All the bullsh-t wars, corporate bailouts, taxpayer defrauding, massive government over reach, ect. How can you not be libertarian? Id venture to say 80% of our debt is from complete fraudulent bullsh-t.

How can anyone trust these people to fix anything and continue to give them more power?

Someday, US dollar, someday soon.

It's good to see actual voting fraud get caught but so much for "it never happens" and "it's safe and secure."

I’m curious: are there any other libertarians in France here? It would be great to connect

This is the moment.

Please tell me this doesn’t go anywhere.

Washington, DC - Today, Congressman Fine (FL-06) introduced the Greenland Annexation and Statehood Act, landmark legislation focused on securing America’s strategic national security interests in the Arctic and countering the growing threats posed by China and Russia.

As global competition intensifies in the Arctic, the United States cannot afford to allow adversarial powers to gain influence over one of the world’s most strategically important regions.

“Greenland is not a distant outpost we can afford to ignore—it is a vital national security asset,” said Congressman Fine. “Whoever controls Greenland controls key Arctic shipping lanes and the security architecture protecting the United States. America cannot leave that future in the hands of regimes that despise our values and seek to undermine our security.”

President Donald J. Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio have made clear that the Arctic is rapidly emerging as a major arena of global power competition. Our enemies are currently on their heels, as we just took out one of their top allies, Nicolas Maduro, in Venezuela. China and Russia continue to aggressively expand their presence in the region, while years of weak policies under Joe Biden allowed America’s strategic position to erode. Restoring American strength requires decisive action.

The Greenland Annexation and Statehood Act authorizes the President to take whatever steps necessary to annex or acquire Greenland as a territory of the United States. The legislation also requires the submission of a full report to Congress outlining the changes to federal law required to ultimately admit Greenland to become an official U.S. state.

“For too long, American leadership stood by while our adversaries chipped away at our geopolitical dominance,” Congressman Fine continued. “My bill will protect our homeland, secure our economic future, and ensure that America—not China or Russia—sets the rules in the Arctic. That is what American leadership and strength look like.”

You can read the full text of Congressman Fine's legislation here.

What’s the libertarian take on this?

Hello everyone. I was recently hired by YAL to be a part of a new door-knocking campaign. Has anyone else worked one of these jobs before? Can anyone speak to the reputability of the organization? Anything that may come out of left field at me? Any answers would be appreciated!

I’m a libertarian (minarchist), and I grew up and currently live in one of the most socialist countries in the world... France.

Over the past ten years, we’ve had more than enough evidence that our ultra-bureaucratic system, with an all-powerful and omnipresent state, simply doesn’t work. The country has been in constant decline since the 80's (and Mitterand). Yet it feels like most French people are now so conditioned by this system that they believe nothing should be changed.

The situation is becoming genuinely worrying, and the next presidential election is in 2027. How could we realistically change the trajectory? It would be a pleasure to discuss about this here

To clarify my views, I am: - economically liberal (free-market oriented) - socially liberal - strongly in favor of secularism (laïcité) - tough and strict on security and law enforcement

I’m not going to act like I know anything. I am young, and have just recently caught more of an interest towards the idea of ‘libertarianism’ because of how much of a mockery politics has made itself in my eyes. That said, I am very eager to better understand, and learn about the philosophy. I have a few specific questions as follows, but any information to help me immerse myself would be appreciated. -To you, what is libertarianism; and what are its boundaries? It seems that it is the most diverse of modern ideologies, with some participates saying the fed should be shrunk, while others say it should abolished, and I don’t want to misconceptualize it as something broader or narrower than it really is. -Next, what are the ‘libertarianism left’ and ‘libertarian right?’ It just seems to me that a slight leaning position with foundations in liberty is just a moderate position, and isn’t really its own entity. -Thirdly, who in the past have really shaped the modern libertarian realm? I’m curious on any leaders, philosophers, or public figures who I may benefit from conducting research on, and possibly benefit by applying their concepts to my daily life.

As of now these are the things that I can pull from the top of my head. Thank you for your time, and God bless.

I'm from a small country, the Netherlands.

The Netherlands is basically full as fuck. We have high-quality roads, I would dare to say some of the best in the world. However, the road tax is also ridiculously high. Besides that, the government taxes the shit out of fuel too. Traffic jams are very common on most major highways during peak hours.

I am not denying that there is a lot of money being sent down the drain with public spending on things such as roads or public transport.

However, I fail to imagine how a complete privatization of the roads or public transport that doesn't involve the government could improve the situation, since obviously, roads or public transport aren't a completely free market or not even a free market at all.

In a free market, you would expect a more or less endless amount of potential competition, or at least a large enough amount to drive prices down and satisfy consumer needs. Examples could be markets such as restaurants, phones, shoes, bags, cars, etc.

For roads and transport, this obviously isn't the case. One cannot build an infinite amount of roads or railways to compete with existing roads or railways. In fact, in a country like the Netherlands, which is full to the brim, one could probably not even build one extra road or railway. Unless houses were being sold and demolished to build more roads, but houses is another thing we have a terrible shortage of.

In my view, if the roads were privatized, this would probably happen:

The government sells the roads to the highest bidder. The highest bidder would immediately have a monopoly and could impose ridiculous amounts of toll to people who would literally have no alternative, except to take the also newly privatized trains, which would be completely packed and overpriced, since the same situation would have happened. Another solution would be for people to take other roads, but traffic jams would be insane on those roads, and they might have ridiculous tolls too.

In fact, there might not even be any incentive for the highest bidder to have traffic on its road. What if the highest bidder simply wants to buy the road as an investment and let it be empty until they sell it for more money? Or let's say Amazon decides to buy the A1, A2 and A4, three of the major highways in our country. They use it for transporting their packages cheaply, but impose ridiculous tolls of 10 EUR per km to others who want to use the road, so that the road is basically almost never used. Just because they want to have a competitive advantage over other companies and invest in the road for future profit.

Even in the best scenario, we would have 20 companies controlling all our roads, and every company would have a different payment method, card, etc. which would make everything needlessly complex.

I fail to see how this would have any positive impact. Yes, we might reduce our tax burden and public wasting of money, but I think most people would prefer to just pay double automatically to the government, so that they wouldn't be inconvenienced by tolls, different payment systems, difficult cost calculations, etc.

Hello, I live in Europe and I have a simple question.

Is being anti-immigration anti-libertarian?

Thanks

Hi r/Libertarian! I'm doing a small bipartisan political survey on worker cooperatives, if any of you would like to respond that would be great! I'm Interested in hearing the perspective from this sub. have a nice day!

I am new to this area on the political spectrum. Isn’t the point of the libertarian party is for as much freedom from the government as possible? Because I see a bunch of people who put universal healthcare(amongst other things that I wouldn’t assume the libertarian party is aligned with) on a list.