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Originally Posted by dren
yeah, they typically are for greater personal liberties, for an actual free country. I don't see clinging to The Market as a problem for social ills. At least the government isn't forcing everybody to pay for problems that don't affect them that way.
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First of all, the government isn't created just to take care of *you*, it's for the people. This means the government should be helping everyone, not the people who have shitloads of money, a job, healthcare, etc. Those people don't need help. Secondly, the more a society protects the people on the bottom of the socioeconomic scale, the better off the people on top will be. First of all, not having government programs do certain things raises crime rates. For example - you don't want free government drug programs? Ok, now you have druggies causing crime to get money and wham, youre taxes just went up because have millions of people in jail who shouldn't be.
So yes, in many cases I am for higher personal rights and, for example, I think the war on drugs is absurd. However, Libertarian solutions to education and so on are quite often rather absurd.