(August 5, 2016 at 11:05 am)Mister Agenda Wrote:Minimalist Wrote:I'm still waiting for some libertarian to show me where the libertarian philosophy of government has ever been used in a modern state. I stopped holding my breath long ago.
Their vision is roughly akin to the US in about 1830.
Canada, Switzerland, the USA, and New Zealand usually make the top 5 in estimates of 'most libertarian in the world'. Modern states are compromises of different views, there will never be a democracy governed by only one political view, only varying degrees of influence.
Canada, Switzerland and New Zealand all have National Health Care systems and income taxes which are anathema to libertarians. Switzerland actually has compulsory military service so the libertards probably think they are communists!
As for the USA, compare what we are to the libertarian platform for 2016.
At least you tried. They are looking for a post-Revolutionary War Articles of Confederation type federal government somewhere between 1790 and 1830. The modern world is far too complex for such simplistic philosophies.
