO believe in a form of a “state”, while anarchists don’t.
The form of government in Minarchism is also known as a “Night Watchman State”.
Many libertarians are minarchists, and some are anarchists.
Both Minarchists and Anarchists agree that governments largely screw up economic transactions whenever they intervene, and that economic transactions between peoples who are not under duress or coercian (read: threat of force against their will) should not be interfered with by the “state”.
Minarchists believe the role of the state is essentially to protect private property and the rights of individualsm, and to do very little else.
Ron Paul is probably the most high profile minarchist in the US today. Most of the Austrian Economists - whose views I believe are, by and large, economic “gospel” and do more to explain human behavior than any other discipline - are minarchists. To learn more about Austrian Economics, read this.
And to learn more about minarchism, read this!
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