In A libertarian world, society, community, or neighborhood street can’t exist! It’s a total fail. Libertarians Suck!
The Short, Unhappy Life of a Libertarian Paradise
The residents of Colorado Springs undertook a radical experiment in government. Here’s what they got.
They have no roads, no public sewage treatment, no schools, no health care, no nothing that makes a community / society viable.
It’s just shows you how things work when every libertarian thinks they can do it for themselves.
Selfish Pricks!
And all the Rethuglican Tech bros are libertarians! so watch yourself if you admire them. They are fascists.
@aaronhoyland
Say it with me: without taxes, we wouldn’t have public roads, schools, hospitals, emergency services, clean water, inspected food, or any other public service or social program. Taxes are not bad. They are the price we pay to live in a society.
Without taxes there are no public schools.
Without an educated public you end up with those same people going to jail.
Without taxes there are no jails.
Citizens with a high school education on average make around $40,000.oo a year.
The rich get the majority of tax breaks and loopholes which isn’t right or fair, but that is about power, that shows a specific flawed implementation of it. That is where taxation fails. Billionaires and Corporations DON’T pay their fair share. They use our roads, electricity, internet and other infrastructure to make their billions and expect the rest of us to pay for it all. In states where tax cuts drive public policy, paved roads are being being ‘converted’ back to gravel.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/07/us/omahas-answer-to-costly-potholes-go-back-to-gravel-roads.html
“Our Common Wealth” is NOT Communism, it’s collective vs individual purchasing power.
Paying out of pocket for privatized, decentralized, unregulated critical infrastructure and essential services would be way more expensive.
New study of almost 600,000 deaths in Ohio and Florida shows that registered Republicans had far higher excess-death rates than registered Democrats during the pandemic, with almost all of the gap coming after vaccines were available. <more>
Pandemics don’t care about your feelings. Denialism goes mainstream September 24, 2022
The Pandemic’s Legacy Is Already Clear All of this will happen again.
Blake Masters Is Peter Thiel’s Dream Candidate—and a Total Nightmare for Democracy
Trump is owned by Koch Libertarian Party Money
Blake Masters Is Peter Thiel’s Dream Candidate—and a Total Nightmare for Democracy
Educational CyberPlayGround NetHappenings Newsletter #Security #K12Education #Health 1-9-2021
This line — “Monopolies have inflicted real, measurable harms on the public, disproving the Chicago School’s claims that monopolies were efficient and would contribute to the public good.” — Doctorow
40-some years ago, US antitrust enforcement took sick. In the years since, it has been largely comatose – right up until the very recent past, when the Biden administration began to take muscular – but very belated – action to restore a modicum of competition to the economy.
https://pluralistic.net/2022/10/03/powell-memo/#means-motive-opportunity
An antitrust murder whodunnit (permalink)
40-some years ago, US antitrust enforcement took sick. In the years since, it has been largely comatose – right up until the very recent past, when the Biden administration began to take muscular – but very belated – action to restore a modicum of competition to the economy.
There’s a widely received narrative about what happened to antitrust law. 40+ years ago, fringe economists and other ideological entrepreneurs from the University of Chicago won the argument, publishing such a rigorous defense of monopolies as “efficient” that lawmakers, regulators and judges had no choice but to change their ways.
That is the “enlightened technocrat narrative,” and, as a narrative, you can be forgiven for assuming that it is not empirically testable. But as a trio of scholars show in “The Political Economy of the Decline of Antitrust Enforcement in the United States,” this narrative can and must be subjected to empirical scrutiny.
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4011335
Mothers Want Federally Funded Childcare. Why Are These Koch-Funded Women Opposing It? https://msmagazine.com/2022/05/06/childcare-koch-women-independent-womens-forum/
IWF fellows and staffers have appeared in the media, identified as mothers without revealing their ties, to promote their right-wing talking points. #KochNetwork
A Top DC Think Tank Took Millions From Foreign Governments. Now Lawmakers Want Answers.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2022/10/brookings-institution-elizabeth-warren-chuck-grassley-ted-cruz-qatar/
The scandal has drawn attention to the think tank’s decades of ties to Qatar, as well as its funding from other countries.