Putting aside the fact that this guy always defends Trump and attacks Biden, putting aside the fact that Trump had us borrowing over a trillion a year in the "best economy ever" and will hand Biden a 3.1 trillion deficit, let's take a look at the delusional platform this guy
claims he just voted for.
One policy - one
single policy - of the Libertarian Party would single-handedly destroy America as a nation. What's that?
Voluntary Taxation. A hippie pipe dream about how if we do not collect taxes but rather ask nicely, people will bask in their freedoms, give money, and everything will be hunky-dory.
When you pay taxes, do you do so voluntarily? Or do you do so because you are forced to do so? If you don’t pay your taxes, what will happen? Will you be fined further? Harassed by the IRS or other government entities? Jailed? The Libertarian Party is fundamentally opposed to the use of force to coerce people into doing anything. We think it is inherently wrong and should have no role in a civilized society. Thus we think that government forcing people to pay taxes is inherently wrong. Libertarians advocate for voluntary exchange, where people are free to make their own choices about what to do with their lives, their time, their bodies, their livelihood, and their dollars. If Americans want to give money to the government for one reason or another, they should be free to do so. If Americans prefer to spend their money on other things, then they should be free to do that also.
When you pay taxes, do you do so voluntarily? Or do you do so because you are forced to do so? If you don’t pay your taxes, what will happen? Will you be fined further? Harassed by the IRS or other government entities? Jailed? The Libertarian Party is fundamentally opposed to the use of force […]
www.lp.org
Think about those last few sentences.
Voluntary taxation only. Immediately, all creditors would cut off the federal government. Nobody is going to loan money to a government that relies on donations. So, implement that moronic policy and instantly the federal government is insolvent. What happens with a suddenly insolvent federal government that cannot back its currency? Poof goes that government.
Meanwhile, states don't have the power to create or back their own currency. Splat goes economic activity - literally, all of it, on the world stage - reduced to bartering.
You wanna listen to someone fear-monger about Biden raising taxes on the upper crust - an upper crust that repeatedly got tax cuts from the GOP leading to our existing deficits - from a guy who voted for a party with a platform position that would without exaggeration end the United States of America?
I could go on, but basically, the LP platform sounds like a fifth grader's Lord of the Flies fantasy. It boils down to "government should basically do just about nothing, and people should be able to do as they please." It read like anarchy lite.
Clue: that ain't utopia. Government steps out like that,
someone else steps in, and that
someone else is going to be your newer meaner government. Communes don't work except on the smallest of scales.
reason.com
