Why would libertarianism not work?

[Liberated Freedomstan]

It would work.

And because of the low taxes libertarians like people would have more to spend. And if people spend more it will create more demand which will create jobs.

So Libertarianism could also benefit the poor.

Could. Wouldn't, though.

[Avenio]

http://www.lp.org/introduction/what-is-the-libertarian-party


For fact's

You know you've lost the argument when you're resorting to drive-by spamming party literature and smilies.

[Mkuki]

Y'know, if Detroit did become its own Libertarian country ruled by rich people, Detroit might actually be better off. Those rich people might systematically clean up their city-sized country and sort out the riffraff. If I owned Detroit, or a part of it alongside others of similar status, I'd want to spruce the place up and get everything neat and sorted.

I don't think libertarians would want anything ruled by an oligarchy.

[Khalite]

Y'know, if Detroit did become its own Libertarian country ruled by rich people, Detroit might actually be better off. Those rich people might systematically clean up their city-sized country and sort out the riffraff. If I owned Detroit, or a part of it alongside others of similar status, I'd want to spruce the place up and get everything neat and sorted.

Detroit is broken due to legal problems. Buying it wouldn't help.

Its legal problems and situation would immediately become different if it were its own city-state and had its own national identity. These legal problems you're referring to exist under the current political climate of the State and Country Detroit is a part of. Hypothetically, those same problems would shift to something different under this scenario.

[Divair]

It's legal problems and situation would immediately become different if it were its own city-state and had its own national identity. These legal problems you're referring to exist under the current political climate of the State and Country Detroit is a part of. Hypothetically, those same problems would shift to something different under this scenario.

I suspect you have no clue what legal problems I'm talking about.

[Mkuki]

http://www.lp.org/introduction/what-is-the-libertarian-party


For fact's

What facts? There's no policy positions.

[Kelmet]

http://www.lp.org/introduction/what-is-the-libertarian-party


For fact's

You know you've lost the argument when you're resorting to drive-by spamming party literature and smilies.

1 - I wasn't arguing
2- its a wink'
3- I posted that so the Libertarian party could explain themselves.

[Kelmet]

http://www.lp.org/introduction/what-is-the-libertarian-party


For fact's

What facts? There's no policy positions.

Exactly, Thats the Libertarians View point

[Gauthier]

Y'know, if Detroit did become its own Libertarian country ruled by rich people, Detroit might actually be better off. Those rich people might systematically clean up their city-sized country and sort out the riffraff. If I owned Detroit, or a part of it alongside others of similar status, I'd want to spruce the place up and get everything neat and sorted.

I don't think libertarians would want anything ruled by an oligarchy.

Even though oligarchies are inevitable outcomes of libertarianism?

[Mkuki]

What facts? There's no policy positions.

Exactly, Thats the Libertarians View point

So you've offered nothing to the discussion?

[Khalite]

I'm curious to know if working examples of a Libertarian government actually exist.

[Divair]

Exactly, Thats the Libertarians View point

So you've offered nothing to the discussion?

Much like the party itself.

[European Socialist Republic]

Because all streets would be privately owned and would all become toll roads.

[Liberated Freedomstan]

I'm curious to know if working examples of a Libertarian government actually exist.

I'd say the United States, but I'm a Comlibrunazi Yurop-ian.

[Mkuki]

I don't think libertarians would want anything ruled by an oligarchy.

Even though oligarchies are inevitable outcomes of libertarianism?

Given the general tenets of libertarianism I doubt they'd like that. Even libertarians aren't devoid of shortsightedness.

[Uelvan]

I'm curious to know if working examples of a Libertarian government actually exist.

We called it the Dark Age.

[Frisivisia]

Even though oligarchies are inevitable outcomes of libertarianism?

Given the general tenets of libertarianism I doubt they'd like that. Even libertarians aren't devoid of shortsightedness.

They're libertarians. Libertarianism is just Feudalism before the chips fall into place.

[Khalite]

The United States is a bureaucracy-choked morass of complexity and Big Government. If the United States is Libertarian, I will eat a shoe.

[Mkuki]

I'm curious to know if working examples of a Libertarian government actually exist.

I'd say the United States, but I'm a Comlibrunazi Yurop-ian.

Not really. Government subsidies to business run rampant within the US political system. Not to mention that the United States isn't all that tolerant of others. Some parts of her, anyway.

[Kelmet]

So you've offered nothing to the discussion?

Much like the party itself.

He gets it, I'm adding by showing nothing that Libertarians say about themselves

[Divair]

The United States is a bureaucracy-choked morass of complexity and Big Government. If the United States is Libertarian, I will eat a shoe.

US? Big government? It doesn't even have a universal healthcare program.

[Frisivisia]

The United States is a bureaucracy-choked morass of complexity and Big Government. If the United States is Libertarian, I will eat a shoe.

That's fun and easy to say, but what does Big Government, "bureaucracy-choked" or "morass of complexity" even mean?

[Surfistan]

Because corporate feudalism, that's why.

Also the best argument against libertarianism is Ayn Rand.

[Liberated Freedomstan]

I'd say the United States, but I'm a Comlibrunazi Yurop-ian.

Not really. Government subsidies to business run rampant within the US political system. Not to mention that the United States isn't all that tolerant of others. Some parts of her, anyway.

Is Libertarianism against subsidies, then? I was under the impression that an ideology in support of a more powerful private sector would be all for it.

[Mkuki]

Much like the party itself.

He gets it, I'm adding by showing nothing that Libertarians say about themselves

It would have made more sense to link to their platform.