[quote=no_such_reality]Yea, we tried that before, it was called the gilded age at the end of the 1800s. Company towns, “the jungle”,, Rockefeller refining oil and dumping the by product, gasoline, straight into the rivers and streams, rivers in Penn literally catching fire and monopolistic business practices pre Sherman act.
Recently we have CDOs, long term capital management and the S&L fiasco.
Seat belts, air bags, safety standards. Coal power… With no pollution controls. And of course Shkrelli.
Yea, I’ve seen Laisse faire.
Trump tends not to take properties via eminent domain, he buys them and then uses courts and money to force the neighbors to let him do what he wants.[/quote]Again, your understanding of the Libertarian platform is incorrect and Gary Johnson’s policy specifically. Go here to see where he stands on those issues: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_positions_of_Gary_Johnson.
Your examples is as correct as me pointing to Venezuela as what would happen if we let socialism run rampant in the US. Just because we want small government doesn’t mean we want no government. That’s as false of an assumption as saying Democrats want Communism because they want government to take care of the citizens cradle to grave.
