re limiting govt was re employment was re why not concentrate in article apr isc br isc br com steveh thor isc br com steve hendricks writes these two paragraphs are from two different posts in splicing them together it is not my intention to change steve s meaning or misrepresent him in any way i don t think i ve done so as noted in another thread limiting govt the problem libertarians face is insuring that the limited government they seek does not become the tool of private interests to pursue their own agenda it is a failure of libertarianism if the ideology does not provide any reasonable way to restrain such actions other than utopian dreams just as marxism fails to specify how pure communism is to be achieved and the state is to wither away libertarians frequently fail to show how weakening the power of the state will result in improvement in the human condition part of what started this was my earlier example of illinois usa requiring anyone doing more than x automobile transfers a year x i think to become licensed as a used car dealer in addition it requirs anyone with a used car dealer s license to own at least cars at a time all the time let me continue with this example and try to answer steve s questions steve let s say you have the talent and inclination to fix up and resell cars either you ve gotten good enough at it in your spare time to bump up against these limits or you would like to do it full time but these stupid arbitrary laws prevent you from starting out small and pulling yourself up so i m protected from a hungry neighborhood competitor willing to take a low profit while working extra hard to fulfill my needs and you re protected from doing what you want with your life here s what i see libertarianism offering you your money is truly yours it belongs to you you can use it to buy a car if you use it to buy a car it is truly your car it belongs to you you can use your money to fix up that car since it is your car you can sell that car your life is truly yours it belongs to you it matters not if someone thinks that it s wrong for you to buy and sell cars within months rather than say cars they may dissaprove but it is not their life or their money it is your life and your money my money is truly mine it belongs to me i can use it to buy a car perhaps your car perhaps that th car the one that someone somewhere dissaproves of you selling and presumably of me buying that someone could go to the government and insist that the government make us stop it but the government would be powerless to stop us from doing what we like with our own property in the abscence of fraud or agression and it would be powerless to stop us from associating with each other this does not seem to me to be a utopian dream but basic human decency and common sense a real grass roots example of freedom and liberty and yes not having a few people acting as our masters approving or rejecting each of our basic transactions with each other does strike me as a wonderful way to improve the human condition thanks awfully patrick
