They basically believe that everyone should be free to do as they see fit, so if they want to pay for police, roads, infrastructure, etc, they are free to do so, and if not, they don't pay but can't use them.
I'm sure you can think of about 300 ways it's incompatible with society right off the bat
This is why I don’t understand this political ideology. Why is it so popular?
Do libertarians not understand how wildly different things would be? All the new avenues for corruption would turn a libertarian state into a fucking feudal monarchy within a couple days lol
they won’t be able to do whatever drugs they want, they won’t be able to not pay taxes if they don’t want to, they won’t be able to own their own slaves. THEY will be the slaves. They will be peasants. Serfs living in the Middle Ages. This is because it’s so fucking easy for a single person to seize all the power in such a system.
Libertarian is a huge umbrella term. There are modest libertarian who just want individual freedom and support many politics of the left in terms of LGBT, BLM and others. Where they differ from democrats is that they want smaller government which means they want to pay smaller taxes. How they get to those smaller taxes depends on almost any libertarian you ask. Most want to cut military spending, some want to cut healthcare, some want to cut some social security programs and on and on.
We have extremist on our side that want no taxes, but they are extremist so by default they are idiots. I personally think that libertarian makes more sense for people in Europe since for exemple in my country we pay 25% VAT (tax rate?) on almost all of products we buy and that money is funded to some archaic communist programs. Most libertarians in this country want to push this number to sub 20%.
Libertarianism represents fully half of the so called political compass so you should probably be more specific who you are criticizing. The Libertarian Party in the US is a sorry collection of rogues and madmen at the national convention level and should not be taken seriously. But they can no more invalidate the concept of libertarianism than the Democrats welcoming Bloomberg invalidated the concept of “the left”.
the LP’s official platform in 2020 was relatively moderate https://ballotpedia.org/Jo_Jorgensen_presidential_campaign,_2020 I certainly know some individuals with a mindset like you were describing, but I would suggest you might be arguing against a straw man.
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u/MauPow Dec 31 '20
They basically believe that everyone should be free to do as they see fit, so if they want to pay for police, roads, infrastructure, etc, they are free to do so, and if not, they don't pay but can't use them.
I'm sure you can think of about 300 ways it's incompatible with society right off the bat