[OT] Libertarians was: Liberals

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> On Sat, 14 Sep 2002, K.H.Ranitzsch wrote:

I think we have a couple of actual Libertarians on the list, but I'll attempt
an answer... I am *not* a Libertarian, however.

Basically, Libertarians believe in minimal government. This isn't unusual in
various political ideologies, but libertarians take distaste for government &
regulation as far as, say, thinking that air traffic control is a bad idea.
Likewise large publicly funded transport systems like Interstates. (Just for
two examples...)

Apparently private enterprise is supposed to do all this stuff, in an ideal
libertarian enviroment. Libertarian ideology holds that if the government is
gotten rid of and people pay no taxes, this 'new wealth' will cause wonderous
things for society. It sounds rather like the traditional Marxist 'withering
away of the state', actually, from a different angle!

If the above made very little sense, my apologies. Most of the libertarian
writings I've read didn't either!

And as a pilot, I think ATC is a damn good idea, but that's a detail...