{"id":13214,"date":"2011-05-01T15:18:41","date_gmt":"2011-05-01T22:18:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=13214"},"modified":"2012-10-02T09:41:11","modified_gmt":"2012-10-02T16:41:11","slug":"a-messed-up-libertarianism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=13214","title":{"rendered":"A Messed-Up Libertarianism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A quote from libertarian <a href=\"http:\/\/highclearing.com\/index.php\/archives\/2008\/02\/21\/7909\">Jim Henley<\/a>, via <a href=\"http:\/\/ordinary-gentlemen.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/30\/redistribution-and-the-state\/\/\">LOOG<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Most libertarians would agree that it\u2019s a messed-up state that:<\/p>\n<p>* Creates a massive crime problem in poor minority neighborhoods with a futile, vicious and every more far-reaching attempt to prevent commerce in popular, highly portable intoxicants that leaves absurd numbers of young men with felony records, making them marginally employable.<\/p>\n<p>* Fails to provide adequate policing for such neighborhoods.<\/p>\n<p>* Fails to provide effective education in such neighborhoods after installing itself as the educator of first resort.<\/p>\n<p>* Uses regulatory power to sharply curtail entry into lines of business from hair-care to ride provision, further limiting the employment options of people in such neighborhoods.<\/p>\n<p>* Has in the past actively fostered the oppression of said minority, up to and including spending state money and time in keeping its members in bondage.<\/p>\n<p>* To make up for all of the above, provides a nominal amount of tax-financed welfare for the afflicted.<\/p>\n<p>But it\u2019s a messed-up libertarianism that looks at that situation and says, &#8220;Man, first thing we gotta do is get rid of that welfare!&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A quote from libertarian Jim Henley, via LOOG: Most libertarians would agree that it\u2019s a messed-up state that: * Creates a massive crime problem in poor minority neighborhoods with a futile, vicious and every more far-reaching attempt to prevent commerce &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=13214\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[106,153,64,93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-class-poverty-labor-related-issues","category-libertarianism-2","category-prisons-and-justice","category-race-racism-and-related-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13214"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15880,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13214\/revisions\/15880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}